When it comes to The Journey to the West, it is really a household name, and it is also a childhood memory of 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 talented at a young age, his official career did not prosper. At the age of 5, he made up a year-old gongsheng and became the biggest official, that is, the magistrate of Xinye County, Henan Province, and only for two or three years. Brush away your clothes? Living by selling literature, he eventually died of poverty and illness. However, although there is one less bureaucrat in the world, there is one more writer and one more masterpiece handed down from ancient times.

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

I've watched The Journey to the West's TV for more than ten times, and I've watched the original novel several times. I know the story by heart, but I don't find anything wrong with the novel except my imagination. I believe many people have read this novel many times, and have not found any loopholes in it. But a fifth-grade pupil, Ma Siqi, was looking at The Journey to the West's and found one? A loophole? .

That's why she found that although the Tang Priest and his disciples traveled 18, miles and passed through many countries, the recipes in each place didn't change much, almost all of them were dishes in Jianghuai area. In order to demonstrate his findings, Ma Siqi listed banquet dishes in different places and scenes in his composition:

This is the menu of the 54th wedding banquet of the king of the daughter country of Xiliang: jade rice, steamed cakes, sugar cakes, mushrooms, mushrooms, fungus, cauliflower, day lily, laver, turnip, taro and radish (Bu).

This is the 67th camel Luo Zhuang vegetarian meal: gluten, tofu, taro seedlings, radish, spicy mustard, turnip, fragrant rice and vinegar-roasted sunflower soup?

shoot fungus, mushrooms, Huangliang rice, mushroom rice paste, noodle soup? This is the food on the table of Zhu Ziguo for the 69th time;

lion candy, vermicelli, mushroom, auricularia auricula, Polygonatum sibiricum and fragrant rice? This is the 79th king's banquet for children.

looking at these dishes, do you think they are similar? Rice, mushrooms, radishes, gluten, tofu, fungus, etc., are full of Jiangnan characteristics. The 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 a foreign country thousands of miles away. It's like eating in the same pot, and it's a bit unreasonable that the king and the monster have basically the same preferences.

Experts have also given some explanations for this problem. Wu Cheng'en was born in Jianghuai area, and naturally he knows the local food clearly. Just now, we also said that Wu Cheng'en was still poor in his later years. Under such a poor living condition, it is also very difficult to go abroad and learn about the cuisines of other countries. Therefore, when Wu Cheng'en wrote his novels, he certainly described them according to his familiar dishes. From this description, we can actually see the living conditions of the people in Jianghuai area at that time.

I have to admire Ma Siqi's children, not only for reading novels, but also for understanding them with research eyes. Careful observation really makes us sigh.

Ma Siqi, a child who is good at observing and likes writing, participated in the 6th National Composition Competition for Primary and Secondary School Students for New Teenagers. After careful evaluation by experts such as Yu Hua, Ye Zhaoyan, Yuan Min, Hai Fei, Wang Hongtu, Xu Jie, Chen Jianxin, Fang Weiping, Zheng Zhong, and the princes of the bonfire drama, she defeated a group of junior high school students and senior high school students and won the first prize of the 6th National Composition Competition for New Teenagers with a prize of 1, yuan. The title of her award-winning composition is physical education class? Visceral Story, which describes the state of internal organs having sex in their own bodies in physical education class, is vivid and interesting.

Life is full of knowledge. It is better to believe in books than to have no books. We should also emphasize that children should have their own ideas when reading books, pay attention to understanding the ideas in books, study the contents in books, and understand the feelings in books, so that children's writing level can be improved.