Chapter 81: The Legend of the Immortal Crossing
"Tea man, Jiamu of the South."
Because of the ancient and sacred, because of the tea tree and fascinating. Jingshan is a place where many tea people are haunted by their dreams, you can travel to the strange mountains and beautiful waters, you can taste tea in the bamboo forest under Panasonic, go to the deep mountains and old forests, and see the true face of the thousand-year-old tea trees. These are indescribable eases, pleasantness, and pleasure.
"Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica" says: "Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, encountered seventy-two poisons a day, and got tea to solve them." "In that wild era, Shennong was a pioneering and mysterious figure.
It is said that he has a crystal clear belly, and what he eats, he himself can see clearly from his stomach and intestines. At that time, people ate everything alive, so they often got sick.
In order to relieve people's suffering, Shennong tried the plants he saw first, to see what changes these plants had in the stomach, and to judge which ones were poisonous and which were not. When he tasted the young leaves of an evergreen tree with white flowers, he reacted in his stomach, and after a while, he felt clear and very comfortable, which was the earliest "tea".
For the sake of the health of the ethnic group, Shennong has been climbing mountains and wading through rivers for many years, trying herbs, and has to be poisoned several times or even dozens of times a day, all relying on "tea" to rescue. Until the last time, Shennong didn't have time to eat tea and was poisoned by poisonous weeds. Legend has it that when he saw a small grass with small yellow flowers, he saw the calyxes one by one, moving and stopping, and he was very curious, so he put the leaves in his mouth and chewed slowly.
After a while, he felt very uncomfortable in his stomach, and before he could eat the tea, his stomach and intestines were broken one by one, which turned out to be poisoned by the broken intestine grass. That's why people call him the ancestor of humanity.
In modern times, with the serious deterioration of the environment, the number of ancient plants is decreasing, and some species have even been wiped out. And the ancient tree of humanity is even more rare. For example, the Conan tree, the heavenly master chestnut and so on are more than 1,000 years old, behind these thousands of years of trees, there are mysterious legends, there are also sad past, but also poured into the careful care of generation after generation.
In the depths of Jingshan, there are stories such as "The Legend of the Ancient Tea Tree", "The Legend of the Millennial Spring Gui", "The Legend of the Oak Fir", "The Sacred Tree of the Five Grains", "The Legend of the Mandarin Duck Tree" and so on.
Tracing the ancient source, there is an old man in Qianjialing who is nearly eighty years old and tells a historical legend.
In 684 AD, Wu Zetian named Tang Zhongzong Li Xian as the king of Luling and relegated him to the wilderness of Jingshan. After Li Xian went to the depths of the mountains, he was filled with grief and indignation, and it was difficult to sleep and eat, and he was bedridden in the spring of the second year, and it was difficult for doctors to treat him. The local assassin Shi ordered to search for famous doctors and good medicines to treat the king of Luling.
One day, a mountain folk reported: at the foot of Wolong Mountain in the south of the county, there is a place called Xianrendu, there is a master, good at curing all diseases, and the assassin Shi immediately sent people to Xianrendu to visit.
Xianrendu is a piece of beautiful scenery of high mountain flatland, low in the east and high in the west, gentle in the south and gentle in the north, the south is the Jingshan primeval forest that stretches for dozens of kilometers, and the north is the magnificent Wolong Mountain.
Under Wolong Mountain, there lives a family of medicine farmers surnamed Wang, the ancestors have been collecting medicine from Jingshan for generations, treating diseases for the people for a living, people are called "Xianjia Medicine King", and the place name of Xianrendu comes from this.
According to the descendants of the medicine farmers, in ancient times, the tea fairy traveled all over the world, came to the immortal crossing, found this feng shui treasure, and planted a tea tree, this tea tree has the aura of heaven and earth, sees the wind and grows, grows into a big tree in three years, and the leaves can be used to cure diseases and cure diseases.
The king of medicine said that the illness of the king of Luling was the accumulation of resentment, and the fire was in a hurry, so he might as well try it with ancient tea leaves.
Coincidentally, Li Xian recovered after drinking this tea for a few days, and immediately chose a good day, prepared a hundred gold, and led everyone to Xianrendu, view the ancient tree, and thank the king of medicine. King Luling and his entourage of 100 people, mighty, not a day, arrived at the immortal crossing.
