[ Recluse ]

seclusion

I am willing to hide behind the city's bustling lights,

Be a lonely person,

But I am naturally afraid of boredom.

I'm so greedy that it's best to have a place that is closed to live in seclusion and have fun just a few steps away.

The idea of such a contradiction that makes people want to beat me up can be found by anyone who has the urge to live in seclusion. A few days ago, at a dinner with the chef of Zixuan Thai Michelin Restaurant, Christina told me that her favorite place of residence should have a strange function, called "no signal" between mountains and rivers. I think it makes sense, but only if no one is looking for me. That kind of mentality is very similar to someone who wants to commit suicide because of love. In the end, he took out the blade and swiped it lightly. He found that, oh my God, it was so painful, so he had better not commit suicide. My dream of seclusion can't even survive a day of fasting without opening WeChat. An old friend said, go to Gudian. My instinctive reaction was: Is the signal bad?

The signal there was so good that I played with my mobile phone and ran out of electricity in advance. Kunming is only in the twenties now, and it is slightly cool.

@ Gudian Shihexuan

At noon, I have a bowl of hot carp soup with Bawanghua copper pot, eat a Bai carved plum steak and Pu 'er local pork to strengthen the shin, steamed eggs with dendrobium flowers to improve immunity, and a handful of radix isatis root to prevent trouble. If I want to catch a cold, my mother-in-law also needs to be lucky enough to win the lottery.

@ Gudian Shihexuan

Turn off your phone, breathe a sigh of relief, and finally stop. That was how I began to heal my heart. That day, I listened to the sacred drums of the people on the edge of Dianchi Lake. The land under my feet was called the "Dian State" more than two thousand years ago, Sima Qian said it in "Historical Records". With the drums of Zen, no matter how playful the person is, he will straighten his clothes, and no matter how rational the person is, he will be immersed. I met with the once highly developed bronze civilization here. Men farming, women weaving, and fishermen singing in the late ancient scene. It seemed to have an informal meeting. The sound of each blow rippled on the lake.

The Youren Shen Drum, which has won countless art performance awards, uses shocking drums to break open the sky on the north square of the Gudian Tourist Service Center. The sky is endless, with the wind and moon, the morning bells and evening drums, and the mountains and rivers are quiet, sometimes quiet, sometimes urgent...

The first outdoor performance of Youren Shengu in Southwest China

Everyone quieted down at the scene, which was supposed to be bustling with people, like clouds one after another. I think I found a place to live in seclusion. Join the world, but be ready to be born at any time.

As the drumstick stagnated in the air, the Youren God Drum came to an end without interruption. That artistic conception slowed me down for a long time.

The night will not be long. The night I went to the famous city of Colorful Yunnan·Gudian, it happened to be Li Quan's concert. I picked up the camera backstage and grabbed the moment of music fans and soul musicians.

When the music is remembered, the bard Li Quan is moved with the stars and the keyboard at his fingertips, feeling a little melancholy and a little loss. Cao Qitai, the eldest brother of Taiwan variety show, is an old urchin. Li Quancheng originally had a melodious whistle in his song, but he also played fancy ventriloquery and sang together under the stage. Li Quan's elegant face suddenly revealed a smile and his eyes responded.

At night, I was drunk hearing this and fell asleep unknowingly.

I went to bed late and got up early in Yunnan. I was busy working at a hotel one day. I was not in the mood to eat well, but I drank two cups of coffee. I wanted to leave the third cup to Pu 'er. When I drink it, the fragrance of plum blossoms fills my throat. After drinking a large glass, heart palpitations, night sweats... pores relax and people begin to float away from the desk. I know I have low blood sugar. I held back. With integrity, I didn't want to touch my coffee partner sugar, so I slowly moved downstairs of the hotel, regardless of whether it was 37:00 o'clock or 21:00, Hainan chicken rice. I don't care if this Hainan chicken rice belongs to Singapore cuisine, but this chicken raised in good mountains and rivers is the most important delicious geographical indication.

The chicken meat is smooth in the throat and elastic in the teeth, and the chicken soup moistens the shredded ginger in the rice. It is so delicious that it has eaten up a month's worth of carbohydrates. Later, I learned that only some green leaves of Pu 'er have the flavor of plum. This combination is homologous to the taste of rice wine and can be used with crabs. But I was afraid of the strong smell of tea, and the experience of drinking it from the cup gave me a deeper understanding of tea. New tea customers who are not accustomed to this rhythm are recommended to drink old tea, or drink it after indulging in it.

