I didn't finish it today, but I'm sorry for changing it tomorrow afternoon. ———— prophecies and allegoriesBefore leaving Milan for the first time, da Vinci created a series of riddles in the form of riddles

"Prophecy", presumably as entertainment in the court. Some of them are food-related: "There are many who whip their mothers until their skin is open and their skin is turned up. - Mystery: The peasant who cultivates the land.

He wrote, with a slight irony, that "the nut trees on the roadside flaunt their bountiful fruit to the travelers – and they all steal it." ”

"After being blown by the merciless wind, many young children were forcibly taken from their mother's arms, thrown to the ground, torn to pieces. - Mystery: fruits, walnuts, olives.

Leonardo da Vinci believed that people are constantly exploiting and oppressing nature, and even the harvest is a harmful act.

However, he sees olives from a different perspective: "The flame of anger that falls from heaven will bring us nourishment and light. ”

"People would brutally whip the substance that was used to sustain their lives. - Mystery: The man who threshes the grain

"Innocent and ignorant children were taken away from their nannies and then died under the cruel knife of the people. —Mystery: the goat lamb

"Many of them suffered from the looting of warehouses and grain, and ended up dying at the hands of irrational people – drowning or drowning. - Mystery: Bee biographer Kenneth Clark points out that these

"Prophecy" is not a joke. Given da Vinci's love of animals, these prophecies

It represents his determination to refuse to take for granted the infinite suffering inflicted on animals by humans, and to reject the notion that humans with advanced technology can kill innocents of other animals. Another biographer, Serge Bramly, argues that "[these prophecies] make extensive use of child imagery as a metaphor, and in fact reflect da Vinci's own injuries as a result of his illegitimate status and the separation of his parents." Leonardo da Vinci seemed unusual in comparison to the fact that he had designed military machines to make it easier to kill people, but Leonardo da Vinci was always such an enigmatic man.

He once lamented: "Eggs that are eaten by people will never produce chicks again." Oh, how many lives are there that have never been born like this?" and, of course, of course, da Vinci's shopping list still has eggs on his list.

This ambivalence was again evident when he wrote Wine and the Legend of Muhammad, and wine appeared on his shopping list: the sacred elixir made from grapes – wine found itself in a polished golden glass on Muhammad's table.

Because of such a great honor, he was full of pride and pride. Suddenly a diametrically opposite emotion came over him, and he could not help but say to himself, "What is the matter with me, that I am unaware of the impending death, but full of joy? How could I not realize that I am about to leave this golden abode and enter the filthy and foul-smelling cavern of the human body, and that I am about to turn from this fragrant and delicious gyokuyokuro into a stinking liquid." It seems that these misfortunes are not the whole story - I am also forced to stay in the foul-smelling and ugly abyss for long periods of time, along with other rotten and smelly substances expelled from the human intestines. So the wine cried out to God, begging Heaven to avenge the suffering he had suffered, and begging Heaven not to allow so much humiliation to befall him again.

Since the country produces some of the most delicious and high-quality grapes in the world, at least don't let them be made into wine.

So Jupiter allowed the wine that Muhammad had drunk to rise into his brain, where it damaged his head and made him insane.

So Muhammad did a lot of stupid things. Immediately after his recovery, Muhammad enacted a law prohibiting Asians from drinking wine.

Since then, the fruit of the vines has finally gained their own freedom. As soon as the wine entered his belly, it began to ferment and swell, and the man's soul began to gradually leave his body and ascend to heaven.

And the mind began to detach from his body. So the wine began to weaken his will, making him roar like a madman, and then he made the irreparable mistake of killing his best friend.

Leonardo da Vinci may be exaggerating a little here, but it's a legend, and he probably wrote it with half-jokingness.

In addition to the wine that can be found on his shopping list, da Vinci himself admitted to buying it. He wrote in 1495: "On Tuesday I bought the wine I drank in the morning, and on Friday, September 4th I bought some more. From this passage we can see that he will not only go to buy alcohol, but also drink it in the morning!

