This year, at various dinner parties, almost every time there is someone talking about "braised pork nourishing the brain"; for more than ten years, countless people have quoted classics and said that braised pork "tonifies the brain". Brain"; Looking at various celebrity biographies and health knowledge, they are also talking about the "brain-tonifying" function of braised pork. I just don’t understand: Are we Chinese really so eager to “replenish our brains”? This sentence is so similar to "Why not eat minced meat"!

I occasionally eat one or two pieces, not to "replenish my brain" or just because I am greedy. I am in my sixtieth year, and for many years, not only was I not allowed to study, but I was tortured to the point of starvation. How dare I expect braised pork to "replenish my brain"? According to the "Five Criteria for Communist Successors", people like me are destined to be "unwavering in their stupidity". But "meat eaters are despicable." In those years, meat-eaters had no idea about the life and death of ordinary people, which proved that "noble people are the most stupid" and it was impossible to "replenish their brains" with braised pork. But why do more and more people believe that braised pork "tonifies the brain"? The reason is not complicated either. The inexplicable sentence "

Jia Junpeng, your mother called you home for dinner" actually became a lively topic in the summer of 2009 and became popular all over the world. This phenomenon reminds me of Calvino's short story "The One Who Called Theresa", which is exactly the same. There were boos and noises, blind followers swarmed up, and spectators wandered around. Anyway, it was too lonely, boring, and empty, so I had to find some topics to stimulate it.

What is the great delicacy of braised pork? Home-cooked food, popular on the market, simple cooking method, popular taste. Its popularity is not entirely due to loneliness and boredom, but also to business opportunities and blind obedience. Among the Han methods of roasting pork, "braised in red" is probably the simplest and easy to learn. Because it is neither anyone's private dish nor anyone's invention. It relies on secret recipes. Even if there are slight differences, it may not be enough to achieve the sect style. I don't even think of "Dongpo Pork" and "Dongpo Pork" as Su Shi's invention. He is probably the "organizer" of these two cooking methods. The great Su was ups and downs in the officialdom and was exiled everywhere. However, he had the blessing of having state banquets or various public relations receptions in the court, and he also had the experience of curling up in the countryside and chewing pork. So he stood by the kitchen pot and guided improvements, and finally transformed himself. The tuba was organically combined with the roasted pork. How could he have imagined that it would be eaten for a thousand years! To borrow a current buzzword, it is also a practical scientific outlook on development.

Can braised pork really "replenish the brain"? You have to use your brain before you practice. The words of nutritionists and health experts always turn into clouds and rain. They are always valid and there is nothing you can do about them. My friend Lao Cao heard from experts that drinking a glass of milk before going to bed at night is good for calming the mind and falling asleep, and is also good for improving health. He has drank more than a ton of milk in the past few years. But recently he saw an article in the serious "Health News" about the bad effects of drinking milk before going to bed. He immediately became suspicious and then regretted it. Now, how can you tell him to spit out that ton of milk? ? Another example: Experts point out that breakfast should not be early, and people should have breakfast after seven o'clock. The truth is one, two, three... However, this is probably only suitable for civil servants, college students or the elderly across the country. ——I won’t talk about the working people. Just talk about the more than 100 million primary and secondary school students in the country. Most of them have early morning self-study at seven o’clock. They all have to finish breakfast before seven o’clock. ——Do you think we must point out that the breakfast of more than 100 million primary and secondary school students is unhealthy, or should we deny the experts without explanation? In my opinion, from the perspective of maintaining stability, we should not agree with their views under any circumstances, and we should not let them publicize it. When we encounter practical problems, we should not talk to them about science.

But this "braised pork to nourish the brain" is spread everywhere like a magical secret recipe. From the south to the north of the motherland, from the east to the west, restaurants everywhere are making a fuss about braised pork. In China, all the ethnic groups that eat pork seem to have started selling braised pork. In a small dilapidated restaurant in a southern town, when the boss recommended braised pork to me and enthusiastically introduced "brain supplements", I looked at his stupid face and was filled with compassion: he couldn't even add within a hundred. , is obviously extremely unsmart; and since he cooks so much meat every day, it is impossible for him not to taste a few pieces, but he has been running a restaurant for more than ten years and has eaten so much of his own "signature braised pork" that he just can't "make up for it". "stand up!

Let’s take it a step further: How many people across the country eat braised pork every day? How many people have you seen “supplementing” it? They cannot listen to so many correct opinions of the masses, and refuse to read so many books that they should read, but they still believe in them

Learning from teachers replenishes the brain; reading and self-examination replenishes the brain; observing and thinking replenishes the brain; Be good at listening to the opinions of the masses and replenish your brain... But if your brain has been washed away, you may have to listen to the propaganda and rely on braised pork to "replenish" it.