[Volume's Biweekly] Spring Equinox

Editor's note: The new semester has ushered in huge changes. Life is ups and downs too fast, and my mood naturally fluctuates. I can only read articles in the gaps, and the publication has been suspended for three months. Reproduce the rivers and lakes with support. This issue introduces several articles by the five authors, a short family history (grandmother's self-published novel), and at the end of the article, the practice of sending spring rolls (moistening cakes) so that overseas travelers can also experience the fun of wrapping spring rolls.

Matt City's Personal Anthology (February and March 2022)

In principle, the articles introduced in this issue are articles that I have already paid for support in February and March, but this introduction will mainly focus on authors who will continue to produce good articles in the future, and will select other articles of this author to vote for Additional 166LikeCoin support.

@Naoki's Wandering SongThe Missing End ┃China‧Chengdu
The editor is looking for a destination recommendation | The author passes through Chengdu between the journeys, work and family pleasure, this is just the middle stop of the journey, not the end stop. This is an unpretentious but sincere travelogue, just like the author's other travelogues, what I've seen, heard and thought about is probably the task of travelers.

Gayon at the same venue: Ride the train to the next era ┃ Russia ‧ Zabelsk

@WrightFu  A Media Observation from a Hong Kong Resident
The editor regrets recommending Hong Kong | The author discusses in the article how people can detect the truth in a civil society where all living beings are noisy, and it is not until the end that the author defines what "leaving the ground" means, but as readers, we can really leave the ground. ?

Gaying on the same scene: another life test (there is also a Medium version )
Hong Kong Literature Friends of Industrial and Commercial Services Quickly: [Announcement] "Medium Hong Kong Literature Friends Group" is officially opened!

@Moquan's Diary in a Different Place Old Objects and Civilization
The editor also cares about Ukraine's recommendation | The author in the UK connects the situation in Ukraine to the civilized world's concern for disasters and the display of values, and also points out that people living in a totalitarian society are powerless to the suffering of others.

Gaying on the same scene: All of them are stolen goods?

@七月流火This life , you are my only one
Editor's recommendation of Swan Lake | At first glance, it is an ecological writing, but in fact it is a profound communication between human beings and other species between heaven and earth. From the perspective of the narration of National Geographic Channel, the author narrates the thrilling encounter between a photographer and the swans of Qinghai Lake, and introduces the sincere emotions in the migration of swans, allowing readers to peek into the eternal migratory birds in the northern country. ecology.

Gayon in the same field: To be honest, I really can't choose one, each one is a big love .
The nostalgia of "Highland Dancer"
Compassion and Wild Snow Leopard and Living Buddha

@DuncanLau [ Tianya Song at this time] I met a Tibetan singer like this
The editor did not want to silently put down the recommendation | A young and talented Tibetan singer set himself on fire to express his protest in the Potala Palace in the most violent way for the freedom of his beliefs and the nation. People always say that music can transcend borders and beliefs, but there are parts of the world where even the most moving melodies cannot reach the ears of a dictator, and that's all it is when a singer dies. Fortunately, we still have the opportunity to meet him.

Gaying on the same scene: [The End of the World Song] Hallelujah, Slowly Walking the Road to Success

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Grandma's Hometown

While sorting through my father's hoarding, I found my grandmother's self-published novel when she was young.

The grandmother has always been a legendary existence in the family: the daughter of a private school teacher who caught up with the liberal atmosphere of the Republic of China and was able to study and study, graduated from a normal girls' school and became a primary school teacher, but she married a local soldier as a concubine according to the matchmaking. In the era of war and chaos, he came to Taiwan with her husband, who was recruited by the Kuomintang (because the Yuan Pei dared not take a boat and vacated the seat), my grandfather was not affiliated with the Whampoa military, and could not be a senior provincial citizen. As soon as he arrived in Taiwan, he was forced to retire and became depressed. , So my grandmother was busy supporting her life, working as an elementary school teacher, writing a column in a newspaper, selling magnolia flowers on the street, and later learned to drive in her 50s in order to get around the island. missionary.

