This passage was written by Wang Zengqi in the article Amorpha fruticosa. He was wearing a "Rightist" hat and was sent to Xishan to plant trees.
The task of planting trees is extremely arduous, but the diet is extremely bitter-only dry steamed bread and a large piece of pickled radish. In such a difficult situation, Wang Zengqi had an idea. He picked jujubes on the mountain, cooked Chinese slugs and ate them. Only when he was full and drunk did he express the feeling that "life needs to be sweetened".
He is really a person who can filter the bitterness of life.
Those who are familiar with Wang Zengqi must be impressed by the food he wrote first.
He wrote Gaoyou's duck eggs: "Gaoyou salted eggs are characterized by fine quality and much oil." Protein is very tender, unlike other places where the hair is dry and pink, and the mouth is like chewing lime. There is more oil here than anywhere else. "
Of course, Lao Wang still has his own temper He is unwilling to praise Gaoyou duck eggs to strangers. "It seems that duck eggs were laid in our poor place!"
He wrote about the cold gouqi head in his hometown: "Gouqi head can be fried with oil and salt; Or blanch it in boiling water, chop it up, add sesame oil, soy sauce and vinegar, and eat it cold. The taste can only be said to be extremely fragrant. "
It's really mouth watering.
He described the leek flower in Qujing as follows: "It is made of leek flower and finely cut and air-dried shredded radish. It is very fragrant, not very salty, and has an unspeakable sweetness." "Qujing leek flower is the best pickle in China."
Seeing this sentence in the middle of the night, I couldn't help but open Taobao to buy it, only to find that I was not the first person to eat crabs. Now the leek flower is more delicious with dried fungus.
He wrote the vinegar fish belt in Hangzhou: "It is to pick out the live grass carp tenderloin, cut it into thin slices with a knife, and pour it with good autumn oil to eat raw." This fish is sweet and crisp. "
Lao Wang loves to eat, knows how to eat, and eats miscellaneous things. Whether it's Mongolian bloody hand-grabbed meat or lively shrimp, it can only be offered to Buddha's spinning sheep tail, or stinky tofu in Hunan and steamed chicken in Kunming. He eats it with relish and is full of interest.
"In short, a person's tastes should be broader and more miscellaneous, and" sweet in the south, salty in the north, spicy in the east and sour in the west "should be tasted. This is true for food and should be true for culture. "
Tolkien, an English writer, once said, "If more people in this world love food and poetry instead of gold, the world will become a better place."
Just because Lao Wang is so open-minded doesn't mean that his life is smooth sailing.
When he was born, his biological mother moved to a small house to recuperate. His mother died when he was three years old. He grew up with his stepmother, who was very kind to him.
When I was at school, it was also full of twists and turns. I always change schools because of the war. Later, when I was studying in the National The National SouthWest Associated University, I should not be a good student. He doesn't have many classes. He hangs around and soaks in teahouses.
1958, Lao Wang was classified as "Rightist" and sent to Xishan to plant trees. He picked jujubes and burned chestnuts to supplement nutrition.
He also planted grapes in the vineyard. Out of the cellar, on the shelf, watering, spraying, topping, coring, topdressing, and taking the grapes off the shelf, he still felt very quiet and happy during the whole process.
He boxed the green onions. I don't remember the hard work of packaging, only the sweetness of green onions.
The "Rightists" took off their hats and were sent to the cold Guyuan Potato Station in a short time. Draw flowers, leaves and roots of potatoes during the day, and occasionally write two short poems of "sitting on a bunch of flowers with bright eyes like tigers" for friends far away.
Reading under the lamp at night, and claiming that this is the most concentrated period of his adult life.
During this time, besides studying most attentively, he also ate the most potatoes and the most kinds in his life!
Rome Roland once said: "There is only one true heroism in the world, and that is to love life after knowing the truth."
Lao Wang treats hard life not only with love, but also with beautiful language to express and commemorate it. In the hard life, he carefully filtered the dregs of life and precipitated a simple, down-to-earth world full of fireworks.
Not every writer can afford the title of "living home".
Lao Wang deserves it.
Living at home is devoted to life taste, life epiphany and life aesthetics refinement.
"In a new place, some people like to go to department stores and some people like to go to bookstores. I'd rather go to the vegetable market. Look at raw chickens, live ducks, fresh and watery melons and vegetables, and red peppers. Living is a pleasure. "
Lao Wang's spiritual aesthetics extracted from his earthly life always makes people feel so amiable.
When I was a child, every Spring Festival, he always picked a fragrant wintersweet with two or three ears of red Tianzhu fruit as a "year-end gift".
The average person is like this, but the mountain people are even more relaxed:' The mountain family has nothing to do on New Year's Eve, so they will celebrate the New Year with plum blossoms'. It is really elegant in the cold and beautiful in the simplicity.
He pickled leeks at home, thinking of pickles and culture. Kimchi can be regarded as a kind of China culture. Beijing's water bumps, Tianjin's winter vegetables, Baoding's spring is not old, there are potherb mustard in the north and south, leek flowers in Yunnan, rock sugar acid in Guizhou, and Sichuan mustard tuber, which is popular overseas and is known as the king of pickles.
He likes drinking tea. Drink better tea. It's brewed. Lao Wang developed his own tea porridge according to the Japanese book "Eating for Niren". Coarse tea leaves are decocted, and rice is added to cook porridge. As for the taste, he found it delicious. What a lovely person!
When his friend visited, he personally cooked a delicious boiled dried silk. His friend ate to the fullest, and finally drank all the soup and praised him. He accepted it with a little pride, so he recorded it in the article.
He loves books, paintings, flowers, insects, plants and small things around him.
He loves his family, his relatives, his friends and some unfamiliar strangers around him.
No matter how time flies and the world ups and downs, he always looks at the world with a childlike innocence and ponders everything in the world with awe.
"Sweet, sour, bitter and salty, life is full of five flavors." For Lao Wang, it's not that he can't taste the pain. He is willing to taste it. He dares to taste. After tasting it, he filtered out the bitterness and wrote words that people expected.
When you are angry, unhappy and desperate, read it, taste it and feel it. More or less, you will still feel that the world is worth it!