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Everyone who has taken Chinese lessons in junior high school knows that "Carnivore is frivolous and doesn't make long-term plans" comes from Zuo Qiuming's Zuo Zhuan, in which Carnivore means: the person in power. The meat eater in Wang Lao's "The Meat Eater is contemptible" simply refers to the person who "eats meat". But don't get me wrong, this book is not all about meat, but also includes several other parts: carnivores are not despicable, vegetarian stories, the taste of hometown, food from all directions, eating, drinking and having fun, and culture. It's a collection of Mr. Wang Zengqi's gourmet essays.
As the saying goes, "lust for food, hunger and cold make people steal their hearts." Through the wonderful essays in this book, I personally think it may also reflect the most authentic classics of Wang Lao himself. When he was in the war-torn China at that time, he could write many essays about "eating" in the process of continuous migration, which was a must. If we were you, we might not be salivating, but we would eat enough and leave quickly.
Masters often have the same characteristics. Remember the baked sweet potato written by Qian Zhongshu in Fortress Besieged? Very interesting. "Baked sweet potato is like an affair between men and women in China proverbs. It is better to steal than to steal. Flavor is better than taste; I feel compelled to eat when I smell it. Really not enough. " Simple fifty words are really appetizing to read. It may be because the food described in the text not only carries the author's imagination and memory of food, but also has been "reprocessed" in his mind, which seems to be more memorable than eating it in his mouth and makes people yearn for it. So is Wang Lao. He writes about food, but not just eating. He will talk about the experience of traveling around the world and the delicious food from all over the world, which is desirable and drooling. Among them, the old news is full of fun. I ate all the restaurants in Beijing and spent all the editing fees. Mr Lao She is an expert in ordering food, and Mr Wang Yaping writes the menu. If someone collects and treasures all these menus, it will be a treasure of the world now.
The content of this book is very colorful. For example, Mr. Wang took a bundle of onions to stew onions, which also overwhelmed the audience. Eating white rice and tofu with Lin Jinlan in a small shop. He can tell stories for 5,000 years. According to The Book of Songs, shepherd's purse with mutton, salted eggs and native fish in the menu of Suiyuan, and all kinds of wild vegetables in the wild vegetable book of Wangxilou in the Ming Dynasty are all good opportunities for contemporary people to eat and improve their self-cultivation.
For Wang Lao, life without loving food is flawed. Only those who know how to eat and can eat can feel the beauty of life. I laughed it off, laughing at myself can only be regarded as a "greedy old embryo", because I can only eat, but I don't know how to eat. At this time, some people may be dissatisfied and say, "Of course I know how to eat. The internet celebrity's chicken wings are crispy outside and tender inside; That hot pot is spicy and delicious; The pork tenderloin is tender and delicious ... ". But do you know how these came from? Wang Lao described in his notes that a dish he had been eating at her husband's house was called "rescue", which was a cold dish made of flour mixed with seasoning. He always wanted to know where these three words came from, until he read "Eating Goods in Kunming". Li Yong, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was chased to Tengchong by Wu Sangui. A man in distress sent a plate of fried bait, and Long live the grandfather ate it all, even saying: This can save the driver. "Great Rescue" got its name. It suddenly dawned on me. This is the difference between me and him.
When you are bitter and tired, then sit down and have a rest, drink a cup of lukewarm tea, read some works by Wang Lao, and walk into "Let's have a tea chat and enjoy the cool" to see the beauty of life revealed in the plain. As we all know, Wang Lao has suffered from the ups and downs of life, but he still faces life with an open-minded smile. Mutton is delicious, wild vegetables are delicious; Pepper is delicious, and tea is delicious. Hobbies are hobbies. From the smoke of war to political struggle, from rich life to shabby clothes, Wang Lao can find delicious food and taste the fun of life from his side.
This is the whole book, the baptism of me, and the place where I am intoxicated and admired.
Are carnivores contemptible? Carnivores are not despicable.