Click above to follow and share reading notes and self-media writing tips with you every day.

Some people say that Su Dongpo is a famous calligrapher, politician and writer. He was a leader and mainstay in the literary world of the Northern Song Dynasty.

No, no, no, Su Dongpo is actually a big foodie.

After the Wutai Poetry Case, Su Shi ushered in a turning point in his life and was demoted to Huangzhou.

After that, Su Dongpo was demoted all the way, and the more he was demoted to Vietnam, Su Dongpo went all the way to the south.

From a lean scholar who was rich and handsome, he has been eating into a fat man with short limbs.

Not only can he eat, but he has also written many poems about food. Now, he is quite a food blogger.

01

First demoted to Huangzhou - Bamboo shoots? Pork

When Su Dongpo first arrived in Huangzhou, he was short of supplies, but this was not a problem for this food blogger. , I set my sights on bamboo shoots and fatty fish as soon as I arrived.

To this end, I also wrote a poem to laugh at myself.

Su Shi laughed at himself that he had been busy with his mouth all his life, and his career turned absurd as he grew older. When the Yangtze River flows around Guo, you will know the beauty of the fish, and when the mountains are full of bamboos, you will feel the fragrance of bamboo shoots. -------"First Arrival in Huangzhou"

The Yangtze River surrounding the city told me that the fish here is very delicious, and the bamboo growing in patches made me realize that the bamboo shoots here must be very sweet.

When Su Dongpo was demoted, he was financially strapped and could not afford good beef and mutton, so he could only buy cheap pork.

One day, a friend came to visit, and Su Dongpo went out to greet him. He forgot that pork was still cooking in the kitchen. When he came back in a hurry, he found that the pork was crispy and tasty, with crystal clear skin, and was very delicious. Thus, braised pork was born.

Later, in order to improve people's lives, he personally taught people how to cook pork, and it is said that he also established a gourmet school. (The boss is the boss, the most primitive New Oriental)

Compose a poem about pork, "Ode to Pork":

Wash the pan clean, use less water, and use the firewood to burn the flames Sorry.

Don’t rush him until he is mature. He will be beautiful when the heat is sufficient.

Huangzhou’s good pork is as cheap as dirt.

The rich refuse to eat it, and the poor do not know how to cook it.

Get up in the morning and have two bowls. You will be so full that you don’t care.

02

Changzhou - Pufferfish

Do you think Su Dongpo only attacks ordinary fish? No, he even eats the extremely poisonous pufferfish.

Hearing that the pufferfish in Changzhou was delicious, Su Dongpo and his friends wanted to taste it, and Su Dongpo took the lead in tasting it.

After the entrance, he was silent for a long time. His friends were shocked and mistakenly thought that he had been poisoned and died. At this time, Su Dongpo was heard shouting: It is worth dying.

So he wrote a poem "Evening View of the Spring River in Huichong":

A few peach blossoms outside the bamboo are a prophet of the warmth of the spring river.

The ground is covered with wormwood and reed buds, which is when the puffer fish is about to come.

03

Huizhou - Sheep, scorpion? Lychee

Huizhou is a land in the south of Lingnan. In ancient times, it was smoggy all year round. It has a warm climate, rich fruit varieties, and is rich in oranges. , bayberry, lychee, etc.

When Su Dongpo first arrived, he asked about the species of small trees on the roadside. The clerk replied that they were lychees. He exclaimed with great joy: If you eat lychees, you can live in Lingnan.

Written the poem "One of the Best Things to Do in Huizhou":

It is spring at the foot of Luofu Mountain, and the tangerines and bayberries are fresh every time.

Eat three hundred lychees a day, and you will grow up to be a Lingnan native.

Huizhou is remote and extremely short of supplies. Only one sheep is killed every day.

Su Dongpo had just been demoted here and did not dare to compete with other officials for mutton (and could not), so he could only buy sheep scorpions (lamb spinal cord) for cooking.

Wash the sheep and scorpions, pickle them to remove the fishy smell, cook them slightly, pour in wine to marinate them, sprinkle them with salt, roast them slowly over low heat until the bones and flesh are slightly charred, and you can enjoy them.

The taste is fresh and tender, and the aroma is fragrant. This is the earliest way to eat sheep and scorpions. (Dooling, sprinkle some cumin, tsk)

04

Danzhou - Oysters

Su Dongpo was demoted all the way to Danzhou, which is today Hainan (as expected, it is getting further and further south).

Hainan was a barren and barren land at that time. The land was not suitable for farming and the conditions were difficult.

But can this stump Su Dongpo, a food blogger at Suzhou University? He has found one of the joys of life - oysters.

The oysters were so delicious that he couldn't stop eating them.

He even wrote to his son "Eating Oysters":

Two days before the winter solstice in Ji Mao, Haiman offered oysters.

? Cut it open to get a few liters.

? Put the meat and paste into the wine and cook it. It is so delicious that it has not yet been eaten.

? Take the big one, roast it until cooked, chew it properly...

? Be careful not to say anything about it, for fear that the gentlemen in the north will hear it.

? I want to do what Dongpo did, and I want to be relegated to Hainan so that I can share this beauty.

It means that oysters are delicious. The oyster meat, juice and wine are cooked together. The taste is so delicious that I have never tasted it before.

He also warned his son not to tell others, for fear that others would come over and grab oysters from him if they heard about it.

Su Dongpo ate from south to north, from mountain delicacies to seafood, from lean and handsome to paunchy, from the prime of life to old age.

The food blogger finally passed away suddenly in Changzhou at the age of 65.

After Emperor Gaozu of the Song Dynasty succeeded to the throne, he posthumously named Su Dongpo the Grand Master, with the posthumous title "Wenzhong".

He was a dazzling genius in the Northern Song Dynasty, a shining star in the literary world for thousands of years, and our favorite, the big foodie who always lived an optimistic life.

Introduction to the author

The ink journals are diligent and diligent, and work hard with you. Click Follow (Compare your heart) and let us become better together.

Excellent article:

I am sensible and understand responsibility, so I deserve to be wronged and abandoned