Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 1456 Three generations are not described, only tea is discussed today

Any kind of art form, as long as it exceeds the basic needs of survival of food, clothing, housing and transportation, as long as it reaches the level of everyone's feelings, it is based on over-interpretation.

As the originator of tea ceremony in southern China, General Shen has a deep understanding of this point.

Water is the source of all things, and no one in the world does not drink it. Tea itself is a drink that is based on water but higher than water, with personal feelings and pursuits. If you just want to survive, you don’t need to drink tea, but if you drink tea, It must have exceeded the basic needs of survival, there is room for interpretation, and there is value for promotion.

The tea ceremony is an art that ritualizes daily eating behavior.As a daily behavior, tea drinking is the carrier of this art, and the ceremony is to construct a specific cultural scene, which can be recognized and substituted by people. The interpretation of the ritual steps is the cultural connotation of the tea ceremony. As long as it makes sense and satisfies people’s enjoyment and pursuit of culture, it is successful, even if it’s only ground-breaking.

The reason why the famous Confucian schools in Hebei can control the discourse power of the world to a certain extent is that they have the right to interpret the scriptures, and the interpretation of the scriptures is the bottom-level consensus of the social value trend of the entire Zhuxia.Qin Huang unified the six kingdoms, with the same text, same track, and unified weights and measures, all in order to build a social consensus.

Of course, the tea ceremony cannot reach that universal level, but as a cultural form, it can construct a ritual scene that can be integrated into both the north and the south, so as to obtain the blending and collision of cultures.

The popularization of tea was not easy. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties in history, especially when the Northern Wei Dynasty unified the north and became powerful for a while, some fleeing people from the south brought the custom of drinking tea to the north, but they were ridiculed by the northerners, making people ashamed to talk about tea. Because this represents a failed and down-and-out eating custom. Even the southerners were not good at fighting and lacked blood and courage. They were all blamed on the tea-drinking habit and regarded it as vulgar.

Shen Zhezi does not reject Heluo Shiliu's over-interpretation of the tea ceremony, on the contrary, he is happy to see and even encourages the contemporaries to supplement the cultural connotation contained in it, and even add some weird and mysterious theories.As for the rapid popularity of tea drinking in the southern country, apart from Shen Zhezi's spare no effort to promote it, there are indeed some mythical legends in it.

The printing skills in southern China gradually matured, which also led to the gradual flooding of many privately-learned miscellaneous works.A few years ago, there was a book "Wukang Elders" that suddenly became popular. This book is similar to "Sou Shen Ji" and other strange notes, but it is far less in terms of rhetoric and literature. There are many Wukang and surrounding counties The reason why some wild deeds in the countryside can be widely circulated is because Wukang is the hometown of General Shen.

"Wukang Seniors" has a single article "Wukang Mountain God", which records some anecdotes of Wukang Mountain God Wu Xing and Shen Ying before and after his life. Go back to Wukang Mountain to become a god to protect the hometown, and the mountain god protects the hometown to accumulate yin merits, and one day it will reach the sky, and ask the emperor to pray for the gods in order to protect future generations, because it is the seed of the god tea that was given to the descendants of Wukang, and the future generations will feel a dream It is planted, cherished and planted, and its tea leaves are picked and cooked all year round, because the children of Wu Xingshen's family are more cheerful and powerful, far surpassing their peers.

This ghost story is obviously not written by the Shen family, because the so-called tricks of the Wukang Mountain God were tricks in the old days when the Shen family was not clear. , I am too lazy to repeat these old talks.Even the original Wukang Mountain God was appointed as the Jiangnan God by the masters of Jiangdong Tianshi Dao.

But with the popularity of this "Wukang Elders", the people in the southern country seem to have suddenly discovered some great code of heaven, that is why Wu Xingshen's family can suddenly become bigger than this world, and there is also a general Shen who has won the three. The essence of Wu Lingxiu, the incomparable offspring.