I use my own experience in drinking tea to digest digestion. Yunnan is the birthplace of tea all over the world. The reason is that it escaped the Quaternary Glacier Period, so the flavors change greatly. The old spot Zhang Hui Gan, the Jingmai tea orchid fragrance, the Yiwu tea throat rhyme, the Xigui tea spirit, and the Bangdong tea rock rhyme and fragrance of flowers... A mountain is a museum. In places where large-leaf trees and ancient tea trees have been bred for more than a hundred years, it is really difficult to get fat.

What's more, when I drink mushroom soup at night, my stomach becomes lighter at the first bite. On the night of Yixin Garden in Ancient Dian Art Sea, seize the last wave of splendid mushroom season in 2019.

@ Yixin Park, Ancient Dian Vitality Town

However, the famous stewed duck in Jinning District of Kunming didn't leave behind. Yunnan's native crispy and soft stewed pork tail and pig ears just filled my missing oily parts... After all, when I was a child, I never grew a tail without my ears and used pocket money to buy sugar. When encountering delicious food, I instantly grew a stomach again.

@ Yixin Park, Ancient Dian Vitality Town

In the second half of the night, we all sat together eating peanuts and chatting about the past in the circle. Everyone came for the National Day. There was a table of people singing, writing poems, hosting, and the Philharmonic Orchestra singing red songs that day. When I thought that on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, I only knew how to eat, and I laughed and said that I felt like I was going to be eliminated by the motherland. During the conversation, a bottle of whiskey was opened on the table. Brother Cao Qitai suggested that everyone sign their names. The wine was warm at the moment. Every star-studded person has the most real side.

Wang Wenwei is actually a bizarre brain artist who has been playing imagination enlightenment recently.

Drum Wang Wenfeng is actually a playmaker. With him around, he never sleeps.

At this time the next day, Fei Fei Zang Hongfei, the traffic manager of "The Band's Summer", the dark horse treasure band Jiulian Real Life × "Strange Qi Said", also arrived. Duan Zi flew together with rock and roll, creating a spark-filled limited LIVE, a special scene that can only be seen at the 2019 Gudian Life Festival!

"You won't forget him for many years to come. You can not listen to him, but you won't forget him." Bai Yansong gave this concluding statement after Immortal Jiulian left the Lexia stage.

At this point, I want to take them to the good restaurant found in the alley near the Crowne Plaza Hotel where I stay. There is a dish suitable for the whole family: black goat mint hot pot, eat a sheep.

According to the authentic eating method of ancient Yunnan, a large pile of mint leaves must be filled. The mint leaves here are different from those in the mainland. The spicy taste is very light. Use a spoon to put them into the cattle and sheep soup and gently soak them. The leaves are green and green. Delicious, when they soften, they are full of the aroma that lingers in the cattle and sheep soup.

@ Gudian Food and Xuan's beef hot pot is also similar

There were many delicious foods in ancient Yunnan. There were Zhaotong, Xuanwei and Huize on the border, where cattle, sheep and high-quality hams were produced. In addition to Xuanwei ham that can be eaten raw, the only thing I will miss if I don't eat it is black goats, which are also the best choice for Fuyang. Before the Song Dynasty, most court banquets were mainly mutton. Like ancient Dian, in the Yuan Dynasty of China, where horse gangs were dominated, mutton occupied a leading position in palace banquets, accounting for more than two-thirds of all dishes. That "fish and sheep" is "fresh" high-end cooking wisdom.

According to the records of the Han Dynasty, the emperor "surrendered the day and issued an edict to give meat to his followers." At that time, the "official meat" was mutton, the first of the "three animals". Sharing mutton by Emperor Futian and his followers was a special way of celebrating the royal family. It is not just about eating sheep in the palace. It is recorded in the "Han Shu" that "the Tian family works hard, steals the sheep and lambs at the time of the year, and struggles with wine to work themselves."

In modern times, a scientific explanation is that because of the hot weather in late summer and early autumn, especially in autumn, people blow on the air conditioner and drink iced drinks, and their bodies become extremely cold. According to the solar term health preservation theory of "spring life, summer long autumn harvest and winter storage", mutton is a good way to drive away the cold air in the body and replenish the body's vitality lost in summer, so that your hands and feet will not be cold in winter when you are prepared. The health concept of "eating sheep" as "raising" implies the ancestors 'pursuit of mutton food and their understanding of mutton cooking.

From Futian to autumn, the original call of mutton spreads in my heart. I still remember the year before last. I was wearing a windproof coat on the grassland in new Zealand. I smelled the aroma of roasted sheep covered in Qiwei powder for six months. The creamy aroma of half of the grassland wafted in. My heart couldn't help but grow wool. Being covered, I have adapted to the sudden cooling caused by the temperature difference at night.

The mutton I eat at home is brought by friends in Inner Mongolia. We call it "Hu Yang". It comes from the grasslands with high wind and grass and fat. The fat smells particularly good, the meat is tender and moist, but there is no smell of mutton at all.

