After retirement, he loved pasta and reminisced about the taste of his hometown every day.
** He once held a high position and made important contributions to China's development. After his retirement, he lived a quiet and indifferent life, living mainly in a courtyard in Beijing's West Imperial City Gen.
Let's take a look at his life in retirement, especially his daily diet.
Although he suffered from diabetes in his later years and had strict requirements for the sugar intake of him, this did not stop him from loving growing grapes. After his retirement, he even traveled to several farms on the outskirts of Beijing to learn viticulture, and carefully cultivated 50 or 60 varieties of grapes at home.
However, grapes are high in sugar, and although he loves them, he rarely eats them, and most of them are given to the staff and guards around him.
** is a native of Jiaocheng, Shanxi, and his childhood taste memories have deeply influenced his taste preferences. Therefore, in his later years, he always loved the food of his hometown. In terms of food, ** always adheres to the principle of "simplicity", and strives to be simple and clear in eating habits and cooking methods.
**'s life in his later years is very regular, he gets up at about 7 o'clock in the morning every day, and always has milk, egg custard, flower rolls and steamed buns for breakfast. Even in his advanced age, his teeth are still very healthy, and he especially likes to eat baked steamed bread slices, even if they are very hard, he eats them with relish.
After breakfast, he is moderately active, then reads the newspaper or writes, and occasionally meets with guests, but this is not very often.
**, a native of Jiaocheng, Shanxi, loves Shanxi noodles all his life. Whether it's the ramen from his hometown, the knife-cut noodles or the unique "cat ears", he never gets tired of it. Even during special periods such as hospitalization, he insisted on eating hometown pasta.
Among the lunch dishes, he often chooses three dishes: one meat, one vegetarian and meat and vegetarian combination, he prefers popular dishes such as radish, cabbage, pumpkin, yam, and has no preference for mountain and sea delicacies, and his food style is simple and clear, just like an ordinary farmer.
And he's very frugal, saving leftovers for the next meal.
Dinner is extremely simple, sometimes just a bowl of porridge or a bowl of rice porridge, occasionally accompanied by a pancake. During the holidays, he would eat dumplings, but his wife would strictly control his diet because of his diabetes, and he would ration it every time to ensure his good health.
In addition, ** has always practiced a separate meal system, and his family has become accustomed to this way of eating. He thinks that as a national cadre, the state takes care of him, and his family can't follow him, so he chooses a separate meal system.
The fine traditions of the revolutionaries of the older generation are admirable.
**Before his death, he liked a kind of old Beijing specialty radish shortbread, which is made of sesame sauce and noodles and added to the radish shreds. A month before he died, he was still trying to taste it.
Although *** loves boiled mutton very much, due to diabetes, he does not eat it often, especially in his later years, when doctors control his diet more strictly, so he eats boiled mutton more rarely.