This book almost includes Wang Zengqi's most representative works. The book is divided into two parts: "Things have a heart" and "People have a taste". He writes, paints and cooks, making ordinary daily life affectionate, interesting and tasty, and conveying his love for life to the world word by word-life is beautiful and people are poetic. He writes for the people, sincere and kind, poetic but not melodramatic. He taught us to look at the world with a beautiful heart and live with a loving heart. Life needs light and shadow, rain and shine, affection and consideration, and the taste is all here. Reading these words is like listening to the writer "talk a little about his life with a friend who can talk to him".
Wang Zengqi wrote trivial things, recorded local conditions and customs, and talked about flowers, birds, insects and fish. Inadvertently, he improvised and quipped. He can write loneliness beautifully: loneliness is like chrysanthemum tea; Longines, he said, was a "gentleman who was educated and cherished his status". He likes to tease mimosa and disdainfully says, "They are all bad. What's wrong? " He wrote about the rain in Kunming: a cup of turbid wine is over noon, and fragrant flowers are wet with rain. Writing the hydrangea of Mount Tai: I watched it for a long time before the flower, and I couldn't bear to leave. I haven't forgotten it for more than ten years. Write big love: be kind and upright when you are together, and be sloppy when you are apart. And this is amiable, respectable and lovely to read, and it has great wisdom that ordinary people can't reach.
Wang Zengqi has a deep love for life, never depressed, careless, careless. He leads an interesting life, and his writing is as clean and refreshing as pebbles. All this has something to do with his childhood living in Gaoyou water town in northern Jiangsu, where the folk customs are very simple. In Wang Lao's view, "all this is really a holy land." An ordinary scene, from Wang Zengqi's perspective, looks naive. Wherever his words go, there is a picture. Modern people like to see flowers, plants and food, and are keen to show the details of life. This is exactly what Wang Zengqi's prose has: meticulous observation of life and warm examination of daily life, which is why many readers like him.
Wang Zengqi is a person who can bring his appetite and literary creation very close. He once said, "It doesn't matter that the taste is monotonous and the ears sound so bad. The most important thing is to have a broader interest in life. " Life should be like this. "How nice it is to be alive!" This is Wang Zengqi's straightforward but profound understanding of life. He is passionate about everything in his hometown. His words have a "fireworks flavor", and his speaking habits, expressions and even values are deeply engraved in his mind, which makes his words read kindly and without a sense of distance, making people like to read, like to read and read again.
Wang Zengqi loves to eat, knows how to eat, and writes beautifully. Even if he casually wrote down the "recipe", it was full of poetry. For example, "Mix shredded radish" is written like this: "Wash the carrots, remove the roots, and do not peel them. Slice diagonally, and then cut into filaments, the finer the better. Add less sugar, marinate slightly, serve, light red and tender white. When eating, pour three heavy oils (soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil). " He cooks at home for Nie Hualing and his wife, a Chinese-American woman writer, including a big bowl of dried silk. I saw that "Hualing ate incisively and vividly, and finally picked up the bowl and drank all the remaining soup". He often said: "Beijing's shepherd's purse is not as delicious as the wild vegetables in the south." This faint reluctance is about the resonance that people who are thousands of miles away from home can have.
The real charm of Wang Zengqi lies in truth, but also in fun. In the eyes of readers, Wang Zengqi is a "lovely old man". Mr. Shen Congwen calls him serious, profound, thoughtful and talented. What is most lovely is his attitude, which is neither humiliating nor shocking. There is a popular saying among readers: "Many people don't know him, and everyone who knows him loves him." He aestheticized daily life and revised the grand narrative of the collective with personal trivial themes; With a plain, implicit and restrained narrative, it exposes the melodramatic style of writing, and makes the truth, goodness and beauty, daily life, calm and graceful return to prose, making prose out of the "thousand faces and one cavity", which is indispensable.
Tie Ning said: "Wang Lao brings warmth, happiness and extraordinary interest to the literary world." His life has been ups and downs, but he has written the slowness and leisure that modern people do not have. Ordinary grass and trees, tea and rice have all become lively and interesting because of him. He said: "We have all kinds of trauma, but we should be happy today." He wants people to think that life is beautiful and people are poetic. Can such people not like it?