Wang Zengqi's novels are full of "Chinese flavor". He said, "I am from China" and "China people will inevitably accept the influence of China's traditional thought and culture". And many of them are about food. So how much do you know about Wang Zengqi's food prose? The following is Wang Zengqi's classic prose about food that I brought to you for your appreciation.

Wang Zengqi's classic prose about food: handle the meat

Mongolians are used to mutton from snacks, and if they don't eat mutton for a few days, they will panic. Mongolian dancer Gaowa Siqin (many Mongolian women are called Gaowa Siqin, as common as Na Ren flowers) came to Beijing with her daughter. Her daughter is not used to Beijing food. We invited her to eat in Jinyang Restaurant. The little girl is not interested in braised sea cucumber and crispy fish. I asked her what she wanted to eat. "Mutton!" I called the waiter and asked them if there was any mutton here, saying that there was only mutton in sauce. "Sauced mutton is ok, is it salty?" "Not salty." Served up, it is a plate of sheep roe. The little girl ate a plate of sheep with a white mouth. Ask her: "Is it delicious?" "delicious!" Her mother said, "This child! What a Mongolian! She has been in Beijing for a few days and said' delicious' for the first time. "

Mongols are very hospitable. Some people roam the grasslands on horseback, carrying nothing but a leg of lamb. At sunset, I saw a yurt and dismounted to stay. The master untied his leg of lamb and immediately killed the sheep. After eating and drinking enough, I slept in a yurt with my master's family and slept soundly. The next day, the host sent the guest on the road and replaced him with a new leg of lamb. This man walked a big circle on the grassland and still carried a leg of lamb when he came home, but I don't know how many times he changed it.

during the "_" raging period, we were instructed by Jiang Qing to write a play and collect materials, and once visited Inner Mongolia. I learned two Mongolian words in Inner Mongolia. Mongolian comrades say that if you can say these two words, you won't be hungry. One sentence is "not up to one"-to eat; One sentence is "Moha Yi"-eat meat. "Moha" refers to all meat, especially mutton (there is a special drama in Yuan Dynasty, in which Chinese and Mongolian dialects are mixed and sung together. One of them is "Moha swallowed the whole catty", which means eating mutton by the whole catty. Sure enough, I traveled from Yikezhao League to hulun buir grassland, visited many places, and ate meat many times.

August and September are the most beautiful days in the grassland. After a summer of rain, the grass has grown well and the grassland is green. Agger has grown up, and grey-backed green has grown up. Agger and grey-backed green are the favorite grasses for animals. The grass on the grassland looks like grass to us, but herders can name every grass. There are wild onions and wild leeks in the grass (Mongolians say that the mutton there is not good because sheep eat wild onions and taste it themselves). Colorful flowers are blooming everywhere. The sheep have also gained weight at this time.

Writers and cadres in Inner Mongolia love to go down to the grassland at this time to experience life and investigate work, also for the sake of "putting on autumn fat". Into the yurt, drink milk tea first. The method of making milk tea in Inner Mongolia is relatively simple, not as troublesome as butter tea in Tibet. Just sit a pot of water in an iron pan, grab a handful of tea leaves after the water boils, roll them a few times, add milk and put a handful of salt, and you can get it. I don't think it has much characteristics, but it will be addictive if I get used to it (Mongolians can't live without milk tea for a day). Many people get up early without eating, and drink two bowls of milk tea to herd sheep. There is a table full of milk, milk skin, cream (thin), milk residue ... and moon cakes and peach cakes. The guests are drinking milk tea, and the big pot has been set up outside the yurt, sitting on the water and killing the sheep. Mongolians kill sheep very quickly. They don't stab them to death with knives, but cut off the sheep's aorta. The sheep died without struggling. Immediately disembowel and peel, the tool is only a folding knife slightly larger than the fruit knife. After a while, the sheepskin was peeled off and carried to the sun in the distance. Look at the scene of killing sheep, not even a drop of blood is spilled, and the grass is still clean.

