"Diet Men and Women" is Ang Lee's representative work, but to be honest, the movie I actually did not seriously watch, I was hungry for the title, saw a large table of gourmet dishes starting from the preparation of ingredients, step by step methodically began to fry and fry, not to mention the taste, a single oil pot, onion ginger garlic material thrown in, crackling hot and lively a sound, but also temptation and enjoyment. In traditional Chinese aesthetics, the flowers are half-opened and the wine is slightly drunk, and this kind of neutral beauty is also quite in line with the middle way. Compared with the staggering of the feast and the mess of the scattered tables, this skillful and thoughtful cooking process is obviously more beautiful. Moreover, whoever wants to set up a big scene at home to have such a big table of dishes must be a festival or a good day. Often the joy at this time begins with the preparation of the meal, not so much that people like to eat, but more about the cheerful atmosphere.
On the topic of eating, the most powerful speaker should be the cooks, but the chefs are obviously diligent in practice, not very clever, and this task mostly falls on the writer group. In the group of writers, the more distant such as Confucius Laofuzi said that "food is not tired of fine, not tired of detail", although it is very general, but after all, it gives food culture a general guiding ideology, and can also be said to have done a great job in the development of Chinese cuisine; recent writers such as Wang Zengqi and Deng Youmei have been called by Jin Yong as writers with "full of chinese flavor", and reading those words makes people add a little imagination from time to time. Speaking of Wang Zengqi alone, articles such as "Four-Square Diet" and "Hometown Food" that specifically talk about eating are not mentioned, and even when writing about insects such as grasshoppers, do not forget to add a sentence "Calling clams can be eaten." It had to be three-tailed, with a large belly, thrown in the fire of dead branches, and cooked in a moment. It tastes like shrimp. It can be seen that the cuteness of this old man really lies in his love of food and his painstaking care. Wang Zengqi also wrote a story in Huang Yongyu's mouth in the preface to "Scholars Talk about Eating", telling that many scholars at that time had one or two small dishes, a friend's meeting, stipulating that each person prepared ingredients to perform a dish, and the famous player Wang Shixiang brought a bundle of green onions and finally came to the scene and made a dish: stewed onions. As a result, all the dishes were pressed down. The highlight of this story lies in the usual identity of the onion and the confidence of the protagonist to appear, which is stranded in the martial arts drama, and those who fold branches into swords and flying leaves hurt people are no more than this. In fact, looking at Wang Zengqi's article, what he eats is not a precious food, it is some ordinary ingredients that can no longer be ordinary, but the old man has a unique wisdom, the life is really real, he makes a good dish, can see leisurely in the plain, and eat the taste of life.
Wang Zengqi was once called the last scholar in China, and probably the world used it to show his gentle and jade-like literary character, and such a mention has a bit of nostalgic complex in it, as if to warn future generations that some traditions will not be completely separated from the times. In fact, in traditional Chinese culture, there are still many poems and hops into poetry, probably Mencius said such a sentence as "gentleman far away from the kitchen", so the literati of all generations are actually ashamed to talk about eating on the table, and the length of several famous works about eating is not much. In the monograph, "Suiyuan Food List" is a decent kitchen textbook, probably because of the Qing Dynasty Daxing text prison, the literati shut up and did not dare to speak, instead of talking about the wind and flowers and snow moon, which led to the emergence of a foodie Yuan Ming. In addition, Su Shi is also OK, loves to think about eating, but the timing is not good, and it is not smart to eat from the text. For example, in Huizhou, Su Shi's identity was "Ningyuan Army Jiedu Deputy Envoy, Huizhou Resettlement", a "resettlement" will write the situation clearly, life is not good. Lin Yutang recorded in the book a letter written by Su Shi to Zi You, which read:
"Huizhou City is in a state of rage, killing a sheep every day." Do not dare to compete with the officials to buy, when the slaughterer, buy their backbone. There are also micro-meats between the bones, cooked hot wine crossing, randomly use wine thin points of salt to burn, slightly burned food, all day long to pick and remove teeth, such as crab stinging taste. Rate three or five days a shop. My son was in danger for three years, and he was full of teeth and bones, so how could he know this taste? Although this is a joke, it is very useful. But the dogs are not pleasant. ”
After reading such a text, and then looking for Su Shi's temperament, there is almost no need to read other words, under the fame, what support does an outstanding soul rely on, such detachment and openness may be the best footnote. It's just a pity that when it comes to Su Dongpo and food, people naturally only think of "Dongpo meat", few people say that this "roast lamb spine", probably this is not a delicacy, can be the food snatched from the dog's mouth, carefully prepared, eat the crab flavor, and flourish into the text, I am afraid that only this literary style, nature open and romantic Su Dongpo it. After all, there are not so many people like Su Shi in the world, and ordinary people do not necessarily lose to him in terms of food, but only the splendid article and the outstanding husband's temperament. In one lifetime, the word eating and wearing, the difference between rich and poor is mostly considered from these. If in traditional society, food culture is still disparate due to differences in politics, economy and environment, in today's economy and society, the tricks and levels of eating are beyond the reach of the past. Eating is also the world, what has changed is the attitude of today's people to eat, avoiding respect and not talking about it, and the cultural interest behind the diet is finally not caught. Eating for the sake of eating, poor as food, really rough. It seems that I am lazy and lazy, and I eat hard, and when I see something delicious, I forget to eat it, and there is no Sven at all, so that the big belly and poop have no appearance, it is not only vulgar, it is simply pitiful.