Chapter 18 Shennong's good name
On this morning, the weather was fine, and the family of three went to Chashan, just past Wollongong.
Nong Jingtang told his wife a story of Emperor Yan Shennong "tasting a hundred herbs and getting tea" in Jingshan:
The common people of Jingshan, in order to commemorate the merits of Yandi Shennong, the names of many places are related to Yandi Shennong.
One day, Yandi Shennong was poisoned by tasting an unknown herb, and unfortunately died of abdominal pain.
Legend has it that after Emperor Yan took the Broken Intestine Grass when collecting medicine, the pain in his abdomen was unbearable, so he hurriedly rode back.
After a journey, the illness worsened, and he could no longer ride a horse, so he had to dismount and let people carry him, and later this place was called "Changing Horse Village".
After walking for a while, everyone found that Emperor Yan's situation was different, and hurriedly called, but Emperor Yan's illness worsened, and he called out repeatedly, and later this place was called "should not be the cliff", and the descendants mistakenly called it "Buddha Seal Cliff".
The group carried Emperor Yan to a sheltered ravine, put him down to inspect his condition, and found that he had passed away, so this place was called "Wollongong".
People hurriedly carried Emperor Yan back to the palace, and prepared for burial, and later this place was called "decorated funeral", and later people falsely called it "Zhuangli".
After the death of Emperor Yan, Emperor Yan's mount roared for a long night, running along the mountain ridge endlessly, and this mountain range was called "Happy Horse Ridge".
After Li Chunfeng heard this, he was amazed and said, "These places are really blessed by the gods!" β
Nong Jingtang said: "Yes, so our tea industry here has endured. In the future, you should tell your son more tea stories to him, so that he can know what tea is all about when he is young. β
Li Chunfeng looked at his son, took his little hand and said, "Well, what I'm saying is that I will tell him slowly in the future." β
After Li Chunfeng let go of his hand, the farm house was elated and happily trotted in the tea garden......
This is already a routine, Li Chunfeng's first thing in the morning is to raise the stove, boil water, the water is boiling, the teapot cups are also washed, grab a handful of tea leaves and put them in the teapot, brew boiling water, the tea fragrance "exhale" from the mouth of the pot rushes out, fragrant overflowing.
Nong Jingtang usually goes to his own business after drinking tea.
After breakfast, Li Chunfeng slowly poured the tea from the teapot into the bamboo tea tube and handed it to her husband who was going to the tea mountain; Cats and dogs frolicking in the yard, chickens and ducks going out to forage for food......
The day's livelihood began. After Li Chunfeng finished the housework, he sat down at the table of the Eight Immortals, poured out the green tea from the teapot, and sipped it one by one.
Occasionally, a village woman would bring her children to visit the door, and Li Chunfeng would serve a few dishes with tea.
The so-called tea dishes are just pickled ginger and pickled garlic and pickles torn into thin strips, or sauce-colored spiced dried bamboo shoots and dried beans. The villagers sip tea, and they don't pay much attention to it.
On summer nights, the whole family of Nong Jingtang enjoyed the cool in the courtyard, and a pot of boiled edamame or peanuts in salt water, or tender corn was placed on the stone table, as well as a pot of tea to help digestion, which was very pleasant.
They hold the pod horizontally, press it lightly to their mouths, and the tender and sweet beans pop into their mouths. Eat a few pods, just take a sip of tea, and the family's life is simple and interesting.
Sometimes neighbors come to the door with the sound of frogs, so they put three or five more benches in the yard. Under the breeze forest, the green leaves boil tea, hold the fruit and appreciate the chrysanthemum, as if the elegance of the ancient literati.
The villagers cut down cattle during the day, work hard, and on the moonlit night, there is a cup of fragrant tea, a pot of tender sweet edamame, and laughter in the night breeze, which is also infinite nostalgia.
If it is the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month to sweep the dust, Li Chunfeng sweeps the floor and cleans the windows, tidies the cupboards, and cleans the house. Due to the large number of houses in the farm compound, it is quite laborious to clean up.
At this time, she found that the old clay pot containing tea was still there, quietly staying in the closet.
She rubbed it with both hands, it was light, and it was empty inside. The old clay pot was cured at some point, three copper wires were two short and one long, and the small copper curium was shining golden, looking like a three-leaf golden aquatic plant was climbing up along the ampullae.
Out of inertia, she pulled out the cork on the mouth of the can, and a familiar and long-lost smell came to her nose.
