They are: living on a mountain in Kyoto, living in the wild with insects, my little French dinner, the secret of fruit, floral plants for entry-level watercolor illustration, traditional Japanese colors, reducing sugar life and dried flower floral art to make the room more beautiful.
These books explain the methods of integrating nature into life from different aspects, and integrate natural history knowledge, action guides and creative inspiration.
I practiced many methods, from which I gained the enjoyment of beauty and peace of mind. I will briefly introduce the reasons for my recommendation, and also provide some introductory suggestions according to my own practice, so that I can quickly add color to my life and open a wide door to nature without making a big fight.
If you are interested in a certain field, you can refer to the action guide and start your own exploration journey as soon as possible. It is not recommended to seek perfection and blame. After all, our energy is limited. However, in any case, please try to establish contact with nature, because nature is the only pure land where our hearts can live safely.
This is a collection of essays about mountain life.
The author, a British aristocrat, met her current husband (who is also the photographer of this book) in Japan, and both of them settled in a century-old agricultural Curie in the countryside of Kyoto, Japan. The author opened a yard here and planted 150 kinds of herbs.
This book records the author's poetic life with vanilla, mixed with some beautiful moments and philosophical experiences in life.
Summer is quiet and the days are long. You can hear the sound of mint, basil, rosemary and lavender growing vigorously. In autumn in seven grass, the ancient method is used to make herbal tea, handmade soap and plum wine. In my spare time, I walk in the depths of the country in the foggy morning and watch fireflies by the river that meets dusk.
The author observes the differences between Japanese and British life, and we can follow her to see many details and feelings in life.
In the era of globalization and networking, everyone, like the author, is exploring a rapidly changing world. No matter where I am, I try my best to discover the beauty of this world and actively find a lifestyle that suits me. This book has given me important spiritual enlightenment.
1. Buy potted herbs: rosemary, thyme and basil.
2. Drink herbal tea: rosemary+rose.
3. Buy a bottle of unilateral essential oil, choose your favorite taste and put it in a humidifier.
4. Fry the steak with thyme once:/recipe/100051307/(personally test the delicious steak frying method and pay attention to the thickness of the steak).
5. Observe the blooming of basil, wait for the patronage of bees, collect basil seeds and plant them next year.
6. Use basil as a green sauce.
This is a collection of essays on insect observation. The author is an insect lover and writer. This book records the author's experience of observing and photographing insects and his philosophical thoughts, and the coordinates are in Yunnan. The first half is prose, and the second half is photos and time records.
The author explains the title of the book like this.
Being in the wild is a gesture, escaping from the outside and the box. This gesture can make me abandon my tangled self, disappear into nature, blend in with nature, watch flowers change into flowers and insects change into insects, as if the world has become smaller, my mind has been broadened, and all my troubles have been blown away by the mountain wind.
Watching insects is not just to satisfy curiosity, it is completely different from boys catching insects to scare female students or catching crickets. It looks at nature with a humble, pure and aesthetic view. Let go of the self-frame and arrogance, blend in and feel the vastness and beauty of the world.
I was amazed at the charm of a fly, which gave me a different aesthetic. It crawls out of the dung heap, flies around annoying, and "buzzes" after dirty and smelly things ... However, it will also stay on the canna leaves after the rain, which makes people suddenly realize: Can our eyes look at the world filter out prejudice and simply observe it and find its extraordinary beauty beyond its filth and odor?
Raising plants is to keep company with these elves. Faced with pests, such as aphids and red spiders, I can't wait to catch them all. Facing bees, lacewings and ladybugs (carnivores), they are very happy. However, from the perspective of pragmatism and anthropocentrism, you can see their true colors. Like human beings, they are natural creations and miraculous beings.
1, a pot of plants must be cultivated in the open air. If you look at it sooner or later, you may find some magical little creatures coming uninvited.
2, if possible, equipped with a macro camera, you will be amazed at the magical structure of insects. Or buy a macro lens for your mobile phone. Of course, the mobile phone itself is great and even better. You will find that your home is really not just yourself.
3. Write a nature observation diary and observe a plant.
4. Take a walk in nature, and observe and record the changes of this place all year round in the suburbs of the park.
5. You can buy ladybug eggs in summer and observe their life cycle. If plants have aphids, this is a necessary choice.
I bought this book because I read Rachel's Paris Kitchen. I like Rachel's attitude when she cooks. Sometimes life needs this spirit. It's simple, a little rough, but full of creativity and confidence.
