Chapter 30 we love this thorn

Here is another version of "Assassin Qin": Qin Shihuang likes to eat fish, but at the same time he is often depressed because of fish bones. Anyone who eats fish and encounters "thorns" will definitely take the life of the fish cooker. (Sima Qian quoted Wei Liao's statement: "The king of Qin is a man, bee-like, long-eyed, loyal bird screams, jackal voice, little kindness, and tiger-wolf heart." The so-called "jackal voice" here is probably suffering from bronchitis according to modern medicine. It may be caused by a type of respiratory disease, or it may be stabbed by a fishbone.) So all the cooks in the palace were frightened by the news.One day, when the chef surnamed Ren was on duty to cook the fish, he subconsciously slapped the fish on the table with the back of his knife. Amid the sound of eating, he unconsciously patted the fish pieces into minced fish, but the fish bones were miraculously crushed. excluded.Master Ren then squeezed the minced fish into the leopard fetus soup. After the soup boiled, the fish balls were ready.Qin Huangshi was overjoyed and named it "Huangtong Tianjiang Phoenix Pearl" on the spot.

Ying Zheng is both a "violent man" and a real brut, so of course he can't understand the mysteries of the fishbone. In fact, I guess he may also regard the fishbone as a member of his political opposition.So, how do intellectuals treat fishbone? Intellectuals are elegant people, and elegant people are also human beings. Once the throat is scratched by a fishbone, the depression of elegant people is often better than that of rough people.The difference is only in the way they are expressed.When a rough person is assassinated, he is always furious and furious, while a rough and powerful person will take his anger out on the chef in the most violent form like Ying Zheng.When an elegant person is assassinated, fire is also fire, but this fire is a kind of slow fire, and it is not an open fire. This kind of fire, in Jin Shengtan's words, is called "hate". Jin Shengtan summed up the "three hates in life" as: "One I hate the thorny shad, the second hates the crabapple without fragrance, and the third hates the unfinished dream of the Red Chamber."

"Hate" is a complex emotion, at least much more complex than "anger", and it also has a little feminine color.If the opposite of "anger" is "joy", then the counterpart of "hate" is "love". The difference between "happy" and "love" should at least not be lower than that of "fishbone" and "shark fin".Let's put it this way, the "hate" for fishbone is entirely based on the love, deep love, and deep hatred for fish meat.In fact, all delicious fish in the world—to be precise, all fish considered delicious by the Chinese are almost spiny.The reason is very simple, the meat of spiny fish is always extraordinarily tender, just like the thoughts of those who worry too much, they are often unbelievably meticulous.

On the issue of "fishbone", foreigners have just the opposite view. They hate fishbone more than Qin Shihuang (it is not so much disgust as fear).They believe that a fish with few or no spines is really delicious, free from vulgar taste and beneficial to the people. This concept has been carried forward to the extreme in the implementation of pragmatic Americans. "Do fish have spines?" If you ask an American child under the age of ten, the answer must be No.This is because not only the fish fillet buns eaten in McDonald’s are 100% bone-free, what’s more, the fishbone, which is a waste, has been processed to pieces long before it enters the upstream industry of McDonald’s, that is, the refrigerators of supermarkets. clean.

It is said that as long as you eat a fishbone at any Fish and Chips in the UK, you can get free of charge at least, or you can sue the owner to court. The experience of eating fish in Langenfeld, a small town in western Germany, left a deep impression on Shanghai gourmet Mr. Hong Pimo: "In the ice tray in the transparent glass window, we saw many different kinds of fish, but we couldn't name them, but one thing is for sure, the fish that the Germans want to eat have few spines, but many. They are impatient, and maybe they don’t eat it at all, for fear of choking their throats... The concept is completely opposite to that of the Chinese people. In the eyes of the Chinese, most of the delicious fish are bony and spiny, such as shad, saury, and perch , river crucian carp, even if it is yellow croaker with noodles, it basically does not break the bones, and let the guests spit it out by themselves.

