It doesn't matter what you eat for New Year's Eve, what matters is who you eat with, and eat comfortably and steadfastly.
Many years later, Lin Jianqing saw Fang Xiaoxiao again.
He remembered that Spring Festival travel time, when the train was crowded with people, he held the ticket in his hand and asked the girl who was touching her pocket in the aisle, "Hey, is this ticket yours?"
Fang Xiaoxiao turned back, and there was sunlight coming in from the window.
He was actually from the same town as him, from the north, and had not studied for a few years. Her father died very early, and her mother went abroad with others. She had no one to depend on, and only had one room in her hometown.
I go back every year, just look around and find myself alone. Lin Jianqing took her back to his home and huddled in a large table for the New Year's Eve dinner.
It was cold in the northeast, and the strong wind rustled against the eaves with snow beads, but the house was filled with heat.
In the center of the dining table is the hot pot, bubbling and bubbling, and the side dishes and meat are full.
There are seven aunts and eight aunts, asking what kind of boy Xiaoxiao likes, and the narrator is that the parents are short-lived, and Lin's father wants her to "come every year".
Writer Liang Wendao once said, " Hotpot is the ultimate reunion ," and that's exactly how it feels.
After that, Lin Jianqing and Fang Xiaoxiao became entangled.
The hot pot scenes in the movie are all like this, a knot on a rope, stuck in the rivers and lakes, in love, and a hometown that cannot be returned.
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Hot pot and rivers and lakes, drinking and eating meat, happy and grudge
"The Legend of Condor Heroes" once was Guo Xiang's birthday.
She held a small banquet in the boudoir, and waved her long sleeves: "Boil two more lamb legs and cut 20 catties of cooked beef."
All I could hear was a broken gong-like voice in the room saying, "Second Miss Guo is really bold, but it's a pity that my cook didn't know it before, otherwise I would have made friends with you."
On that day, heroes from all walks of life sat around the fireplace, drinking and eating meat, and feasting.
The reason why I talk about this paragraph is because it is very close to the atmosphere of hot pot, with affection, brothers, and rivers and lakes, and it is full of fireworks.
The thirteenth sister of Hongxing was like this.
She was cooking meat in a restaurant. I didn’t really see the dishes on the table, but because it was Hong Kong, I thought she probably threw all the squid slices, pork liver, duck sausage in it, as well as chrysanthemum and chicken skin.
The soup is boiling hot, so boiled, it is very extensive, and the taste is also in line with the temperament of the big sister of Bolan Street.
There is also Cheng Ying , who gave up his son to hide his orphans and stole a beam for a post .
Chen Kaige is a scholar, and he knows that hot pot has appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period, which is a small bronze tripod. Sui Chengying sat opposite a friend, with a steaming pot in the middle.
I don't know if it's bronze or not.
All I know is that there is a row of thin noodles hanging on the rope. Cheng Ying tore a few of them and threw them into the pot.
If you want to dip it in sesame oil and garlic paste, and serve it with a piece of fresh lettuce leaves, the taste must be absolutely amazing.
I can't forget the smell from the roof that night.
It was Huang Feihong's father , Huang Qiying , who, together with the head of a county government office, put the pot on the chimney of someone else's house and made a hot pot, which is really wonderful.
In the midst of troubled times, it is not optimistic that it can still be like this. And Qiying was imprisoned, and the head of the class rescued him. Qiying was bullied, and the class leader threw a fist in anger.
This hot pot is quite the meaning of happiness and hatred.
The background is the Qing Dynasty, and it was really that time when the hot pot was carried forward.
"Qing Palace Suo Ji" once recorded a menu of Cixi's meal, and there were two hot pot items on it, one was Babao milk pig hot pot, and the other was stewed mutton hot pot with sauce.
Not her original.
On the tenth day of the first lunar month in the 48th year of Qianlong's reign, the emperor entertained guests at the Qianqing Palace and set up 530 tables of hot pot, and preparations began a month before the fight.