Qiu, an Englishman, studied at La Cordillera International College, the world's top cooking school. He opened the smallest private restaurant in Paris in his small apartment and devoted himself to cooking French food at home in a modern and easy-to-master way, which proved that French food is no longer a luxury that can only be enjoyed in high-end restaurants.
This is an insightful cookbook. Every dish is created by the author according to the changes of seasonal ingredients, which combines the essence of tradition and modernity. As the author commented on Paris cuisine:
Simplicity, improvisation and understanding of ingredients are the key points.
This is also the food concept that this book wants to convey.
It is difficult to completely copy the dishes in this book according to the recipe. First, ingredients are not easy to obtain, and second, spices. Although it can be purchased, the probability of reuse is very low. But as the author thinks, what we need to do is to combine traditional cooking methods with local fresh ingredients. When China's spices and ingredients are mixed with French ones, it may have a completely fresh taste, which may be delicious food or purgatory. It is important to return to the ingredients themselves, to the seasons and seasons, and to your own tastes and feelings, instead of clinging to the differences between Chinese food, western food and Japanese food. Carefully mix and try, and you will create your own recipes.
1. Buy an oven and cheese butter.
2, mix a salad, high value is the premise, pay attention to color matching.
3. Bake herring in the oven once: /recipe/ 106079238/ (pro-test delicious recipes)
4. buy a snow pot with a steamer, which is really easy to use and suitable for cooking light dishes. You can use the pot in your hand, Chinese food and western food.
5, barbecue in the oven, you can roast sweet potatoes, roasted chestnuts, kebabs, grilled shrimp.
This is a watercolor natural history picture book, which is one of the series of "Hand-painted natural picture books with a mouthful". There are seven books in this series. It seems that only five books have been published, and I bought them, but I like the book The Secret of Fruit best, because I like to eat fruit.
The author is a famous naturalist, graduated from Chiba University, Japan, majoring in biology, nicknamed "Mr. Mantis Lizard".
I like the style of this book very much. Watercolor and signature pen make it practical, with novel composition and bright colors. The book not only introduces the knowledge of fruits, but also introduces related animals and insects. My interest in reading always arouses my impulse to study Shanghai ingredients. Especially recently, the development of online shopping has greatly enriched the diversity of food categories. There are more than a dozen oranges alone, with different shapes, appearances and seasons, which makes people want to study them in depth.
1. Observe the natural food you often eat and record its specific name (origin+variety+time to market). As a northeast person, I am also studying hard: not all green leafy vegetables are called green vegetables.
If possible, send your favorite food, draw a sketch or watercolor painting, or take a big close-up. You will find that it is quite different from what you usually see.
3. To understand local food, it is best to go to the place of origin and understand the life cycle of food.
This is an introductory book about watercolor flowers. The flowers in it are classified according to seasons. Every article has a painting process, and the painting method is simple and fresh. As long as the basic materials are prepared, you can follow the author to start a journey of fresh flowers in the four seasons.
Shiro Fujikawa was originally the editor of a gardening magazine. After the age of 35, I became interested in painting and wrote while painting.
It is precisely because the plant itself can't move and can't express emotions, so the more you look at it, the more you feel what it wants to express.
I have tried many painting materials, but I still think watercolor is the most poetic and lively. I always feel that computer painting is not suitable for expressing the beauty of life, and it seems to lack the breath of agility and freedom. Watercolor is the easiest to learn and use, but it is more difficult to advance. Watercolor, like Chinese painting, is very suitable for freehand brushwork and expressing inner feelings. It is also beautiful to simply observe the color of water without describing the shape.
The painting methods in the book, whether you have studied painting or not, can be mastered quickly. In fact, everyone can draw, but after learning a lot of skills and knowledge, you will suddenly find that you can't draw. Let go of the obsession with technology and don't worry about sedimentation, smearing, color overlapping, blank space and so on. Just pay attention to the outline and color.
Once you start painting, you forget that the object you want to paint is flowers. Because once you decide that you are drawing flowers, you are only drawing flowers in your mind.
Forget what is painted in front of you, focus on observation, don't be bound by names, it is important to feel the beauty of nature and form.
1, buy a box of watercolors, three watercolor pens and a watercolor book.
2. Find a flower at random, whether it's a roadside wildflower or a domestic one, or go to a flower shop to buy it. While learning the painting method in the book, observe and explore the shape (outline and color change) of the flowers at hand.
3. Collect flowers around you (parks, suburbs, roadsides, etc. ) according to the four seasons, take photos and explore photos with watercolor.
