I never tire of fine food, and I never tire of fine food.
Food is like this, life is like this, and culture is like this.
The word culture can be said to be big or small.
It can be the carrier of thousands of years of history of a huge country, or it can be the soul transformation of daily food.
Mr. Wang Zengqi is just like the latter, using the transformation of food to write not only about food, but more about life, and what is reflected through life is our culture.
"Taste of the World" is Mr. Wang's food prose, in which the taste of life, life experience, and the baptism of culture are harmonized and transformed.
These are all reflections of Mr. Wang Zengqi’s advocating for indifference to nature and spiritual realm.
In-depth cultural dissemination is carried out through detailed descriptions of delicacies from various places.
Since it is a prose reading, my understanding of "The Taste of the World" is also scattered and focused.
China is so big, from south to north, with different regions and different cultural backgrounds. The same food can bloom different flowers in different regions.
For example, radish, Beijing’s water radish and mutton soup, Huai’an’s green radish, and Guangdong’s shredded radish cake.
The description of radish in this chapter is delicious, and the different regional cultures from south to north are displayed in front of you.
What impressed me most was the chapter on five flavors.
Sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty are the five flavors of food and the five flavors of life.
Shanxi people like to be jealous, Cantonese people like to eat sweet food, Sichuan food is spicy and numb, people from eastern Zhejiang eat salty food, and Changsha is famous for its stinky tofu.
"What's more, the Chinese people's tastes are so complex that I dare say they are the best in the world." The breadth and depth of China lies not only in traditional architecture and ancient cultural relics, but also in the different customs and customs of the Chinese land, and in the different cultures and cultures fostered in various places.
food culture.
This is generally true of eating the marrow and knowing the taste. Mr. Wang’s experience is not only his love for food, but also a miniature presentation of life.
In the chapter about food from hometown, a familiar prose - Dragon Boat Festival duck eggs appears.
Gaoyou duck eggs are the protagonist of this article. In his delicate description, what emerges in front of you is a duck egg that oozes red oil when poked, and is fragrant.
Gaoyou is Mr. Wang’s hometown. The so-called homesickness is probably an everlasting topic in Chinese literati’s writings, but Wang Zengqi expresses his nostalgia for his hometown in the specific delicacies of his hometown. As he said, “It used to be difficult to find water in a sea, and salted duck eggs from other places.
I really don’t like it.” "Taste of the World" made me feel that taste is really a wonderful thing. It is not only about the taste sensation of the dishes, but also not only the full expression of the five flavors in the seasonings.
It also places its trust in seasons, emotions and people.
Food is a collection of tastes, through Mr. Wang Zengqi's delicate description of food and his sincere love for life itself.
Life is very beautiful. Starting from daily food, you can feel life itself and the joy of life.
Romain Rolland once said, "There is only one kind of heroism in the world, which is to still love life after seeing the essence of life clearly." Mr. Wang Zengqi has experienced from the turbulent era to the peaceful era. He can be regarded as still maintaining his love for life after experiencing all kinds of life.
love.
Wang Zengqi's prose does not have a painstaking structure, nor does he pursue the mystery of the subject. It is plain and simple, and it is spoken as if it were homely.
The fireworks of life are described in the book.
Perhaps, simple food is life itself.