Chapter 44 Food and Painting

Yun Da didn't want to take advantage of us and eat with us, but he really wanted to know what was wrong with his painting method, so he followed us out of the tent with a shy smile.

As soon as she got out of the tent, Xiao Xue's toothless complaint: "You guys are really worrying, you haven't been looking for a long time, and you shouldn't say anything." Then he slapped Jiang Li's buttocks, and said, "If you don't behave, I'll beat your ass." ”

Jiang Li smirked and took Xiaoxue's hand and asked, "It's time to eat, right?" Where to eat? ”

Xiaoxue was also helpless, glanced at Jiang Li and said, "Go." ”

Everyone walked in front, and in order to avoid being deceived, I followed behind and secretly observed Yun Da with the eye of the sky, and his current projection was that of a tall horse, trotting forward easily, as if the full load of goods had been unloaded, and his pace was vigorous. It seems that what he said is not a lie, these things have been accumulated in his heart for too many years, and it is really a relief to tell us now.

But this burden fell on me, I thought it was to help Jiang Li, but I didn't expect the relationship with me to get bigger and bigger, but it seems that everyone came for me, or for all of us.

Following Xiaoxue, we came to several yurts, which were like sugar gourds, side by side, about six or seven, and I didn't count them. Above a small inconspicuous door curtain, a plaque was hung, and a few Mongolian characters were written in gold on a black background, which Xiaoxue said meant by the restaurant. I don't know how to count, and I know that it is not two words, and it seems that she also knows a little about Mongolian.

Pushing open the curtain and entering the house, the inside is very different from the outside, as if entering a richly decorated Western-style buffet pavilion. The interior of the restaurant is rectangular, with ornate wallpaper, and it looks like a brick house, and the outside is decorated with a series of yurts.

Xiaoxue said that this meal was an extra meal, but it cost a lot of money, so let's eat it hard.

In the middle of the restaurant is a long table with chairs on both sides, and our group of tourists are sitting around the table, holding goblets and drinking red wine. Behind them, on each side of the table, there was a long table, which was two tiers, full of steaming dishes, and all kinds of cold dishes and fruit plates. The waiters in the restaurant are still putting dishes on the table.

There are many kinds of drinks on the snack basin, including milk tea, sea buckthorn tea, mare's milk milk wine and delicious oxtail consommé, which is boiled into a milky white color and looks nutritious.

The staple dishes include Hada Cake, Mongolian Slightly Mei (mài), Steel Wire Noodles, Noodles, Dumplings in Powder Soup, Mongolian Steamed Rice (Guǒ), and the steamed pork with xiaolong residue that I ate for the first time. The hot dishes are even more sumptuous, in addition to the pork stewed vermicelli, smoked chicken, hairy crab, roast lamb leg and various barbecue meats that I know, but also under the introduction of Yun Da, I got to know the sheep's back, grilled camel's feet, mutton floss, fish horses, grassland eight treasures and stewed silver silk.

Just looking at it makes my mouth water, and it tastes even more delicious, and my favorite is the Eight Treasures of the Prairie. Yun Da said that the method of this dish is very unique, and it is the best dish in Mongolia, which can only be seen in high-end restaurants.

Stir the soaked hair cabbage with minced chicken, egg white, and salt, spread it into a round cake and steam it, then spread it on a plate and make a base. The hair cabbage mentioned here is a hair-like seaweed, and the scientific name is Candida. Chicken mincing is not minced chicken, but meat from a certain part of the pig's body. According to this method, the chicken minced is crystal clear and translucent, and it is also very refreshing.

This is just the beginning, and it is necessary to cut the camel palm, donkey chong, deer whip, hump, and lion's mane mushroom into round slices, and then cut the bullwhip into petal shapes, wrap them all in a gauze towel, take the soup with ginger, green onions, and various spices, and cook it in a pot.

The boiled lion's mane mushroom slices are boiled in a pot with condiments, and then arranged around the fat cabbage.

After cooking, put the camel palm, donkey chong, deer whip, and hump slices in a bowl, and then steam them with chicken broth and seasonings. After steaming, pick out the green onion and ginger, pour out the soup, and buckle it directly on top of the fat cabbage cake.

This is not the end, but also to take out the previously cooked bullwhip and put it on the side of the plate to garnish with wolfberries. Finally, use the soup of the boiled meat to thicken it, and then add sesame oil to live.