Too many tables and too many people. When please enter the fruit table, there should be a table seat in the hall, and the eunuchs and others should be placed outside with them, and the hot pot lid should be removed by the way.
Shabu-shabu dishes include mutton, pheasant, lamb black fork, and deer tail venison. There are 4 bowls of meat dishes in celadon bowls, one for steaming and one for stove.
The soup base is mutton soup and roe deer broth.
It was Heshen 's idea. He felt that the last time the emperor invited a guest, the ministers waited for him to sit at the table, and the dishes were cold .
I didn't see the convenience, and it was divided into primary and secondary levels, so I lost the original interest in hot pot.
I prefer three or five friends to sit around the fireplace, the garlic, oyster sauce, coriander and sesame sauce are neatly arranged and lined up, and the freshly cut lamb is rinsed and wrapped in it, making it lively.
But where there is liveliness, there are disputes, and where there are rivers and lakes, there are sinisters. More than ten years ago, a big man was killed, and several horses under his hand gathered together to eat hot pot.
Finally got out of the hands of the boss, looked at each other, smiled, and toasted together. It looked harmonious, but each had his own thoughts.
Eating wild and greedy. Eat subtly and think things through. Those who have not moved their chopsticks are indecisive and most easily shaken.
This hot pot also became their last supper, and since then, these people have been killed one by one.
Earlier, there were three people on the train, eating hot pot and singing songs .
The pot was as big as a water tank, and it stretched out from the top of the train, and the soup was tumbling just right.
To write a poem and write a poem, there must be wind, meat, hot pot and fog, and a beautiful daughter and a donkey.
As soon as they finished speaking, they were robbed by the bandits.
Not to mention the hemp bandits, but to say this hot pot, Jiang Wen has a lot of intentions.
Why eat hot pot, can't you eat other dishes?
In fact, this is a big bowl that symbolizes interests . You come and go, and the interest relationship can be shown as you eat more and eat less.
So, Ge You soaked in the water, with messy hair, crying under the pressure of the gangsters: " His county magistrate has earned 6.4 million, and I am a master, so I will earn a fraction! "
That's why, the big guys and Ma Tsai in Hong Kong movies always eat hot pot when they meet each other. First, it is convenient for drinking and talking openly, and secondly, it is a metaphor for competing for interests.
Of course, there is another unknown purpose, that is, it is convenient to fight, and when he turns his face, he directly stuffs the head into the soup pot.
Just like [Hot Pot Hero] , the three of them have a hot pot temperament, spicy, lively, suffocating, crisp, and righteous.
If I don't like you, I don't care who your turtle is. But if we are brothers, no need to say anything, let's eat.
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Hot pot and love, you have me, I have you
In "Eternal Sky and Dragon Slayer", Zhao Min took Zhang Wuji to drink.
She sent the second child to get a hot pot, cut three catties of raw mutton, and added two catties of white wine. The two of them were enemies, but they made mutton in this side of the world.
Another time, Zhang Wuji made a marriage contract with Zhou Zhiruo, but he still couldn't let go of Zhao Min, and he came to this tavern again.
Zhao Min didn't expect to meet here, so she couldn't help crying out "Ah". Seeing the four plates of wine and vegetables on the table, Zhang Wuji was the same as when Zhao Min asked him to drink for the first time, so he could not help reaching out to hold hers.
Two small hot pot meals, the relationship between the two continues to advance.
Jin Yongding knows that no matter whether it is a movie or a novel, hot pot has the strongest metaphorical ability to eroticism.
In the misty West Lake, the cold wind was biting in the winter, Xu Xian carried a copper pot with charcoal fire, set up a stove, and cooked a hot pot.
I guessed it was rabbit meat, cut it into thin slices, mixed it with wine and soy sauce as ingredients, and after the water boiled, put the meat slices in it and cooked it.