Brownlee refers to a piece of advice from Leonardo da Vinci from an unknown source: "Wine is good, but at the dinner table it is better to drink water." Leonardo da Vinci's Fable, written in his notes, shows a different scene.

Inside, trees, plants, animals, and even rocks are transformed into sentient creatures, and together they form a beautiful picture of the Italian countryside.

In the fable "The Chestnut and the Fig Tree", da Vinci once again expresses the cruelty of people picking fruit or nuts from trees: the chestnut tree sees a man on the fig tree, bends the branches of the fig tree and breaks it towards himself, plucks the ripe fruit, and stuffs it into his mouth, and the fig disappears under his sharp teeth.

The chestnut tree, stretching its long branches, exclaimed, "Oh, poor fig!"

You see how much nature protects you less than it does mine. You see, how well nature has wrapped my sweet offspring—first with a soft coat and a hard shell, and not satisfied with these protections, he has also put some sharp and dense thorns on me, so that I can keep away from the hands of people that can hurt me. After saying this, the fig tree and her children began to laugh out loud, and after laughing, the fig tree said, "You should know that human beings will have enough wisdom and ingenuity to peel your fruit, and they will use all the tools that are available to you, such as ropes, stones, and fences." When your fruit hits the ground, they will step on it with their feet and knock it with stones so that your offspring will be exposed from the shell that is their armor, and their bodies will be completely shattered. At this time, I was only gently touched by their hands, unlike you, who suffered from sticks and stones. The purpose of this parable is to show that those who are self-centered and despise others will be punished accordingly.

But there's a little bit of irony that regardless of the fruit tree

No matter how well the "children and grandchildren" are preserved, they will all eventually die in the stomach of man. In another parable about the tree, da Vinci seems to be excusing himself for having no offspring: a fig tree stands beside another elm tree, and when it sees that there is no fruit on the branches and leaves of the elm tree, but boldly blocks the sun from the sun in front of the unripe fig, the fig tree reprimands: "Oh, elm, are you not ashamed to stand before me? They cut or break the branches of the fig tree and ripped the fig off. When the soldiers had gone, the elm asked her, "Beloved fig tree, wouldn't it be better to have no children than to give birth to offspring and let them suffer such misfortune?" In the fable "The Privet Tree and the Blackbird," da Vinci humiliates those who think that the world revolves around them.

In the same way, he used the theme of plucking the fruit from the tree: the privet tree, while gently caressing its tender branches full of young fruits, which had just been poked by the sharp claws of an arrogant blackbird, complained softly to the blackbird in a mournful voice, pleading bitterly with him: since he had stolen the sweet fruits of the privets, at least spare the leaves that were used to shield the little fruits from the scorching sun, and stop scratching the tender bark with his sharp claws.

Hearing this, the blackbird replied angrily with a rebuke: "Oh, you uncivilized little bush, shut up. Do you know that nature created you to provide me with nourishment? Don't you see that the reason for your existence in this world is to provide me with food? Don't you know that you are a lowly creature that will turn you into food and firewood in the next winter?"

Soon after, the blackbird was caught in a bird's net, and the people cut branches from the docile privet tree and made a birdcage to lock the blackbird up.

When the privet tree saw that it was her branches that had caused the blackbird to lose its freedom forever, she said with great joy: "O blackbird, I am still here, and I have not been burned as you predicted. Before you saw me burned, I saw you in a cage. Leonardo da Vinci showed a fatalistic tendency in his allegory: "Man and animals are but passages of food, graveyards for other animals, habitats of lost life." Their lives come from the death of other animals, and they are in fact full of depraved and corrupted chests. He continued, perhaps slightly morbidly: "Man should come out of the grave and transform into the kind of winged creature (a fly that feeds on the dead), and they should attack other humans, and even snatch their food directly from their hands or from the table." But da Vinci himself was alive and well, and he had some fun.

