Chapter 2 About the Book of Songs

The Book of Songs is like a flower on the other side, even if it cannot be picked, it will always survive in the heart. In fact, it is just a folk song, not as distant and inaccessible as imagined.It's just that when we crossed the river, we silently left it in another era. When you turned around to look for it, it had already submerged in the river.So you gradually get used to singing "The little mouse went to the lampstand, stole the oil to eat, and couldn't get down." Instead of "The big mouse, the big mouse, there is no food for me." Look for it with the elegance of poetry, look at it with the depth of the scriptures, it may be the voice that sounded in our hearts in the previous life in the previous life.The songs we used to sing together.

The three hundred poems are just the innocent memory of the previous life. The girl on the other side looks over ——Guan Guan Jujiu, in the river continent Guan Guan Jujiu, in the continent of the river.A fair lady, a gentleman loves you. Nymphaeum variegated, flowing from left to right.My fair lady, I long for it. poo.Leisurely leisurely, tossing and turning. There are various water lilies, and they are picked from the left and right.My fair lady is a friend of Qin Se. There are various waterweeds, and they are left and right.My fair lady, the bells and drums are melodious. —— "Zhou Nan·Guan Ju"

After hesitating for a long time, I wrote "Guan Ju".First of all, everyone is too familiar with it. The opening chapter of the Book of Songs has become a mess, almost to the point where preschoolers can open their mouths. Writing it is like trying to make vegetables and tofu that everyone admires. Second, I am greedy. When I think of "Guan Ju", the first thing I think of is not the poems, but the troublesome and delicious soup made by Huang Rong in the book, so I want to put that The turtledove caught it, and asked Huang Rong to make "good soup", and it would be delicious.

...Huang Rong brought out a wooden plate with a smile, and put it on the table. There were three bowls of white rice, a wine glass, and two large bowls of dishes.Guo Jing only felt that it was sweet and tangy, and it was indescribably comfortable.I saw a bowl of braised beef strips, but the aroma was strong, and there was nothing special about it, while the other bowl contained dozens of bright red cherries and seven or eight pink petals floating in the clear green soup. Against the tender bamboo shoots, the red, white and green colors are dazzling, and the soup is full of the fragrance of lotus leaves. I think this clear soup is made of lotus leaves.

Huang Rong poured wine into the wine glass, put it in front of Hong Qigong, and said with a smile: "Qigong, how about you try my handicraft?" Hong Qigong didn't wait for her to say the second sentence, and he didn't drink any alcohol. He grabbed two beef strips with his chopsticks and put them in his mouth. , or plump and tender, or sweet and crisp, the flavors are diverse and changeable, just like the endless moves of martial arts masters, which are unpredictable.Hong Qigong was full of surprises. Upon closer inspection, it turned out that each piece of beef was composed of four small strips of meat.Hong Qigong closed his eyes to discern the taste, and said, "Well, one is a lamb sitting on its hip, one is a pig's ear, one is a calf's kidney, and one... and one..." Huang Rong pursed her lips and said with a smile: " I can guess that you are good..." After she finished speaking, Hong Qigong shouted: "It's the deer leg meat and pork meat kneaded together." Huang Rong clapped her hands and praised: "Good skill, good skill." Guo Jing heard it I was dumbfounded, and thought: "This bowl of roasted beef sticks takes so much trouble, it's thanks to him that he can distinguish five different meat flavors." Hong Qigong said: "There are only five kinds of meat, but mixed bites of pigs and sheep are common. The taste is the same as chewing roe and oxen. I can't figure out how many changes there are." Huang Rong smiled and said, "If the changes in order are not counted, then there are only twenty-five changes, which is the number of five or five plum blossoms. Because the meat strips are shaped like a flute, this dish has a name called "whose house listens to plum blossoms on the jade flute". The champion among customers."

Hong Qigong shouted: "Amazing!" He didn't know whether he was praising the name of the dish or his ability to distinguish flavors, he picked up a spoon to scoop up two cherries, and said with a smile: "This bowl of cherry soup with lotus leaves, bamboo shoots and tips It looks so good, I'm a bit reluctant to eat it." After discerning the taste in his mouth, he let out an "ah" and wondered, "Huh?" After eating two more, there was another "ah".Needless to say, the lotus leaves are clear, the bamboo shoots are fresh, and the cherries are sweet. The cherry pits have been pulled out, and other things are embedded, but I can't taste what it is.Hong Qigong muttered: "What is embedded in this cherry?" He closed his eyes, slowly discerned the taste in his mouth, and murmured: "It's sparrow meat! Either partridge or turtledove, that's right. It's a turtledove!" Opening his eyes, he saw Huang Rong giving a thumbs up, and couldn't help but feel very proud, and said with a smile, "What's the weird name for this bowl of turtledove soup with lotus leaves, bamboo shoots, and cherries?" Huang Rong smiled and said: "Old man, you missed one thing." Hong Qigong said "Hey", looked into the soup, and said, "Yes, there are still some petals." Huang Rong said, "That's right, the name of this soup comes from Just think about these five ingredients." Hong Qigong said: "If you want me to solve charades, I won't be able to do it, good boy, tell me quickly." Huang Rong said: "Let me mention you, just think about it from the top." Hong Qigong said Qigong waved his hands again and again, and said: "No, no. I don't know anything about books." Huang Rong laughed and said, "She has a pretty face and a small cherry mouth, she is a beauty, isn't she?" Hong Qigong said: "Ah, it turned out to be beauty soup." Huang Rong shook her head and said, "Bamboo Jie is a gentleman with a guilty conscience. Lotus is also a gentleman among flowers. Therefore, the bamboo shoots and lotus leaves refer to a gentleman." Hong Qigong said: "Oh , it turned out to be a beauty and gentleman soup." Huang Rong still shook her head, and said with a smile: "Then what about the turtledove? The first article is: 'Guan Guan Jujiu, in the continent of the river, a gentle lady, a gentleman loves to eat'. So this soup It's called 'Hao Yu Soup'." Hong Qigong laughed loudly and said, "There must be such a strange name for such a strange soup, very good, very good, you strange girl, I don't know which strange old man gave birth to it. The taste of this soup is really good. The taste of the cherry soup I ate in the emperor's palace more than ten years ago is far inferior to this bowl." Huang Rong laughed. : "Tell me what good dishes the imperial chef has, so that I can learn how to cook them to honor you." (Chapter 12)

