Dongpo has many hardships in his life, ups and downs, and laughs.

Su Dongpo, one of the representatives of the highest achievements in ancient Chinese literature, went out from Sichuan, the hometown of tea culture, and became an official, drank tea, composed poems, and painted, all the way away, and together with other literati of the Song Dynasty, pushed tea culture to a peak.

Knowing the nature of tea, using tea to cure diseases.

Su Shi drinks tea and loves tea, which is inseparable from his deep knowledge of the function of tea, and he once introduced in the "On Tea" in the "Notes on Qiu Chi" that tea can get rid of annoyance and greasy, and rinse the mouth with tea to make the teeth dense. And the folk legend that Su Shi not only cured Wen Yanbo's dysentery with tea, but also maintained the dignity of the Great Song Dynasty.

Legend has it that one year, when the emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty celebrated his birthday, the Liao State sent a special envoy to congratulate him, and Su Shi was ordered by the emperor to accompany him. As a famous minister of the Song Dynasty, Wen Yanbo once defeated countless Liao soldiers in the Song-Liao War, and became a respected and feared figure in the Liao State.

At this time, the envoy of the Liao State proposed to visit Wen Yanbo at night, and Su Shi accompanied him.

So Su Dongpo accompanied Wen Lugong to the Taishi Mansion, and when they arrived at the Taishi Mansion, Wen Yanbo called Su Dongpo aside with a sad face, and whispered: "Recently, the old man has suffered from dysentery, and he has to go to the toilet more than ten times a day, but I am afraid that he will lose his dignity in the banquet." ”

"Although Duke Lu replaces wine with tea, I will bring the Queen Mother to reward my dragon group, you can rest assured to accompany the guests in front of the hall!" Dongpo whispered some comfort, and then slowly went to the kitchen to order.

The banquet was held, and it was inevitable that there would be another greeting. The envoy of the Liao State saw that Wen Yanbo's face was clear, and his beard was bright, and he couldn't help but sigh: "I have admired the name of Duke Lu for a long time, it is better to see it than to hear it, and the crane of Lu Gong has a childish face, how different back then, there are so many gods and people in your country!"

"How dare you, how dare you, the envoy has won the award, he is old and old, and he is not strong enough to drink, he can only replace wine with tea today, and I hope the envoy will not blame." Wen Yanbo raised the teacup and said.

The guests and hosts drank until midnight, and then they were happy.

At the banquet, Wen Yanbo always sat upright, did not go to the toilet once, and his etiquette completely maintained the dignity of the Great Song Dynasty.

Afterwards, Wen Yanbo was puzzled, and drank tea with the guests, he just wanted to sit for a while, but he felt that the tea leaves tonight were particularly fragrant, as if he was on his own taste, took a few sips, and was very relieved and refreshed. The dysentery he was worried about at first did not come up at all.

This accompanied the guest to drink tea, and unexpectedly cured dysentery, he didn't know the mystery, so Wen Yanbo specially visited Su Dongpo and asked what was going on.

"Please don't worry about it, it's a trivial matter!" Dongpo smiled humorously, handed a cup of tea from the desk, and asked him to taste it slowly.

Wen Yanbo took a few sips, stammered, and said, "This tea tastes the same as last night." It is particularly fragrant, very relieving of fatigue and refreshing, and the stomach is comfortable, which is worthy of the dragon group given by the Queen Mother. ”

"Please don't blame me, what you drank yesterday was not the dragon group, I said the dragon group to hang your appetite. This is ginger tea, half of the real tea of Shu and half of the ginger fines, which are thickly fried with freshly drawn water. Last night, your cook learned the craft. Dongpo told the truth.

"Oh, I didn't expect tea to become the best medicine in the world! Master Su cured my dysentery, I should be thankful, there is no reason to blame. Wen Yanbo was convinced, and kept nodding and sighing.

Su Dongpo laughed and said, "Last year, a villager taught me this prescription. It is said that ginger is hot, can warm the stomach, and tea is cool, which can go to fire and detoxify. This cold and hot can level yin and yang, drink it without disease to prevent disease, if there is disease, cure disease, family use it, it is very effective, so please Lu Gong give it a try. ”

After hearing this, Wen Yanbo was impressed.

