Speaking of Journey to the West, it is really a household name, and it is also a childhood memory of several generations. As we all know, The Journey to the West was written by Wu Cheng'en, a novelist in the Ming Dynasty. Speaking of Wu Cheng'en, although he was brilliant at a young age, his career was not prosperous. At the age of 50, he made up for Gong Sheng, who was one year old, and became the biggest official, that is, the magistrate of Xinye County, Henan Province, and only for two or three years. Brush off your clothes? He lived by selling literature and eventually died of poverty and disease. However, although there is one less bureaucrat in the world, there is one more writer and one more masterpiece handed down from generation to generation.

The works of Journey to the West are based on the stories of Tang Priest's Buddhist scriptures and the scripts of zaju. Together with The Water Margin, A Dream of Red Mansions and Romance of the Three Kingdoms, they have become the four classic works of China, which shows their value in the history of China literature. 1982, director Yang Jie filmed the TV series The Journey to the West based on the novel, which is also the most widely played TV series in China, with more than 3,000 replays, becoming a classic that lingers in the hearts of generations.

I have watched the TV series of Journey to the West for no less than ten times, and I have also watched the original novel several times. I learned the story by heart, but I didn't find anything wrong with the novel except that it was a little strange. I believe many people have read this novel many times and found no loopholes. But a fifth-grade pupil, Ma Siqi, found one while watching Journey to the West? A loophole? .

That's why she found that Tang Priest and his disciples traveled hundreds of thousands of miles through many countries, but the recipes in each place didn't change much, almost all of them were dishes in Jianghuai area. In order to prove his discovery, Ma Siqi listed banquet dishes in different places and scenes in his composition:

This is the menu of the fifty-fourth wedding banquet of the king of Xiliang's daughter country: corn, steamed cake, sugar cake, mushrooms, mushrooms, fungus, cauliflower, day lily, laver, radish, taro, radish, yam and Polygonatum.

This is the 67th camel vegetarian diet in Luo Zhuang: gluten, tofu, taro seedlings, radish, hot mustard, mustard, fragrant rice and vinegar roasted sunflower soup.

Bamboo shoots, fungus, mushrooms, Huang Liang rice, mushroom paste and noodle soup appeared on the dining table of Zhu Ziguo for the 69th time.

Lion candy, vermicelli, mushrooms, black fungus, Polygonatum sibiricum, fragrant rice, this is the children's banquet of the 79th King.

Look at these dishes. Do you think they are similar? Rice, mushrooms, radishes, gluten, tofu, fungus, etc. , are full of Jiangnan characteristics. Food in different places should be different, such as rice in the south, pasta in the north, and some beef and mutton in Inner Mongolia, not to mention exotic countries thousands of miles away. Just like eating in the same pot, the preferences of kings and monsters are basically the same, which is a bit unreasonable.

Experts have also given some explanations for this problem. Wu Cheng'en was born in Jianghuai area, so he naturally knows more about local food. As we said just now, Wu Cheng'en was still very poor in his later years. Under such harsh living conditions, it is also very difficult to go abroad to learn about food in other countries. So when Wu Cheng'en writes novels, he certainly describes them according to the dishes he is familiar with. From this description, we can actually see the living conditions of ordinary people in Jianghuai area at that time.

I have to admire Ma Siqi's children, who not only read novels, but also understand them from a research perspective. Careful observation really makes us sigh.

Ma Siqi is good at observation and likes writing. She took part in the 6th National Composition Competition for Junior and Middle School Students. After careful evaluation by expert judges such as Yu Hua, Ye, Yuan Min, Xu Jie, Prince of Fiberhome Opera, she defeated a group of junior high school students and senior high school students, and won the grand prize of the 6th National Youth New Composition Competition with the prize of 10000. The title of her award-winning essay is "The Story of physical education class's Viscera", which describes the state of physical education class's upper viscera making love in his own body, which is vivid and interesting.

Life is full of knowledge. It is better to believe in books than not to have them. It is also emphasized that children should have their own ideas in reading, pay attention to understanding the ideas in the book, study the contents in the book and experience the feelings in the book, so that children's writing level can be improved.