In the UK, there is a miraculous effect of Wu Lung patients, who have a distorted sense of smell for a long time, often smelling strong fish, sulfur, burning smell, most things in the world, all with a strange smell.
In English, there are two words for odor, one is Odour and the other is Smell, the former is scientific: the stench of continental public toilets and the fragrance of roses, the objective existence of odor. The latter is with sensuality: such as the stench of sweat on a man’s body, evoking pleasure in the mind of the woman who loves him, this body odor can not be called Odour, but Smell.
Aristotle establishes the relationship between smell and taste, referring to the sense of smell before taste, representing the original human perception of the reality of the world. There is a so-called “Proust Phenomenon” (PP) in human life, which means that a smell smelled in childhood will evoke a strong emotional effect when revisited many years later.
This is most evident in Hong Kong. What is the smell of the British colonies? The field hockey club in 1964 at the junction of Leighton Road in Wanchai and Wong Nai Chung Road in Happy Valley, or CCC for short, the kitchen across the street, with its yellowish Italian pie wall and the fragrant corn soup cooked by the cook coming out of the window.
What was the smell of the mainland in the same period? In the early 1970s, the smell of machine oil in the Stalin style of the small light blue tricycle at Guangzhou station. When I went to Albania in 1988, I smelled the same smell in Tirana, and when I saw soldiers in the streets in grass-green uniforms with round hats, I remembered something.
And the lobby of a luxury theater, the smell of popcorn in the sixties, while the movie “Bin Vu” was released in Hollywood, this smell, that is, the United States at that time.
The distortion of the sense of smell is an amazing experience, but the previous generation of Chinese people should adapt. The “fragrant flowers” of the Western bourgeoisie during the Cultural Revolution, including Beethoven’s music, were poison ivy. The aesthetics of smell was turned upside down long ago, and became the ambush that made it difficult to keep up with international standards decades later.
How to correct the distorted sense of smell, British doctors believe that this symptom is rare, the message transmission affects the neural mechanism of the brain, suggesting that you can smell roses, lemons, lilacs, etc. for twenty seconds a day, in order to train to “find the normal sense of smell”.
As Hong Kong women go to Japan from time to time. In Hokkaido soak in hot springs, go to Akita Prefecture to see the lavender again. A cup of hot chocolate in the snowy streets of Ozu. For a year, Hong Kong people are stuck in this place, including Lam Cheng and many Central elites, no wonder they are getting irritated.
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