As the saying goes, "Three hundred and sixty professions, every profession will be the top pick." Just like the God of Cookery (Stephen Zhou) created by Stephen Chow in the movie " God of Cookery ", it is the ceiling of the diet. Today we are also talking about a chef. He has been with Chairman Mao for 22 years. He is Chairman Mao’s favorite chef. He was once one of the "national treasure cooking masters" and was named Cheng Ruming.
1926, Cheng Ruming was born in a poor peasant family in Ye County, Shandong Province. He was in the Cheng family in the old society. His life was extremely difficult. He often couldn't eat enough or wear warm clothes. For this reason, Cheng Ruming's sister was starved to death. Her sister's departure shocked Cheng Ruming very much. He vowed that he would be a chef in the future, so that the people of the country could eat and eat delicious food.
html When he was 313 years old, Cheng Ruming left his hometown and came to Tianjin. At that time, there were many Western restaurants in Tianjin Concession. Cheng Ruming started his apprenticeship in the Western restaurant. With his innate cooking talent and hard work, Cheng Ruming quickly grew up and became an excellent Western restaurant chef.
During this period, Cheng Ruming also witnessed the birth of New China. With the birth of New China, Cheng Ruming's life also underwent earth-shaking changes.
1950, the second year after the founding of New China , Cheng Ruming became an employee of the railway system.
In 1952, the Regional Conference on Defending Asia and the Pacific held in Beijing. After the meeting, Cheng Ruming was transferred to the train where foreign guests took to be responsible for the Western cuisine. Foreign guests would never have thought that a Chinese could make such authentic Western cuisine. Foreign guests gave thumbs up. It was this outstanding performance that Cheng Ruming was praised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and laid the foundation for subsequent personnel transfers.
1954 was Cheng Ruming's most unforgettable year. In this year, Cheng Ruming received a notice to transfer him to Chairman Mao's special train to be responsible for the Chairman's diet .
This made Cheng Ruming very excited. You should know that in that era, Chairman Mao was an idol in the hearts of thousands of ordinary people. Being able to cook for the Chairman was both affirmation and the highest honor, and Cheng Ruming had no choice but to do so.
After Cheng Ruming came to Chairman Mao, he immediately took out his unique skills and made a dish of braised pork . Unexpectedly, Chairman Mao did not show much interest. After asking, Cheng Ruming realized that the chairman had always disliked soy sauce, so Cheng Ruming studied the color adjustment of sugar and salt, and finally made a braised pork without soy sauce, which was praised by Chairman Mao.
1956, Cheng Ruming followed Chairman Mao to the south. When he came to Wuhan, Cheng Ruming made a " Wuchang Fish " . It was this fish that made Chairman Mao praise him. He wrote a poem specifically for this, "Just drink Yangtze River water, and eat wuchang fish" . It can be seen that Cheng Ruming is indeed very exquisite in cooking, so he was praised by the Chairman and became the Chairman's favorite chef.
In 1956, Cheng Ruming was transferred to the Security Bureau of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and jointly responsible for the diet of Chairman Mao and his family until 1976.
1976, the "Gang of Four" was successfully crushed by the Party Central Committee, and staff related to Jiang Qing were arrested and detained, and sent to "study classes" to be under house arrest, including Cheng Ruming.
However, considering that Cheng Ruming is just a chef after all, and his personnel relationship has always been in Ministry of Railways , so one month later, Cheng Ruming was released and his personal freedom was restored.
After regaining freedom, Cheng Ruming still devoted his energy to the field of diet. In 1983, he also obtained the title of national special first-class chef, making important contributions to enriching and inheriting the food culture of the motherland. In 2012, Cheng Ruming was selected into the book " National Famous Chef ".
March 14, 2012 Cheng Ruming died of illness in Beijing at the age of 86. It is said that before his death, Cheng Ruming still missed Chairman Mao very much and once sighed: "It is worth his life to be able to make meals for Chairman Mao for the rest of his life."