Just donkey chong, deer whip, and bullwhip are three things, and you know that it is a big supplement, plus other side dishes, it is definitely nutritious. Not to mention the taste, there are tender and tough, the taste is delicious, it can be said that after eating the eight treasures of Mongolia, there is no delicious taste in the world.

Obviously, it is much faster to eat than the cooking process, just because of Yun Da's narration, the dish has already bottomed out, and I haven't eaten enough, and the last bottom of the fat cabbage cake on the plate has also been eaten by everyone.

One of us had a disc in his hand, a knife and fork in his hand, and he chose a square table to sit down at the side to facilitate conversation.

Jiang Li directly held the plate, stood at the table containing the dishes, and took it while eating, as if he had entered the Sun Monkey in the Pan Tao Garden, this dish had not been finished yet, and it had already been moved to the front of another dish, it seems that it is more suitable to take Jiang Li to eat buffet than to bring fat brother.

After eating the last bite of steamed rice, we each chatted with a cup of grassland snack milk tea.

After Yun Da was full of wine and food, he still didn't forget about jì's painting, so he asked Yan Qiu: "You told me how to paint, and you also learned to paint?" ”

Yan Qiu smiled and said, "I'm not, but I know why you can't draw that painting." ”

It can be seen that Yun Da has a strong doubt, a person who does not learn painting, actually knows more than himself, he stared at the eyes eager for knowledge, and waited for Yan Qiu to tell him.

Yan Qiu took a sip of milk tea, cleared her throat and said: "Let's start with the paper used for painting, different papers, the reflection of the pigment is different, the same pigment on different painting paper, will also have different effects, and Uncle Chen's painting is painted with coarse grain canvas, obviously cut from the old tent, then his painting, the depth of color, and the oil paint into the fabric, are completely different from painting on paper." ”

Yun Da nodded and said, "I know this, I also found a variety of different canvases, and I really didn't know that this was cut from the old tent." However, I have also used similar ones, but I still can't achieve the effect of the original painting. ”

Yan Qiu smiled and said, "Don't worry, this is just a small part of it, and the more important thing is to talk about the color method." The author of this painting used the ancient method of coloring murals in the Han Dynasty, and the paintings after the Eastern Jin Dynasty can be used as a reference. ”

Yan Qiu told Yun Da again about the ancient coloring method of the Han Dynasty.

The principle of coloring can be summed up in eight words: "Separate master and slave, color harmony." "The main methods are blue-green, light-handed, ink and outlined, outlined, boneless, and so on.

"Separate master and slave, color harmony." It is said that we should first focus on the whole picture, and at the same time compose, we have already anticipated which color to use as the main color and which color to use as the secondary color, so that if we plan in advance, we can make the colors on the picture complement each other and take care of each other.

A few of the more representative paintings, Dong Yuan's "Xiaoxiang Picture", are dominated by many people in white clothes, and the landscape pictures are followed. Zhao Ji's "Listening to the Qin" is mainly based on vermilion, and other heavy colors are followed. "Han Xizai's Night Banquet" is dominated by light colors, and other bright colors are followed. In order to bring out Han Xizai, who was wearing a shallow white dress and bare his belly, sitting on an ink-colored chair, deliberately painted the eight female musicians with extremely colorful floral dresses and flower skirts, which shows that the author is very attentive.

An ancient painter once said: "It is better to die than to die." He also said, "Yellow and white can not be shouldered." It can be seen that ancient painters attached great importance to the contrast and harmony of colors.

Yun Da's eyes lit up, he completely understood Yan Qiu's words, and said happily: "It turns out that there was also this saying in ancient times, which is the matching of colors." Anyone who learns to paint this thing basically understands that it is necessary to have sharp contrasts and harmonize colors. However, the beauty in nature also looks beautiful because of these reasons, so as long as it reflects the primary color of the beauty, it will naturally conform to the principles. However, the specific painting method is probably different from our modern painting, right? ”

Yan Qiu nodded and said: "Fang Xun said in "On Painting in Mountain Meditation", 'There is no definite method for those who set the color wonderfully, and there is no definite way for the one who combines the color, and it must be understood and used.'" It's all about how you use it. ”

When I heard this, I basically didn't understand a word, but one thing is clear, they are talking about the painting method of the Han Dynasty, which makes it clear that Uncle Chen, who painted this painting, has a very high attainment in archaeology, and at the same time has extremely deep painting skills.

This is a little strange, that group of people has been confirmed, it is definitely not an archaeological team, so why do they know the method of ancient painting? Could there be something else going on?

I also became interested, frowned, and listened carefully to Yan Qiu's continued speech.