Hello everyone, I'm wearing a mask and holding a microphone in Alaska, tablets.
Recently, a topic that cannot be circumvented is the epidemic.
Not only are the whole of China running for supplies and donating money to the frontline, but neighbors have also reached out to help and help.
The donation style of each country is also quite regional, Russia is rough, and South Korea is friendly.
Japan has relied on its cultural advantages to frequently search for ancient Chinese poems, becoming a "traffic bearer" in several donor countries.
A sentence of "mountains and rivers are exotic, the wind and moon are the same day", showing the essence of friendship for a long time.
The sentence "Green mountains are the same as the clouds and rain, and the bright moon and He were once two townships" bring us a hint of comfort in common suffering.
Seeing these warm verses, I also had a thought in my heart, that is, after the end of the epidemic, maybe I can go to Japan to see the clouds, rain and wind and moon in Japan.
But what to do now is to stay at home, let's watch a movie together and have a short dream in Kyoto.
"Staying in Kyoto" tells the story of Kana, a girl who has just resigned from Tokyo, who comes to Kyoto to take care of her injured uncle and relax her heart.
Here Kana experienced the customs and customs of Kyoto, and felt the philosophy of her uncle's generation.
She let go of the impetuousness of the city, gradually integrated into the peaceful life of Kyoto, and found herself again.
At the beginning of the story, Kana came to Kyoto to take care of her uncle, but her uncle only injured his little thumb, but he felt that the people in the city were too fussy.
But when they came, Kanai still chose to stay in the mansion full of sense of his uncle's age, and he didn't have a job anyway, so it was better to enjoy a rare "salted fish" life.
But if you want to be a "salted fish", you also have to pay labor, and the first task that your uncle gave Kana was to buy vegetables.
Don't underestimate buying vegetables in Kyoto, this is a big knowledge.
You think you can solve it all at once by going to a supermarket, but my uncle is an old man with taste, and every ingredient needs Kana to go to a specific store to buy.
First of all, there is an old shop with a history of 100 years, specializing in grilled eels with nourishing oil, which are fragrant and can be eaten directly after cutting;
Then there's the golden and soft oil tofu, a handmade version of the giant oil tofu that only kyoto has;
Finally, buy freshly made seven-flavor powder, how to describe this difficulty, people who can cook must understand, which is a difficulty with the on-site production of thirteen spices;
Lately, it's become a luxury for us to just go out, let alone ride our bikes through the streets of Kyoto like Kana, searching for traditional food.
Just looking at these simple ingredients, I was a little tearful, not to deceive everyone, I think my tears are likely to be hungry.
If you have the opportunity to go to Kyoto, a simple home-cooked meal will definitely make your stomach and mood happy.
The next day in Kyoto, Kana woke up to the kind of cries we all heard as children, "Recycle waste, recycle old appliances."
The distant and familiar sound made Kana feel more intimate about Kyoto.
Today, the task arranged by the uncle to Kana is to fetch water for cooking and buy some coffee beans, and it turns out that the uncle is a particular person and never uses tap water to cook rice.
Uncle Kana told Kana that Kyoto, also known as The Water Capital, has many different rivers and streams, but the best water is under the temple.
In addition to the temples, there are also soft well water hidden in all corners of Kyoto.
A scoop of Kyoto boiled hot tea, served with traditional Kyoto dim sum, is an elegant traditional afternoon tea.
After the time for a cup of tea, it rained lightly in Kyoto.
Kana walks through the rain, and every scene is beautiful as if time can stand still here.
She went to the coffee shop that her uncle had said, and once again smelled the smell that Kyoto had brought, different coffee beans, some bitter, some sweet.
Kanai unconsciously immersed in the afterglow of coffee, so that I can smell the purity of coffee across the screen.
Good water with good coffee, the uncle was happy, he decided to invite Kanai to the restaurant.
A restaurant that opened in 1958 seems to me to be quite young, but in Kyoto, restaurants that have not been open for hundreds of years are still quite young.
This restaurant is mainly western food, don't think that Kyoto is a city with a strong traditional culture, and the variety of food will be stuck in Japanese food.
Chinese, Western, Southeast Asian cuisine, different cuisines have corresponding delicious restaurants.
Kyoto people have their own food map in their hearts, and anyone can become an authentic foodie here.
On the third day, the uncle made Kana's arrangement clear, that is, to go to the antique shop in Kyoto and retrieve the uncle's customized gold.
The uncle also sold a guanzi, and did not tell Kana Kinni what it was, so she had to go to the store to explore on her own.
Kanai wanted to stop by to find an Internet celebrity dessert shop, and naturally wanted to take her mobile phone, but her uncle stopped her at this time.
Uncle Gong believes that most of the so-called Internet celebrity shops are the illusion created by commercial marketing, and if you want to find the taste you really like, you still have to rely on your own taste.
After listening to her uncle's words, Kana decided to follow the feeling and look around, she first went to the antique shop to get her uncle's things.
It was then that the so-called "golden reed" was not an object, but referred to a traditional Japanese restoration method that mostly referred to the use of gold or silver to fill damaged antiques.
It turned out that my uncle was still a collector, and this little saucer was a treasure that came from North Korea five or six hundred years ago.
After visiting the antique shop, Kana lamented the wonder of cultural heritage and lamented that no matter what line of work you do, you must love your work.
A profession like restoring antiques, which takes time and patience, may require countless lonely nights to get a satisfactory finished product.
If she finds a new job, she must also find a way to live in harmony with her work and like work.
Coming out of the antique shop, Kana came to a used bookstore again, believing that when she was a student, she liked to peek at novels in class and must not be able to resist this temptation.
These neatly arranged picture books and books seem to have a magical magic.
Just opening one is like opening Narnia's wardrobe, and the brick walls of Diagon Alley allow us to easily enter another ideal world.
But for office workers who are busy with their lives, it is not known how long ago it was when they calmed down and read a book.
After getting the satisfaction of her heart at the bookstore, Kana finally found her favorite dessert freely according to her uncle's words.
Uncle is right, when we put down the review software, put down the publicity of Internet celebrities, and find the food by their own sense of smell, it is more valuable.
In the movie, Kana found a cream fruit cake, and if I had, I guess I would have gone to find hot pot seafood boiled fish.
The food, the views, the feeling that one can slow down and live is really good.
Kana's little days in Kyoto were quite moist, but the reality was that she was still the unemployed young man who did nothing.
Repeated job failures often upset her.
At the thought of leaving Kyoto and having to plunge herself into social life again, Kana, like everyone else, was full of resistance and uneasiness.
In this regard, the uncle gave his philosophy of life, although it is not a very worthy idea, but I think many young people will get a little comfort from the uncle's words.
Our lives are both short and long, working hard all the way and finding the direction of the end.
Many people, like Kanai, have ambivalent feelings about work and school, and want to do a good job and worry about unknown ups and downs.
But sometimes taking it easy is not necessarily another way to move forward.
I think what people say is still reasonable, so there are poems such as "the boat to the bridge is naturally straight" and "the willow is dark and the flowers are bright and another village".
After watching "Staying in Kyoto", I seemed to be like Kana, who was temporarily healed by this ancient city.
The food in the movie, the scenery, and the way people get along with each other all make me yearn for it, and I hope that the day when I can go out without a mask will come soon.
When the time comes, I can also ride my bicycle, walk around a certain city, find a small shop that suits my heart, and meet some friendly strangers.
It is best to go directly to Kyoto and bring a few good poems as a gift.
That's it for today.
Bye bye!