When I was in junior high school, I learned a text called "Eating Duck Eggs on Dragon Boat Festival". When the teacher gave a lecture, she told us that it was an essay expressing homesickness. The author seems to be really talking about duck eggs, but in fact he borrows duck eggs to pin his homesickness.

At that time, I was too young to feel homesickness. On the contrary, I am very interested in Gaoyou duck eggs, which are thin and oily. I have been greedy since I was a child, and I think the salted duck eggs that people can't forget for a long time are extremely delicious.

In particular, duck egg shells can hold fireflies, and salted duck eggs are delicious and full of childlike interest, which reminds me of the name "Wang Zengqi", but I didn't have the impulse to see his works at that time.

Later, in a high school magazine, I came across his "Pickles and Potions Soup". The bad pot is related to the flood in my hometown and is a memory of suffering.

At the end of the article, "I really want to drink a bowl of kimchi soup and miss the snow in my hometown", which makes people feel inexplicably sour. Wang Zengqi wrote about food, but not just food.

Later, I read several essays written by him in succession. In his works, ordinary food is endowed with a mouth-watering taste, full of universal warmth and unique memories.

At this point, I regard him as a "gourmet" and have been reading it until now.

02

When I was in high school, I read Eat on All sides. I explained all kinds of daily food in a plain and simple style, which made people see its shape but not its heart. I almost wiped my mouth when I read it.

Not long ago, I listened to the online sharing class "How to Read a Book" by Xiao Yi, a teacher of Chunfeng. She mentioned in the sharing: "If you want to read a book thoroughly, you must read prose, and prose can best see the author's basic skills. As for what books to read, just choose what you like. "

I have a soft spot for Rainbow's Zeng Qi and delicious food, so I borrowed his Five Flavors from the library. This collection of essays contains 32 articles about Wang Lao's Talking about Eating.

Some of them have seen it before, but now they have seen it again, but their mood is very different from the past.

I read Wang Zengqi earlier, but I think he is a gourmet. Now reading Wang Zengqi, I feel shallow and ignorant.

The article reveals not only emotions, but also feelings about literary creation. What he said was eating, expressing emotion and writing.

What impressed me the most was the opening "Kwai Qiu", which happened to read "Cai Lan's Lifestyle". Before the words of the god of food were written, Wang Lao introduced that the "sunflower" in the fifteenth conscription of Han Yuefu was soup, indicating that he had only seen sunflowers and didn't know what it was. Then, Wu's two botanical works are used to illustrate that "sunflower" is winter amaranth, and Qi Shu and Nong Shu are cited. I feel that sunflower, the main vegetable in China, has not been recognized by anyone now, and vegetables have their ups and downs like things in the world.

Reading Wang Lao's articles with extensive knowledge, profound literary knowledge and open mind, if you only read the shape, color and taste of food, it is really blasphemy to him.

I have read his articles before, but I have never read them thoroughly. Now I can finally get a glimpse of the truth of "detachment".

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Wang Lao said that writing the essay "Kwai Chi" is to let young people accumulate more common sense of life and not be too narrow-minded. The last sentence is "of course you know, what I am talking about here is a problem related to literary and artistic creation."

Don't point out your intention directly, but let yourself understand and skillfully avoid the tone of preaching. I'm just talking about food. It has something to do with literary creation. As for the relationship, you understand it yourself. The so-called "I can't talk, you know" is really an old urchin who likes to be clever.

Reading his article is like seeing him in person. Only a transparent and open-minded person can write such an atmospheric article.

In the process of cultivating my hobby of writing into my ability, I gradually realized that there is not a word difference between loving writing and writing.

In the past, writing articles only recorded some personal feelings of hurting spring and mourning autumn, and did not require much literary accomplishment and material accumulation. But now writing has become my own source of income, and my hobby has gradually risen to creation. In this process, I found that I read very few books, and I knew very few famous sayings and sentences. I didn't pay attention to accumulating what I saw and heard in my daily life.

