Chapter 44 pulp

Pronounced gang, refers to gruel.Maqiao is a poor mountain village that lacks food, and "eating pulp" is a word that is often used. "The Book of Songs.""Xiaoya" said: "It may be wine, not pulp", and pulp is used to refer to beverages that are inferior to wine, such as corn soaked in water. "Hanshu" contains the phrase "powder, wine and meat", which means the luxury of life, and the wine is regarded as pulp, and the meat is regarded as Huo (bean leaves).It can be seen that pulp has always been a food and drink exclusively for the poor.

An educated youth who had just arrived in Maqiao.It is easy to hear eating gang as "eating dry" and misunderstand it as the opposite meaning.In fact, the pronunciation of j here is always replaced by g, for example, "江" is also pronounced as gang.Eat pulp sometimes sounds like "eat Jiang".When there is no harvest, there will be too much water and little food in the pots of every family, and it will become "eat the river", which is actually not impossible.