Chapter 11 Section 11 Their food concept

There are roughly three ways of eating today. China, Japan, Vietnam, North and South Korea use chopsticks; Europe and North America use knives, forks, and spoons; Africa, the Middle East, Indonesia, and the Indian subcontinent use fingers.Can the way of eating be used as a standard of civilization?Thinking of the "European latitude" given by Harvard Geography and Economics, I dare not make random definitions, but I feel that it can still be arranged in this way: the animals that eat with metal knives and forks are the most ferocious, and the animals that eat with bamboo and wooden chopsticks are the most ferocious. The second is ferocious, and the third is ferocious for those who eat with bare hands.If you disagree, you can pull the army out to practice.Zhou Zuoren expressed this with the three states of civilization. He said: "Chinese people talk about eating, and Europeans say eating bread. This represents two different ways of life in the East and the West. They are basically the same. It is almost the same as wheat, one can be boiled as a whole grain, the other can be ground and then steamed and baked. The difference in the production method is the difference in the way of eating. Eat bread with a knife and fork, and eat with chopsticks Yes. The origins of the two are the same as grasping with hands. Western pasta saves five fingers into three to become a knife and fork, while eastern rice food saves two, bamboo and wood chopsticks. The gesture of using a fork is commonly used to hold a pen, and two Chopsticks are a bit more difficult to manipulate, but they can be moved more freely. For example, using chopsticks to pick up a pea is a bit close to a small trick in the eyes of Westerners, but it is common in China, as long as you don’t use ivory or silver chopsticks. The same principle applies to holding a fountain pen, and the Chinese gestures for holding a pen are also based on the same basis as holding chopsticks.”

There are only three ways to eat, but there are many ways to say it.In fact, everyone in the world is a food spokesperson, and they have more or less different definitions of eating. I believe there are no people who don’t talk about eating.It's just that ordinary people don't cherish their own language and don't record it for the public to learn.Therefore, extraordinary people have to make irresponsible remarks on food, but it often becomes a classic theory.Engels said: "Forgive me, vegetarian gentlemen. If you don't eat meat, people will not develop to this point." Eating meat creates civilization. I agree very much. I vote for Engels. It is up to me to be the president or the prime minister. .Continuing the theory of food civilization, the former British Prime Minister Macmillan should be awarded the title of "Love China". He said: "Since the advent of canned food, the only way to enjoy food civilization is to go to China." What a lovely prime minister, we Build a monument for him?Loving China is still mostly Chinese. Sun Yat-sen lamented that China is backward in everything but food is ahead of the world: "The art of cooking is born of civilization. If the race is not deeply conceived with civilization, the cooking technology is not good. The beauty of Chinese cooking is also It shows the depth of evolution. In the evolution of modern Chinese civilization, everything is behind others, but the progress of food and beverage is still beyond the reach of other civilized countries. The food invented by China is stronger than that of Europe and the United States; It is excellent, and it is not comparable to Europe and the United States." In comparison, Qu Qiubai is as refreshing as cutting tofu with a knife: "Chinese tofu is also very delicious, and it is the best in the world." Tofu is of course good, and Huainan tofu is the best. Was that created by Huainan King Liu An?

Qian Zhongshu is well versed in both Chinese and Western cultures, and always considers things from two perspectives. He said: "Cooking is the most intimate expression of culture in daily life. In the languages ​​of Western countries, 'literary appreciation' and 'taste' are the same thing. The word taste is not accidental." This is not accidental. It is a bit abrupt at first reading, but it is not abrupt when you read it again. The appreciation of literature and food art is equally elegant. It seems that food should come first. Feuerbach Said: "One must eat first and then think, not think first and then eat." Zhu Ziqing supported the importance of eating with the discussion of sages: "We have two sayings that have been passed down since ancient times: one is 'sufficient food and clothing, honor and disgrace', found in "Guanzi Herdsman Chapter"; the first is "Food is the most important thing for the people", which was said by Li Shiqi in the Han Dynasty. Laozi said that "food, sex, and sex are also" is affirmed from the philosophy of life that food is the two basics of life One of the requirements. "Book of Rites · Li Yun Chapter" also said that "food and drink for men and women, people's great desires exist", which is more clear. According to the following two sentences, eating and sexual desire are equally important, but according to these two In the order of a sentence, 'food' or 'diet' comes first, so eating comes first." After all, he is an essayist who writes more words, but a painter is different. Zhang Daqian said: "Eating is the highest art in life. " Physicians think about safety and solidity in everything. Sun Simiao said: "The foundation of safety and health must be funded by food. Those who don't know how to eat are not enough to survive." The military strategists are probably as simple as Sun Tzu. Sun Tzu said: "Taste But five, its change is too much to taste.” Marx jumped out of food to talk about food, he said: “All labor is originally aimed at the possession and survival of food.” Then, the definition and summary of educators have divisions Regarding the meaning of classification, Cai Yuanpei said: "I think cooking belongs to the category of culture, and food is a kind of civilization, which can be called 'food culture'. Cooking is both a science and an art."

Masters agree with food culture and food civilization, and there is also a group of people who like to dictate to the kitchen. Robert (English) said: "Without onions, the art of cooking will lose its luster. Once onions disappear from the kitchen, people's diet will no longer be A kind of fun." A domineering person, a bit stubborn, but cute.Shakespeare acted like a philosopher when he said, "A cook is no good cook who cannot lick his own fingers." Apparently, he was cuter than Robert.Xu Beihong, on the other hand, tends to be civilian. He said: "It's not too difficult for a chef to cook delicacies from mountains and seas; if he can cook green vegetables, radishes and other small dishes, then he has real skills." Chef." This statement also expresses the true meaning of art, is a good painting also painted on an ordinary canvas?Tolstoy seemed to have hired substandard cooks all his life, so he complained: "God sent us food, but the devil sent cooks." He also made the mistake of thinking that adults and children have the same sense of taste. He said: "For a while, I repeatedly recalled that the vegetables and fruits I ate in my hometown when I was a child were extremely delicious, and they all made me homesick. Later, I tasted it after a long absence, and it was nothing more than that, only in my memory, there was still the meaning of the old. They may deceive me for a lifetime, making me look back from time to time." The vicissitudes of life, the years go by, how can the five-year-old taste Is it the same taste as fifty years old?Rousseau, who still wrote, kept a clear head, and his words still have enlightening significance today: "Temperance and labor are the two true doctors of man: labor promotes man's appetite, and temperance prevents him from gluttony. .”