Chapter 17 Tea Fight

Mrs. Cheng thought for a while and said, "This child and Zizhan Zi have different personalities, but as long as they are kind-hearted, nothing will happen." The things he did in the township were all caused by his intelligent temperament and excessive energy. ”

"Then follow the current path, don't you like to do things? Let him do it, just guide him to use his wisdom on the right path, which happens to be his interest. ”

Cheng Wen said urgently: "The imperial court uses articles to judge, daughter, you can't delay this child." ”

Mrs. Cheng smiled slyly: "Can't delay, didn't he say that Yanyan wants to transform printing technology?" It is also proposed that the font code should be saved by radical for easy retrieval. ”

"Hehehe, he probably doesn't know, my Da Song has more than 50,000 words, so I don't take it for granted."

"Yunxue is the first obstacle for my Great Song Dynasty readers, I will teach him personally, and try his heart by the way!"

Cheng Wenying pondered for a moment and said, "Why don't you send Tianqing to the Arctic Courtyard?" Zhang Daochang's rhyme is taught well, and Zizhan Ziyou reads it there. ”

Mrs. Cheng said: "Zhang Daochang is old and does not accept apprentices easily. I taught it first, and when Xiaoyou was officially enlightened, he also had a foundation, and when the time came, he would go to Zhang Daochang and talk better. ”

Zhang Dao's eldest name is Zhang Yijian, the enlightenment teacher of Su Shi and Su Xunyunxue, he is unknown, and he seems to have done one thing in history - teaching students, and one of the students he taught was named Su Dongpo.

Well, in fact, there is another one, Chen Taichu, Su Dongpo's classmate, that person later- uh, became an immortal.

The cultural knowledge of the Song Dynasty, in addition to the normal scholars, was also in the hands of three kinds of people, Taoist priests, monks, and prostitutes.

Taoist priests, monks, that is not to produce, professional recitation of scriptures, plus a lot of time, idle.

And if a prostitute wants to have a sound price, then she has to have culture as a decoration, music, poetry, tea ceremony, there must always be someone who can do it.

It's far away, let's go back to Shijiazhuang, the weather is still hot at this time, after eating, there is a period of rest, and Twenty-seven Niang pulled Banniang to play the incident just mentioned - tea fighting.

In the Song Dynasty, up to the royal family and nobles, down to the peddlers and pawns, all took drinking tea as a fashion of life. ”

Twenty-seven Niang regained some pride, because she found that Su You didn't know this.

However, Su You didn't have time to watch them play, and he didn't know that there was a disaster waiting for him from Mrs. Cheng in Meishan City.

He is now busy drawing drawings for Shi Da.

He drew two kinds of containers, one is a small-mouthed jar, three inches below the mouth of the jar, with a rim, and a lid similar to a flat-bottomed bowl, which is turned upside down so that it can be placed on the rim.

There is also an upside-down dish on the mouth of the altar, which can just cover the mouth of the altar.

Its function is to prevent water from dripping into the altar and contaminating the inside of the altar when the lid is lifted.

The rim of the mouth can be filled with water, and the bottom of the lid can be submerged under water, isolating the inside and outside air, inhibiting the growth of ordinary bacteria, and cultivating anaerobic bacteria such as lactic acid bacteria.

This is the essential artifact of Shuzhou people in later generations - kimchi jar.

Another type of container is an open basin, which also has a lid, but there is an additional ventilation tube in the middle, which is covered with a lid, and the steam enters the container through the trachea, which can steam the food, and at the same time, the water vapor condensed on the lid will drip into the container to form a soup.

The signature cookware of later generations of Yunnan people - steam pot.

These two things are not difficult at all, and with the craftsmanship level of Shijia Pottery, it can be done.

The price of a calf is about five pounds, and according to the calculation of three hundred catties of meat from a cow, the price of one pound is thirty pounds, and it is very profitable to sell beef alone.

Therefore, there are officials in the history books who suggested to the center to forcibly raise the price of live cattle and make the butchers unprofitable.

However, this size is a mistake, fortunately it did not happen during the spring ploughing period, otherwise, from the county government to the historian, they will punish the head of the village and the parties, and they will not let it go as gently as now.

Coupled with Su You's divine operation, bad things have become good things, maybe a year later, the reputation of the historian will have a earth-shaking change in Meishan City.

Wharf: What is that? The land of the four directions, the best place to brush prestige! And the Shi family is now worse than the other three, which is why Twenty-seven Niang is so attentive to Su You's suggestion.

Therefore, a few jars are nothing, even if the young master of the Su family burns it and smashes it to play, it is up to him!

After Su You finished drawing two drawings, he came to Banniang and Erqi Niang, and the two had already fought there for three rounds.

