Chapter 43 Chapter 43 Life cannot live without chili peppers

Chili is solid fire. Just as I don't know when I started eating rice, I can't remember when I started eating chili, I just can remember that the place where I first ate chili was in Jiangxi Province, my ancestral home In Suichuan County, the village name is Zhangmuxi, which seems to be a very false village name.When I was young, I thought that all the places I could see should belong to a village. My family lived on a pier, surrounded by water on two sides and mountains on the other, and surrounded by mountains on all sides. My grandma, uncle and I lived together. Ringing in my ears forever and ever, I spent my childhood here.Therefore, I remember the small bell peppers in my hometown as the most authentic peppers.I also vaguely know some of my experience of eating chili, for example, it was so hot that I cried, but after I stopped crying, I became a brave pepper man.

Pepper has become a popular fashion in today's life. After artificially controlling the capsaicin content of chili, a national chili movement is emerging, because chili is already a positive cultural carrier in addition to its vegetable role.Hot chili symbolizes a vigorous life, cool personality, weak stamina, a friend who will always be missed in the years, take a look at the chili string with red firecrackers under the eaves of your hometown, and it will immediately knock people in your heart The life feeling of spicy sizzling in ordinary days, people who can eat chili must also be sculptors of secular life.

I found that more and more people in the world fell in love with chili peppers. Of course, this process has taken a long time. As the territory under my feet grew larger, I knew more chili peppers. Thinking expands together, from the tropical rainforest to the permafrost of the alpine snow region, there are colorful and heroic peppers... It’s really amazing. Columbus conquered the American continent with ships, and the American peppers used its warm character Conquered the world. Of course, I am also the one who is conquered by chili peppers, and I don’t need anyone to deliberately cultivate it. I have been crying about it once or twice since I was a child, and then I started to eat chili peppers, becoming a super brave who eats all kinds of spicy food.The only regret is that after I became a professional writer in Beijing in 1994, I never thought that the ability to eat chili peppers of a genius would degenerate due to shelving. Today, I know that the rural character and local feelings in my life are in the Beijing accent. Mandarin Chinese has declined.

However, I'm picking up peppers again now, and I'm looking for the spiciest ones to eat. Eating chili will change a person's life.When I was young, I seemed to hear adults say that whoever dares not eat chili is a coward, and the people on the chili map think so. Maybe on the red hills in southern Jiangxi that have been slashed and killed, people have such a temperament .Pepper is the embodiment of soul and will.In fact, it has a scientific reason. People who eat chili peppers themselves need to have a huge psychological endurance, and eating chili peppers is a good way to temper a person's psychological endurance. , After the soul is on fire, he will continue to eat chili for the next meal. What kind of spirit is this?This is a kind of fearless spirit that knows that peppers are spicy, but prefers to eat peppers.I feel ashamed and ashamed to see my elders in Jiangdong because of the decline of my fighting spirit to eat chili. I decided to start learning to eat chili for the second time in my life from this year, so as to reinject the spirit of fighting with spicy energy into my life.Yes, chili pepper is related to the history of human civilization, it is heat, and it is the eternal heat and strength that travels through time and space.

Peppers entered my country around the end of the Ming Dynasty. During the long 500 years, many famous peppers were produced: Haijiao from Sichuan, Lantern Pepper from Jiangxi, Qixing Pepper from Guizhou, Xianjiao from Qinghai, Chaotian Pepper from Hunan, Sharp Pepper from Hubei. peppers, rice peppers from Yunnan, big horn peppers from Shaanxi, dried peppers from Gansu, ox horn peppers from Anhui, meat peppers from Hainan, bell peppers from Guangdong... There are also countless names of peppers, newly cultivated varieties, and genetically modified varieties , the chili family is getting bigger and bigger, and the territory of its survival is also expanding infinitely. As long as there are people, there will be chili peppers.Therefore, no matter where people go in their future life, eating chili is indispensable in life.

Looking back on the journey of eating chili in my youth, I went from southern Jiangxi to southern Hubei, and then became a geological team member who traveled all over the mountains.In the temporary canteens eaten in the mountains, chefs always like to stew peppers with fat meat. During the process of stewing peppers with fat meat, pour a scoop of cold water to cool them before stewing. The monosodium glutamate is completely overflowing, spicy, spicy, spicy, spicy, many people are so spicy that they inhale and shout, but I like this kind of spicy, the most unrestrained spicy, it makes me dare to follow in the dark night without starlight. Take the narrow path to the (drilling rig) airfield on top of the hill.But I don't know why the Hunan people are famous for eating chili, but the Hubei people are unknown when they eat chili?I have been thinking about eating chili for a long time, but whether it is personal thinking or asking for advice from all directions, it is fruitless. Take a look: Gan people are not afraid of spicy food, Hunan people are not afraid of spicy food, Sichuan people are not afraid of spicy food, There are also people from Guizhou who are afraid of chili peppers... Guizhou people are afraid of chili peppers. I created it for them, that is, chili peppers are afraid of people from Guizhou!Why are Hubei people afraid of spicy food?All because, the culture of Hubei is moderate.

I found that the Hubei people have a little problem with eating chili. They usually have to pull out the core of the chili, and even cut off the ribs. Of course, the spiciness of the chili is greatly reduced, and it is very comfortable. That’s right, it’s obviously unfair to want to have a place in the reputation of eating chili, so in my chili genealogy, the Hubei people are expelled.It is true that other chili masters are also different. I found that Hunan people eat chili peppers very differently from Sichuan people eat chili peppers. Hunan people eat chili peppers. It seems that chili peppers are not so obvious. But it is very spicy!Sichuan people like to eat chili with great fanfare, and they feel that the clouds of chili peppers, mountain peppers, and sea peppers are coming!What's the matter, the boiled pork slices full of oil, and the Maoxuewang boiling red oil, people seem to be approaching the battlefield, anticipating its spiciness, preparing for a charge, and thinking about a fight to the death.

It is said that now Chengdu eats chili, and has begun to set star ratings. One star is mildly spicy, two stars are relatively spicy, and three stars are extremely spicy.However, overseas, such as Australia and some places in Japan, implement the chili rank system, which is usually defined by ten ranks, and chili masters are one rank higher than Nie Weiping.I think it is better to define by the rank system, because this kind of division can make more people taste chili. When a person starts to eat chili, his ability will rise from one rank to ten ranks. This process is a part of life. A very memorable journey, the beautiful chili time period, is relatively long, especially memorable, and quietly gradual, it is a memorial to glorious and secular life.In this case, when I write my memoirs in the future, I will start like this: At that time, I was at the level of eating chili peppers... This is really delicious.With the implementation of the chili-eating rank system, we can start a chili-eating competition. People from various provinces can hold a chili competition to see whether the Sichuan army is strong or the Guizhou generals are brave. And even in this province, they can also compete to see who can win the " Red Horn Chaotianwang" chili cup.

We need a revolution in chili, in the name of chili.We also need the care of peppers to encourage us into the future.