for writers, the Republic of China means a hundred flowers contend.

For foodies, the Republic of China means a lot of delicious food.

The title of the book is "The Wife's Kitchen in the Republic of China", but it has little to do with the wife and the kitchen. More are those short stories scattered in the long river of history. History is too grand and serious, and eating is much more lively and simple. Cookies have enlivened that era.

After 68 days and 1,671 kilometers of trekking, The National SouthWest Associated University students who moved south talked about war and current affairs while holding coffee carefully. Indulge in academics while eating friends. In that era of lack of materials, it is actually an expectation for the future to keep paying attention to food. Inexplicable to The National SouthWest Associated University gives birth to a lot of affection and curiosity.

For the sake of love, the eldest young lady, Yang Jiang, gladly changed from "never touching the spring water with her fingers" to "a maid under the stove". Qian Zhongshu, who only knows how to read, actually developed the "Qian Zhongshu Moon Meal" in Oxford. The child born was Qian Yuan. Many years later, Qian Zhongshu drove the crane to the west, and his daughter died. Only Yang Jiang recalled the bowl of chicken soup in The Three of us. It's embarrassing to think about it.

Our age is rich in material things, and idolize just picked up the plane to send a gift and clicked on social media to like it. Because it is not scarce, there is a little less precious interest. It's no news that stars treat fan gifts as garbage. There has been a seven-year relationship between Bao Yaoming, a literary lover, and Zhou Zuoren, a frustrated master. It is not literature, not history, but food that fans and their idols talk about the most. Living in Beiping, eating treasures thousands of miles away, I feel deeply good. "It is simply the version of Haitao in the Republic of China. Their letters later became important documents in this period.

if you love someone, you must first grasp his stomach. This is a universal truth. Miss Zhao Si tied Zhang Xueliang to the table "cooked by a woman's family" and Chiang Kai-shek "won" Song Meiling to the Jiao Shan shad. Even if he went to the United States, in order to solve the problem of eating in Zhao Yuanren, Yang Buwei, who was born in a famous family, gave up his medical major and became a "kitchen god"

There were also Zhang Henshui, who didn't know ham, Wang Shixiang, who loved chocolate sundaes, and Zhang Daqian, who was in a foreign land but never forgot beef noodles ....................................................................

As the back cover of the book says:

Food is a key to explore the years of the Republic of China

With them,

there seems to be a bridge between us and those shining names.