Chapter 24 don't eat

To eat and drink is to live.However, eating does not necessarily guarantee that we can live, but if we don't eat, we will definitely die-this is the basic result of distinguishing between eating and not eating. Before studying "not eating", let's figure out why people eat. Regarding this idiot question, Mozi’s point of view is the most popular among the ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, and various schools of thought. His old man taught us: "It is food, it is enough to increase Qi and fill the deficiency, and it is just to strengthen the body and fit the abdomen." ("Mozi Ci Guopian") Modern people explain that the "qi" mentioned by Mozi means calories, and "increasing qi" means increasing the intake of calories; Needs; "strengthening the body" is to provide beneficial nutrition to strengthen the body; as for "fitness to the stomach", it is to satisfy the appetite, so that the cerebral cortex can get benign stimulation from suitable taste, stimulate the sense of taste, so as to ensure appetite and enhance the absorption function.

Compared with other "zis", Mozi, who was born as a commoner, is a "bitch" who doesn't pay much attention to eating and drinking. In addition to his most comprehensive and concise exposition, what I admire the most is his "just enough" attitude towards food (this kind of theory is very westernized, no wonder some historians of Chinese thought suspect that Mr. Zhai Mo is neither from Lu nor Song people, but a foreigner with unknown origin), at least, his theoretical framework of "it is food" greatly simplifies the definition of "not eating", that is, "it is not food", so After 2,600 years, I can safely summarize the so-called "not eating" into the following four aspects: 1. "Deflate", that is, reduce calorie intake; The consumption of the body does not meet the needs of metabolism; 3. "weak body", that is, to stop the supply of beneficial nutrients or divert the supply of unhelpful or even harmful nutrients to weaken the body; Make the cerebral cortex get vicious stimulation from inappropriate tastes, sluggish taste, suppress appetite, and completely destroy the absorption function.

When it comes to the purpose of diet and its importance to people, many people will blurt out "Food is paramount to the people" without thinking.Regrettably, we have probably forgotten Guan Zhong's original words: "The king regards the people as his heaven, and the people regard food as his heaven. Those who can know the sky of the sky are worthy of it." Eating and drinking are extremely personal matters. I personally don't like this set of theories that put everything into the king's art. In fact, when we confidently say that "food is the heaven of the people", we have already granted ourselves role of ruler.In contrast, V. Woolf put it more "folk": "If a person eats poorly, he cannot think well, love well, and sleep well."

But a new problem came up again: if you don’t eat it, you will die, but if you eat it but you don’t eat it well, the consequences are also big or small.That is to say, don't think that you can get by just by having something to eat. If the quality of food cannot be guaranteed, people will be depressed, unhappy, and cause trouble.This kind of scene can be revisited in the third scene of the revolutionary modern Peking opera "Red Lantern", "Escape from the Porridge Shed". Li Yuhe, an underground member of the upper class, also came to have breakfast on the surface, but his real purpose was to pass a code to the anti-Japanese guerrilla scouts who came down from the mountain on the street.The script is like this:

Crowd E: Shopkeeper, bring me a bowl of porridge. (Just about to drink the porridge) Shopkeeper, what does this porridge taste like?It's all mold! Crowd A: Hey!This is the mixed side of rationing! Crowd B: Ouch! (sand grits teeth, spits out) It's hurting me! Crowd A: There is nothing but sand here! Crowd B: Humph!You really don't treat us like human beings! Crowd B: How do you eat this?I can't live! Li Yuhe: (Empathy) sing [Xipi Liushui] How many bitter compatriots complained, Struggling under the iron hooves, hatred is hard to get rid of, Spring thunder erupts and waits for the time to come,

How can the heroic Chinese people bow their heads to the butcher's knife! This is really: the world can be seen by a grain of sand, and the heart can be seen by a bowl of moldy porridge. Just like "China Can Say No" can become a bestseller, "Don't Eat" can also rise from an abnormal behavior to a self-contained profound philosophy. On this issue, my daughter once made a very direct and precise statement.When she was more than two years old, she once resisted eating very much. Once, she was struggling in the corner, probably because she was really forced by the spoon that was always dangling around her mouth, so she begged sincerely I said: "Dad, I want to eat 'not to eat'."

This baby sophist seems to have discovered the true meaning of "not eating" in a hurry, that is, "not eating" is actually a kind of food that can be eaten, but we are not used to eating it and will not easily include it in our daily life diet list.In other words, the so-called "not eating" is also a kind of eating. Active non-eating is divided into two categories: hunger strike and anorexia.Both hunger strike and anorexia are actually protests, but the former is aimed at the words and deeds of others, while the latter is aimed at one's own flesh and blood.Modern medicine believes that most anorexia is caused by weight loss.Under the tremendous pressure of self-image "too fat", the pituitary gland function of dieters gradually becomes dysfunctional, and in severe cases, they will enter a state of anorexia. Finally, patients may suffer from various complications caused by lack of nutrition and weakened immunity in the body. due to unbearable psychological and physical pressure, or commit suicide.

