Old-school girl shopping route

Introduction

"When I met my mother, she was already a mother."

"Old-school Girl Shopping Route" is the first prose work by writer Hong Aizhu. After her mother passed away, she turned her lingering thoughts into crystal-clear words like pearl fossils, recording the rich diet and full daily life her mother gave her, from kitchen gadgets to the vegetable market, from porridge, flour, rice to tea and snacks from a foreign land. She recalled her time with her mother, superimposed her grandmother's footsteps, and added the shops she discovered in recent years to form an old-school shopping route. Old food, old things, old shops, and old markets are the corridors to return to time and the clues to pursue memory. Recalling the past through food, she expresses her feelings. The fireworks in the kitchen, the continuity of family emotions, and the customs and customs of old Taipei are all gathered in her words with appropriate shades.

Hong Aizhu's writing style is gentle, elegant, refined and interesting. She uses home-cooked meals as the main theme and the grief of the queen mother as the foreshadowing, returning to the past and times of the family that seemed like a prosperous era, recreating the mindset and style of old-fashioned people, and also speaking frankly about the hardships of women's living conditions. Old-fashioned is a way of survival. In an era where everyone desires avant-garde and new trends, it is better to be a little old-fashioned.

There are many articles about family reminiscences, but I definitely don’t want to write about my mother’s illness, and this book is the same, and it will be the same in the future. I would rather use writing to recall all the good things we had, that is, from shopping to eating, most of the things in life. This book is actually about how the history of a family eating at a round table in northern Taiwan nourished an independent woman who grew up. I think everything that every mother passes on to her children is amazing, and there is no need to sing special praises. I would rather write about what kind of support and nourishment these experiences of the elders have given to our generation of girls.