Living up to the old days, hidden in people's hearts, the deepest memories are undoubtedly the delicious food.

Love can be talked about slowly, but meat must be eaten while it is hot.

Food has always been the supreme existence for us Chinese.

In ancient times, national sacrifices included killing chickens and cattle, and fine wines, just to offer the best taste to the ancestors and gods to pray for their protection. Even now, there are still customs in many places that emphasize that the ancestors did not use the chopsticks and the descendants accidentally ingested the food.

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The ancients often said: "Food is the first priority for the people." The reason why Chinese people attach so much importance to food lies in our unique ethnic culture.

I have to say that Chinese people are smart. We like to match different foods with each other to learn from each other's strengths. We like to try all kinds of things, such as steaming, cooking, frying, stewing, stir-frying, hot or cold, raw or cooked.

Dry water, flying in the sky, running on the ground, and swimming in the water can all be turned into delicious food.

I recently got a new book, and to be honest, I really can’t put it down. For someone like me who loves to eat, it’s like a treasure. In it, I can taste many delicacies and humanities that I have never heard of or seen.

This book contains 20 cultural masters of the 20th century, writing about the belief in food that we are unaware of but have never failed to live up to. In the writing style of these masters, we feel as if we are immersed in the scene. In the articles, we taste every delicacy carefully.

Understand the author's state of mind and feel the cultural background and humanistic stories of each dish.

"Life is Too Short, Have Another Bowl" is a collection of food essays that is said to make you half a gourmet after reading it. We follow in the footsteps of the master and experience the flavors from all over the world.

Sour in the east and spicy in the west, sweet in the south and salty in the north. This is the chaotic taste of Lusun Jiushi's small restaurant in the Tang Dynasty. It is also the free and easy taste of Feng Zikai's walnut cloud slices and three glasses of rice wine. For three meals in four seasons, salty food is indifferent. This is the taste of Liang Shiqiu's dumplings dipped in vinegar.

The taste is flat; Songhua brews wine, spring water makes tea, let’s see the feelings of Feng Zikai, Zhou Zuoren, and Lu Xun as they drink tea and two or three literati; life is short, have another bowl, the belly is big and the intestines are wide

Be worry-free, spend time together, and eat well... In this collection of essays, we listen to the masters introduce the delicacies they have tasted and tell the stories behind the delicacies.

In the story, the humanistic stories behind many delicacies are also very exciting. The last emperor's uncle taught the chef how to cook?

Chiang Kai-shek loved wonton stalls?

Is Laba porridge salty or sweet?

Who is the ancestor of Japanese yokan?

... New Weekly once said: "If you want to have quality life and enjoy your days, you don't necessarily need complicated rituals. A simple bite of food can sometimes satisfy our physical and mental needs."

Food arouses people's hearts. A good dish can induce the deepest emotions in people's psychology. This is the unique charm of food.

When we are far away from home, a bowl of hot noodles, the mountains and rivers of our hometown, and the laughter of our family will all come to mind along with our taste buds, making our hearts warm!

Now, our food is constantly innovating, with more and more new dishes and new flavors to meet our needs to a greater extent.

Food is beautiful because it transcends the limitations of the dining table and becomes a medium of expression and creation.

"Life is short, have another bowl" is such a medium, linking the present and the past, connecting the south of the world with the north of the earth, mountains and rivers.

The unique dishes in the book carry the crystallization of Chinese culture, and also contain the fireworks in the world that we most desire to keep. Life is short, and one more bowl will be like a spring breeze, and we will look at each other until the end.