The sweetness of summer spreads from the tip of the tongue.

Feng Zikai painted "As you sow, you reap what you sow".

Feng Zikai's paintings.

Whenever cicadas are dying and the sun rises, it is a time when the heat is unbearable. The sweat on the forehead evaporates into sticky at high temperature, and the salty, humid and sultry air makes people thirsty and have no appetite. What I remember in my mouth, what I think in my mind and what I look for in my eyes are all cold, cold and sweet things-ripe and cracked watermelon with a click, soft drink with a splash, licked with the tip of my tongue, melted with my tongue, and sweet from the corner of my mouth to the ice cream in my heart. ...

Iced watermelon

Seal the summer heat.

Pull out the golden knife and break the jade bottle.

A thousand red cherries and a pile of topaz.

In addition to fireworks when swallowing, biting your teeth will make the sound of ice and snow.

Chang Anqing, who was called Shao Ping, became a minister in the Han Dynasty.

-Wen Song Tian Xiang "Watermelon Song"

You can use a Melody of Watermelon to tell the beauty of eating melons. Wen Tianxiang must have loved melons before "keeping his heart and shining history". The first sentence is about how to eat watermelon. The essence of watermelon is to cut the watermelon in half across the board and dig out the big spoon in the middle with a spoon. The gold-plated knife at the waist doesn't need to go into battle to kill the enemy, just holding the melon.

Watermelon peel is a sapphire bottle, red melon pulp is a red cherry, and yellow melon pulp is topaz. The most wonderful thing is the phrase "biting your teeth will make the sound of ice and snow", which can not only make people hear the crisp sound of chewing melons, but also make people feel the coolness of watermelon entrance on the tip of your tongue. If you eat sand melon, it tastes like sweet snow in your mouth; When eating crispy melons, you should take out the energy to chew ice.

The last sentence is an allusion. Hou Shaoping of Dongling, who was originally ordered by Qin Shihuang to guard the mausoleum, became a cloth after Qin was destroyed by the Han Dynasty, so he had to grow melons outside Chang 'an for a living. After all, it is the time of Dongling, and the watermelons planted are also extraordinary. Melon tastes delicious, and the skin has five colors. The world calls it "Dongling melon". This kind of life makes Wen Tianxiang envious, with good melons to eat and good money to earn. Who wants to be an official in North Korea?

Wen Tianxiang's longing for the life of growing melons must have aroused widespread concern. How else can you explain that China has planted more than 60% of the world's watermelons with one fifth of the world's population? In 20 18, the total output of watermelons in China was 79.24 million tons, 20 times higher than that in the second place.

But we prefer eating melons to growing them. While planting 60% of the world's watermelons, we ate 70% of the world's watermelons. According to a watermelon 10 Jin, China people will eat1600 million watermelons a year, with an average of 1 1.4 watermelons per person. But think about it, in the long hot summer, is it really enough to eat 1 1.4 watermelons?

What's more, these eaten watermelons can't be counted on people's heads. Even bears, orangutans, horses, cows, mice and badgers live on watermelons in hot summer. Animals in Beijing Zoo eat 700 Jin of watermelon a day. No wonder Lu Xun's teenagers should guard the sand by the sea and watch out for badger pigs, hedgehogs and Yan to steal melons.

Shaoxing, Lu Xun's hometown, is located in the southeast coast, with a warm climate, and the unicorn melons planted on the beach sand are crisp and sweet. Daxing District in the south of Beijing is located in flood plain and alluvial plain. Watermelon, the most famous watermelon in panggezhuang, has a long history and was widely planted in the middle of Liao Dynasty. Needless to say, Xinjiang, which wears fur coat yarn at noon and eats watermelon around the stove, can eat watermelon all year round because of its unique geographical conditions, and there are many varieties to choose from.

There are many kinds of watermelons, and there are many ways to eat them.

The most classic is, of course, the iced watermelon that sank in the well, soaked all night and fished out early the next morning. In the era when refrigerators are not popular, this is the cheapest and most direct cool. Watermelon juice, watermelon smoothies, watermelon ice powder, watermelon sago dew, all desserts and watermelons are a perfect match. The more innovative way to eat is sweet and salty. Chaoshan people like to eat watermelon dipped in soy sauce, while Beihai people in Guangxi prefer to eat it dipped in salt. When cold watermelon skin, sweet and sour watermelon skin and scrambled eggs with watermelon skin appeared, the watermelon was finally eaten clean by the belt.

The summer heat is blocked by watermelon.

soda

Take you back to your carefree childhood.

Coke, as the "happy water of fat house", is as addictive as watermelon. So that some people once suspected that caffeine and other addictive substances were added to cola, but finally found that "soda water" itself might bring happiness.

"In midsummer, there are many Shanhaiguan sodas hidden in big barrels filled with ice. The bottle cap suddenly opened and the cold was filled instantly. Cold sand mouth, full of vitality, hard to swallow. The hand holding the bottle is surprisingly numb, and the scalp is itchy and swollen. " Zhang Yi, a Tianjin writer, wrote in his book 1990 that soda has brought him a great impact.

