When the stem of rice took off, I didn't quite know what it meant.
After all, in the old saying, "he who does not eat dry (pronounced liver, first sound) rice" = does not eat for nothing.
Here in the south of the Yangtze River, cooked rice is rice, and after adding water, the written language is porridge, and the Wuxi dialect is called soaked rice. Boiled rice in vegetable soup is called vegetable pickled rice or salty pickled rice. Some restaurants also specialize in "vegetable pickled rice" - the customary is green vegetables and mushrooms with a little dried shrimp to accompany the rice, which the older generation prefers to eat.
It was only when I was older that I realized that there are some places where there is really a so-called dry rice.
Mr. Qi Rushan concluded: In the past, North China folk boiled rice, and when it was cooked, the rice was taken out and steamed into rice, which was dry and had no water, so it was called dry rice.
Although it is troublesome, because of the northern countryside, there has never been soup, but I always want to drink thin food. When the rice is steamed, the remaining rice soup is considered porridge, and if you cut some watercolor and add some salt, it is soup.
Later, I listened to Liu Lanfang's commentary on the book "Yang Jiajiang", in which Yang Linggong was trapped in the Two Wolf Mountain, ran out of ammunition and food, drank a bowl of rice soup with wild vegetables and grass roots, and went to fight again - that is really not even able to eat dry rice.
From this point of view, the special distinction between "dry rice" is quite out of the folk customs of the past.
There has been a call before, "Eat dry when you're busy, eat thin when you're free, and half dry and half thin when you're not busy." "Probably dry rice has a lot of energy, and good steel is used on the blade, so you can eat it when you are busy, right?
Mr. Wang Zengqi wrote about the busy farming season, and did not charge wages, but ate well: six meals a day, meat at both ends, and wine at each meal.
This should be a luxurious version of "eat dry when you're busy, eat thin when you're free".
It can be seen that in the past, it was not easy for people to eat.
When my dad was young, he was organized to work in the canals, and he experienced a similar "dry when he was busy, and thin when he was free" - but it was said that the treatment was better.
It is said that it is a digging job, and there can be a piece of pork ribs or meat stuffed with gluten in the rice, and the person who is responsible for moving the materials in the back is a piece of hairtail in the rice with some beans.
Now that he has reached the age when he has enough rice, he has to control his eating - he knows that he has to control his eating of refined carbs, and eat more coarse grains to match.
Come to think of it, probably, this is the historical origin of dry (pronounced liver, first sound) rice?
I still remember when I was a child, I went to a banquet, and I always boasted that I ate fiercely and quickly, and my brother-in-law laughed at me:
"Where are you eating fast, you are eating fast!"
I guess that's the same in this era.
Most people are obsessed with being ruthless, not eating, but eating vegetables. After three rounds of wine, the dishes are over five flavors, and the rice is added.
It is said that there is a staple food to be full, but the staple food is also a slippery seam. Unless that rice is eight-treasure rice, vegetable pickled rice, and egg fried rice, otherwise, how many young people who say "dry rice" on the Internet will really be ruthless with a bowl of white rice?
There is a difference between dry rice and dried vegetables.
The main driving force of eating food is craving, which is the pleasure of eating delicious food, and the main driving force of eating is hunger, which is to solve the needs of the body.
Seventeen years ago, in the summer, I went to Lushun, and there was an arch-like building under construction next to a forest, and a few workers were having lunch.
In the summer, workers wear undershirts and squat in the shade of trees. Each person has a bowl with a big head and eats. I looked at it and felt that it was really called dry rice - for example, we in Wuxi, every day we eat, a small bowl, rice, chopsticks to pull a bite of rice, just a dish, drink soup, eat slowly, this is called eating. If you are in a hurry, or the last few bites of food in the bowl, pick up the bowl brush and pull it twice.
And those guys are basically:
The mouth is out of the bowl, the cheeks are chewing bulgingly, the throat is squirming, some people can still free their mouths to say a few words, others are nodding while moving their cheeks, they have eaten this bite, they are smacking, and they are burying their heads and continuing. I pay close attention to what they eat, it seems to be rice, with some meat and vegetables, but the main thing is rice. The cheeks are full, there are rice grains on the side of the mouth, and the chopsticks are a little, and the rice grains are in.
The amplitude is large, the movement is violent, the speed is fast, and it makes people feel fragrant when they look at it.
When I was full, I put my chopsticks on the bowl, probably waiting for someone to collect them, squatting and smoking. Those who don't smoke stand up and shake their arms slowly. Compared with the momentum of the chatter and noise just now, it is like two people.
The energy to eat is not a dispensable leisure and elegance, but a real necessity of life.
Their attitude towards food is both serious and reverent, with a bit of rough love.
In "Mansion Gate", there is a great play.
Bai Jingqi, played by Chen Baoguo, was angry with the Japanese during the day, and went home at night to see a group of grandchildren who didn't know the suffering of the world and refused to eat. Furious.
So he called a manual laborer who is good at eating, Mr. Zhao Xiaorui's old Zheng Lao Fart-Li Kui in the old "Water Margin"-to eat.
Zheng Lao Fart silently, took a big basin, gathered the table full of food, squatted, and finished eating.
The children who didn't know the suffering of the world were dumbfounded, and Bai Jingqi smiled: "This is called eating! Go to the account room to receive the reward!"
Awesome.
People who have been really hungry, and have been hungry for a long time, and who have eaten porridge for a long time, naturally know:
Generally, if you are hungry, you will be seduced by dishes with seasonings. For example, braised pork with thick oil red sauce, such as spicy and bright red oily noodles, such as curry beef and red stewed chestnut chicken.
If you eat all day long, you will probably feel tired of watching it. is like in "Wulin Gaiden", Tong Xiangyu and Han Juan fought in the ring, boasting to themselves, "Every day braised pork is suddenly red, what kind of life is this!"
But people who have been really hungry, people who have been away from carbs for a long time, will have a strong desire for food. Taste is no longer the key, it is the body that needs carbs. A good bowl of rice is exciting enough, and if you can mix it with a little oil, you can make people eat it endlessly.
Of course, if you are full one day, and when you look back, you will think, "This thing is light and oily, how can you eat it?" - it is probably that I have never been really hungry.
Just like in "I Love My Home", she traveled back to 1974 and said that she wanted to eat fried steamed bun slices the most, "wrapped in a thick layer of sesame paste, and then wrapped in a thick layer of white sugar......"
That's the kind of person who really went hungry. can plunge into the meal with a fierce force, and the ferocious energy is tired and hungry. Probably there are many people in the world who are still hungry in places that we can't see. It's really not that easy to get enough to eat.
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