Chapter 22 The second section reflects the bipolar world state of diet in literary works

Literary works are often a mirror of social life, and works of past dynasties that reflect bipolar world conditions through diet themes have become a major feature of Chinese literature. "Poetry·Wei Feng·Fatan": Can Can Cut Tan Xi!Dry the river!The river is clear and rippling! (Cut down the sandalwood trees, and they are piled up on the river bank, and the clear river is flowing) No crops, no crops, and three hundred grains [chan cicadas]? (The hoe never touches your hands, so why eat the harvest of three hundred households for nothing?) If you don't hunt or hunt, Hu Zhanerting has hanging flounder [huanhuan]?

(Haven't bent a bow once, so why are there badgers hanging in front of the door?) He gentleman, don't eat vegetarian food! (Masters of Yi, is it your job to eat for nothing!) In ancient times, one hundred mu was called "廛", that is, the cultivated land of one household. 300 shops are equivalent to the fiefdom of a doctor.It is the indictment of the agricultural slave who has been deprived of the fruits of his labour. The Tang Dynasty was known as the flourishing age, and Du Fu wrote two poems, which described the completely different eating conditions at that time, forming a sharp contrast.One is "Beautiful People's Journey", which describes the situation of Yang Guifei's sisters, Mrs. Guo Guo and Mrs. Qin, on a spring outing by the Kunming Lake in Chang'an and feasting in the palace:

The purple camel's peak comes out of the emerald cauldron, (The emerald jade cauldron holds the shiny purple hump) The disc of the crystal is lined with plain scales. (Creamy steamed fish served on a crystal plate) The rhinoceros chopsticks are disgusting [yuyu] for a long time, (Ladies who are tired of eating are hilarious while holding rhinoceros chopsticks) Luan's knife cuts the air. (The fine-cut chef sweated all day in vain) Huangmen Flying Man (Kong Kong) does not move the dust, (The eunuch's Qingqi quietly sends the precious souvenirs into the palace gate) The imperial chef sent eight treasures one after another.

(The imperial chef also brought delicacies of seafood to the dining table one after another) This is an excellent satirical poem on food and drink, which vividly portrays the extravagance and extreme desire of the ruling class in the Tang Dynasty. Another poem about food and drink by Du Fu, "The Guest Arrives", describes the scene of him welcoming guests in the thatched cottage beside the Huanhua River in Chengdu. Two lines of the poem "Panyang City is far from having both tastes, and the bottle restaurant is poor and only old grains (fermented glutinous rice) Wine)", which shows that what he entertains guests is only a dish and a bowl of fermented glutinous rice.But if you know your friends and love you, drink in the farmhouse, the friendship between gentlemen is as light as water, and the joy is harmonious.Du Fu was a first-class poet in the Tang Dynasty. He was so poor that he had no taste for hospitality. Compared with the extravagant food of Concubine Yang's family, there is a world of difference.