4. Put a photo frame on the wall, draw according to the season, and enjoy it in the photo frame.
This is a book with cultural color, which is both literary and historic. This paper introduces the names, allusions and images of Japanese traditional colors. Traditional colors are based on Japanese people's unique feelings about colors, and their names are mostly taken from plants, animals and natural phenomena. These color names are poetic and beautiful, different from European and American watercolors in that they are named after their ingredients, such as quinacridone gold, light titanium yellow, chrome sky blue and so on.
The author of this book, Yoko Nagasawa, is an expert in studying Japanese traditional colors. In this book, she skillfully combines the four seasons of Japan with traditional colors.
The world created by elegant color names and colorful colors, such as light color, cloud color, bottle peep, dull color, red rot color, day lily color and lingering color, not only reveals the mutual concern between man and nature, but also reveals people's delicate perception of the changes of the four seasons, and more vividly depicts people's life interests and aesthetic hearts throughout the ages.
We can follow these colors in the long river of history and feel the discovery and understanding of beauty by human beings.
The illustrations in the book adopt the style of "small watercolor illustrations, flowers and plants", which is simple and fresh. Even if you don't look at the text, you can feel the beauty of nature and culture just by looking at the illustrations.
1. If possible, buy a set of bamboo or auspicious watercolors. Combined with the introduction of color in books, we can experience the characteristics and cultural beauty of pigments at the same time.
Step 2 make color cards
3. Draw with a single color and fully understand the attributes of color (transparency, precipitation and diffusion).
4. Try to copy the illustrations in the book.
This is a book about reducing sugar lifestyle, which introduces the principle and benefits of reducing sugar, provides practical recipes, and intimately marks the sugar content of daily food.
Author Mizuno is the director of Akiba Mizuno Clinic. As his parents are both diabetics and their physical condition is getting worse, he launched a research on improving health with hypoglycemic therapy as the core, which helped many patients with type 2 diabetes get rid of their dependence on insulin injection.
Whether it's reducing blood sugar, reducing fat, skipping food and other health concepts, it seems to remind us that the body needs to rest, don't consume too much energy, reduce dependence on exquisite food and return to natural ingredients.
I like reading the recipes in this kind of health books very much. I don't like to guide myself with a healthy life, mainly because I will have a rebound mentality. But I am interested in integrating these recipes into my daily life and trying healthier ingredients and cooking methods. The recipes provided in this book are of great reference value, and the cooking method is simple and easy to realize, which provides a lot of inspiration and helps me create my own healthy menu.
1, make a reducing sugar meal according to the recipe.
2. Choose a healthy three-meal recipe as a substitute for daily recipes.
3. Forgetting that you are managing your health, it is natural to add recipes to your life, otherwise it will be easy to fall short (personally, every time I think that what I have eaten recently is full of health, I can't help but order fried chicken or coke crispy meat).
4. To create your own recipes, it is important to introduce your favorite food and beneficial food into your daily life.
This is a guide book of dried flowers, which introduces the basic treatment methods of dried flowers and provides a variety of personalized dried flower designs, some of which are simple in shape and some are full of creativity.
Withering is not the end, but the beginning of another kind of beauty.
Collecting a bunch of flowers every week, or buying a bunch of flowers by the roadside, is an indispensable part of my life. However, I am always eager for new flowers, which also makes me very upset. However, when the flowers dried up, my unique beauty also attracted my attention.
Brew dried flowers with dreamy and nostalgic flavor.
Time-varying mild tones bring a completely different feeling from fresh plants.
Flowers always look alike, but dried flowers have their own personality. Flowers bring me vitality like morning, and dried flowers give me insight like night. The two complement each other and bring me a comprehensive understanding of beauty.
1. Spend some time or buy a bunch of flowers at other flower stands. The flower shop in front of your house is ok, but I think some of them are more expensive.
2. Observe the dried flowers after the flowers wither.
3. Try to arrange flowers with dried flowers and experience the beauty of dried flowers.
Natural life is to open a hole in the existing life and let us breathe in another world. When we feel pressure, bondage and conflict, we can temporarily escape to the natural world. These methods have accompanied me through many difficulties.
Every book introduced here opens a door, and behind it is a vast world. You can choose to walk into a door and have a look at different scenery, and you may get different inspiration and epiphany when you return to life. Drawing elements from these worlds and adding them to real life can increase the fun of life and add a touch of aromatic seasoning to the boring and empty life.