Boil a pot of old brine soup

Comparing brine soup and pharmacopoeia with reading and composition is a bit awkward with oil, salt, sauce, and vinegar meeting the scriptures, histories, sub-collections. In the eyes of ordinary people, the two can not be related, but the ancients have said: if you do not become a good doctor, you will be a good doctor. It can be seen that the literati of ancient times did not have the way of Confucius and Mencius, but also cultivated the study of life. They can write poems, words, songs, and fu, but they also know oil, salt sauce, and vinegar. Zhen Wenhao is a composite talent with both poetry and bookish atmosphere and pyrotechnic taste. It can be seen from Su Shi's "Old Food Endowment" and "Vegetable Soup Endowment", Gao Lian's "Zunsheng Eight Notes", and Cao Xueqin's "Dream of the Red Chamber" in a variety of foods.

As the saying goes, "A good cook is a handful of salt." "This is not only about the important role of salt in the diet, but also tells us that good meals and spices play an important role. The spices of the Chinese diet are actually Traditional Chinese medicines, as long as you understand the medicinal properties of each medicine and the effects produced by the combination of several herbs, you can not only be a langzhong but also a chef.

I can boil old brine soup, and I can marinate ribs and chicken thighs with excellent aroma, which is related to my study of Chinese medicine classics. Sun Simiao wrote "Great Doctor Jingcheng" in "Preparing for Urgent Thousand Golden Prescriptions", and if you have studied several Chinese medicine classics, the chef can also excel.

Studying pharmacopoeia is not about sitting in the hall for consultation, nor is it about boiling brine soup and filling a "foodie". This experience has made me more rewarding in reading, writing, teaching and educating people than both.

From a literary point of view, "Compendium of Materia Medica" made me marvel at Li Shizhen's familiarity with the flowers and trees in nature, and every time I read this book, I deeply appreciated Li Shizhen's devotion to loving nature, as well as the professional belief in benefiting from nature and using compassion to make medicines. Therefore, the "Compendium of Materia Medica" is not only a pharmacopoeia, but also a model of ancient ecological culture and literature.

I once asked students a question in class: Are you familiar with the environment in which you live? A lot of people say familiar. I said, since you are familiar, who can tell me the names of the flowers and trees in the green belt of the campus accurately? The classroom was silent. I said, so we must learn from the ancients, otherwise, Qu Yuan's "Leaving the Troubles" wrote vanilla beauty, if you don't know which kind of grass is vanilla, which kind of grass is stinky grass, and the incense is compared to stinky, and the stinky is said to be incense, then it is not a big joke. The Book of Poetry, too, is not only the source of Chinese realist literature, but also has important botanical value. Read Tang poems and Song poems, in which the flowers and plants are fragrant.

In fact, people who have become great writers have been curious about the grass, trees and flowers around them and have studied them, and Wang Zengqi, Lu Wenfu, Alai, etc. are all examples of this.

Let's talk about "The Science of The Pulse of the Lake". Many people know that Li Shizhen is a master of herbal medicine, but they do not know that he is also the master of pulse science. He summed up 27 kinds of pulses on the basis of his predecessors, which are still used by doctors. I did not read this book to learn how to cut the pulse, but to experience the sensitivity of the ancients to the body. By extension, the ancients could even feel the subtle rhythm of the body and could accurately distinguish it, not only natural things, but also the twenty-four solar terms. This book made me know that good writers are sensitive people, and they all have the ability to make the characters, the rhythm of the narrative, their emotions, and their language have the ability to pulsate, and this pulse will make literature have a sense of music. And this kind of pulse is something that third-rate writers can never achieve. Of course, people who don't laugh can't be writers, even if they are writers, they are pretending, and no matter how many books come out, the words are just bricks.

Ancient Chinese four-character poems, riot poems, fu, near-body poems, ancient poems, words, songs, and poems are all pursuing this pulse in form. People have veins, which represent the survival of life; in the same way, if people have veins, they will sway and stir the heartstrings of people's heartstrings. Of course, people who can write pulsating literary works must have the ability to be moved and grateful. "Human emotions are developed in literature." Mr. Liu Renyi's words.

"Tang tou Song Recipe" let me know the greatness of Chinese medicine, although I can't sit in the hall to consult, but the puppy sitting on the dung pile to charge the dog is enough. A few times when I went to the doctor for a doctor, when the doctor prescribed medicine, I asked him, are you prescribing the prescription or the prescription? When the doctor who sat in the clinic was amazed that I could ask such a professional question, he would generally use all his strength to open the square, from the perspective of the world, reading, as long as the eye sockets were wide, at least not to be deceived.

"Tangtou Song Recipe" is the Jing Fang in the Chinese medicine formula, and the later prescriptions are based on the complexity of the disease to add medicinal materials, these prescriptions are collectively called Shi Fang, which is extended from the Jing Fang. Most good doctors use the classic combination of those few herbs on the scriptures.

Jing Fang and Shi Fang taught me that to read books is to read the classics. Mr. Chen Yinke once said that he had read all the Chinese books, and many people wondered, and Mr. Chen's explanation was that there were more than eighty classics in China, and the other books were extended from these eighty books. Classics are unspritten and never outdated. As far as reading is concerned, if you have carefully read one or two works of the pre-Qin Zhuzi, there is no reason why you cannot write super speculative words, because the "sons" at that time all thought that their ideas could become the basis for the monarch's governance, and if they wanted to persuade the king, they must be easy to understand, not only to express but also to exclusivity. Many of our idioms today were formed at that time. The vivid metaphors in Zhuangzi and the arguments in Mencius. As far as the way of writing is concerned, fu bixing in the Book of Poetry even has a montage technique. I will not repeat it. So, read books to read classics. The classic is a compressed biscuit, a small piece of bread large enough to top a large lump of bread.

The Outline of the Golden Plateau is Zhang Zhongjing's masterpiece, condensing the essence of his Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases. The book is concise and concise, but the treatment of some common conditions has an immediate effect. And its medicine is nothing but red dates, goji berries, ground tigers, dandelions, licorice and other common things. The medical meaning of this book should be what we pursue: to be a bright and upright person, to do things quickly and cut through the mess, to delete the complicated and simple composition, and never to drag the mud and water. Cumbersomeness is a cover-up, not an implication of "holding the pipa and half-covering the face", just jane is character, not "there is light thunder outside the furong pond".

Just read the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, not to diagnose the pulse, prescribe treatment, just to boil a pot of old brine soup, let the chicken legs taste, add color to the ribs, and appreciate the food for the mouth. The people take food as the sky, and the great thing is to fill their stomachs, and if they do not grin their teeth because of the lack of vinegar and salt when they are packed, they will be very good.

Respect the scriptures and classics, read and study carefully in the classics of Chinese culture, boil their own old soup, and make reading and writing and dealing with people in the world meaningful, reasonable, and orderly. (Jiang Yinghong)