I'm thinking, no matter what we think of the people who moved to Taiwan in 1949, behind every immigrant who has left their hometown there is an era of bitterness and necessity. "Hometown Love" tells the story of a young girl in such an era. The story is mixed with the personal experience of grandmother, the love and hatred of neighbor girls, the past of the pastor of the church, and the thousands of people who invaded China in Japan and the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. The life and death of the little people during the war.

When there was no SNS, no blog or self-media, my grandmother wrote down her hometown feelings word by word. First, it was serialized in the column of the magazine "Living Water", and then the layout was cut due to the re-publishing of Living Water. She simply paid for the print out of her own pocket. I’ve written a thousand copies, passed it on by correspondence, word of mouth from readers, and peddling in front of bookstores and churches every day, and now this one I have is the ninth edition , what an impressive sale quantity!

I really like what my grandmother said in the second self-preface: "God knows, no matter how difficult it is, how can I kill the 30 years of hard work of "Hometown Love" before it is born? I have a strong relationship with her." An author’s love for writing her own words and her obsession with wanting her words to be seen made her publish at her own expense when she was in such a difficult time, which made me admire and yearn for it (so later she also printed and sold a book by herself, Sure enough, certain genes are inherited) .

 I remember at last year’s community event someone asked everyone what they should do before they died. Many Matt citizens wish to publish a book and share this short story, hoping that grandma’s book publishing experience can give you more courage?

【A roll master irresponsible recipe】Homemade spring roll skin

First of all, it is said to be like this: the northern part is called "run cake", and the southern part is said to "eat spring rolls".

Living in a foreign land, I always feel homesick on festivals where certain family members gather to worship and eat. For example, during the Lunar New Year, a group of Taiwanese people need to get together to eat a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner, like Mid-Autumn Festival. Find a friend to go to the park to have a barbecue and enjoy the moon, like the Dragon Boat Festival, even if you don’t make your own dumplings, you have to buy a bunch of them to have fun, like the Qingming Festival- Oh well, I didn’t sweep the grave anyway, so I’ll omit the matter of eating spring rolls .

After deducting the cake vendors in Taipei, to be honest, the cake skin is a kind of mysterious thing. They seem to only appear at a specific time and place, and they also require a specific stove and technique, which can almost be classified as a kind of traditional skill. Therefore, in Germany for seven years, I hardly ever dreamed of eating spring rolls during the Qingming Festival. Later, I moved to Toronto. Rao is that there are all kinds of Taiwanese dishes for purchase here, and the moistened cake skin is still a product I have never seen before.

Until a certain year, I discovered the recipe for moisturizing the pie crust. After spending a whole day with my friends, burning a pan and wasting a kilogram of flour, I finally figured out the trick to making the pie crust. Practice makes perfect in the next few years. Now in Canada, the tradition of eating moist cakes during Qingming Festival can be maintained.

Material:

High gluten flour: water = 300g: 400g, 1/3 tsp salt

tool:

A frying pan, a little oil, a silicone baking brush, and a few wet cotton cloths. My home is a flat-panel electric stove, and the temperature is well controlled. If it is a gas stove that makes a fire, it may be necessary to consider the temperature more, or use an induction stove instead.

step:

1. The flour is mixed with water according to the proportion and mixed well with a mixer, and let stand for 30 minutes (later found that it is also good to keep it on ice for the next day).

2. Turn on the fire, when the pan is slightly hot, reduce the heat to the minimum, and wipe the pan with a kitchen towel dipped in salad oil.

3. Scoop a tablespoon of batter into the pan and quickly brush with a baking brush into a round shape. Note: At this step, the batter should look "transparent" in the pan . If it is white at the beginning, it means the crust will be too thick!

4. When it is slightly rolled up, you can pick it up with chopsticks and lift up the whole skin. Remember to cover it with a damp cloth after placing it on the plate to prevent it from drying out.

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