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Today, I went to the ancient city of Guangfu to survey the scene and determined the place where the home of The Burning Caiqing (the character in the movie) was burned. On the lake opposite the north gate of the ancient city of Guangfu, a clearing surrounded by water on three sides. After watching the scene, the producer and his party went to the hotel to arrange accommodation, and my wife and I drove back to Handan. Along the way, the two of us joked about last night's lamb fan bones and wine. Last night, Arwen invited us to eat the lamb fan bone hot pot (originally it was going to eat lamb stick bones, because it was not booked, it was temporarily changed to sheep stick bone). Because the other day I saw the ice cream Maotai, from the day before yesterday I have been clamoring to try, just yesterday I had the opportunity, by the way to experience a hand, count the passing points, ice cream filtered out the wine in the wine, leaving only a hint of sauce aroma and a little bitterness. The creamy and sweet smell of ice cream, accompanied by the aroma of sauce and bitterness, but it really has a different taste!
My wife quipped to me if I wanted to eat another flying ice cream tonight. I knew if she was joking or pretending to be rejecting. Because of yesterday's negligence, the sauce wine was originally very hot, coupled with the warm lamb hot pot, this morning when I got up, I felt a little on fire. I wanted to buy some mangosteen to go to the fire, but because it was not the season, I looked for two places and did not find it. From Guangfu back to Handan, we went directly to the pharmacy and bought some goldenrods and honeysuckle to soak in water and drink to extinguish the fire.
It happened to be a fruit stall next to the pharmacy, and my wife, with a fluke mentality, went to ask if there was any mangosteen. Sure enough, there was none. But the owner recommended that my wife buy some ginseng fruits to eat, saying that human fruits also have a fire removal effect. Ginseng fruit is a kind of fruit, when it first came out a few years ago, it was still relatively fresh and curious, and it has been well known in recent years. The small fruit is not big, and it looks like a doll. At first glance, the fruit is put into a mold and raised. It's like Fang Watermelon, who became an Internet celebrity last year. But it is only limited to Internet celebrities, everyone looks, laughs, and few people buy. Not only is the price high, the square watermelon is also scary to watch. Humans interfere too much in the natural world, and the product of obsessive control will always make people feel bad.
Walking out of the fruit shop, my wife asked me if the ginseng fruit that Sun Wukong ate in "Journey to the West" was the same. I said that the ginseng fruit in the original "Journey to the West", from the description of the text, the ginseng fruit should be like this. Although the name ginseng fruit comes from Wu Cheng'en's mouth, the rumors similar to ginseng fruit do not originate from him. In his qing dynasty wang shizhen's works quoting the Double Locust Year Banknote and the Moon Mountain Cong Tan, he talked about a monster called red shrimp.
There are two versions of red shrimp.
One version is: in a village near Sien County, Guangxi in the Ming Dynasty, there are two people in a tree, about one foot and five inches tall, dressed like a sergeant, wearing straw shoes, walking like flying, known locally as red shrimp. The main skill of this version of the red shrimp is to walk like the wind, emphasizing speed. The second version is: In Shunde County, Guangdong Province, in the Qing Dynasty, there is a place called Shouxingtang, which has a kind of thing called red shrimp, like a baby, but it is very small, often falling from the tree quietly hand in hand, laughter, screaming and baby are exactly the same, falling on the ground and disappearing. This version of the red shrimp is very similar to the ginseng fruit in "Journey to the West".
My wife asked me how the conversation at noon was so good. I thought about it and didn't answer her. In fact, since I returned to Handan this time, I have thought a lot and thought a lot about similar things. But I don't know where to start. Or the old rules, let's start with the food.
Let's talk about the Handan food I ate this week.
There are: the fresh powder skin of Cixian County given by The Qianlong Emperor, the blackface cut made by The Northern Song Dynasty Prime Minister Li Xun, the Tang Dynasty Wei Duke Wei Zheng invited Tang Taizong Li Shimin to eat Eighteen Mouths of Lady Wei, and why did Wei Zheng invite the Emperor to eat why was it called Lady Wei Eighteen Buckles? Apparently, Mrs. Wei Zheng cooked it herself (I am in the north, and I rarely feel such a rule of etiquette, more casually. The female protagonist cooks, the male protagonist invites guests, it seems to be a natural thing. In the south, especially in the Quanzhou area of Fujian Province, there is a prescribed etiquette, and the rules here have both the meaning of rules and the meaning of specifications. Probably someone invites you to their own house for dinner, which means that you are treated as a very good friend. If the hostess cooks herself, treat you as a distinguished guest. If the hostess dresses in red and cooks herself, you are treated as a supreme guest. So there are both ancestral rules and specifications here.) There are also Guantao tofu shreds specially for the emperors and princes in the Qing Dynasty court, the sauce bag melon given by Li Shimin, the Quzhou curved noodles that Cixi and the Xianfeng Emperor loved incomparably, and the fried blood sausages that were greatly praised by Cao Cao...