My taste in reading is very narrow, confined to youth novels. Mu Muzhou is very good at psychology in the world. Every time I read her article, I don't understand it very well. I always find it difficult to understand. Usually, I consciously avoid such articles when reading, but now after reading Five Flavors, I immediately borrowed a week's Niu Niu.

Mu Zhou Mu said that the biggest gain from studying psychology is to help yourself. I haven't studied psychology. Look at the words written by people who know psychology, hoping to understand some life skills from them.

Wang Lao said, "Many things taste terrible at first sight." ? I haven't eaten the article on habitual psychology, and I feel incomprehensible. I will read more books in the future, but I don't expect to understand the mystery. I just want to wash the dust from my heart.

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Wang Lao has tasted countless delicacies in his life and walked through famous rivers and seas in various countries.

Sour northerners; Cantonese who love sweets; Beijingers who didn't eat bitter gourd before; Yunguichuan, which is not spicy and unhappy; Stinky tofu in Changsha and Nanjing. There are countless characteristics in each place, and people from different regions with similar tastes gather their common foods together.

He is talking about food, and he is also telling you about the scenery he has seen and the road he has traveled.

He doesn't brag about his experience, nor does he talk to you about "the way of literature" as his own writer. When talking about how to eat bitter gourd, he only mentioned literary creation. He should admit that bitter gourd is also a dish, and critics and old writers should not easily deny works they are not used to.

When eating bitter gourd, the immature fruit is used as a vegetable, and the mature pulp can be eaten raw. You can have different views on a work, whether exploring its philosophical connotation or tracing it back in the pursuit of aesthetics. There are a thousand Hamlets in the hearts of a thousand people, and there is nothing wrong with any of them.

Bitter gourd is a kind of melon, belonging to Cucurbitaceae. Say it's a melon or a gourd. As long as a work is a work, it can be regarded as realism or modernism.

He is really talking about food with a different talent. Food is the carrier of emotion, the metaphor of creative experience, food or food itself.

Some people say that Wang Zengqi has two beauties: one is an American writer and the other is a gourmet. I think he is also an educator, teaching you to understand the feelings in food; Teach you to be inclusive and broaden your horizons in literary creation.

By the same token, there will always be many unexpected things in life, including setbacks and hardships, but as long as you are still alive, that's good.

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There are always troubles in life, but you should eat, drink and not be sad. Du Fu said in "Twenty-two Rhymes of Wei Zuocheng": "Travel in Beijing and Spring." ... there is a cup of cold roast left, and there is sadness everywhere. "Wang thinks traveling is a kind of fun, and the food on the way is delicious, such as Mongolian hand-made meat, which tastes good when it is half cooked. Blood-sucking worms in Xiao Yun, Fujian are the freshest to eat raw.

There is nostalgia for the past in the text, revealing his calm attitude towards life. On his seventieth birthday, he wrote a poem to express his feelings: "You are still drunk at the age of seventy, but you think it is too late to climb the mountain." What a bold and unconstrained Wang Zengqi who refuses to accept the old age.

Wang Lao mentioned that he was old and had a bad appetite, so he couldn't eat a lot of things. He can't taste delicious food as before. Esophageal varices make him eat apples into paste, but he can still treat his stomach with a table of tofu.

Those pessimists who complain about their illness in life should really learn from Wang Lao's attitude towards life.

Sherwood anderson wrote an old writer in A Weird Man in a Small Town:

Wang Lao wishes he could be as childlike as that old writer. I also write some things, and I can write more things one after another.

He did it. No writer who writes about food can write such extraordinary food, which makes ordinary people realize many philosophies of life and inspires writers engaged in literary and artistic creation.

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Food has five flavors, people have emotions and fears, and everything has its value and significance.

As thoughtful people, we should try more different foods, downplay the sadness in life, and learn to tolerate things that are inconsistent with our mainstream values.

This is the way to taste food, the way to create literature, not the way to be a man.

"Five flavors"-Wang Zengqi talks about eating 32 essays, and Wang Lao talks about eating, but is he just talking about eating?

Is it just, I won't elaborate. I just want to tell you that he talks about food, which is different from others and has different talents.