Li Bai, a poet, once comforted his hunger with a bowl of porridge while wandering. He wrote a poem "Qingpingdiao", and wrote: The foot of my bed is so bright, can it have frosted? . I looked up at the moon and looked down, feeling nostalgic. The moonlight is bright and the porridge is warm. On such a cold night, the poet's homesickness is getting stronger and stronger in simple porridge and rice.
Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, cared about people's livelihood all his life. He wrote in "Selling Charcoal Weng": Selling Charcoal Weng, cutting salary and burning charcoal in Nanshan. His face was covered with dust, which was the color of smoke burning, his temples were gray, and his ten fingers were burnt black. Charcoal vendor works hard, and a bowl of porridge is his best reward. Between the lines, there is deep sympathy for the people at the bottom.
Lu You, a poet in the Song Dynasty, was worried about the country and the people all his life, and was poor in his later years. In Reading on a Winter Night, he wrote: The ancients learned nothing, and it takes time to grow old. What you get on paper is so shallow that you never know what you have to do. Lu You taught his son to study hard while eating porridge on a cold winter night. The bitterness of porridge highlights the poet's indomitable spirit.
Yuan Mei, a poet in Qing Dynasty, was famous for his delicious food. He wrote in "Poetry with the Garden": porridge is the thing, and grains are the essence. And porridge is especially top grade. Yuan Mei believes that porridge is very simple, but every grain of rice is full of essence, which is the top grade. This is a praise for the nutritional value and health care efficacy of porridge.
Wen Yiduo, a modern poet, wrote in Memories of Time Past: Cold porridge leftovers repay kindness. The poet used porridge to compare his meager kindness and expressed his deep gratitude to his mother. This bowl of porridge is full of the simplest warmth in the world.
In the poet's pen, a bowl of porridge is not only something to satisfy hunger, but also a carrier to pin and express feelings. From Li Bai's Moonlight Porridge to Wen Yiduo's Cold Porridge Leftover Porridge and Rice, it seems to tell us the change of time and the taste of life.