Tea is brewed around the stove in winter.
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Staring through the front window of the car through a brand new office complex, it suddenly dawned in front of me that I had arrived at the beach. I got out of the car and walked along the long round-the-island greenway of Lingshan Island in Nansha, Guangzhou, and took a walk while basking in the sun and watching the scenery. I knew that this was just an ordinary afternoon in coastal winter in Guangdong, but I was touched by this breeze and beautiful scenery The strings of the years in my memory, I thought of a lot.
The scenery in front of me is transformed into a thousand-year-old Gongbi painting screen in my mind, "Ren Yue Shui Wu Mountain, like a screen like an obstacle to play." Nai is alone, lazy and raises his eyes", that is a sentence written by Liu Yong in the Song Dynasty, no matter how beautiful the scenery is, it can only be interesting to play with the right people. A good ** will heal people, Liu Yong's "self-degree song" "Phoenix Cup" must also be one of them, but unfortunately the score has not been handed down.
Composer Stephen Mosio's 2020** "Song of Consolation" is full of images of the sea. Walking along the seaside greenway, I am reminded of "Fracture", the subtle and unexpected harmony, which seems to come from the waves of the sea, and in the introduction he says that it is a tribute to the many classics that heal his soul. One of Mosio's most famous compositions is his song for Celine Dion, "A New Day Has Come." In this healing song, there is a well-known lyric: "Let the raindrops fall lightly to wipe the tears on my cheeks, fill my heart, and drown the fear in my heart." ”
There is a "sense of relaxation" in the hot word of the year in 2022 and a "dopamine" in the hot word of the year in 2023; One is natural relaxation, and the other is to enhance well-being. "Relaxation" and "dopamine" are also long-standing human feelings, as Tao Yuanming wrote in "Fortune": "The ocean is peaceful, and it is gargle." Miao Miao is full of excitement and attention. In terms of satisfaction, people's hearts are easy to satisfy. Waved, reveling in self-enjoyment. ”
At this time, it is also the "false winter" in Guangdong - it is the lunar month, and many people wear short sleeves. On the seaside greenway on weekends, the most common scene is that there is a canopy tent on the grass every few steps, there are families making tea around the fire, young couples playing football with their toddlers, and young people playing guitars and singing.
Take the case of making tea around the hearth, roasting a fire in the north is not only soothing, but also a practical function - providing heat to the surroundings. In Guangdong, when the cold air goes south, no one will set up a canopy tent, and when you can set up a canopy tent, you definitely don't need a small stove for heating. Uninterrupted hot water is more of a soothing sense of ritual, and brewing gongfu tea is both the dopamine of Cantonese people and the relaxation of the south.
This year's New Year's Day hit movie "The Annual Meeting Can't Stop" mentions another form of soothing ritual - the corporate annual meeting. This misplaced comedy tells the story of Hu Jianlin, a senior fitter in a small city standard parts factory, who was transferred to the head office to serve as a senior human resources manager because of an accident, exposing all kinds of unspoken rules of the modern workplace. Because he has spoken too many voices of migrant workers, he is known as the "mouth substitute" of contemporary migrant workers. The movie borrowed Hu Jianlin's mouth to criticize the annual meetings of individual large companies for gradually degenerating into formalism: it was originally an annual meeting for everyone to warm up and cheer up, why did it cost a lot of money but lost this effect?
A sense of ritual can soothe people's hearts, but formalism does not. Where is the boundary between ritual and formalism? This seems to be a difficult question to answer, to borrow a line from Wilde's classic play "Madame Wen's Fan" (translated by Yu Guangzhong): "People, there are only two categories: cute and hateful" - with lovely people, it is naturally a sense of ritual, with hated people, what can there be but formalism? Therefore, perhaps the root cause of the problem in "The Annual Meeting Can't Be Stopped" is not the annual meeting itself, but who to hold the annual meeting with.
When I came to the beach for a walk, I also brought afternoon tea. After a walk on the greenway, my two sons, my junior high school brother and my elementary school brother, worked hard to set up a canopy tent and waited for me to bring them refreshments.
Afternoon tea is made with yogurt made at home. Because the number of heavy ** fermentation is a bit too much, the sour thing made this time is not good. But the yogurt is two liters as soon as it is made, and it is a pity to pour it. So I came up with a way to mix yogurt with sweet rock sugar loquat, add eggs and flour to make loquat yogurt pie. It's not bad, the two babies watched the idle books and finished eating, and didn't complain to me about how sour.
A French joke comes to mind: the Baroque performing group recruits children to perform the cantata oratorio. The performance was a great success, and the audience asked the choir conductor for the secret, "These are the most difficult songs!" "Eh! Stop it! "As long as no one tells them, they never know how hard it is!" ”
On this pleasant winter day, they relied on their own strength to set up a canopy tent on the greenway by the sea, eating the yogurt pie made by their father, perhaps it was also a sense of ritual on the way to growth.