Chapter 69 Section 69 Seeing the core values ​​of governance from the principles of gastronomy

Yesterday afternoon (August 10, 2003) I went to the Shichahai Garden Bar to attend a gathering of netizens from Tianya Gateway Tianchashe. Professional training in law has not explored this on weekdays, so I only wear ears, and leave the mouth behind for dinner and drinking, abandoning its discourse function. In fact, this topic is a philosophical proposition of law-abiding and law-governing, that is, the legal existence basis of law based on "human core values", that is, the law's satisfaction and maintenance of basic human needs in the process of social organization, such a grand design It is of course out of reach for laymen of law and philosophy.However, Lao Tzu said that governing a big country is like cooking a small fish, and Dr. Liu Junning also answered this question, which is a good topic.

The diversity of food is the same as the diversity of social discourse. Based on the taste needs generated by taste activities, it has two basic functions. The first is to judge the safety of food by the taste recognition function, such as moldy, sour and smelly food. Food, which proves to have deteriorated, is judged by taste, and people will spit it out immediately. Even if they swallow it forcefully, they will activate the early warning system after the taste stimulation and issue a vomiting command to vomit it out, so that people's health and life safety are guaranteed; the second is When reviewing the delicacy of food, the criteria for judging delicacy are relatively complicated. Both spicy and sweet are considered to be delicious, and both set up personalized delicious prerequisites. Spicy lovers and spicy refusals have two different views on spicy food: beauty and ugliness value judgments.Therefore, the first taste function of human health and safety in the diet process is interlinked, while the second taste function is not completely interlinked.Then, in addition to these two functions, it also has a core principle of diet beyond the sense of taste, which is the basic nutrition to maintain life activities. Nutrition lies in diet, which is a basic core principle, which may be connected with the core values ​​of human beings.Nutrients exist, and if they were not there, the human being would not exist.The process of human discovery and intake of nutrition is the basic process of survival.

However, there is a difference between modern people and the ancient people who drank blood. The invention and transformation of cooking technology has pushed human beings into a modern civilized society. The production of food raw materials (grain vegetables) and the manufacture of food processing utensils (iron pots and porcelain bowls) have created a division of human labor. Cooperation, based on this division of labor, makes human labor increasingly complex.Going back to the philosophical proposition of governing a big country and cooking small fish, freshness is the most beautiful, which is also the general standard of gourmet principles. Therefore, cooking small fish means frying a delicious and flavorful fish. It is a sign, color, fragrance, shape, or It is a matter of beauty and goodness in governing the country, and the core principle is its nutrition, a fundamental premise for maintaining human life activities, or the law.In this way, the principle of food can provide two thinking dimensions, its core principle of nutrition and the color, fragrance and shape of taste. The former can be used as a general judgment tool for human beings. We can completely judge food without nutrition or food that destroys nutrition as non-nutrition Food is illegal because it deviates from the core principles of nutrition. The latter is a personalized choice of food taste. It agrees more with individual standards. Therefore, no matter whether you like spicy food or reject it, if you don’t challenge the core principles of nutrition , overturning the fundamental law of the existence of the core principle of nutrition, all belong to the respect for the second function of taste, so it constitutes the republic and democracy of food in a philosophical sense.

This summer is very hot, so I cook more winter melon soup for adjustment.Winter melon is sweet, slightly cold, quenches thirst, relieves boredom, removes heat and detoxifies (Li Shizhen).So slice it, boil it in water, serve with two slices of dried shrimps and ginger, cut the tenderloin into thin slices at the right time, grab the gravy, put it in the winter melon soup and stir slightly, and cook it immediately.This is a light soup with complex flavors. The meat is fresh and tender, the winter melon is sweet, and the mellow seafood of sea rice is rippling in the soup. The hearty eating process and the respect for the core principles of nutrition complement each other.It regulates two kinds of marine and terrestrial organisms, two kinds of vegetable plants above and below the ground, Cucurbitaceae and rhizomes, as well as water and fire. The food circle calls it "Golden Hook Winter Melon".

Tested from the principle of food, Hayek's position on the innate law can be established. No matter what latitude or diameter people live on the earth, nutrition is a universal value, and this is the law.The choice of cooking method is based on the pursuit of temperament under the principle of law, or it is an expedient policy, because it not only has the goal of taste, but also changes in the four seasons.Therefore, the way of Laozi is the great way.Based on the above judgments, I think Lao Tzu has provided the principle of the rule of law, and it is a universal norm. As for why there is no modern law in China, I think it may be the rule of law raised by Mr. Fei Xiaotong.Therefore, I agree with Dr. Liu Junning’s two arguments of Hayek’s and Mr. Fei Xiaotong’s. The former points out the existence of nutrition, while the latter talks about cooking techniques. Law, in fact, is a causal relationship, seemingly without opposition.This is a general judgment based on the principle of gourmet food for the dialogue between Dr. Liu Junning and the netizens of Guantian Teahouse on the 10th.