1. Clean the pan, without water, the firewood can't afford to smoke.
don't rush him when he is ripe, he will be beautiful when the fire is full.
Huangzhou is a good pork, and its price is as low as dirt.
the noble refused to eat, and the poor couldn't understand cooking.
I got up in the morning and made two bowls, so I was so full that my husband didn't care.
From: Song Su Shi's Ode to Pork
Translation: Wash the pot clean, drain a little water, light firewood and weeds to curb the fire, and simmer with a virtual fire that does not emit flames. Wait for it to ripen slowly, don't rush it, it will naturally taste delicious when the heat is enough.
Huangzhou has such good pork, and the price is as cheap as dirt; Rich people refuse to eat and poor people can't cook. I get up in the morning and make two bowls. Don't mind if I'm full.
2. In the next four seasons of spring in Luofu Mountain, the tangerine and bayberry are the second newest.
There are 3 lychees a day, so I don't hesitate to grow up to be a Lingnan native.
From "Eating Litchi" by Song Su Shi
Translation: The next four seasons in Luofu Mountain are spring, and the oranges and Huangmei are fresh every day. If I eat 3 lychees every day, I would like to be a Lingnan person forever.
3. There are three or two peach blossoms outside the bamboo, which is the prophet of duck warming in Chunjiang.
Artemisia selengensis has short reed buds all over the ground, which is the time when puffer fish want to go up.
From: Song Su Shi's
Translation: Two or three peach blossoms are blooming outside the bamboo forest, and ducks are swimming in the water. They are the first to notice the warming of the river in early spring.
The beach is already full of Artemisia selengensis, asparagus has begun to sprout, and the puffer fish is about to swim upstream from the sea to the river.
4. Better eat without meat than live without bamboo.
no meat makes people thin, and no bamboo makes people vulgar.
people are thin and fat, but common people are incurable.
people laugh at this remark, which is as tall as it is stupid.
if you still munch on this gentleman, where is the Yangzhou crane in the world?
from: Song Su Shi's Yu Qian Monk Lu Yunxuan
Translation: Without meat, people will lose weight, but without bamboo, people will become vulgar. The reason is that people are thin and fat, and it is difficult to cure people. If others don't understand this, they smile and ask this statement: "Is it like being tall or stupid?"
Then, if you are still munching on this gentleman (bamboo), how can you have your cake and eat it at the same time, such as Yangzhou Crane?
5. if you plant a millet in spring, you will reap ten thousand seeds in autumn.
there are no idle fields in the four seas, and farmers still starve to death.
when weeding is at noon, sweat drips down the soil.
who knows that every grain of Chinese food is hard?
From: Don Li Shen's
Translation: As long as you sow a seed in spring, you can harvest a lot of food in autumn. All over the world, there is no land that is left uncultivated and uncultivated, and toiling farmers will still starve to death.
At noon in midsummer, the farmers are still working in the scorching sun, and sweat drips into the soil. Who would have thought that the rice in our bowl is full of the blood and sweat of farmers?