Secular tea ceremony.

What Nong Tianyi will never forget is his grandmother's cup of Dragon Boat Festival tea!

Tea is both an elegant thing and a mundane thing. Tea entered the secular society, practiced in the officialdom, and dyed a little official; Walking in the rivers and lakes, dyed a little bit of gangsterism; Walking in businessmen, dyed with a bit of copper odor; Walking among women, mixed with a little bit of fat powder; Walking in the block, dyeing a bit of philistine......

Tea, smoked a little bit of fireworks in the world, how can it not be smoked?

When tea enters the officialdom and becomes associated with politics, it will perform a series of majestic, tragic and even despicable historical dramas.

In the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court exported tea along the Silk Road to overseas countries, thus opening up the diplomatic situation, and the capital Chang'an could become a world metropolis, political, economic and cultural center, and tea also had a contribution.

Princess Wencheng of the Tang Dynasty and pro-Tibet, brought fragrant tea, after that, Tibetan tea drinking became fashionable, this matter in Tibet as a historical talk.

The Song Dynasty paid tribute to the imperial court, which in turn paid it to the Western Xia to please the powerful enemy. Tea is not loaded with friendship, but with submission to power.

I have to mention the "Manna Incident".

In the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court lost tea to the border and changed horses, as a killer copper, and wanted to use this to "control the death of the people", and tea became an important political weight in the Ming Dynasty.

In the Qing Dynasty, Zuo Zongtang recovered Xinjiang, took the opportunity to import lake tea, and used tea as an economic measure to fix the border.

Tea is a spiritual thing, with the country's political initiatives and ups and downs, brilliant and unlucky.

Today, Wang Xiucai and Nong Tianyi talked about some special etiquette of tea: the Qing Dynasty officialdom Qinrong has special procedures and meanings, which are different from the aristocratic tea ceremony, Yashi tea ceremony, and Zen tea ceremony. On solemn occasions, such as paying homage to superiors or elders, the gaiwan tea offered by servants is routinely not allowed to be consumed, as is the case with the host and guest. If you take a drink rashly, it will be considered rude.

Wang Xiucai took a sip of tea, put down the cup and said that if the host served the tea, it meant that the "eviction order" was issued, and the guests had to leave immediately, which was called "serving tea and sending guests". The master ordered the servant to "change the tea", indicating that the guest was staying, which is called "leaving tea".

Nong Tian smiled and said, this tea ceremony is really exquisite.

It seems that tea, as a distinctive gift, needs it for human relations, digging doors, building bridges and paving roads. Tea is used on different occasions, success is also bad, warmth and snobbery, although tea is clean, it is inevitable to fall into the dye vat, often play an embarrassing role, borrowing tea to do "evil way" There are, but the sin is not in tea.

Nong Tianyi pondered that the development prospects of this "secular tea ceremony", the popular part of which will be better and better in the future.

After tea enters daily life, it is really pervasive. Just in terms of the Dragon Boat Festival tea customs in Nanyi County, a thousand-year-old county, it can be seen.

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as "Duanyang, Chongwu, Chongwu". In the Dragon Boat Festival, everyone has the custom of eating zongzi, inserting mugwort, dragon boat racing, etc., however, there are many places in addition to eating Dragon Boat Festival zongzi, there is a very unique and interesting custom of drinking Dragon Boat Festival tea, especially in Nanyi, a thousand-year-old county, since ancient times, there is a saying that "after drinking Dragon Boat Festival tea, all diseases will go away".

Dragon Boat Festival tea is a traditional folk health drink, with a long history and wide influence, with a history of more than 1,800 years.

Nanyi County is the same as the Dragon Boat Festival in other places: wearing sachets, eating zongzi, racing dragon boats, and hanging wormwood. But there is another custom, I don't know if there is one in other places: eating a combination of dishes.

What kind of dish is Hecai? It's not the name of a vegetable, it's a mixed dish. The ingredients are extremely ordinary, mung bean sprouts, shredded vermicelli, shredded pork, shredded egg skin, river prawns, and then sprinkled with leeks when the pot is raised. The eye-catching part of this dish lies in the color, red, yellow, white and green, which is tempting to open the taste buds.

Wu Qing said that the name of Hecai has a good meaning and represents "Hemei Reunion".

Nong Tianyi's grandmother once said that during the Dragon Boat Festival, "Twelve Reds" should be eaten for lunch. When he heard about it for the first time, Nong Tianyi was startled, frowned and said, "Twelve Reds"?

My grandmother smiled and said that "12 red" refers to 12 red-colored dishes, including red amaranth, fried shrimp, braised duck eggs, etc. There is also a custom: to put yellow smoke.

Nong Tian was shocked again and again: Put yellow smoke?

The grandmother explained that yellow smoke is a kind of firecracker, but it is not gunsmoke, but realgar, and when it is lit, a puff of yellow smoke comes out, which can smoke five poisons.

Nong Tianyi suddenly let out an "oh".

What are the Five Poisons? It is estimated that nine times out of ten, the answer will not be complete. The five poisons are the five poisonous insects of scorpions, snakes, centipedes, geckos, and toads. The ancients believed that the Dragon Boat Festival was a poisonous day, and it was necessary to dispel poison and ward off evil spirits in order to be auspicious.

