I have been in Hangzhou for 15 or 16 years, which is almost the same as the years when I lived in my hometown. However, before I came to Hangzhou, I got the poor details about Hangzhou from "Seven Weapons: jasper knife" in middle school.

from birth to death, Gu Long lived in the mainland for a short time (once lived in Hankou), and settled in Taiwan Province with his parents when he was about ten years old. It is hard to believe how well he knew Hangzhou, but Hangzhou in the "jasper knife" was concrete and vivid, which made people feel personally and unexpectedly.

"Honesty" is Duan Yu's weapon: being honest with the enemy, being honest with gambling-even being honest with women (this is the most difficult point), and then winning the beautiful woman's return; Therefore, "jasper knife" is as good as a fairy tale as I once wrote "Re-reading Gu Long:" Seven Weapons-The Sword of Eternal Life ".Even the existence of the" Qinglong Club "is weakened in this article, but only such a story is worthy of Hangzhou beautified by Gu Long.

Gu Long writes about the West Lake, Tangqi, and West Lake vinegar fish, so vividly that I can't believe that this is just his inspiration based on paper materials or meditation:

Hangzhou in spring is really full of vitality in Gu Long's works, and more importantly, Even the "Flower Harbor Fish Watching", "Wuliuju" and "Sanyayuan" mentioned in the article are well-documented and real:

There is no need to say anything about the flower harbor fish watching in the Ten Scenes of the West Lake, and "Wuliuju" is also a famous restaurant in Hangzhou in the Qing Dynasty. As for whether the former site is the water pavilion of Lao Gaozhuang or not, it is impossible to know:

And the protagonist meets and the story begins.

So, if we want a far-fetched god to expand it, we can say that the story of "jasper knife" should have happened between the Qing Dynasty and 1925-of course, it is more reasonable to say that Gu Long may have heard the description of "Sanya Garden" from the elders, instead of really studying the historical origin-after all, I can't help but be a little confused when I think about the way the hero of the story shaved his head and stored his hair. I just don't know whether the elegance of fishing and scalding wine mentioned in the book is true or whether it's just Gu Long's own improvisation.

The story of "jasper knife" itself is not so tortuous and fascinating, but the sustenance and "feelings" written by Gu Long in this short story do have some meaning of smuggling goods-I mean, if you read Gu Long's prose collection, you should know that Gu Long is a passionate and level glutton, and he and his like-minded friends searched the streets and alleys of Taipei for details of food and comments. Therefore, reading some paragraphs of "jasper knife" will give me a sense of detachment for a short time. The author has written them off, and the readers have also read them off. I just feel that this is the rhythm of starting to read food prose again:

Even now, "Kuiyuan Pavilion" is still quietly lying in the official alley, and its shrimp-fried eel noodles are still my wife's favorite as a native of Hangzhou-when I read this detail again, I was deeply moved.

This is the leisure and carefulness that Gu Long could write only after his life gradually calmed down in the middle and late period of creation. And how can we explain that a person who is in Taiwan Province and has never had the opportunity to come to Hangzhou since he was a child (there was no Internet for reference at that time), and list all these local cuisines that really exist or have existed?

In fact, Gu Long's original text may have told us the answer.

Perhaps, Gu Long has heard these names and those haunting delicacies countless times from those "fellow villagers".

At this moment, Gu Long seems to be writing the homesickness of a "foreigner" belonging to that era, and I, who have never really been attracted by Hangzhou cuisine, have a little empathy at this moment.