"Journey to the West" is a classic in the hearts of many people. However, just recently, Ma Siqi, a fifth-grade student in a primary school in Hangzhou, discovered a big loophole in "Journey to the West".
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Many dishes from the Eastern Tang Dynasty to the Western Regions are similar
In his composition, Ma Siqi listed the dishes in "Journey to the West" The names of dishes at banquets in different stories. Indeed, even in the Western Regions, these dishes are all Chinese food. After reading her composition, many people gave her a thumbs up and praised her, she is so talented!
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Have you ever discovered that no matter how wonderful the author writes, from the Eastern Tang Dynasty to the Western Regions, the regional differences are so huge that the food eaten But so similar. Ma Siqi compiled the names of dishes in several scenes that are well-known to all ages, as follows:
The menu for the 54th wedding banquet of the King of the Daughter Kingdom of Xiliang: rice with jade crumbs, steamed cakes, sugar cakes, mushrooms, mushrooms, Fungus, Gelidium, day lily, seaweed, cabbage, taro, radish (radish), yam, polygonatum... Chapter 67: Gluten, tofu, taro seedlings, radish, spicy mustard, cabbage, Fragrant rice, vinegar-roasted sunflower soup...Chapter 69 of the Zhuzi Kingdom: lion fairy, bamboo shoots and fungus, mushrooms, yellow rice, mushroom rice paste, powder soup...Chapter 79 of the King of Xiao'er Kingdom's banquet: lion candy, vermicelli, mushrooms , fungus, polygonatum, fragrant rice... As can be seen from these menus, rice, mushrooms, mushrooms, fungus, tofu, gluten, taro, radish are included in almost every meal. The same food traveled thousands of miles and spread across various regions, as if it was faster and farther than Sun Wukong's somersault cloud. The food of the Tang Dynasty and the small countries in the Western Regions are generally the same, and the preferences of goblins and monarchs are basically the same. This makes people suspicious. How is this possible?
It turns out that Wu Chengen, the author of "Journey to the West", was from Huai'an, and most of the above-mentioned foods are Jianghuai delicacies.
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I want to travel to the Ming Dynasty and persuade Wu Chengen
A few days ago, the reporter met classmate Ma Siqi at school. She is a quiet little girl who doesn't talk much. But when I talk about "Journey to the West", I immediately get excited.
“I really want to travel back to the Ming Dynasty to persuade Wu Chengen to ask more people with such professional knowledge,” Ma Siqi wrote in the composition. Ma Siqi said that he has read "Journey to the West" several times, and some stories have been read more than 10 times. As a foodie, when reading "Journey to the West", he naturally paid attention to what was eaten in "Journey to the West". "I found that many of the dishes in "Journey to the West" are similar. They should all be dishes from Wu Chengen's hometown. So I wrote this essay specifically."
Lou Han, Dean of the School of Humanities at Zhejiang University Professor Song, who has done extensive research on the classic novel "Journey to the West", said after reading Ma Siqi's composition: "Children read carefully, and the views expressed in the composition are generally reasonable. The details in the writer's writing are often consistent with It is closely related to my own life experience, but it is difficult to say whether these dishes are unique to Huai'an. However, the children's thinking and discovery spirit are very worthy of recognition."
In fact, some people think that "Journey to the West". In the era in which the author lived, due to various practical conditions, he might have subjectively believed that the diet of the Western Regions was not much different from that of the Tang Dynasty, so there was no need to use modern thinking to view the ancients. But in any case, Ma Siqi's spirit of being good at discovering problems is worthy of encouragement.