"Hand-held meat" means mutton boiled in water and cut into large pieces. Holding a large piece of meat in one hand, I cut it myself with a Mongolian knife and ate it. Mongolians really have kung fu in cutting meat with knives. After eating a piece of meat, there is not even a shred of pork left on the bone. If a child doesn't cut it clean, his mother will say, "Eat it clean, don't be like that cadre!" " Cadres eat meat, not as careful as herders, and may not be able to use knives. Herdsmen have a religious respect for milk and meat, just as Han farmers have the same respect for food, it is a sin to spoil it. In the past, you didn't prepare seasoning for eating hand-held meat. At most, you put a bowl of salt water and dipped it in it. Now there are some condiments, such as soy sauce, chives and so on. Because it is killed, cooked and eaten, it is very fresh and tender. Among all kinds of mutton I have eaten in my life, I think mutton is the first. If I have to give it a comment, I will not hesitate to say: unparalleled!

when eating meat, you usually need to drink alcohol. Mongolians love drinking very much, and almost every time they drink, they will get drunk. I heard a Han cadre in Tumote Banner in Hohhot say that "camels see willows and Mongolians see wine", which means that they can't walk any further-camels love wicker. I thought this was a modern saying. I read a note of Song people occasionally, and I saw the saying that "camel sees willow, Mongolia sees wine". It can be seen that this proverb has been in the Song Dynasty and has been circulating for hundreds of years. It's a pity that I forgot the title of this note. The Mongols in the Song Dynasty probably drank the kind of boiled wine that Wu Song drank, not white wine-distilled wine. Liquor was introduced from Arabia in the Yuan Dynasty.

I ate "sheep shellfish" once in Damaoqi, that is, boiled whole sheep. The whole sheep is cooked in a big pot. It is said that Mongolians only cook for 3 minutes, because we are Han nationality, and we are afraid of being too raw to eat, so we cook for 15 minutes. Whole sheep, chop off four hooves, and lie on a big copper plate. The sheep's head has been cut off, but it is still placed on the cavity at the back of the neck, and then moved away after serving. There are rules for eating sheep shellfish. First, the host and guest cut off the meat at the back of two necks (equivalent to the "upper brain" parts in Beijing) and put them on their shoulders. Then other guests move their knives and choose their favorite parts. Sheep scallops are really tender enough. If they are cut across the board, blood will come out. Some of the writers and directors who went with me were daunting, some tasted it, and I enjoyed it. The tender the mutton, the better. It is true that Mongolian people think that mutton cooked for a long time is not easy to digest. I ate half a belly of mutton, and it was all right.

Mongolians can really eat meat. Two secretaries from Hailar went to Beijing Donglaishun to eat instant-boiled mutton. They asked for fourteen plates of meat. The waiter asked, "Have you finished eating?" A secretary said, "We were in Hulunbeier the other day, and five people ate a sheep!" "

Mongolians not only eat hand-held meat, but also eat it in various ways. The roast leg of lamb in Hohhot is rotten, tender, fresh and tasty. I especially like steamed mutton. I once ate "spinning sheep's tail" in a small restaurant in Siziwangqi. I have eaten spun yam, spun potato, spun apple and spun banana. I have never heard that sheep tails can be spun. There is a thin brittle shell outside, which has been bitten. There seems to be nothing inside, but a bag of water and sheep tail oil have melted. This thing is only suitable for Buddha, and people can't eat it, because it's so delicious!

I ate Kazakh hand-grabbed mutton at Tangbala Ranch in Xinjiang. The practice is slightly similar to that of Inner Mongolia, and it is also boiled in a large pot of water, but the cut meat pieces are smaller and the cooking time is slightly longer. When the meat is cooked, it is sliced below and then served in a large porcelain plate. The bottom is noodles and the top is meat. The host cuts the meat into small pieces with a knife, and the guests eat the meat and noodles with their hands. Before eating, a child holds a copper pot and pours water into the guest's hand. Guests can't throw their hands backwards after watering them, they can only leave them to dry themselves, otherwise it is disrespectful to the host. The bronze pot has a thin and long neck and a carved body, which has a Central Asian style.