When people accept and understand something, they always follow a causal logic.There is a reason, and then a result is deduced.Before this book of monsters, the phenomenon of General Shen showing up in Jiangdong has always lacked a strong explanation.Why is it so good?There is always a reason!
Now, the reason has been found, at least before there is another more powerful explanation, General Shen is Jiang Zuo Qilin brewed from Wukang camellia, there is no doubt about it!Even why the general spared no effort to promote tea drinking has found a reasonable explanation.

Therefore, the tea-drinking style, which was originally only popular among scholars in the north and south, suddenly spread to the market with the spread of this mysterious story.And Wukang mountain tea has become a rare and rare tea that everyone desires for a while. Before the dawn and before the rain, tea buyers gather in Wukang.

There are several old tea trees in Wukang Mountain, and even the prefect of Wu Xing was worried and asked Xingtai to garrison troops all year round to protect them, lest they would be enlightened and enlightened by treacherous people after they were secretly picked and cooked, and cause harm to the local area.Jiang Xi, who was still in Xingtai in the old days, after asking the general for instructions, made a serious effort to approve that good tea not only enlightens wisdom, but also guides people to do good, so there is no need to worry about it.

Aside from these rumors of supernatural beings and ghosts, drinking tea has indeed become a stable dietary custom in southern China.Otherwise, relying on the promotion of the general alone, it would not be possible to attract so many people to join in and enrich the tea ceremony.

Today's Southern Kingdom, in front of Hebei people, is a powerful, successful and wealthy attitude, while the tea ceremony represents a cultural element that is refined, profound, stylish and connotative.Even in later generations, the spread of culture is from developed to backward regions, whether it is a group or an individual, it is the same.

Therefore, when General Shen demonstrated the tea ceremony of the Southern Kingdom in front of these people from Yedi, even though it was difficult for these people to understand the enjoyment of audiovisual, it did not prevent them from being delighted.

What's more, even setting aside the respected status of General Shen himself and the profound and complicated connotations of the tea ceremony, the flowing movements, the various utensils, and the dazzling operations are all combined into a pleasing and heart-wrenching tea ceremony. elegant.

"Please drink!"

With the crisp sound of the extremely clear porcelain urn, General Shen had already finished the first round of cloth tea. There were many porcelain cups as white as jade placed on the tea floor, each of which was full of fragrant tea soup.

Only then did everyone wake up from the previous intoxication, but they felt cramped because they didn't know the follow-up etiquette, and they didn't dare to go forward to get tea.After Gu Chang saw this, he first took over the porcelain cup and put it on the table, and then used a bamboo ruler to push away the bubbles on the top of the tea soup, and then bowed his head to thank the general. After drinking the tea soup, I closed my eyes and thought about it for a long time before opening my mouth again and said: "One tea has five flavors, and the monarch and ministers and assistants have their own order. Taste it and turn it back three times. It is really wonderful."

After the other people saw this, they also took tea and sipped. After the tea soup entered the mouth, a rich taste suddenly exploded between the lips and teeth. However, there was an uncontrollable fragrance permeating the palate, and the weak airflow in the breath stirred up this faint fragrance, and then the turbid air in the nasal cavity was slowly discharged, and the whole person's spirit was suddenly lifted, and when the tea soup was left in the throat At the same time, there is a substantial warm current that goes straight to the inner abdomen. After tasting it again, only the unique aftertaste of tea is left in the mouth.

Tea drinking in this era is quite different from the mainstream in later generations.Aside from the differences in taste habits and processing techniques, Shen Zhezi thinks that the tea varieties are different, which have not been thoroughly tamed and improved, or that there is a kind of untamed tea.

Not long after he came to this world, Shen Zhezi tasted the tea at that time, and it was far from the unpalatable dark food as guessed by later generations, but he thought the taste was not bad.

For example, this time when he invited Yedi Township to drink tea, he used matcha tea cakes that were steamed and ground. , even including the extremely precious pepper, among which ginger and osmanthus are used to enrich the taste of the tea, a small amount of pepper uses its volatility to bring out the taste of the material, and Chinese prickly ash paralyzes the taste buds to a certain extent, making the taste change more layered .

