Food is the most important thing for the people. People are iron and rice is steel. If you don’t eat one meal, you will be hungry. A well-stocked warehouse knows etiquette; a well-fed and well-clothed person knows honor and disgrace. While we pay attention to food safety, we should also pay more attention to spiritual safety. Eat to live, but live not to eat. Eating well does not necessarily mean eating well; eating well does not necessarily mean eating healthy; eating healthy does not necessarily mean eating strong; eating strong does not necessarily mean eating spiritually.

01 When you are not strong enough, you are a dish in the eyes of others.

I saw a picture on the Internet some time ago. The content is as follows: In front of a statue of a giant cabbage, someone took a photo with a mobile phone. In comparison, the human being is weak. So netizens commented like this: When you are not strong enough, you are a dish in the eyes of others; when you are strong, you become the scenery in the eyes of others.

This is true for the growth of an individual, and it is also true for a country and society. Stand up in order not to be beaten; get rich in order not to starve; become strong in order not to be scolded. It's just that being big is not enough, you have to be strong, so that you can become big and strong and not be fooled by others.

02 Eat the skin, eggs and tofu, and create new ways to eat the "two dishes".

True and false, unreal and real, looking at the essence through the phenomenon and grasping what is behind is the key to the problem. Let’s take two examples of dishes: the first dish is preserved eggs. Preserved eggs are made by wrapping eggs, duck eggs, etc., and are essentially eggs. The things wrapped outside are what we often call packaging and beautification. Of course, from egg to preserved egg, it is not a simple physical superposition, but a high-level chemical reaction.

Generally, eggs have a shorter shelf life, while preserved eggs have a longer shelf life. If the egg is a good egg, it may be remembered forever after being packaged; conversely, if the egg is bad, it may be remembered forever after being packaged. Speaking of this, we can't help but think of two figures in history-Yue Fei and Qin Hui.

The second dish is tofu, which is a food that has “flyed into the homes of ordinary people”. Many people also like to eat tofu. Tofu can be used to make hundreds of dishes through magic tricks. This is the famous tofu feast.

In Sichuan, there are two places that are famous for their tofu feasts, Jiange Tofu in Guangyuan and Xiba Tofu in Leshan. I believe there are also famous tofu feasts in other provinces. The flourishing of a hundred flowers at the Tofu Banquet shows that through innovation and using different methods, the same thing can be created in various forms, but it never departs from its origin.

The combination of the above two dishes shows that it is necessary to package and innovate. To see the essence through the phenomenon, we must de-package, make the complex simple, the simple become popular, and popular and down-to-earth.

03 Put a lot of garlic and chicken feathers, and drink "one soup" to create a new feeling.

Take the example of chicken soup. There may be only two raw materials, one is chicken feathers and the other is garlic. In summary, the raw materials are just trivial things, which are very common things. Through packaging and innovation, they can become high-end and become delicious chicken soup. Speaking of this, it is easy for everyone to think of some informal health products, especially some items of MLM. For the person involved, "Whether I believe it or not, you (the victim) believe it anyway."

Because garlic has anti-virus effects, it ensures that this product is "non-toxic, harmless and non-nutritional", which is the so-called "three-no product". This is an era of excess nutrition. In the face of weight loss, such products may just play a role in replacing big fish and meat. This is an era of fast food. Faced with competition and pressure for survival, everything is fast. It used to be said that the big fish eats the small fish, but now it has become that the fast fish eats the slow fish. Netizens joked that if we don’t hurry up, there won’t even be any soup left. As for what kind of soup it is, I don’t have time to identify it. It doesn’t matter whether it is chicken soup for the soul or leftover soup. Let’s talk about it first.

04 The weasel pays New Year greetings to the rooster, keeping vigilance in mind.

I read a story on the Internet, saying that on the edge of a cliff, a weasel made a notice to a group of chickens. When talking about this, everyone will think of a postscript: the weasel sent a New Year greeting to the chickens - it was not a good intention.

The story really goes like this. This is how the weasel was fed chicken soup for propaganda and mobilization: If you don’t rush down, how will you know that you are not an eagle? Are you willing to be a chicken for the rest of your life? Don’t you want to spread your wings and fly? So the chickens were given blood one by one, hating that their combs were not red enough, so they rushed to the cliff without hesitation and jumped off without hesitation.

At that moment, a contemptuous smile appeared on the weasel's face, with a strange smile - when the chickens and eggs were beating, it was laughing in the bush. So the weasel took a detour and came to the bottom of the cliff to wait and enjoy a sumptuous meal. This story fully illustrates that most of the chicken soup is made by weasels.

In our work and life, we will also come into contact with chicken soup of one kind or another, but do we taste it carefully? How is this chicken soup? What are its raw materials? Is it good for us to drink it? When we sigh, "This soup should be in the sky, how can we smell it in the human world?" The more we need to be vigilant, because the more delicious the chicken soup, the more toxic it may be, because there is a saying that good medicine tastes bitter. , Loyalty is off-putting.

Thinking of the story of Zhu Yuanzhang, Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, who hosted a banquet for all civil and military officials to drink soup. At that time, the ministers talked about it as "pearl, jade and white jade soup", and they were all in high spirits and flattering. But when this "Pearl Jade White Jade Soup" comes into your mouth, only you know the sweet, sour, bitter and spicy taste. When the emperor asked how it tasted, what else could the ministers say? Naturally, he raised his thumbs with both hands. When Zhu Yuanzhang saw this, he followed the trend and said that it turned out that the beloved ministers wanted to have two more bowls, and all the ministers were speechless.

05 "Two dishes and one soup" home-cooked meals should be considered as a habit.

Growing up, we have learned a lot of knowledge from textbooks. We all take it for granted, but rarely reflect on it. When we learn the story of Tian Ji’s horse racing and applaud Tian Ji’s superb game, have we considered whether this will teach everyone to violate the rules of the game, leading to dishonesty and opportunism?

When we learn the story of Yu Old Man Who Moved Mountains, on the one hand we are impressed by Yu Old Man’s perseverance and spirit of overcoming difficulties, but on the other hand are we really convinced? We might as well ask where Yugong’s confidence comes from?

From Yu Gong’s point of view, he firmly believed that his descendants would follow his ideas and not waver for a hundred years. Sticking to the green hills and not letting up, hammering hammer after hammer, drawing a blueprint to the end, this is where Yu Gong's confidence lies, and it is also the embodiment of great wisdom and foolishness. In contrast, the story of Li Bai's enlightenment - as long as you work hard and grind the iron pestle into a needle, the core essence seems to be different.

06 I have the final say on my territory. I take care of the dishes, eat and drink good soup.

"Two dishes and one soup" can be summarized as: preserved egg - eye method, tofu - technique, chicken soup - heart method; to refine it, it is: blind method - trick method - heart method; and then To summarize, eat the skin, eggs, and tofu, and put the garlic and chicken feathers in a big way.

Foodies also have to be divided into different levels. Eat for food and clothing - eat for health - eat for mood - eat for spirit. Eating turns out to be not that simple. Seeing the essence through phenomena, using our wisdom to discover the behind of things, from having eyes without eyes to knowing beads with wisdom, only in this way can the devil be one foot higher and the Tao be higher.

When you look at the world through perspective, you will see a different world. Appreciating a person begins with appearance, respect for talent, character, kindness, and loyalty to character; character is a person's highest level of education. Only in this way, the three views are more correct than the five senses, and the thoughts are deeper than routines.