Twenty-seven Niang greeted Su You: "Xiao You will comment, whose tea is good between me and Banniang?" ”

Su You walked over and took a look, and couldn't help but be dumbfounded: "Wipe ...... Matcha or ...... Cappuccino? ”

The Song people's tea fighting is mainly "fighting color and fighting", that is, the color of the tea soup and the tea foam that is brewed out of the decisive victory, the tea color "pure white is true, green and white is secondary, gray and white is secondary, yellow and white is secondary", and the tea foam is better to "bite the cup".

Correspondingly, it can foam, the texture is delicate, and the color is white is designated as the top tea, and the small piece of dragon tea made by Cai Xiang in the Qingli is worth as much as two taels of gold per catty, which is as much as 18 times.

And now the dragon garden in the tea is built, Shengxue and other high-quality products, which are as high as a dozen or two.

Later, Jianzhou presented the first gang tea to the royal family every year, called "Beiyuan to try the new", the size of the small tea cake is about one inch, almost the size of a small mahjong card, a cake is only enough for a few cups, the price is four hundred, folded into the current price of the Northern Song Dynasty, that is also sixty or seventy high.

Fine tea, like other high-end luxury goods of the literati and ladies of the Song Dynasty, is completely sky-high.

The good teas that the Song people drink now are all called "group tea". That is, after the tea leaves are picked, they are steamed into tea cakes through a complicated process.

As for the loose tea that was popular in later generations, it was a knockout product, satisfying the peddlers' pawns and the barbarians of Fanbang.

Of course, the two processes are different, and the loose tea of later generations is to destroy the wax layer by frying, so that the tea flavor is easy to release, and this technology is not yet available.

Back to the present, when cooking tea, the group tea is first ground into powdered tea, placed at the bottom of the bowl, and then brewed into a tea soup with boiling water, and at the same time, the tea soup is quickly whisked with a tea whisk to make it foam and the foam floats on the soup noodles - this process is called "ordering tea".

Later Chinese who traveled to Japan were often amazed by the tea ceremony experience in Kyoto, which is actually this thing.

The white powder is the top grade, and the finer the grinding, the better, so that the tea powder can be "lightly panned into the soup" and fully foamed when ordering tea.

The water is best from mountain springs, and "the second is the one that draws water from wells for the most available."

The heat is even more important, the so-called "waiting for the soup is the most difficult, unripe will float at the end, overripe will sink the tea".

The tea set is suitable for building a lamp, the so-called "white tea, should be black." Jian'an made people, black lines such as rabbit hair, its blank is very thick, hot and difficult to cold for a long time, the most important to use. ”

Finally, the tea soup ordered out is pure white in color, and the soup flower is fresh and white in foam, and it is better to gather for a long time.

This elegant skill has been brought into full play, and it has evolved into a more superb tea art - tea separation.

A lot of doctors and ladies, are excellent tea masters, they can through the tea powder and boiling water in the tea bowl to punch out a variety of patterns of flowers, the so-called "in modern times there is a soup dagger, don't use the trick, so that the tea veins into the image of things, birds, beasts, insects, fish, flowers and plants are delicate and picturesque, but they must be disillusioned in a moment. The change of this tea is also called 'tea opera'. ”

Cappuccino, Su oil has been seen a lot in later generations, but it is a static pattern. In the Song Dynasty, the tea was divided into different changes in the dynamic of the tea soup, and its difficulty was definitely higher, and it also carried a fleeting Zen machine.

A large number of cultural celebrities, such as Cai Xiang, Fan Zhongyan, Su Shi, Su Zhe, Mei Yaochen, Song Huizong, and Li Qingzhao, are all masters of this way.

This is actually the pursuit of a better life, the improvement of cultural quality and spiritual cultivation, and the inevitability of the improvement of material life, which cannot be said to be wrong.

To be wrong is to put too much effort into this.

When the foreign enemy was not appeased, the four realms were not peaceful, and the burden on the people was still heavy, they actually had the courage to pursue these, from the local to the imperial court, they were accustomed to reporting good news and not bad news, and singing and dancing were peaceful, so as to develop such a luxurious and leisurely atmosphere.

Who gave them confidence?!

Twenty-seven Niang glanced at Su You: "What are you talking about?" This is the first gold in Jianzhou, and it took a lot of effort to get it from Jiangling Mansion, and it costs 800 wen a catty, and it will be sold for two times in Jiazhou! ”

Transportation, in the Great Song Dynasty, is really a terrible thing.

Two cups of tea, one like a three-legged cartoon cat, with a head bigger than the body, and the other cup really looks like an animal, but Su You still can't say it.

Plesiosaur, it is estimated that no one in the Great Song Dynasty has ever seen it.

After comparing for a long time, Su You had no choice but to say: "I can't tell the difference, it's all ...... It's special. ”