In the early 16th century, the Florentine sculptor Giovan Francesco Rustici founded a company called the Company

The organization of the "Big Pot Rice Alliance" called friends and sang a feast. Each member of the alliance is allowed to bring four guests at a time, and they are required to contribute a special creative dish to the banquet.

The gastronomic historian Warfari Rout defines this organization as the first culinary society since Roman times.

Roy Strong observes: "In the end, the Big Cauldron seems to have deliberately mimicked the grand court banquets held by the Medici family, where the decoration and food were very similar. "InfiniteJest: WitandHumorinItalianRenaissanceArt, an interesting book, describes a meeting of the League as follows: The most outstanding of these [dishes] was Andrea Del Andrea del Sarto's delicate octagonal structure of the Sweet Tower looks like the Baptistery of Florence.

The pavement is made of jelly, the columns that appear to be made of porphyry (a coloured rock from Egypt) are actually large strips of sausages, the base and the top of the column are made of Parmesan cheese, and the platform is made of marzipan.

Sato's playful masterpiece of so-called gastroaesthetics, a long-neglected discipline, is a tribute to Petronius, a recreation of Satyricon's new and beautiful culinary masterpieces...... Giorgio Vasari, Leonardo da Vinci's first biographer, shows us other scenes from the feast: in the middle is a choir music stand, made of chilled veal.

On it is a sheet of music made of flat sheets, with notes and letters made of peppercorns.

Watching the score sing are the thrushes, whose beaks are deliberately kept open when cooking, and they are dressed in some kind of robes with thin slices of pork.

Behind these birds are two members of the second bass section – two larger pigeons, and six ortolan (larks) as sopranos.

In 1902, the historian Giuseppi Conti wrote a book on the history of Florence called Factsand Anecdotes.

In the book, he is interested in:

The "Paiuolo" (Big Pot Rice League) describes it as follows: The alliance created by Rustich is called Paiuolo.

The Big Cauldron Rice League is formed by a group of gentlemen who often meet in the rooms of the University of Sapienza.

Each of the twelve members can bring no more than four guests with them at each party or dinner, and each must bring a dish of their own.

If two people are found to have duplicated their ideas, they will be punished at will by the Alliance Chair, who will then put together the dishes they bring and redistribute them to their liking.

As soon as the League was founded, its founder, Giován Francisco Rustić, hosted a banquet for his companions.

In keeping with the theme of the Alliance's name, Rustic carried a vat into the room and hooked it to its massive handle and hung it from the ceiling.

He at the same time repainted the room and hung curtains to make it

The effect of being in the cauldron. The members of the League were initially stunned when they arrived, and couldn't help but applaud the bizarre scene.

When they entered the room and saw the vat, they all started laughing maniacally. Inside the vat are seats and a dining table is placed in the middle.

A set of large chandeliers hangs from the ceiling, illuminating the inside of the vat. Once they were all seated, the table opened and a leafy tree rose, on which two of the main dishes for the guests were cleverly placed.

After the guests had finished their first course, the tree disappeared, and when it reappeared, a new dish was placed on it.

There were many servants standing next to the vat on standby, diligently pouring the best wine for the guests...... In 1508, da Vinci returned to Florence and stayed in the home of the wealthy patron Pierodi Braccio Martelli, where Rustici also lived.

Rustic kept a herd of animals in his studio there, including an eagle and a flock of animals

A crow that "can talk like a human," a porcupine that is tame like a dog, and a snake. Rustich was a friend of da Vinci's, and there is no doubt that da Vinci was involved

The gathering of the "Big Pot Rice Alliance". Sage Brownlee said: "Da Vinci was a fan of jokes, and probably the first artist to keep many animals, so he must have lived at ease in the free and relaxed atmosphere of the Château Martelly." ”