Xu Zhiyuan, hello.
If the network information is not wrong, and chatgpt is not randomly compiled, in 1976, you were born in Liutang Township, Guannan County, northern Jiangsu, across a Gongxing River, is Shuohu Township, seven years later, you went out of northern Jiangsu, and I was born there.
In a short period of time, it is a miracle that two cultural people have come out of an inconspicuous saline-alkali land in the Huanghuai Plain.
However, please rest assured that in the more than 20 years since you started as a public intellectual, our hometown has never thought of getting glorified, as if we have forgotten your beautiful cultural business card at all. The birthplace of the egg, the four kings are not fried, it is really tyrannical.
By the way, your Liutang Township and my Shuohu Township no longer exist, and in the process of urbanization, they have been abolished and transferred, and they have been returned to other families.
It is always like this in the rural areas of northern Jiangsu, first the primary school is gone, then the middle school is gone, and finally even the name of the place of birth is also taken away. To connect with the title of your book, I want to be a part of the world, and eventually become one of those sad young people who ask where they are.
It's not a relationship between self-acquaintance and no reason, today I saw an appeal from you on the Internet and wanted to discuss it.
You say affectionately in a close-up of a **In particular, I would like to make a suggestion - you should take a day off on the winter solstice, at least let everyone have a good meal of dumplings!
Xu Zhiyuan, you are a liberal arts student, I am an engineering student, theoretically, you are emotional, I am rational.
Whether to take a holiday or not, experts say it's useless, we intellectuals call for a ball?
Let's talk about eating dumplings. Xu Zhiyuan, don't think this thing is very pious.
I have a friend, my mother-in-law's house is Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, every time she goes, the door is dumplings, before leaving or dumplings, there is such a place in China, eating dumplings does not look at the festival, completely depends on the mood.
But Xu Zhiyuan, I understand your feelings, because we have all seen the winter solstice in northern Jiangsu.
In our place, the winter solstice is called winter, it is the day, early in the morning, maybe to face the snow, then you have to step on the high clogs to walk a section of the pigsty filth polluted by the wanton flow of dirt, in a field waiting for spring planting, gray and green mixed with the field, find those desolate tombs, the ancestors here, burn the money and yellow paper, worship the ancestors at the same time roast hands.
The winter solstice means the beginning of the nine cold days, which is the coldest time in northern Jiangsu. Hang a few sweet potatoes and stick heads with iron hooks and stuff them into the pot stove to roast, the fire reflects the red face, the aroma spreads, and the warmth has a taste. And the water is boiling on the stove, and it will be time to make dumplings in a while.
A family, kneading dough, mixing stuffing, rolling dumpling skins, folding, different division of labor, busy, adults always scare us: The winter solstice does not serve dumpling bowls, and no one cares about freezing off ears. 」
So, maybe you still have the impression that in addition to the national standard dumplings, we also have a kind of special-shaped dumplings called cat ears, and I highly doubt that this name is taken to complement the form. It is larger than ravioli, has more meat filling, and requires more skillful techniques, which children can't wrap.
Of course, stewed tofu with chives is to be eaten, which means steep wealth, seeking peace and wealth.
Also, when they are full, the adults will carry the cabbage and radish from the ground into the cellar and stack them neatly on this day, and this winter meal mainly refers to these.
In addition to food, I think that your call for a day off on the winter solstice also stems from the memories of farming in northern Jiangsu when I was a child.
Our rural people in northern Jiangsu, a year is rhythmic, there are setbacks, spring ploughing, summer long, autumn harvest, winter storage, the cycle repeats, the winter solstice should be a busy year after a rest and rest time. The men played cards, the women gathered together to arrange the men, and the old men and women stuck to the wall and smoked cigarettes to bask in the sun. Farming civilization has been like this since ancient times, and it has long been recorded in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty: Before and after the winter solstice, the gentleman is quiet, and the officials are absolutely useless, and they do not listen to the government, and they choose auspicious days and then save trouble. 」
This kind of relaxed and constant law life is the most warm for the old and the poor, and people are not slaves of desire, but they do not feel bitter. Compared with the current society that pursues shortness and speed, it is inevitable that it is more difficult to feel that it was slow in the past, even if it is a chance to slow down by a day
Xu Zhiyuan, you probably won't claim to be a native of northern Jiangsu now, because you have spent most of your life in Beijing. But if you can call for a day off on the winter solstice, and call on everyone to slow down and have a good meal of dumplings, I know itYou have been away for half your life, and you are still a spiritual Soviet person.
Because only we people in northern Jiangsu, from the seventies and eighties through the people of northern Jiangsu, know the beauty of the season, all on the tip of the tongue, will especially cherish the opportunity to eat a good season, our winter solstice has inheritance, human flavor, fireworks, and the wisdom of the old farmers who squatted down and set off again.
Don't you, a top student at Peking University, know that a day off on the winter solstice is not possible in the foreseeable future?
You know, but you still cooperate with Ele.me to issue this call and participate in the winter solstice special project, you say that because of dumplings, it deserves a festival, you say that the winter solstice is the longest day of the year, and the Chinese regard it as the best day, believing that the winter solstice is coming again.
This reminds me of Hui Hongying, who served as the season officer of frost fall in Ele.me, she said that the name "frost beating vegetables" is a kind of expectation, as long as you are not frozen by the wind and frost, you can harvest the sweetness of life, life is inevitably frosty, but often, the sweetness comes from the wind and frost.
Therefore, the appeal that often seems radical and unrealistic always reveals a kind of game wisdom, because it leaves enough room for turnaround, taking the opportunity to let the real inner bloom - it is okay not to take a day off, take a step back, just like you said in the special plan with Ele.me, the winter solstice is a good meal of dumplings, the beauty of the season, all on the tip of the tongue, that is the romance of the Chinese is not the same.
To be able to remember the winter solstice, to know that on this longest night, the first year, the most advanced season, people in the past were happy, and people in the present should also be optimistic and jubilant.
Xu Zhiyuan, I want to find some golden sentences from your book as an ending, but unfortunately there are none. So let's borrow Feng Zikai's words:As long as the life of the world is not extinguished, there will be a day when it will rise. On the longest night, welcome a warmer dawn.
By the way, if you are willing to go back to Liutang Township, your hometown will be connected to the high-speed rail, which will be very fast.
I wish you good health on the winter solstice.
Thought Question: What is your memory of the winter solstice?How do you evaluate the special winter solstice project of Ele.me seasonal official and Xu Zhiyuan?
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