#Toutiao Creation Challenge# I have heard of "Late Night Cafeteria" countless times and have been recommended by my friends, saying that it heals people's hearts, is down-to-earth, and is resonating with people. Yes, I must admit that, like my friend Amway, "Late Night Cafeteria"

However, before I read the original comics, I had never watched them either Japanese dramas or domestic remakes. There is no other reason, but I am afraid that "the greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment."

But it turns out that I'm thinking too much.

casually pulled out a comic "Late Night Cafeteria", which is the 18th volume, a book that tells the story from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m.

book has prepared 14 dishes as always, corresponding to 14 short but healing stories. The stories are very ordinary but touching enough. Just like the daily life happening around you, with a little fireworks and a little "vulgar" spirit, it seems that you can see yourself from it, and it seems that you can get some tips from it.

After closing this comic book, some questions couldn't help but come to my mind. Why is such an ugly and cute comic liked by so many people?

It does not have the same dramatic conflict and visual effects as Japanese dramas, nor does it have plain but strong emotional expressions. So how did it become popular in China, Japan and South Korea?

I saw a post on Zhihu , which said: The reason why the Japanese drama "Late Night Cafeteria" is so popular is because it is "vulgar" enough to strongly resonate with the actors watching the show... The characters in it are ordinary and ordinary, and each of them can find the prototype in life.

does. Every character in the late-night cafeteria will be connected to a food dish. It is not ordered by the customer, but the comfort and brief indulgence that the customer wants to get late at night after a busy day. Why is

a comfort? Why do you want to indulge?

In China, most people are moderate and restrained. Whether in the workplace or in daily life, self-restraint is a consistent code of conduct. Even if you are indulging occasionally, there will be a degree that will be invisibly restricted.

This is not a habit or a personality, but a cultural development over thousands of years. This is the biggest difference between us and the Yamato nation. They are restrained in the workplace and indulged in life, so a large number of them will hang out at night, and many will indulge in their lives and have chaotic private lives.

This is also the reason why you can always see characters like dancers, third parties, sex workers, and underworld when reading comics.

However, unlike the drama, these characters do not have that strong labeling in the comics. They are the same tone as the comics, they are all light and very ordinary, but outside of the ordinary, there is a bit depressed things that are sad about the beauty of . Elements like

are placed late at night, like a magnified peek at the hidden corners that are rare or invisible during the day.

Dark stripped off their other face, leaving only the usual. As ordinary as the general public, they will be troubled by their career, love, dreams or life.

And these are usually like short dramas, performed in the small canteen that is only late at night.

The late night canteen is a unique place. It is like a corner of the ferry, where the souls that come and go temporarily stop. But it has no menu, just like there is actually no unnecessary choice in life. If there is, it is also created by one's own ability.

So you can tell your boss what you want to eat that he will make it for you based on the existing ingredients. The owner of the late-night cafeteria is a mysterious person with background board characteristics. He is either listening or cooking for customers.

He is the introduction to every little story and the narration to every little story. In a faint tone, he tells readers and viewers about the various aspects of life under the fireworks with Japanese-style mourning.

In life, some people will toss and turn and fall asleep for their children's academic problems and professional problems; some people will take the initiative to put themselves in loneliness because of waiting for a lover who has no news; some people will struggle and be confused because of an impossible relationship; some people will fall into a dead end because of unhappy work, unsatisfactory life, infidelity of lovers or lovers, and tension in parent-child relationships... Stories like

are staged one after another in the canteen at night, so ordinary and ordinary. But it is far less complicated, so painful and troublesome than we actually experience in life.

is precisely this dull and ordinary trouble in the comics, as well as the shallow and flat struggles of the characters in the painting, which can make people break out of the trap of similar emotions and only look at the problem itself.

is like when we look at others in a calm way from the perspective of a third party. Difficulties themselves are no big deal. What makes people feel sad and disturb people's calm thinking is often human emotions.

If we don’t care about emotions and only care about the problem itself, then most difficulties cannot become difficulties. This is probably the reason why "Late Night Cafeteria" is so popular.

There are many unsatisfactory things in life, and they may be the same as others. Most people can only digest them alone and be a fighter in life.

In the book, the late-night canteen provides people with such a place where people can temporarily exile themselves. Outside the book, "Late Night Cafeteria" is the best soothing medicine for tired people: even if life is messy, you must yearn for beauty!

It is probably this "healing" attribute that makes "Late Night Cafeteria" the best comfort for people in the middle of the night.