After this laugh, I listened to the county lord of Changning said: "This is this year's new roses and peony flowers, last year's rose sauce I ate until the first month of the year, I want to buy more this year." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"You just remember the sweetness of the rose sauce," Yongan said, "If the peony can also make the sauce, you will also eat it." ”

"Peony can be made into sauce," Zhang Zhaohua said with a smile: "The face of the bear's paw, the sauce of the peony, this is a sentence in the "Seven Hairs", which says that the bear's paw is boiled until it is cooked and then seasoned with peony sauce. ”

"It turns out that peony can really be used to make sauce," several small county lords exclaimed together: "Then try it this year!"

"Peony sauce is to be eaten with bear's paws," Zhang Zhaohua said: "Although the palace is rich, it has not yet reached the point where you can eat bear's paws." I'll starve you to death, and I won't let you eat it!"

In fact, it is said that several county lords are not too serious about appetite, but it is true that the palace has never eaten bear paws, this thing is the same as owl burn, scarlet lips, hump, and monkey head, it is rare food, it is estimated that King Yan is afraid that the children in the house will be addicted to eating once they eat it, and they will try their best to taste it again in the future - when King Yan hunts bears, he usually burns the bear's paws on the spot and gives them to the soldiers to eat.

"Among all the flowers, it should indeed be said that roses are the most suitable for sauce," said the princess, "but the sauce of roses is sweet and pleasant, but the sauce made by other flowers, such as peach blossoms, is a little astringent, and the osmanthus is too sweet and greasy." ”

"This year's new flowers are coming," Yongan quipped, "Chang Ning knows it, and he can't wait to buy it to make sauce." I asked her how she knew, and she said she heard the sound of hawkers along the street. Before I got up in the morning, the first person on the street was the flower seller. Pulled three or five carts, I look at it is really a good thing, the flowers are stained with dew, but unfortunately the peony is only Yang Fei and silly white, and the rest of the colors are not. ”

Peony can be divided into white, yellow, green, pink, red, purple, black and other varieties according to the color, but the first car to pull to Beiping only Yang Fei and silly white, Yang Fei color is a bit like light red, red and white and yellow mixed color, on the pink there is also a light yellow light. This color is a bit provocative, if it is only for decoration or something, it is not obvious, and if it is made into a jacket and skirt, it can brush off a bunch of unsuitable people. Originally, Zhang Zhaohua got satin of this color, and originally wanted to make an embroidered brocade skirt, but he compared it to his body and decisively cut it into an eaves.

Silly white is pure white, white and translucent, silly white peony flowers are particularly good-looking, with rain and pearls as white jade, and because this peony is single-petaled, there are no layers, there is no lotus beauty.

"It was the first car to pull it," An Cheng said with a smile: "Wait another three or five days, and there will be red and yellow ones that will be sold." ”

"I thought that this flower was planted in our farm, but it wasn't. Zhang Zhaohua was surprised: "Then where did this flower come from?"

"Roses are produced in Miaofeng Mountain, Miaofeng Mountain is more than 130 miles away from Beiping, and the land belongs to Changping," Yong'an said: "Peony is produced in Fengtai, Fengtai is close, it is a suburb, a large piece of land is planted with flowers, every year outside the Tiren Gate into the winter moon, there is a flower market, a street in the flower market, fifty or sixty percent of the flowers are produced in Fengtai." ”

"I've always heard about Baihua Mountain," Zhang Zhaohua said in surprise: "I think these flowers may come from Baihua Mountain, and it turns out that most of them are produced in Fengtai." ”

"You're talking about Baihua Mountain in the West Mountain," said the princess, "and the scenery there is also very good, but you can't see the flowers when you go, and there are wild flowers." There is a name for a hundred flowers, in fact, all the herbs are planted, and there are abundant in Schisandra chinensis, Eleutherococcus senticosus, sand cucumber, Codonopsis, Bupleurum, madder and so on. ”

"I see," Zhang Zhaohua said, "I originally made a plan to go and see this Baihua Mountain, so I won't go." ”

"The West Mountain is just looking at the Wengshan Mountain, and the scenery is nothing more beautiful than this!" Xianning seemed to be recalling: "It is best to go in June, because the lotus pond is full of lotus flowers, competing to bloom!"

"How does it compare to Xihaizi?" Zhang Zhaohua deliberately teased her.

"Xihaizi is good, it's cool in the Guanghan Palace," Xianning said: "But there is no mountain! You can't play around the mountain, and the place is a little cramped!"

"Okay, good," Yongan said deliberately: "In two days, I will go to Guanghan Hall to escape the summer, and I won't take Xianning with me!"

Xianning naturally didn't follow, and laughed again.

Princess Xu asked them, "Are your patches and sarcasts ready?"

"From the first day of the fifth month to the thirteenth day of the fifth month," the princess instructed, "all wear the five poisonous wormwood and tiger supplements, and after the thirteenth month, change the hollyhock wormwood and calamus without inhibition." But you are only allowed to wear red for a month, I know that you don't love real red, and prefer plain ones, but the evil moon is not allowed to disobey, if anyone steals other colors, I will send her back immediately. ”

At this time, the weaving and dyeing technology was very advanced, and the purest red - true red could be dyed with safflower. Speaking of this red, red is the auspicious color of the Zhu dynasty, because the emperor made his career in the south, and the first to join was the "Red Turban Army", and his own surname is Zhu, so he attaches great importance to red.

According to the Five Elements Doctrine "West Jin, East Wood, North Water, South Fire, Central Earth", the Yuan and Mongolian people should be "Jinde", because the Mongolian people advocate white, clothes, tents, and decorations love to use white, and the gold is still white, and was finally replaced by Zhu Ming, which is also in line with the meaning of "fire and gold". Therefore, since the third year of Hongwu, the emperor officially promulgated the will of 'red is precious', and among all colors, red is the most respectful. And the imperial court stipulates that 'the color of the clothes is still good, and it is appropriate to be red'. Not only the official uniforms and crowns, but also the soldiers' battle jackets, battle skirts, and strong hats were all red, including the monopoly of red in porcelain decoration.

In fact, many people in later generations scoffed at this statement, but Zhang Zhaohua had a mysterious mood to look at this kind of doctrine that seemed to be useless at all and seemed to be idle nonsense - because the Qing Dynasty after Zhu Ming was indeed a stream of water from the north, and the north water extinguished the fire in the south, why the Qing Dynasty changed the name of the country to "Qing" instead of continuing the Jurchen "Jin", is because gold cannot overcome fire and must be overcome in turn, and water can overcome fire. The so-called sun, moon and Ming belong to the three yangs, and the Qing, Manchu and Zhou belong to the three yin, so the Qing Dynasty is still water, and it should be the virtue of water.

Wearing real red in May made several county lords a little scared - as the princess said, they prefer plain colors, and think that the red and green are too vulgar, but the princess of a certain age likes it because she looks lively and festive, and Zhang Zhaohua also likes it, because she thinks that red is good-looking, and this red is the same as Chinese red, as if the gap of six hundred years has been eliminated at once.