Originally I thought to only excerpt the part of "Hao Yu Soup", but in the end I couldn't help itching, and even "Who's Listening to Luomei on the Jade Flute" was also excerpted, because this passage is so wonderfully written.What Jin Yong said is somewhat reliable, let’s talk about it separately. He said that there is a huge mistake in "Guan Ju", which will be reported later here.In terms of the degree of excitement alone, although Cai Lan writes about eating, drinking and having fun, it is not as good as Lao Jin.After all, it is everyone's foundation, and it is amazing enough to play tickets once in a while. "Shooting the Condors" is my favorite martial arts novel, and this is one of the best-written passages.Every time I read this, Rong'er seems to be right in front of me, coaxing and persuading her, she is so dexterous that people can't love her, but against Guo Jing's honesty and straightforwardness, Qi Gong's greedy and kind, it seems that things in the world are so amiable Coke - words are not enough, and images are needed to complement it. The old man in the memory is wearing a spring shirt and smiling beautifully.

The Sri Lankan has passed away... With a wide range of knowledge, and having been with Cai Lan and Ni Kuang for a long time, Jin Yong is also familiar with the way of eating.I hate that this old boy is so dishonest, he writes in the book a few dishes that people want to eat, which is so troublesome that people can only look at the book and sigh.Where do you tell me to learn "Orchid Brush Point Hand"?It's easy for him to write, God knows how hard it is to dig out the cherry pit, and you have to stuff the meat in, it's just...! ! ! It’s better to be the boss of our family, Gu Long. Wine is wine, and you can drink the best wine, even if you burn a knife;To put it simply, a plate of stewed beef with peanuts, if there is no such thing, grab a fish in the river and roast it, rub a sheep on the side of the road and roast it, or a few sweet potatoes in the vegetable garden, the aroma is also attractive enough.Everyone is a hero, basically it is not so ugly to be caught by mistake.

I don't know if the ancients are as vulgar as I am, so that they want to make soup when they see turtle doves, but the ancients said "food and sex are also", so it can be seen that food and sex are not far away.You admire a person, say she/he is beautiful and delicious, and when you look at her/his mouth, you have the idea of ​​kissing, and gradually want to eat him whole and put him into the blood, as if it is the warmest and safest way. Jujiu is the closest bird to love.The sound of "Guan Guan" is heard by the man who is yearning for the woman as he is calling his lover.According to ancient legends, the male and female Jujiu are inseparable.Guanguan refers to the harmony and sound of one pass and one sound.Jujiu is said to be a chaste bird, a symbol of love and loyalty.In fact, according to textual research, Jujiu is not a turtledove, but an osprey. In "Guanju", it is not the male and female singing in harmony, but the osprey begging for fish on the river island to symbolize the man's courtship to the woman.

There is a saying of "Four Beginnings", "Guanju" is the head of the wind, and it shows the infinite atmosphere of the wind of the fifteen countries, which shows its significance.The man who heard the birdsong and saw the beautiful woman on the river island was so open-minded that he couldn't restrain himself. His recitation of "a fair lady, a gentleman is so good" also made the men of later generations stand up for thousands of years. From now on, seeing a beautiful woman does not need to be timid So what if the beauty is like a flower across the clouds?Isn't that what we men pursue?

If there is no male adoring gaze to follow, no matter how beautiful the river island is, no matter how many waterweeds, who would like to linger on it every day?Regardless of who is the host and who is the guest between a gentleman and a lady, between a man and a woman, there is a need for teasing. I don't have the attraction to you, so I don't have the love to sprout. Gentlemen and ladies represent the Chinese people's love taste.Hezhou and Jujiu symbolize the elusive and hazy emotional conception that Orientals have always been obsessed with.Not only emotions, but the overall behavior of Orientals tends to be reserved. I don't want to talk about Zhu Xi, and how those Confucian scholars with knotted brains misinterpret this poem, whether it is a metaphor for the virtue of empresses or concubines!The emperor needs affection as much as the common people, and the queen likes to be pursued just like the women of the common people!Just look at how the man and woman are pleasing to each other.It's really like a song and a dance.At this time, it is far from enough to rely on the silent waterweed swaying in the water.To make it lively and fragrant, take the qin'er to get close to the beauty. If it suits your heart, she will use the zither to harmonize with the king, and play the eternal harmony. Bells and drums sounded.The folk music is lighter and more flexible than Huang Zhong Dalu, and it is more suitable for unfettered love.The two people dancing together to the bell and drum are like butterflies flying in the sky. At this moment, she no longer rejects your hand, and you cross the river in her heart and approach happiness.