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When I was in junior high school, I learned a text called Duck Eggs at Dragon Boat Festival. When the teacher gave a lecture, she told us that it was an essay expressing homesickness. The author seemed to really talk about duck eggs, but in fact he borrowed duck eggs to express homesickness.

At that time, I was young and didn't feel much about homesickness. Instead, I was more interested in Gaoyou duck eggs, which were fine and oily. I have been greedy since I was a child, and I think the salted duck eggs that can make a person forget for a long time are extremely delicious.

Especially the duck egg shell can hold fireflies. The salty duck egg, which is delicious and full of childlike interest, reminds me of the name "Wang Zengqi", but I didn't feel the urge to see his works at that time.

Later in high school, I happened to see his "Pickle and Pottery Soup" in a magazine. The bad pot was related to the flood in my hometown and was a memory of suffering.

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

Later, I read several essays written by him one after another. In his works, ordinary food is endowed with mouth-watering flavor, full of universal warmth and unique memories.

at this point, I regard him as a "gourmet" and have been reading his words until now.

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In high school, I once read Four Sides Eating, with a plain and plain writing style, describing all kinds of daily food, which made people see its shape in their hearts without seeing it, and almost wiped their saliva while reading it.

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

I like Wang Zengqi and delicious food, so I borrowed his Five Flavors from the library, a collection of essays containing 32 articles about Wang Lao's eating.

I've seen some of them before, but now I watch them again, but my mood is quite different.

I read Wang Zengqi earlier, but I only regarded him as a gourmet. Now I read Wang Zengqi, and I feel shallow and ignorant.

The article reveals not only feelings, but also feelings about literary creation. He is talking about eating, lyricism and writing.

What impressed me the most was the opening novel "Kwai Chi", which happened to be read "Cai Lan's Lifestyle". Just when the writing about the god of food was not written, Wang Lao introduced the "Kwai" as a soup from "The Tenth Five-Year Military Conscription" written by Han Yuefu, indicating that he had only seen sunflower and didn't know what it was. Then Wu Qijun's two botanical works were used to explain that "sunflower" is winter amaranth, and Qi Min Yao Shu and Nong Shu were cited, feeling that sunflower, which was the main vegetable in China, was not recognized by anyone now, and vegetables, like things in the world, had their ups and downs.

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

I've read his articles before, but I've never fully read them. Now I can finally get a glimpse of the truth of "being detached from things".

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Wang Lao said that writing this essay "Kwai Cong" was intended to let young people accumulate more common sense of life and not be too narrow-minded. The ending sentence was "Of course you know, what I said here is all related to literary and artistic creation."

don't point out the intention directly, but let yourself understand and avoid the preaching tone skillfully. 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 won't talk, you know" is really an old urchin who loves to be slick.

If you read his article, you will see his person. Only a transparent and open-minded person can write such an atmospheric article.

in the process of developing my hobby of writing into my ability, I gradually realized that there is no word difference between loving writing and being able to write.

In the past, writing articles was just to record some personal feelings of hurting spring and sorrowful autumn, and it didn't require much literary cultivation and material accumulation. But now writing has become my own economic source, and my hobby has gradually risen to creation. In the process, I found that I read very few books, I know very few famous sayings and sentences, and I didn't pay attention to accumulating what I saw and heard in my daily life.

my taste in reading books is very narrow, confined to youth novels. Mumuzhou in the world is very good at psychology. Every time I read her article, I don't understand it very well. I always feel obscure and abstruse. Usually reading will consciously avoid such articles, but now after reading "Five Flavors", I immediately borrowed a copy of Zhou Guoping's "Niu Niu".

Mu Muzhou said that the biggest gain of studying psychology is to help himself. I haven't studied psychology, look at the words written by people who know psychology, hoping to understand some life skills from this.

Wang Lao said, "Many things taste bad when you eat them at first sight." ? I haven't eaten the articles on habitual psychology yet, and I feel that it is incomprehensible. I will read more in the future, but I don't expect to understand the mystery. I just want to wash some dust from my heart.

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

northerners who love sour food; 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. The characteristics of each place are numerous, and people from different regions with similar tastes bring their usual foods together.

He is talking about eating, and he is also talking about the scenery he has seen and the road he has traveled.

He doesn't brag about his experience, and he doesn't talk to you about "the way of literature" as a writer. He only mentioned literary creation when talking about how to eat bitter gourd. He should admit that bitter gourd is also a dish, and critics and old writers should not easily deny works that they are not used to.

when eating bitter gourd, immature fruits are used as vegetables, and ripe fruit pulp can be eaten raw. You can have different opinions on a work, whether to explore its philosophical connotation or to trace it 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.

Momordica charantia is a melon, belonging to Cucurbitaceae. It doesn't matter whether it is 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: an American writer and a gourmet. I think he is still an educator, teaching you to understand the feelings in food; Teach you to be inclusive and broaden your horizons in literary creation.

In the same way, there are always many unexpected things in life. There are setbacks and hardships, but as long as you are alive, it is good.

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In this world, there are always worries, but you should eat and drink, and don't feel sad. Du Fu said in "Twenty-two Rhymes for Wei Zuocheng": "Traveling in Beijing and Spring ... leftover cups and cold roasting, there are sorrows everywhere." Wang Lao thinks that traveling is a kind of fun, and the food on the way is delicious, such as Mongolian hand-made meat, which tastes delicious when it is half cooked. Blood bloodsuckers in Yunxiao, Fujian are the freshest when eaten raw.

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

Wang Lao mentioned that when he is old, his appetite is poor, and he can't eat many things. He can't taste delicious food as he used to. The varicose veins in his esophagus make him eat apples into a paste, but he can still treat his stomach with a tofu feast.

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 hopes that he can 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 can write food so otherworldly, 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, look down on the sadness in life, and learn to tolerate things that are not in line with our mainstream values.

this is what you should do when you taste good food, when you create literature, and when you are a man, why not?

Five Flavors —— Wang Zengqi talks about eating 32 essays, while Wang Lao talks about eating, but is he just talking about eating?

is it just, I won't go into details. I just want to tell you that he talks about food, which is different from others and has a different talent.