"If you serve saury and crucian carp to the table for foreigners, it will kill them. The difference in Chinese and Western food culture affects people's physical appearance and character. Westerners are rough, Easterners are delicate, Westerners are straightforward, and Easterners are straightforward. People turn around." Although I haven’t seen how foreigners’ fish processing factories remove fish bones, but then again, the fish that Americans and Europeans often eat do not have any bones. Of course, there are still “fish bones”. And it's exaggerated.This type of fish with few or no spines mainly includes cod, tuna, swordfish, sole or salmon, etc. The internal structure of the body is actually closer to that of mammals, and when they are made into "fish steaks" , both in shape and taste are all close to steak and pork chops. "One bite, the meat is thick and white as snow, and you will immediately feel the fragrance, delicateness, tranquility and pleasure in your mouth."

Once the throat is scratched by fishbone, the consequences can be big or small. However, most Chinese can put the fishbone into their mouths calmly, and never put fish in their eyes. On the one hand, this is of course due to our preference for thorny fish, on the other hand, the pricking skills accumulated by our ancestors for thousands of years have been "genetized" into our innate skills.After years of unremitting training by everyone, it is difficult not to reach the state of proficiency.Without diamonds, there is no porcelain work.As the saying goes, people with high skills are bold.

Chinese people have a long history of eating fish. There are more than 70 kinds of fish mentioned in Shuowen Jiezi, which was born in the Eastern Han Dynasty.Historians have made various speculations about why the Chinese eat with chopsticks instead of knives and forks.One of them that won my heart is the theory of "eating fish and picking bones", that is, the appearance of chopsticks is closely related to eating fish, because chopsticks are more picky about delicate fish than knives and forks, and at the same time it is easier to pick out from delicate fish. More delicate fishbone.

In the eyes of us Chinese, especially those in the south, the cod, tuna, swordfish, sole or salmon that foreigners love to eat are all "coarse fish". Crude" is an important reason.Just like what we usually call "rough people", they tend to have less nerve in their heads than others.The fish has no thorns, but the feeling of melancholy and even frustration after eating it can only be compared with the fragrant crabapple in four seasons and the last forty times. Of course, the American approach of "should not be hated" on the fishbone issue actually has its own obvious benefits.Among other things, fishbone mishaps and taxpayer medical bills for them would be dramatically reduced.However, this is precisely one of the important things that a Chinese who is planning to go to the United States and intends to eat and buy food in Chinatown should pay attention to: laryngologists in this country usually do not have the basic ability to deal with "fishbone wounds".

Spiny and delicious fish, such as shad, saury, river crucian carp in the south of the Yangtze River, and side fish in the Pearl River Delta, etc.However, among them, shad and saury are tied for the top of the list with the most thorns and the most delicious taste. The deliciousness of shad is not only in the scales, but also fresh to the bones, that is to say, every thorn of shad is worth sucking carefully.In this sense, shad fans hate it for having fewer thorns than for having too many thorns.Jin Shengtan listed "stingy shad" as the first of the "three hates in life", which shows how intricate the emotions hidden in the word "hate" are.

