Before, I had always had a very narrow understanding and prejudice towards food. I felt that eating and eating were only at the level of appetite. Most of the delicious food was high in calories and heavy in taste, so I didn’t dare to eat more of it. On weekdays,
Busy with work, in order to save time when eating, I also eat quickly and hastily.
Until recently, due to work reasons, I began to have a new understanding of food: 1. Loving, cherishing and carefully preparing and tasting food are manifestations of loving life: Although with the abundance of material things, eating delicious food has become a very rare thing in the past.
The nature of this thing has evolved, but the delicacies made out of sincerity and sincerity, and a lot of time and energy are spent on making them. Like anything that involves dedication, the food itself and the person who makes the delicacies are particularly worthy of respect.
I have never seriously thought about this before. I always felt that I was a bit dismissive because of my stuttering, but there is a very deep meaning behind it, including very complex connotations of love, culture, family affection, nostalgia, etc.
You see, those Li Bai and Su Dongpo who like drinking and eating are impassioned people who were beaten by life but still loved it.
Some writers said that those who want to give up life should put them in the vegetable market. The red, green, and delicious ingredients there are the fireworks of the world, which will bring great and beautiful feelings of life.
This is truly a generous gift from nature.
Our lives, like all life in nature, must be vibrant and colorful to be the norm.
2. Everyone has different answers to the most delicious thing, but the one with the highest degree of overlap is definitely the food cooked by my mother: I am not very good at cooking, so I often need to look at teaching materials or cooking apps.
Just dare to try it.
But when I am with my mother, I always feel that the food is very good, even though it is often just mediocre meals.
It is a taste that I have eaten for a long time, from snack to adulthood, full of love and attachment.
Eating something is the greatest happiness.
Although I am also a mother, I am not sure whether my children also think that mom’s food is the best in the world, but I feel satisfied and happy from the bottom of my heart because I have such an answer.
3. Many things about food are also about life: There are many craftsmen on Douyin and Kuaishou who are very popular for their carpentry work, knitting sweaters, etc. When it comes to food, Li Ziqi is definitely the one.
Rather than liking the food, it's more about envying her lifestyle.
During the epidemic, for a while, I studied various cooking apps every day and spent several hours completing a dish. When I was immersed in cooking, I felt very calm and happy.
The taste of the food is no longer important at this time, but the process of calmly completing a work makes me deeply moved.
There is even a sense of flow, and the same happy synaesthesia as doing carpentry or knitting a sweater is produced. Although the final "work" is eaten, the beauty of the process is earned.
What suddenly came to mind at this time was the Buddhist mandala.
The colorful fine sand is carefully made into a mandala. After all is completed, it is cleaned up, as if it had never happened before. The monks can pick up the mandala with painstaking efforts and put it down easily.
Is there one in Beijing?