The old clay pot was empty, but it still retained the fragrance of tea from a long time ago, unchanged at all, as if it was deliberately stored for this taste, waiting for her to open it and reunite with the past years of Nong Jingtang.
Li Chunfeng called her husband: "Come here." β
Nong Jingtang walked over, and almost in an instant, he was sent back to his childhood by this wonderful mellow aroma - his strong father ploughed the land with oxen in the mountain col, or pruned and fertilized the tea mountain, the trees were green, the water was clear, the sky was blue, the grass was green, and the chrysanthemums were yellow......
The Yamanashi flowers are in season, the mountains are snow-white, and when the wind moves slightly, they are all raised, and the petals are spread all over the place.
At that time, his father sat under the ancient tea tree after washing his hands, wiped a trace of sweat, poured tea from the bamboo tea tube, and served it in a large porcelain bowl. Everything is so crude that it is not what it looks like, but it is a warm day of leisure and casualness.
And what about Nongjingtang? Holding the bamboo tea tube with both hands, mouth to the mouth of the tube, sipping and sipping, his mother helped him hold the bottom of the tube with one hand, and the sweet tea was drunk one by one, and it was very happy......
ββIn the gradually diffusing aroma, Nong Jingtang saw his father and mother again, they were still so young, their waists were straight, there were no gray hairs on their foreheads, no spots and wrinkles, and their words were still so pleasant and beautiful.
Thinking of these, Nong Jingtang felt sad for a while, and sweet, aftertaste, which is always indescribable, anyway, it is a mixed taste.
Jingshan is rich in plants, most of which have edible and medical value, it depends on whether you can be a caring person and discover the mysteries.
On this day, Nong Jingtang came home from the mountain and passed by a hawthorn tree, it was autumn, and the hawthorn was ripe. He picked one up
Take some home. Due to his long-term habit of drinking tea, he broke the hawthorn at will, broke it up, and threw it into the hot tea......
In his spare time, Nong Jingtang ingeniously made a kind of hawthorn tea.
The recipe is like this: an appropriate amount of hawthorn, mashed, add water to decoction to a cup, and then add an appropriate amount of tea, long-term drinking, has the effect of lowering lipids and losing weight, and also has a certain effect on hypertension, coronary heart disease and obesity.
Li Chunfeng said: "You can just make trouble." β
Nong Jingtang said: "Tea with hawthorn has a unique taste. β
Soon, according to this method, Nong Jingtang pondered ginger tea again.
The recipe is also exquisite: a little tea, a few slices of ginger peeled and fried, and drunk after meals. It can sweat and relieve the surface, warm the lungs and relieve cough, and has a significant effect on influenza, typhoid fever, cough, etc.
The persimmon trees in the mountains are in patches. Immediately, Nong Jingtang played a new trick - persimmon tea.
The formula is: boil the persimmon cake in an appropriate amount, add rock sugar, an appropriate amount of tea leaves, and then boil, and drink it into tea, which has the effect of rational qi and phlegm, and is beneficial to the intestines and stomach, and it is most suitable for tuberculosis patients to drink.
Due to a chance encounter, Nong Jingtang discovered the miraculous use of the integration of things. This is all due to his obsession with tea.
There is a lot of wild honey in the mountains. With a little use, Nongjingtang made honey tea.
After several practices, he put the appropriate amount of tea leaves into a small cloth bag, took them out, then put them in a teacup, flushed them with boiling water, and then added an appropriate amount of honey to melt them. Drinking this tea has the function of quenching thirst and nourishing blood, moistening the lungs and kidneys, and can cure constipation, spleen and stomach disharmony, pharyngitis and other diseases.
These are the natural inspiration given to Nong Jingtang, combined with the natural nature of tea, moderate transformation and utilization, it has received unexpected medical effects and value. It not only quenches the thirst, but also harmonizes the body, which can be described as killing multiple birds with one stone.
The drinkers are all praised by Nong Jingtang. Some people say that when you make tea, it's like a trick!
After that, Nong Jingtang built on the foundation laid by his father, opened up the tea industry, expanded the tea garden, and made new tea, which can be described as a continuous source of tea and a rolling source of wealth.
Nongjingtang and Xu Caiyun united, so that the field of tea sales has been continuously expanded, west to Sichuan and Shu, south to Jiangling, Hankou, north to Xiangyang and other places, "Sanjitang" brand has become a well-known Jingshan Chu place name tea.