Otherwise, how could it attract the two blue and white snakes who were going to hibernate to come over. The white snake said, "No way, official man, I'm so sleepy" while smelling the overflowing aroma of hot pot.
This hot pot is eaten, and the show is in the bones.
The movie [Like You] also has a line: "In the erotic food rankings, hot pot ranks first, because it is too similar to some kind of intimate behavior between lovers."
In the film, the small sausages with enoki mushroom and mutton are rolled up with chili oil, and the heat is rising. The two keep exchanging saliva.
When the weather is humid, sticky and sultry, eating hot pot profusely has a reverse erotic temptation.
But my favorite is Millennium Winter, in the basement of Beijing.
"You can help me clean up if you're fine, and it's just rent." Sun Na opened the lid of the pot while talking, put the cabbage in, and poured another half a glass of beer.
Then he sat down, the table was piled with mutton slices, coriander, chili sauce, cabbage clapper, the pot was clear soup and boiling water, and the freshly sliced meat was still dancing.
Lin Jiandong sat across from her in an ugly green sweater.
Is the name similar? If I didn't look carefully, I thought it was the [later us], that Lin Jianqing who was holding the ticket. Moreover, they are also northern drifters.
But this is [if · love] .
Sun Na wanted to be a star, Lin Jiandong lowered his head, took out the frozen tofu, and said, "I think you should do it."
The two of them clink glasses with a smile, and the camera zooms out to only one window in the basement, and then there is heavy snow. Qi Qin's epic love song sounded appropriately:
Long, long ago, you had me and I had you.
Not long after they finished eating, they had sex on the cot, babbling and dangling, like a small hot pot, the tofu skin was fully cooked and wrapped the beef.
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Hot pot and reunion, feasting and feasting, not as good as fireworks
There is no starter and main course for the hot pot.
Combining cooking and eating into one, all the ingredients appear at the same time and enjoy together, each food is dyed with the taste of other food, it is a complete "you have me, I have you".
So it's the ultimate reunion.
In the [Tangshan Earthquake] , the mother couldn't let go of her husband and daughter, and the estrangement between her and her son was even more difficult to dissolve.
The appearance of hot pot is probably to say that the moment the dish is rinsed into the soup, people have the patience with hope.
With hope, wait for the vegetables to be cooked with a little patience, and then fish them up, ushering in vitality.
All emotions are thrown into the clouds, no longer in the past, only the present - this is the truth of hot pot.
[Diet men and women] , the shortness of the parents is constantly cut and chaotic.
His old friend passed away suddenly, and he lost his sense of taste as a chef. The three daughters were busy with each other, which was really a low point in life.
Later, there was a scene where the father and daughter were eating pork in a copper pot. The scene was much softer than before.
Come to think of it, it may become more enjoyable to put the sad days in a hot pot.
And, of course, the [later us] .
Lin Jianqing's father opened a restaurant. Every year, he would prepare a menu, including spicy chicken, stewed vermicelli with pork, braised carp, and hot pot.
Later, seeing Qing was caught selling discs, Xiaoxiao went home for him to celebrate the New Year. Later, they didn't go back, and there were fewer and fewer people at the dinner table.
Until Lao Lin was left alone, accompanied by a pot of small wine, the hot pot was no longer hot, probably after the fire went out, the pot of soup gradually cooled down.
He wrote a letter saying that it doesn't matter what you eat for New Year's Eve, but who you eat with, and that you eat comfortably and steadily.
This is probably what Fang Xiaoxiao thought. She was helpless, and what she wanted was not for Lin Jianqing to earn enough money, buy a big house with a sofa, or drive a decent car.
It is a home, just like the cold northeast that year, a large table of people huddled together to eat hot pot.
Hairy belly and enoki mushrooms are a perfect match. The frozen tofu soaks up the soup and makes the mouth very refreshing. Fans and green vegetables are the most satisfying.
That kind of firework smell is much more solid than feasting and feasting.
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Author/Aunt Liu
The article was first published on the WeChat public account "Bao Ci Er"
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