When he was a child, Nong Tianyi looked forward to the Dragon Boat Festival, which he thought was fun and interesting.

There is also a custom in Nanyi County, which is to eat "five poisonous cakes". As soon as Nong Tian heard what his grandmother said, he knew that some people would use "zongzi, mulberries, and cherries to offer to the Buddha" during the Dragon Boat Festival, and the more prosperous people would eat "five poison cakes".

Today, Nong Tianyi's grandmother is happy and talks about the practice of "five poison cakes": "Five poison cakes" do not use five poisons as ingredients, but carve the image of five poisons on the surface of the cake, and each cake corresponds to a poisonous insect. Each cake has a different filling, and there are five flavors: black sesame, almond, date paste, mung bean puree, and golden potato.

It turns out that eating the "five poison cakes" is equivalent to eating the "five poisons", fighting poison with poison, revealing the humor and humor of the old Nanyi people.

Hearing this, Nong Tianyi wanted to laugh, and almost squirted out a sip of tea.

I remembered that when I had the Dragon Boat Festival last year, Nong Tianyi read an article, which was written about the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in the southwest city of Jiangxi, they would eat a kind of alkaline water zongzi on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, take the straw and burn it into ashes, put it in glutinous rice, and boil it tightly.

So, he asked Wang Ziwei to make a few Jiangxi alkaline rice dumplings according to the law, dipped them in brown sugar, and suddenly felt that the Dragon Boat Festival had an unusual taste.

This year's Dragon Boat Festival, because of eating the "five poisonous cakes" made by his grandmother, Nong Tianyi already felt that it was different. He thought, will he go to discover the Dragon Boat Festival customs again next year?

Wang Ziwei said with a smile, you still have to be a little curious in life, and the happiness of this day is hidden in curiosity.

As soon as Nong Tian felt reasonable, he nodded yes.

Dragon Boat Festival tea is inseparable from the Dragon Boat Festival, and Dragon Boat Festival tea comes with the Dragon Boat Festival, which is also folk wisdom.

There are many fantasy legends full of mystery in the folk, some say that it is the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan, and some say that it is to help Wu and Wu Zixu, a famous soldier; Some say that it is to commemorate the filial daughter Cao E; There are also those that originate from the ancient ancestor worship festival and so on, although there are different opinions and different objects, but the original meaning, content, and form expressed by the festival are generally similar.

In the traditional Dragon Boat Festival in Nanyi County, there are not only the customs of eating zongzi, wrapping pancakes, and racing dragon boats, but also the customs of taking noon water, drinking noon tea, and going up the mountain to collect herbs.

Nong Tianyi said that in fact, the Dragon Boat Festival founded by the ancients is a grand festival for the whole nation to self-care, eliminate diseases and prevent epidemics, and avoid evil spirits and eliminate disasters; And it is not surprising that the Dragon Boat Festival is used to collect various herbs and make Dragon Boat Festival tea, which is also the phenomenon of the unity of nature and man in an agricultural society and the harmony between man and nature.

The production of Dragon Boat Festival tea is quite said. The people of Nanyi County are very particular about collecting Dragon Boat Festival tea, because Dragon Boat Festival tea is an indispensable health drink for family life. In the process of collection, everyone is accustomed to matching some herbs that have both medicinal functions and sweet and fragrant fragrances, and the prepared Dragon Boat Festival tea is more fragrant and delicious.

Wu Qing told her children that the Dragon Boat Festival tea is made of Chinese herbal medicines such as calamus, litsea cubenut, jianqichai, shanmutong, shiliangzhu, pourtuynia cordata, big divergence, golden key, duck palm chai, huang shengqin, ma lixiao, camphor leaves, tianniu, june snow, earth box, golden pearl lotus, water tung seed, yellow gardenia root, earth wind canopy, ox tongue grass, wall network, tangerine bone peel, iron fire fork, wild cotton, cinnamon, mugwort leaves, wheat dong and other Chinese herbal medicines.

When the children heard this, they were frightened by so many names of Chinese herbal medicines, and they stuck out their tongues one by one......

Wu Qing said with a smile, you need to get familiar with it slowly. The production of Dragon Boat Festival tea starts from the cleaning of herbs, and the collected herbs must be sorted and washed first, and the clean pit water or drinking water at noon of the Dragon Boat Festival should be used.

Wu Qing took a sip of tea and said, because for thousands of years, our people have always regarded noon water as "divine water".

The children nodded their heads.

Legend has it that the Dragon Boat Festival tea is made from the herbs washed in water at noon, which is more effective in preventing and treating all kinds of diseases; Then the washed herbs are slightly dried, chopped into small sections of 1~2 cm long with a firewood knife, slightly fried in a pot, and then dried, or dried directly after cutting, it becomes Dragon Boat Festival tea.

The Dragon Boat Festival tea in the depths of Jingshan Mountain, with its simplicity and practicality, has come all the way from the ancient mythical Dragon Boat Festival, accompanied by a thousand-year history, especially to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan of the Chu State, so it is still inherited on this land and water, protecting the people, so it is known as a healthy "divine tea".

Jingshan Dragon Boat Festival tea, endless, still has its unique charm and charm!