I've been making bean paste for 50 years... Making bean paste is about investing in emotions... - "The Taste of Chengsha"
Watching the movie "The Taste of Chengsha", when making bean paste, Grandma looked soft, her whole body and mind were attracted to the beans, she paid attention to the quality of the beans, the change of smell when the beans were steamed, and treated the beans gently, just like her own children.
The way Grandma treated the beans reminded me of a sentence written by Cai Yong in the "Treatise on Pen": "Deep and radiant, like to the supreme being." "Sink the external illusion as if it were facing the person you value most."
In the movie, when Grandma teaches the store manager to make bean paste, there is such a dialogue: Store Manager: "It's complicated!" ” Grandma: "Because we're entertaining them!" ” Store Manager: "Hospitality?" Entertain our guests? ” Grandma: "No, it's these beans." ” Store Manager: "Beans?" ” Grandma: "They come from all over the earth."
When Grandma makes bean paste, she puts her feelings into it, and in her eyes, beans are like people, interacting with her, recounting her experience, and the process of making beans is full of fun, without a trace of impatience due to the complexity of the process.
When the bean paste was cooked, the store manager made two copper gongs and tasted it with Grandma, Grandma asked the store manager how it was, and the store manager's answer surprised Grandma. The manager said: "I am still eating such a thing for the first time, I finally met a gong roast that can be eaten, I have never eaten a whole gong yakiya because I don't like to eat sweets." ”
People who don't like sweets work in the Tongluo shop, grandma is very puzzled about why the store manager does this job, she feels that doing work she does not like, can not put their temperament into it, this is a great waste of life.
The store manager eventually told his own story, when he was young, he fought with others, beat a person into serious injuries, went to jail himself, and lost a large amount of money, which was raised by the owner of the store. It was a sum of money he might not have spent his life, and he had been working in the store to pay it back.
In life, we also carry heavy responsibilities like store managers, and we have to do a job that we don't like so much in order to live, which may make us a little stronger to put our temperament into work we don't like, but we still have leisure time that is not work, these times are at our disposal. If we don't put our temperament into it and let time slowly slip away in our own indifference to the world, we really have failed our lives.
If a day has passed, looking back at the day, you have not immersed your mind on anything meaningful, such a day is an empty day. Life is the accumulation of day by day, if every day is spent in such an empty way, our life is too boring, can only say that we have survived, can not say that we have lived.
As you fall asleep, ask yourself, "What am I putting my mind into?" "Constantly reflect, improve the time to pour your temperament into what you do, find the joy of life, and live your life happily."