The irony is that patients with anorexia do not actually hate eating, but choose a risky food called "not eating" for themselves in order to achieve extreme weight loss.Therefore, a considerable number of anorexia patients often have a tendency to overeat while anorexia. The late British Princess Diana once suffered from both physical and emotional troubles due to the joint attack of anorexia and bulimia during her lifetime. As for "Carpenter" lead singer Karen Carpenter, she finally collapsed in 1983 after an eight-year arduous battle with anorexia. Compared with anorexia, hunger strike is much cooler. It is a kind of public "can't eat" with a strong performance and game nature, which is the most extreme and complicated embodiment of "can't eat".His extremeness and complexity are mainly manifested in the fact that anorexia is a one-way operation, while hunger strike is an interactive game.

In order to express a certain emotion or achieve a certain purpose, both people and animals will take the action of hunger strike.Even three-year-olds with normal mental development know how to fight their parents with slow food, fast food or hunger strike, and then win what they want.Therefore, whether the purpose of the hunger striker is for his own self-interest or for the well-being of the public is the benchmark for the value and moral evaluation of the hunger strike. If anorexia in the late stage has gradually lost the sympathy of others because of its self-inflicted suffering, then a conscious hunger strike can often keep the bystanders in a state of full excitement from beginning to end.Throughout the ages, the passion of hunger strikes can be summed up in these seven words: "I'm hungry, but I can't eat."

A hunger strike is a slanted struggle under oppression. Of course, we cannot say "where there is oppression, there will be a hunger strike." However, I am a member of the Chinese style, although I have always admired Chinese and foreign hunger strikers , but never approve of the hunger strike, which is a means of expression or resistance that achieves the purpose of making life difficult for others by making life difficult for oneself.In contrast, I appreciate the realistic creeds such as "keep the green hills there, no need to worry about no firewood" and "the body is the capital of the revolution".

Gandhi was the greatest and most successful hunger striker in history. For Gandhi, hunger strikes were commonplace and his ultimate weapon.According to statistics, there were sixteen hunger strikes in his life, two of which were three-week hunger strikes, and the longest one lasted seven to forty-nine days.As an external action of the "non-cooperative" thought, the hunger strike reveals a naive truth by its "non-cooperation" with its own mouth and stomach: eating regularly and quantitatively is actually the authority, system and mainstream discourse that require the public to " cooperation" project. Gandhi's hunger strike skills and his hunger strike achievements have been specially trained, and children of all ages should not imitate them. You must know that this so-called "special training", in addition to the long-term vegetarian and diet training and the nourishment of Indian "yoga culture", "special training" actually refers to the inherent interactive characteristics of hunger strikes. A rule of the game that both parties abide by: On the one hand, in addition to firm belief and will, the hunger striker must also strictly fulfill the hunger strike promise, that is, during the hunger strike, except for fluids such as water, orange juice, and milk, no food in any form is allowed. food, and must accept the supervision of the public. In addition, the hunger striker should preferably be a thin person. Fat people go on a hunger strike. Instead of effectively moving the public, they may suffer the unjust injustice of "taking the opportunity to lose weight and using the public to benefit their own interests." .On the other hand, the "hunger striker" must also be a person or a group of people who can take another person's initiative not to eat as a serious matter, otherwise, Gandhi's biography would not specifically point out that "Gandhi used extreme means of hunger strikes to shame the educated colonists".In a sense, Gandhi finally conquered the colonialists with his arduous hunger strike, but the same action did not help to properly deal with the internal contradictions of the Indian people, whose 85% illiterate population is as high as 85%. Of course, hunger strikers are unlikely to verify each other's diplomas before the hunger strike begins. In fact, "educated" is not always reliable. In 1963, the most radical form of hunger strike on the streets of Saigon-self-immolation The Vietnamese Buddhists who protested to Diem authorities did not help to "shame" the highly educated Diem, but were contemptuously nicknamed "Human BBQ" by his sister-in-law. No matter what, the rice still has to be eaten.Eat if you have the conditions, and eat if you don’t have the conditions to create the conditions, and you must eat as much as possible, better, and there is no way out if you deliberately starve yourself, just as Zhang Dai wrote in "Tao An Meng Yi Preface": "However, Ping Li repeated the chime and could not raise the fire. I knew that the two elders of Shouyang did not eat Zhou Li until they starved to death. This is also a pretense for later generations."