Food Notes: 400 words _ Thoughts after reading 400 words

I have been reading Gourmet, the masterpiece of the famous writer Lu, these days. Mr. Lu is an excellent writer. His works are deeply influenced by Suzhou, and his works are elegant, and he is good at setting Suzhou region and its characters as the background. Gourmet is his masterpiece. Gourmet tells the story between Gao Xiaoting, a veteran cadre who loves revolution, and Zhu Zizhu, a "gourmet" who loves to eat like a pig. The story is told in the order before and after the Cultural Revolution, which shows us the story between the old revolutionaries and capitalists.

Gao Xiaoting, the hero of the book, was a poor student at first. He lives with his mother in Zhu Zizhu's home and buys all kinds of food for Zhu Zizhu. Because of this, he hated Zhu's autonomy. After liberation, he became the manager of a famous restaurant in Suzhou and began to transform the restaurant. At the beginning of the transformation, he did make some achievements, which made Zhu Zizhi's stomach more and more uncomfortable, but soon many people opposed him and were persecuted during the Cultural Revolution. After the Cultural Revolution, he went back to the original restaurant to start decorating again. No one can cook those famous dishes, so they have to recruit talents to attract wisdom, and they don't want to recruit Zhu autonomy. Zhu Zizhi became a gourmet.

Since the topic is food, there must be something delicious. In "Gourmet", this is also reflected: lung-sucking soup, beggar chicken, noodle soup ... This series of delicious food makes people salivate, and I have to admire Lu's careful investigation, but Suzhou's delicious food can really be written so much.

I think Gao Xiaoting, the hero of the book, is a man who is loyal to the revolution but a little divorced from reality. His starting point is good, but because he is too radical, he will be self-defeating and cause a situation of getting twice the result with half the effort. At the same time, his anti-delicious behavior has reached an almost pathological level. In the last film "Chocolate", he once snatched chocolate from his grandson, which made people stunned. In a word, he is a very complicated figure.

In short, if you want to know about Suzhou's humanities, then this is a good reading.