The local assassin Shi ordered the medicine king to see the driver, but unexpectedly, the medicine king's house had already been empty......
When the group entered the house, they saw a note left on the medicine case, the handwriting was clear, the ink had not dried, and it read:
"Emperor Muyi is in Jingshan, when will the Son of Heaven be wronged, Shencha will have a clear eye and heart disease, and Wolong Tengfei will raise his head."
After the group saw it, they sighed.
The "Immortal Medicine King" disappeared overnight and disappeared.
Later, someone with a heart went to the mountains to look for it, but to no avail. The "Immortal Medicine King" is like a mystery, hidden in this primeval dense forest, and has since disappeared.
Coincidentally, 14 years later, Li Xian returned to Beijing and re-ascended the throne, knowing the meaning of the poem, in order to thank the people of Jingshan for their deep friendship and the life-saving grace of the King of Medicine, Li Xian was exempted from the tax burden of Jingshan County for three years after his reinstatement, and renamed the immortal crossing Wollongong as an official headhead.
This is being carried out by the prophecy on the note left by the "Immortal Medicine King" back then. People were amazed.
The legend of the ancient tree, the divine tea, the medicine king, and the immortal family, the more and more the gods, the more widely spread, in this way, the immortal crossing has become a treasure of feng shui that everyone yearns for, and the rich families, refugees from the famine, and warriors and heroes have come one after another. By the Ming Dynasty, Xianrendu had gathered more than 1,000 households, and the small village in the mountains became a bustling city. Xianrendu was renamed Qianjialing.
Primary forests. Plant Kingdom. "Immortal Medicine King". "King Luling". "The Throne". Immortal Crossing ...... These seemingly unrelated terms are gathered here to form a unique natural and cultural corridor in Jingshan.
The thousand-year-old tea tree, after the vicissitudes of time, has survived to this day, and I have to say that this is a miracle in the world.
On this day, Nonglu went to Qianjialing to run errands, and went to visit an old tea man by the way.
The old tea man's surname is Xun, and he has a quirk, anyone who wants to talk to him about tea must first serve good tea, otherwise, ignore it. The reason why he wants "good tea" is nothing more than his addiction to tea, and then through tasting good tea, communicating with visitors, focusing on tasting, and at the same time finding a tea fun and having fun. Therefore, he is not greedy for other people's small advantages.
After entering the house, the farmer handed the tip of the heavenly deer hair as usual: "This is filial piety to you, please taste it!" ”
Mr. Xun took the tea leaves, smiled a few cracks on his face like thick bark, and said repeatedly: "Please sit, please sit!" Then, go to the back room to get mountain spring water to make tea.
After brewing tea, Mr. Xun smelled and smelled, and said, "The fragrance of this tea is coming out of the leaves." ”
Nonglu laughed.
Mr. Xun took a sip, but he didn't drink it immediately, but squirmed in his mouth, slid between his tongue and teeth, and then swallowed it slowly, and then said: "The tea is slippery and greasy, and it melts in your mouth." ”
The farm is another joy.
Mr. Xun took another sip and said, "The tea soup is thick, you can run horses." ”
This sentence made the farmer lean forward and backward.
Mr. Xun took another sip and said with a smile: "The tea taste is sweet and strong, like you!" ”
Nonglu seemed to nod his head, and seemed to open his mouth, and finally picked up: "Xun Lao is a master of tea tasting, please give Xun Lao more advice!" ”
Mr. Xun continued to drink tea, did not answer the words of Nonglu, and said: "Aftertaste, a bit like me!" ”
In fact, this sentence has already secretly replied to Nonglu.
At this time, Nonglu took a sip of tea and opened his mouth: "Old Xun, how are you doing lately?" ”
Mr. Xun had good tea to drink, so he said happily: "Okay." So, he took another sip and said, "Your tea is getting better and better." ”
Nonglu and Mr. Xun are old acquaintances, they reminisce about the old days, talk about family life, and do not feel that time passes slowly in the fragrance of tea.
Seeing that it was not early and that he was still in a hurry, the farmer got up and said goodbye.
Mr. Xun sent the farm to the door, and did not forget to say: "Next time you come, remember to bring good tea to drink." ”