Speaking of Wang Zengqi, everyone said that he "can live and understand life."
Writer Lao She once said: "There are two writers in Beijing who may write something in the future, one is Wang Zengqi and the other is Lin Jinlan. ”
Writer Su Tong said: Wang Zengqi's article presents everyone's style, its style is like nine-qu flowing water, empty valley qingyin, a shining treasure in the treasure house of Chinese literature. ”
Screenwriter Parrot Shi Hang said: "There are many cute old men in this world, but it is not common to be cute like Wang Zengqi. ”
Among these many comments, Master Slow felt that Shi Hang's comment was the most accurate.
Elder Wang is definitely an extremely cute person in the world, no matter when, he can always live a fun and interesting life, writing, painting, cooking, he enjoys these daily lives.
One grass and one tree, one tea and one meal, one person and one thing, the city in the world, under the pen of Wang Lao, exudes a strong warmth and interest.
He said: The world is noisy, we can't escape to the mountains now, the only way is to be quiet in the middle of the noise... Walk slowly, appreciate yourself; walk slowly, sip tea, drink wine, listen to music, write and write. Life is less worry, save a little childlike heart, life is fun.
It is precisely because of this "slowness" that Wang Zengqi's writings have not only not been forgotten by people, but have become spiritual readings for generations of young people.
Works by Wang Zengqi
To eat is to live
Wang Zengqi's eating is exquisite.
Elder Wang believes that tossing and eating must be full of fireworks to have the pleasure of life.
To cook, you have to buy vegetables first. Elder Wang does not like to visit department stores, but goes to the vegetable market to hang around, to see raw chicken and live duck, fresh fish and water vegetables, turquoise cucumbers, red peppers, lively, crowded together.
He cooks his own dishes, paying attention to three points, "one should be a little new, the second should save money, and the third should be trouble-free."
Occasionally, I put my thoughts into action immediately, and I have created many praiseworthy dishes for this purpose, such as stuffing back the pot fritters, "the fritters are disassembled in two strands and cut into small pieces of inch and a half." Stir in the pork (half fat and half lean) filling. Add salt, green onion and minced ginger to the filling. If you add a small amount of minced vegetables or minced melon sauce, Sichuan winter vegetables, you can also. Use your fingers to poke through the holes in the small sections of the fritters, stuff the meat filling, and fry them in the pan one by one until the fritters are hard and the meat filling is cooked, and then fish out and put on the plate. This dish is crispy and has alum in the fritters, which is slightly astringent and tastes better than fried spring rolls. ”
The dish also led him to the conclusion that "this dish was my first and is not included in any recipe." Many dishes are savored by gluttons. ”
Regarding the esophagus, Elder Wang said this in the article:
Dry silk. This is Huaiyang cuisine, the old only blanched dried shreds, large white tofu dried slices for thin slices (knife master - pieces of dried tofu can be sixteen slices), and then cut into fine wires.
Mix soy sauce, vinegar and sesame oil and set aside. After the dried shredded silk is blanched with boiling water, put garlic rice and ginger shreds on top (to tender ginger, cut very finely), and the seasoning is drizzled down. This was originally a casual dish served in the tea house before the dim sum was steamed, and later sold as a dish in the restaurant.
The history of boiling dried silk I think is no more than a hundred years old. On the soup (chicken soup or bone broth) add shredded ham, shredded chicken, shredded mushrooms, shrimp seeds boiled together (anything fresh can be put inside), dried shredded, add salt, slightly add soy sauce, make slightly colored, cook two or three times, add ginger shredded, you can serve.
Nie Hualing once came to my house and ate very happily, and finally even took the soup and drank it. Beijing Dafang dried tofu is rare and can be substituted with tofu slices. Dry wire is important for knife work. Yuan Zicai said that "those who have taste make it out, and those who have no taste make it in", and the dry silk is cut very finely before it can enter the taste.
Burn small radishes. Taiwanese Chen Yizhen came to Beijing and asked me to cook by name, I made several dishes for her, one of which was roasted turnips, and I knew that there were no small red water radishes in Taiwan (Taiwan only white radish). When cooking to see the object, to do what the guests have not eaten, to feel fresh.
Beijing small water radish is only a few days best in a year. A few days earlier, the radish did not grow well, less moisture, hairy, and spicy, not sweet; after a few days, it grew again, bran. Chen Yizhen was really lucky, just in time for the best time for the small turnip. She ate it and was full of praise. The roasted radish I made was really delicious because it was cooked with scallops. "Coarse dishes are carefully cooked" is the only way to make home-cooked food.