According to unofficial records, in the early Republic of China, Xie Diexian, a famous prostitute in the Eight Great Hutongs, had admired Lin Shu for a long time because of "The Last Story of La Traviata", but she had no way to get in touch, so she decided to take the shortcut of "esophagus".First, he asked someone to present four extra-large persimmons, and now Shangdou "personally" took a bite of each persimmon, resulting in the so-called effect of "clear teeth marks, still smelling of fat".Unexpectedly, Mr. Lin was puzzled by the style, and replied, "It's true that there is a lot of affection for pink fans, but the fate of green clothes is not good, and the beauties are not blessed to accept them."The four dried persimmons were also returned in their original form.But the side of the Bada Hutong was also unyielding. When the maple was red and the chrysanthemum was yellow, the infatuated Diexian specially asked someone to send shad to Lin Shu.This time, Mr. Lin had to take it seriously.He "self-served" the wine at home for a whole night, soul and flesh, after deliberation, until the rooster crowed, and finally made a decision: "The shad has thorns and is not easy to provoke, and a thread of love may become a cocoon of self-binding. There are many chivalrous women in the world, and it is not easy to be a good woman!" And wrote a poem to Xie Diexian: "Don't leave old sins to burden your children and grandchildren, don't plant roots of love in the field of love; , Hualou would rather bear the grace of the beauty." Compared with shad, saury has thinner and denser spines.I really can't figure out where these thorns came from. If Zhuge Liang borrowed fish bones instead of arrows from Cao Cao, the saury would be a straw boat.Even Yuan Mei had to give a special account of "the method of removing spines from saury": the saury is brewed with honey wine and put on a plate with clear sauce, such as steamed shad.No need to add water.If there are too many thorns, use a very fast knife to scrape the fish fillets, and use pliers to remove the thorns.Simmer it with ham soup, chicken soup and bamboo shoot soup, it is delicious.People in Jinling were afraid of its thorns, so they dried it with oil, and then fried it.The proverb says: 'If a hunchback is straightened, the person will not live. 'This is also called.Or use a sharp knife to cut the back of the fish obliquely to break the broken bones, then fry it in a pan, and add seasonings. When you are about to eat, you don’t know that there are bones: "Wuhu Tao Dafa is also." Long hard, or osteoporosis (maybe it is due to insufficient calcium supplementation), after steaming, the "hot thorns" are even softer, as if they are integrated with the fish, but it doesn't hurt to chew. In the pronunciation of Cantonese and Shanghainese, "fishbone" is very close to "shark fin".Probably because the difference between these two things is so outrageous, the word "fishbone" was simply banned, and the Cantonese used "fish bone" to replace it, while the Shanghainese only had the idiom of "fish bone". . Although "fishbone" and "fishbone" both grow on fish, there are at least some biological and dietary differences between "fishbone" and "fishbone". "Fishbone" specifically refers to those fibrous and sharp short spines in fish meat, and because of their translucent color or similarity to cooked fish meat, they are often difficult for fish eaters to detect. Once they are "stabbed", the consequences can vary . In 2001, the Qinhuai District Court of Nanjing opened a court hearing for a "fishbone claim".The case revealed that a reporter surnamed Zhang from a newspaper in Nanjing went to Nanjing First Hospital for treatment because of a fishbone stuck in his throat, and returned to the hospital for a follow-up visit two days later.But since then, Zhang's condition has not improved, but has gotten worse.When the plaintiff went to the same hospital again, the doctor diagnosed him with "esophageal injury, esophagitis, pain in the sternum area for ten days after esophagoscopy, sore throat, and hoarseness for two days."The next day, Zhang was hospitalized in the hospital.Two days later, while receiving nebulizer inhalation treatment, Zhang suddenly vomited blood and fell to the ground. The rescue failed and he died on November 26, 2000.Zhang's family members first applied for accident appraisal to the Medical Malpractice Appraisal Committee, and then sued the First Hospital in court, claiming more than 540,000 yuan from the hospital. As for the so-called "fish bone" in Cantonese and Shanghai dialect, it actually refers to the spine that runs through the whole body of the fish. It is an exaggeration to say that the old fisherman Santiago spent a lot of effort in the Gulf of Mexico. The eighteen-foot-long fishbone that was dragged to the shore was the prototype of what the Cantonese called a "fishbone antenna."If someone is stupid enough to be stabbed in the throat by such a huge "assassin", even if he is saved by chance, I don't think he will have any face to survive in this dangerous world. Just like "fishbone" and "shark fin," the difference between "fishbone" and "fishbone" should not be confused.Whether or not fish grow bone spurs like humans is another matter.