Ginger tea is cheap and good, and it has the good effect of disease prevention and treatment, and Su Dongpo is willing to introduce it to his friends, so soon, ginger tea became popular in the market of Bianjing. In order to remember its origin, people deliberately gave it an elegant name, which was called "Dongpo tea".

Su Shi was born in a middle-class family in Meizhou, Sichuan, and his father Su Xun was a talented person who always failed in exams, so he concentrated on writing at home and tutored his son Su Shi and Su Zhe in learning.

When Su Shi was 20 years old, Su Xun took him and Su Zhe to leave Sichuan to go to Beijing to take the exam. Ouyang Xiu said: "This person can be said to be good at reading and making good use of books, and he will be alone in the world in his daily articles." ”

Su Shi was a literary leader in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, and made high achievements in poetry, poetry, prose, calligraphy, and painting. Its writing is unbridled; His poems have a wide range of themes, are fresh and vigorous, make good use of exaggerated metaphors, and have a unique style, and are called "Su Huang" together with Huang Tingjian; His words are open to the bold faction, and he is the same as Xin Qiji, and he is a representative of the bold faction.

Of course, in addition to being a great writer, Su Dongpo is also known as a gourmet, and the Dongpo meat that is now widely circulated is from Su Shi's hands.

In the eighth year of Yuanfeng, Dongpo came back from Huangzhou, and Yuanyou was transferred to Hangzhou in four years to serve as Taishou, during which Dongpo commanded the people to dredge the West Lake and build the lake embankment, and the people of Hangzhou felt their kindness and sent pork and wine.

Dongpo approved a note for the kitchen workers: "Wine and meat are sent together" to the migrant workers who are repairing the West Lake. As a result, the kitchen workers were careless and regarded it as "roasting wine and meat together", and used fine wine to burn the pork to a red and crispy crisp, fragrant and fragrant in the West Lake, which was mouth-watering.

After several tempering and development, this braised pork finally came to fruition, and after that, ginger tea became widely popular in the market of Bianjing. In order to remember its origin, people deliberately gave it an elegant name, which was called "Dongpo tea".

Su Shi has been upside-down all his life, and has experienced several ups and downs, but he has always adhered to a broad mind, smiled at the wind and clouds, and calmly faced the ups and downs.

In daily life, he can often have fun and relieve pain, thus achieving his reputation as a person through the ages.

A gentleman is lenient with others. This "wide" has tolerance, tolerance, generosity, generosity, magnanimity and generosity. In interpersonal communication, Su Shi used tea nature and tea ceremony to deal with it.

Su Shi had a friend when he was young, named Zhang Dian. This man later became the prime minister and took power. When he was in power, he sent Su Shi to Lingnan, and then to Hainan Island.

For such a person who almost put himself to death, Su Shi forgave him with a broad mind like the sea. When Su Shi was pardoned and returned to the north, Zhang Dian was unlucky and was relegated to the Leizhou Peninsula in Lingnan.

When Su Shi heard the news that Zhang Dian was exiled, he said in a letter to people: Zhang Dian arrived in Leizhou, and I was amazed for several days after I knew it. At such an age, the mood can be imagined. Fortunately, although the area of Haikang in Leizhou is remote, there is no miasma, and I hope to enlighten his old mother. Su Shi also said to Zhang Dian's son that it would be useless to mention the unhappiness of the past, so think more about the future.

Su Shi's generosity and generosity are not only an attitude towards others, but also a kind of mind and a realm. This is a profound tea ceremony.

Su Shi likes to drink tea, and the purple sand teapot at that time was very small, and it was very troublesome to drink pot after pot. Su Shi wanted to make a big teapot, so he bought purple sand azure mud, patted and pinched it for several months, but it didn't make a decent teapot.

One night, the little scholar came with a lantern to invite Su Dongpo to have a snack. Su Shi looked at the lantern and thought about it, why not make a lantern pot like the lantern? In this way, the lantern pot with a big belly was made, but it was light and slippery and difficult to take, so he rubbed a strip of mud, this end and that end, just like the beam on the house, after firing it, Su Dongpo carried the "beam", so it was named "Liang pot".

In order to commemorate this great literati, later generations called this kind of beam pot "Dongpo beam pot".