This is the big-tailed sheep that old Beijing Shabu likes most, also called Kouwai Sheep (Beijing calls the north of Zhangjiakou Kouwai). This is the type of water basin mutton I made myself during the live broadcast at the Taobao Creation Festival this year. The pursuit of delicious food between the north and the south always coincides historically.

On the streets of Shandong, soups are the most fragrant in autumn and winter. There are much more mutton soup restaurants than sauna restaurants. On small square benches and square tables, vinegar, salt, and peppers are as simple as wonton stalls in the south. Although I don't have a special liking for Shandong cuisine, I agree with 50% of the wisdom of people in Zaozhuang, Shandong Province in eating sheep. It's not to eat sheep, but to "drink sheep" to warm and nourish the top grade. The local mutton soup is too famous. The 50% thing I don't recognize is that I don't really like mutton soup made with a variety of Chinese herbal medicines. The soul mate of mutton only needs to be "pepper", and it can be served with shredded coriander stalks to enhance the aroma before starting the pot.

The good taste spans thousands of mountains and rivers, but I still miss it. When I have been to Yunnan, I plan to add a mint leaf every time I cook mutton, but this special Yunnan variety has to be grown at home by myself.

There are also a variety of ways to eat sheep in ancient Yunnan. Huize Yangba Bowl uses Huize high-quality black sheep as raw materials, and uses cooking techniques such as steaming, boiling, frying, braising, sliding, etc. to make the Yangba Bowl series of famous dishes: Fenglang Wangyue, dried mutton, onion and coriander chop, four-season boiled water, braised mutton, braised mutton, and chopped pork.

During my stay in Gudian, I had the honor to become good friends with Global Travel Blogger Miss Pickled Fish and Beishi. Pickled Fish accidentally told me a dark secret to increasing powder. If I eat such a wonderful dish of [Huize Black Goat + Honghe Dry Pot Dry Pot Dry Duck] Yuanyang Pot, it's best to get it late at night, it's too early.

Honghe three-year-old duck is oddly fragrant, and it is more delicious than the bloody duck that once amazed me in Yongzhou, Hunan! The mint leaves here are rich but not spicy. They are paired with skinned lamb meat, and the aroma is lingering and poisons me. Sheep clear soup is combined with secret preparation and dipped in water to kill everything regardless of green and red.

The owners of Guaizao and Tianma wine each gave them half a cup. I knew it was not that they were afraid that we would drink too much, but that they were too fat and couldn't carry it back.

The boss said I had to come tomorrow, so I stood at the door and said,"Hmm". The next day, it was sunny again. I was invited to talk about "Dream of Red Mansions Family Banquet" at the Yunnan Life Art Research Society. It was particularly blue that day. The world was originally wrapped in a piece of cloth, blue, and the pigment came from the juice of all things. We were just honored in this life to become the pattern on the cloth.

In the afternoon of the next day, I went to the edge of the grass to watch "Afternoon of the Faun".

Plastic bags as thin as cicada wings were released into the air one after another, turning into small people dancing in the wind like elves. They spun and rolled in a magic "magnetic field", hugging and killing, colliding and separating, which was full of the magic of creation.

Accompanied by Debussy's wonderful music, a magical and touching picture was created. Music, objects, devices, pictures... Weaving together an endless fantasy.

On the Love Square of Colorful Yunnan·Ancient Dian City,[World Life Museum], Japan's "grocery king" settled in the main area of the living market;[Nature Art Museum], plant aesthetic visual experience & Colorful Yunnan·Haowu Flash Shop, dual aesthetic immersion;[Cute Pet Camp], deeply linked with Dora Cute Pet Park, launched an ancient Yunnan pet journey to all Kunming. [Parent-Child Camp], a parent-child park that integrates art, handicrafts, and cultural and creative themes, and the gameplay continues to be upgraded. It was a flowing art!

The best place to live in seclusion is to put your heart on the string and hit the bull's eye even if you shoot it.

I think I will come to the COLORFUL LIFE2019 Ancient Yunnan Life Festival next year. Here, break down the barriers between people and freely enjoy the joy brought by culture and art. Everyone who participates in this scene is the creator of the Life Festival.

Close the door, and you can quietly enjoy the beautiful mountains and rivers outside the window, or walk outside the crowd through the blue sky, white clouds and the chirping of birds, beasts and insects. In short, my wish for seclusion came true.

The goddess asked

What do you like to eat Yunnan?

"Kunming does not have fur during the twelfth lunar month,

Three o'clock light cotton wool does not flow sweat.

Plum blossoms are full of winter fragrance,

Liu Shu's leaves will grow thick in the new year. "

--Anonymous

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