The cost of soup/Guo Haihong Broadly speaking, "soup" is a basic pairing in diet. In the east, west, north and south, this is generally the case. Most dishes are mixed with "soup", such as "boiled white meat" in northeastern cuisine and "Maoxuewang" in Sichuan cuisine. Although they are not named after soup, their original appearance is soup. As for the "three dishes and one soup" in the relevant dietary standards, this soup is a soup that is "mainly water with seasonings" in the true sense. When we arrived in Guangdong, people began to have a bad impression on the eating habits of this place. For example, they commented that Cantonese people "dare to eat anything flying in the sky and crawling on the ground except airplanes and cars". However, people have an excellent impression of Cantonese soup, and therefore have a positive evaluation of Guangdong women-they can praise the good soup. The Guangdong woman in the eyes of many foreigners is like this: no regrets, working hard at home, cooking soup for her husband at home every day. As a result, "making soup" has become the virtue of a woman. To tell the truth, Cantonese soup is very different from the soup commonly used by people. First, pay attention to the soup materials. No one is careless about this. Every soup should be combined with the season and the physical condition of the drinker to ensure the value and efficacy of "spitting soup". If it is simply to quench thirst and send meals, it is unnecessary to spend time tossing. The second is to grasp the temperature. It is inappropriate to talk about "cooking soup" in Guangdong, which has a shallow meaning. "Potting" is a special process. To complete it completely, we must have enough time. The required time is closely related to the soup materials, and how much time is spent on what materials. To cook a pot of soup well, it takes an hour as short as three hours as long. From these two concepts, Cantonese soup needs to pay a higher cost. Some people joked that if you want to marry a Cantonese woman, you must learn to cook soup first. "Making soup" has become a standard of "access", which is of course another "cost theory". I am a Cantonese, and I grew up in "mother's soup and milk". Every day, when arranging meals at home, the first consideration is "what soup to cook today". As soon as you get to the table, you should first drink a bowl of soup. In my long-term contact with soup, I think it has surpassed its basic function as a diet. Cooking soup at home is almost close to the intention of the pharmacy to "cook medicine". For example, whoever says that he has a headache at home today must be cooking a soup that can cure his head. The main thing in it is a handful of herbs, followed by pig bones and so on. If you drink alcohol frequently nearby, you must make a pot of soup with strong sexual characteristics, with the goal of removing alcohol poisoning and moisture accumulated in the liver. After all, soup is soup, and housewives are not good doctors, so it is impossible to "get rid of the disease from soup". It focuses on health care, and at the same time, it embodies the precious element of family happiness-paying special attention to the health of family members. In this way, the cost of "making soup" is not time, nor soup material, but "care". Is it strange to talk about "caring" in the family? No, listen to some men: I went home for dinner tonight, and my wife made soup. You can also hear this saying: a certain couple is dying. Look at his wife, playing mahjong all day, and not even giving her husband soup.