"Shakou" is a Beijing dialect, which describes the feeling that soda bubbles burst on the tongue, making the tongue brittle, numb and prickly. "Shakou" is the secret of summer soda. What's the difference between soda and juice without a "sand mouth"?

When you pour a soda, the tip of your tongue is like thousands of small firecrackers exploding. Slight pain stimulates the pain medium and makes the brain produce endogenous morphine endorphins, the source of our happiness. The aroma molecules in soda are also sent to the depths of the nasal cavity with the explosion of bubbles, so the aroma and freshness of soda are far stronger than that of ordinary drinks. The carbon dioxide released by bubbles will also stimulate the trigeminal nerve in our mouth and let the body release opioids. Under the action of opioids, the sense of smell and taste will be more sensitive, and the mood will be excited or even excited.

The Arctic Ocean is the summer memory of old Beijingers. This iconic simple and honest polar bear once appeared in the Great Hall of the People where Premier Zhou Enlai hosted foreign guests, the Tiananmen Gate at the National Day ceremony and the first Spring Festival Gala. It was once the "first national wine".

If you want to drink the Arctic Ocean, you must also drink it in a glass bottle. Stand on the street stall, wait for the stall owner to open the glass bottle cap with a snort, then drink it on the spot, and then return the glass bottle to the stall owner, so as not to pay another dollar deposit. This is the most authentic drinking method in the Arctic Ocean. Pop cans and plastic bottles are unacceptable-they can easily run out of breath.

The magic of the Arctic Ocean may lie in the childhood memories it represents. The familiar orange smell in soda can take you back to the summer when there was no coke and no cell phone, and you played video games and ran around with your friends in groups every day.

There is a concept of "comfort food" in English, which refers to food made in a traditional way and can bring personal memories and experiences. Under great emotional pressure, adults will seek a kind of healing food to relive the sense of security in childhood.

For the old Beijingers, the Arctic Ocean soda is this magical healing existence. For Wuhan people, it is the soda from Hankou No.2 Factory, the Asian Sand Exhibition in Guangdong, Zhengguanghe in Shanghai, Laoshan Coke in Qingdao and Tianfu Coke in Chongqing. Even when Coca-Cola and Pepsi occupy the majority market, childhood memories are still hard to give up.

In the future, even if the air is stuffy, the temperature is hot and the pressure is heavy, you can return to the carefree summer in your memory by opening a bottle of childhood soda.

ice cream

Take comfort in sweetness

Compared with a piece of watermelon and two bottles of May Day soda, selling five or six pieces of ice cream at every turn is a more luxurious and therefore more precious enjoyment.

Ice cream has maintained a noble lineage since its birth. Although there are different opinions about its invention, the protagonist of the story can not be separated from the court nobles of various countries. In China, it was the first time that the emperor of the Tang Dynasty enjoyed "ice cream", a frozen dairy cake. This ancient dessert is fermented with milk or goat's milk, heated with flour, flavored with camphor, and then made with imported borneol powder and longan. These things are mixed together, sealed in metal cans, and then frozen in an ice pool. When the emperor enjoyed it, he cut the frozen sorbet into snowflake-like slices and shaped it.

Although equally exquisite, the most popular ice cream tastes in different countries are quite different. /kloc-the popular ice cream in France in the 0 th and 8 th centuries has avocado flavor, fennel flavor, asparagus flavor and foie gras flavor; /kloc-When American ice cream was introduced to Japan in the 20th century, it developed crab yellow flavor, sea urchin flavor, mustard flavor and beef tongue flavor. In 2020, China Internet celebrity ice cream has already appeared Changsha stinky tofu flavor, Chongqing hot pot flavor, meat rosin onion flavor and northeast stew flavor. Of course, just like the classic three-color cup ice cream, chocolate, strawberry and vanilla ice cream are enduring and deeply loved all over the world.

/kloc-in the 8th century, a doctor in Naples, Italy, Philippe baldini wrote the world's first book about making ice cream. As a doctor, baldini seriously endowed different flavors of ice cream with different health care functions. For example, cinnamon ice cream can relieve pain, lemon ice cream can nourish the stomach, and chocolate ice cream can adjust the mood.

I'm not sure whether ice cream can relieve pain or nourish the stomach, but I can guarantee that any flavor of ice cream has a good effect of regulating mood. A small bite of milky ice cream melts on the tip of the tongue, from cold to sweet at first, and then becomes refreshing and happy all over the body. All anxiety is frozen by this cold, and all bitterness is dispelled by this delicious food. Even if you just look at this ice cream wrapped in a chocolate coat, there are strawberries and hazelnuts in it? Take a look at this colorful and exquisite dessert, and your mouth will rise unconsciously.

In economics, there is a lipstick effect. Whenever the economy is depressed, the sales of lipstick will increase. As a kind of "relatively cheap luxury", buying lipstick and applying lipstick can bring a kind of comfort to people. Ice cream is such a "relatively cheap luxury". The price is not low, and it is just within the range of most people. It's not a staple food, it's more like giving yourself an extra small reward. Just after the global crisis in 2008, the sales of ice cream in the United States and many European countries increased significantly. It can be seen that you are not the only one who will get comfort from the sweetness of ice cream.

Although the epidemic is not far away, it is still hot in summer, but with ice cream, you can get the courage to clean up your mood.