The list goes on and on. Not only Handan, but the whole country. The creativity of everyone's advertising has almost never changed from more than a decade ago to the present. There is no progress, no change, no reform, no novelty; the main thing is that there is no progress, and naturally there is no regression. They all fell to the end, and there seemed to be no step back. It seems that all snacks and delicacies must be in contact with the princes and nobles, and among the emperors, famous courtiers, and nobles endorsed by this group of advertisements, Qianlong is the most wronged and has the most backs to the pot.
What I want to say is that when I first came to Handan, I saw the slogan of the street: a city that has been waiting for you for three thousand years. Inner good feelings, spontaneously born. And it is not shy to say that the city here is full of feminine flavor, like a dancing girl, appearing in front of you. Travel through time, thousands of years of history. Waiting is to meet you in exchange for a look back. With a smile, the three thousand years of time were solidified into a piece of amber, wrapped in the three thousand years of wind and thunder in Handan, a drop in the sea, a surge of wind and clouds, and the setting sun.
What I want to show is that Handan is an ancient city with cultural depth, historical background, stories to tell, content to see, depth to dig, and infinite hope. However, in terms of cultural creativity, we cannot stick to stereotypes, we cannot be careless, and we cannot let down the things left by our ancestors. Wuling's Cong Tai, Cao Cao's Tongque Tai, Lin Xiangru and Lianpo's reciprocal courtesy in the Carriage Return Lane, Handan Toddler on the Toddler Bridge............ A single dream of Huang Liang clarified most of the philosophy of Lao Zhuang.
I remember reading a few stories before, all about Handan. One of them is called The Colored Rabbit. It is said that in Handan Guangfu, there is a kind of rabbit that is colored and is called a colored rabbit by the locals. The rabbit walks in the wilderness during the day and dives into the water at night to rest and sleep under the water. Use the ore in the cave as food. Every fifteenth day of the full moon, their tails will emerge from Mars. At this time, they will put the bones of the dead people stolen from the graveyard on their heads, and then kowtow to the Seven Stars of the Big Dipper, and if the skull of the dead person does not fall, it can become a human. Live a human life from now on. If a human bone falls to the ground, it will turn into a white bone, and it can only transform into a person at a special time.
At first, I thought this story was too ridiculous, and it must be a strange story that appeared in books similar to "Liaozhai Zhiyi" or "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang". Later, I was at a noodle restaurant in Ci County, Handan, eating Ci County noodles, and we were a little drunk that night. The boss was also a little tired, so he turned back to the house and let the young man take care of us. Before leaving, he also said: Get drunk, don't pull people's sleeves. We listened in the clouds, and then the young man said that he heard the boss say that his ancestors were Wu'an people and made a living by selling vinegar. Once carrying vinegar to CiXian to sell, eating at this noodle restaurant at night, drunk, seeing that the lady owner of the noodle shop is a beautiful woman, he took advantage of the wine to pull the sleeve of the lady boss and let her drink together. Who knew that as soon as the sleeve was pulled, the lady boss fell to the ground, and a dress was spread on the ground, but it was covered with a pair of white bones. Some people say that this is the legend of the white bone essence, which also became the white bone monster before, and some people say that this is the white bone man who is transformed into a white bone person without an adult.
This kind of ingenious story, whether it is a legend or someone has made it up, I think it is a kind of literary inheritance. Everyone knows that it is fake, but it is passed on by word of mouth with relish. But some allusions, though true, are told by us that taste like chewing wax.
Today, Handan is a city that has been waiting for three years. It should be more like a beautiful city, so that people can't refuse her. Instead of being like a girl with a similar disease, talking to herself, wanting to talk to everyone who passes by, a love affair that is three thousand years late.
Finally, I would like to mention that the last time I had dinner at the house of Grandpa Xiao Shuai (whose real name is Zhang Runli, a native of CiXian County), he also mentioned the matter of the White Bone Demon. He said that when he was a child, there were also white bone demons in Ci County. When you encounter the White Bone Demon, you must pretend not to see it, and when it sees you ignoring it, it will walk away on its own. If it gives you a cigarette, be sure not to smoke it. Because the elders say that anyone who has smoked it, without exception, will become a color rabbit.
Flying ice cream