As for the tea powder that has been steamed green, it is not as easy to diffuse the tea aroma as the later generations of fried tea. Various tastes draw out the tea aroma in sequence, and the tea aroma is used as the final aftertaste. As for the original slightly sour and astringent The taste has already been taken away by the previous taste.

Of course, if you want to achieve rich layers without overwhelming the guests, in addition to precise control of ingredients, you also need to master the heat, and the cooking time is very strictly calculated.

The imagination of later generations is based on the premise that tea drinking has become popular all over the world and tea-frying techniques, including tea types, have matured.Even if it's just human nature, it's really strange that the Tang Dynasty scholar-bureaucrats guarded the small red clay stove just to cook a pot of Hu spicy soup.What's more, pepper, as a flavoring material, is worth more than gold. In the Tang Dynasty, the prime minister Yuan Zai was so greedy that he copied [-] stones of pepper from his home, which became a corrupt official stalk that has been passed down for thousands of years. It can be seen that even at that time, pepper was It is difficult to be a consumable in the market.

Of course, tea drinking is becoming more and more popular in southern countries, and ordinary people naturally don't pay much attention to it.Nowadays, there are generally several categories of tea products in southern China, such as tea bricks for foreign trade. After picking, they are twisted and steamed, and pressed into bricks. After cooking, they have a very strong sour and grassy smell, but the tea aroma is not very obvious.

In fact, fried tea also exists, mainly in some large tea gardens in Jiangdong, where it is cooked and processed, but it still needs to be cooked and seasoned with ginger. Although it will damage the tea fragrance to a certain extent, it is still enough to penetrate the flavor.

As for the tea cakes processed after steaming and grinding, even in Jiangdong and Luoyang, they are still luxury goods and cannot be fully spread.

It took a lot of energy to demonstrate the tea ceremony, and General Shen's face was also faintly tired.Although the natives of Yedi who were present were still yearning for this skill, they didn't dare to ask the general to show it again.

But they don't need to be too disappointed. Although the general no longer showed the tea art, he gave each of them a "Tea Classic" written and compiled by the general himself.This "Tea Classic" is much richer in content than the "Tea Classic" written by Lu Yu in the Tang Dynasty, especially the records about tea ceremony and tea art, including some southern poems about tea drinking, are all recorded in it.

For Xingtai, these villagers from Yedi are a group worth maintaining and cultivating. They may not have a high social status before, but as long as they can keep up with Xingtai's pace, they will definitely be the first group to benefit from Hebei.As for the so-called families of Buddhist scriptures in Hebei, they were not included in the first round of contact and support in Xingtai.

The old meaning of "Spring and Autumn", let him go, sit and discuss the Tao, and the "Tea Classic" is the most recommended.Xingtai represents a new system of rules and regulations, and it is impossible to discuss the gains and losses of the three generations with those Hebei aristocratic families. If you want to have cultural exchange and defense, you can only enter the scene prepared by Xingtai.

Obviously, the tea game hosted by General Shen had a great impact on the villagers in Yedi. Whether it was the cultural connotation contained in it or the simple food style of keeping improving, it was very important to them. The language is completely unfamiliar and extremely yearning.In particular, the image of General Shen's exquisite tea art and skillful cooking and drinking has become the pinnacle image of elegance and excellence in the minds of viewers. Every time he thinks about it for the rest of his life, it will be like that cup of tea that day.

However, General Shen didn't have time to pay attention to the deeds of these people's hard work in tea art. After arranging for Gu Chang to enter the government, he went straight to the north under the protection of the Shengwu Army.

Shen Mu of Dongwu City sent letters and reports one after another. There are various signs that Jie Guoxin is unstable. The Northern Expedition, which was originally scheduled to continue after the beginning of spring, will be greatly advanced.But in this battle, General Shen didn't want to give Jie country any chance to continue fleeing north!

　The tea-related matters written in this chapter are all the author's personal conjectures, and no rebuttals will be responded to. . .The recipe for the special dark spicy soup, don't come to me when you cry. . .In fact, seeing Liu Kun's body is full of depression, I think it seems more reasonable to add some radish root Qi, but I won't try it anyway. . .It's just delicious. . .

　　
　
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