Chapter 189: Chinese New Year's Eve Family Banquet (3)
Since Zhen Qian saw Fujiwara Shuxiong, except for a few famous sentences coming out of his mouth from time to time, he has never seen Fujiwara Shuxiong hold back a poem and a half, which is no different from modern people who read poetry in later generations, can read and be able to be but can't do it yourself!
Zhen Qian was just joking with Fujiwara Shuxiong to adjust the atmosphere.
"Good wine!"
Zhen Sheng took a sip of the wine glass, the aroma immediately filled the taste buds, and seeing that the wine was clear and blue, he couldn't help but raise his head and pour a glass of wine into his mouth, exclaiming happily.
"It is fragrant and mellow, and it is the best in wine! Da Lang has a heart....... ”
Several elders did not hesitate to praise them, a glass of wine was in their stomachs, their mouths were full of strong aroma of wine, and even the entire middle hall was full of fragrant atmosphere, and even a few juniors were eager to try with empty wine glasses.
"Come on, pour it for a few juniors, this wine is strong, one cup is enough to drink more!"
In fact, the manufacture of monkey wine is simple and simple, and it is a fruit wine made by fermentation of wild fruits and nectar under special circumstances, but the difficulty lies in the climate, environment and the fermentation process that is difficult to control, coupled with the extremely scarce quantity, for this seemingly naturally formed fruit wine is rushing.
Zhen Qian said that the simulation engineering of later generations, the craftsmen who made the wine immediately understood the mystery, and immediately began to simulate the similar wine-making environment according to the place where the monkey wine was found.
Zhen Qian took out a handscroll from his arms and put it in front of Zhen Sheng: "Father, this is the child's occasional Zhang Bogao's authentic work "Ancient Poems" dedicated to my father to read!" ”
"Oh! Zhang Xu's handwriting, this is a rare masterpiece, Zhang Xu's cursive, Li Bai's poetry, Pei Min's sword dance is called the world's three uniques, it is said that Zhang Xu is good wine, every drunk after the call to go wild, the pen is swaying, when called Zhang Dian. Tell me how you got his handwriting? ”
Zhang Xu served as the lieutenant of Changshu County, Jin Wu Changshi, and his mother Lu was the niece of the early Tang Dynasty calligrapher Lu Cambodia, that is, the granddaughter of Yu Shinan. was friendly with Li Bai and He Zhizhang, and later Du Fu included the three of them in the "Eight Immortals in Drinking".
"This matter is also a chance encounter, Zhang Changshi heard that there is a wine in the drunken fairy building: drunken immortal brew, so he asked someone to buy it in Yangzhou, and the child in Yangzhou shopkeeper heard about it, and specially sent two jars of drunken immortal brew, and the remuneration was a volume ......of this ancient poem."
Speaking of Zhen Qian, this transaction made a lot of money, saying that the drunken immortal brew was given to Zhang Xu, Zhang Xu didn't know the nature of the wine and drank three bowls in a row, and after drinking, he was very drunk, and after dancing, he immediately splashed ink to Zhen Qian's handwritten four volumes of ancient poems, and also gave the drunken immortal brew a word, and for a while, the value of the drunken immortal brew skyrocketed, and a bottle was hard to find.
What Zhen Qian didn't know was that after the four volumes of ancient poems written by Zhang Xu were circulated for thousands of years, they were called "Four Posts of Ancient Poems" by later generations.
Zhen Sheng was overjoyed, and laughed wildly: "Zhang Xu's words are unrestrained and bold, and the strokes are continuous, and there is a risk of flying off the wall. The pen is full of force, down, the pen is tactful and free, there is a hurry and a slow let people ripple in the comfortable rhythm, it is really the best cursive hand, this is the best gift I received this year! ”
Xing's heart was displeased, and there was a trace of resentment in his eyes, if Zhen Qian was incompetent, it would be okay, but he was the best among the younger generation of the Zhen family, and the scenery of the family was taken up by him.
"Dalang, what are soaps and perfumes, why have I never heard of them!"
Xing thought that Zhen Qian was using the things in the workshop at home to prevaricate himself, and saw that Zhen Qian was monkey wine and Zhang Xu's cursive script, and when he came to him, he became a cheap commodity in the workshop, which was a slap in the face!
"Mother knows it at a glance!"
Zhen Qian didn't want to say much, knowing that the Xing clan wanted to find fault with him, he naturally knew that he didn't want the Xing clan to make it difficult!
Xing opened the wooden box, and in the wooden box were boxy things wrapped in oiled paper, and there were three small white porcelain bottles next to them, "This is the soap and perfume you are talking about?" ”
"Please mother open it and take a look ......at it", Zhen Qian saw Xing pick up the soap, opened the oiled paper outside and said: "This is soap, daily toiletries, you can wash your hands, face and bathe, not only can you remove the dirt on your body, but also have the fragrance of soap on your body after use, mother can now let someone bring a basin of warm water to test?" ”
Soap has appeared in the Tang and Song dynasties, but the name is honey locust, pancreas, etc., the main components are alkaline earth, plant alkali, and pancreas, etc., after the Song Dynasty, the Song people improved on the basis of their predecessors, the natural honey locust was mashed and finely grinded, and various medicinal petal powders were added to make a spherical shape for washing the face and bathing the body. Some directly boil the honey locust with water, add medicinal petals, and take a bath.
The soap of the Tang Dynasty (called the pancreas feels weird) has a bad decontamination effect, and it belongs to the high-end luxury goods, and the price is scared to death.
When Xing heard the word "decontamination", he felt unusually harsh, what did he mean, he was saying that he was hiding dirt in his heart!
This is the heart of the villain and the belly of the jealous gentleman, but the guess is roughly good, Zhen Qian really thinks so in his heart, while removing the dirt on the body of the Xing Clan, he also cleans the filth and darkness of his soul casually!
"Bring a basin of water!"
Zhen Sheng also came to be interested, this era does not pay much attention to personal hygiene, even if the big family can only bathe once every three or five days, ordinary people, mainly economic conditions and ideological concepts have not undergone fundamental changes, like the royal Huaqing Palace hot spring in Lishan, it is not a treatment that ordinary wealthy families can enjoy.
At the same time, the ancients bathed with a complete set of complex and cumbersome etiquette and exquisiteness, in the Qin and Han dynasties, has formed the habit of washing hair every three days and bathing every five days. So much so that the government gives one day off every five days, which is also called "Xiu Mu".
In the earliest days, the ancients used plant ash and soaphorn (pure natural green plants) for laundry, and washed their hair with rice water.
"Saying Wen Jie Zi" on the clouds: Mu, Mao Fa also; bathing, sprinkling the body also; Wash, sprinkle feet also; Take a bath and sprinkle your hands too. This is not the same thing as the bath that later generations said, and it is necessary to combine the explanations of "bath", "bath", "bath", and "bath" to be the bath of today in the full sense.
The maid next to him immediately brought a basin of warm water, Zhen Sheng took a piece of soap and sniffed it under his nose: "It's really fragrant!" ”
Zhen Sheng soaked his hands in the basin, picked up the soap and smeared it on each hand a few times, put down the soap, rubbed his hands vigorously, and many shiny soap bubbles soon appeared on his hands.
A scent of fragrance also spread, and the soap bubbles on Zhen Sheng's hands also turned yellow and black, and after rubbing them casually a few times, Zhen Sheng put his hands into the basin and scrubbed them. At this time, another maid brought a basin of clean water and respectfully handed it to the Xing family, first the family and then the Xing family, which the maid did not dare to make a mistake.
(End of chapter)