Those few days were when the Beijing radishes were the most full and tender. This dish was even surprised that Wang Lao himself ate it: the taste was so sweet!
Elder Wang also fried a plate of dried bacillus from Yunnan for her - how can Taiwan eat dried bacillus? Chen Yizhen ate, there was still a little left, wrapped up in a plastic bag, said to take it to the hotel to eat.
Conform to the nature of nature, each according to its own feelings, can not be required to be uniform - probably a person who understands life, and treats people seriously and wisely.
Talking flowers and grasses
Wang Zengqi loves plants and is also good at writing about plants.
He wrote that plants have a unique spiritual beauty, as if those flowers and plants come alive in an instant, and appear in front of your eyes. They have their own joys and sorrows, seven passions and six desires, and even some indescribable and funny "small tempers", which are vividly reflected in gardenias.
See how gardenia speaks:
Gardenia flowers are thick and large, and they are so fragrant that they cannot be dusted, so they are not taken by the gentle and elegant people, thinking that their character is not high. Gardenia said, "Fuck you, I just want to be so fragrant, fragrant and painful, can you fucking handle it!" ”
Who could have imagined that a plant with such a fragrant aroma as gardenia has such a straightforward heart, and these are all spiritual properties created by Wang Zengqi.
As for the white camellia, it is really as famous as it is, and wenjing is beautiful again. "Sometimes no one comes to see it all day, but just quietly and happily."
And the plum blossom has triggered Wang Zengqi's "professional doubts" about himself:
There is a shop wearing beaded flowers at the city gate of the north gate of our county, and when I pass by when I come home from school, I always have to go in to see how a few female workers wear beaded flowers, so I use their methods to wear all kinds of plum beaded flowers. I have a few pieces of heavenly bamboo fruit embedded in these plum beads—there is a heavenly bamboo tree in the corner of my back garden.
Huang Lamei, Red Sky Bamboo, I am still very proud: it is really beautiful. I gave these plum beads to my grandmother, to my great aunt, to my stepmother. They combed their hair and put it on. Then, say goodbye to each other. I should be a arts and crafts artist and write what a fart novel!
Life is fun
Wang Zengqi studied at the Southwest United University during the war, and Jin Yuelin, Wen Yiduo, and Shen Congwen were his teachers. This arduous period of study became a precious memory in his life.
There are also many literary figures who have been "exposed" by him to the unknown side:
Mr. Jin (Jin Yuelin) is a bachelor (there are many bare sticks among the professors of the United Nations University, Mr. Yang Zhensheng once wrote a game article "Shi Widow", which was circulated among professors), childless and childless, but lived happily. He had a big cockfighter. The fighting can stick its neck up and eat at the same table as Mr. Kim.
When Mr. Wen Yiduo is in class, students can smoke. I've been on his 'Chu Ci'. In his first lesson, he opened a large raw paper notebook that was a foot and a half high, smoked a cigarette, and said in a tone of frustration: 'Drink bitterly, and read "Leaving sorrow" well—you can be a celebrity. He talked about Tang poetry, linking late Tang poetry with late Impressionist paintings. Tang poetry is probably not mentioned in other universities. Mr. Wen's classes are not tested, and you can submit a reading report at the end of the semester.
In addition to the past of teachers and students, Wang Zengqi also likes to describe the mortals in the city, he writes about the hawkers who walk through the streets, write about the big mother who chats in front of the door, and so on.
In any shop on this street, as long as someone learns the spirit of Ding's aunt walking with great vigor and vigor, everyone knows who this is learning, so they all laugh and laugh for half a day.
Aunt Ding's walking is really rare. With his head held high and his chest high, he strode forward, swinging his arms back and forth, walking very fast. Her hair was jet black and neatly combed. The face is purple-brown, emitting copper light, and the lines on the face are clear, as if carved.
In short, Wang Zengqi is a writer who is very popular among readers with literati temperament, a cute old man and an ordinary old man.
He was gluttonous, the best at eating among writers, and the best at writing among cooks.
He was greedy, and when he was at the Southwest United University, he skipped class and drank, and drank too much and slept on the street or the teacher Shen Congwen helped him back to the dormitory.
He is playful, more greedy for the world, simply "insatiable".
He is the straightest man with the most interest in life.