Love food and attach importance to nutrition.
Yuan Mei is good at eating. He deeply studied Chinese food culture and left a book "Garden Menu" for later generations. In Yuan Mei's poems, there are also many ways to preserve one's health. Yuan Mei is good at food and pays attention to "Time waits for no man". Yuan Mei's "Menu with the Garden" initiated the combination of ancient China nutrition theory and practice. Yuan Mei emphasized the importance of keeping in good health in season in "Eating List with Garden". He wrote: "It is not the right time to eat cattle and sheep in winter and move to summer." Yuan Mei believes that different seasons make different foods suitable for eating, that is, the principle of "don't eat from time to time". Yuan Mei likes tofu very much. In his menu with the garden, tofu is the most popular food, such as "hibiscus tofu", "frozen tofu" and "shrimp oil tofu". Tofu is not only rich in protein, but also helpful to lose weight and prevent cancer. Tofu, fish, kelp and cabbage are the best partners. Cooking soup with these ingredients can double the nutrition.
I like traveling and sports.
Yuan Mei loves traveling, but he never knows his age. Since he was a teenager, he loved nature and often conceived poems in beautiful places. After resigning in middle age, Yuan Mei lived a carefree sightseeing life. Yuan Mei regards tourism as a good way of keeping in good health. He thinks that traveling is a good way to cultivate sentiment and exercise. He said in the poem "Old Travel": "Old travel thousands of miles, go forward bravely, sing a thousand peaks, and repeat it again and again. I always feel that famous mountains are like celebrities, and I won't give up until I see them. " He compared a "famous mountain" to a "celebrity" and always wanted to see it soon, so he did not hesitate to travel thousands of miles. In his later years, Yuan Mei liked climbing mountains very much and enjoyed the pleasure of "all mountains galloping with me". At the age of 77, he visited Tiantai Mountain twice. He wrote in the poem "Going out to revisit the rooftop on February 28th": "I'm still alive, and Qian Shan won't let me go. Put on the longevity stick again and cross the river directly. Liu Ruxue, peach blossoms are blowing all over. Friends and family laugh together, this old spirit. " It is this passion for travel that makes him more energetic as he grows older.
Optimistic, positive and good attitude
Yuan Mei is very active in life. He said that he was "eighty years old" and he was more leisurely in his later years. After Yuan Mei resigned, he built a garden in Xiaocang Mountain in Nanjing to cultivate his sentiment. In his later years, he summed up the greatest pleasure in life as "a good flower in a bag". Among many flowers, Yuan Mei likes orchids best. He once wrote in the poem "I am successful": "After three days of blue smoke, I only feel light and want to get up." It means that when he is in the orchid, he feels high and comfortable. Yuan Mei retired from the countryside, mainly engaged in reading and writing, but in addition to mental work, he also paid attention to exercise his bones and muscles, so as to be quiet in motion. Besides walking, practicing boxing and sword dancing, he also likes pruning fruit trees and arable land. These activities made him tireless and exhausted. Yuan Mei faced life and death calmly. He believes that birth, illness, death and illness are natural laws, so don't be afraid. He wrote in the poem Nostalgia: "Let's be happy together and sleep everything." This calm tolerance is admirable.