Chapter 5 Tea in the Tang Dynasty
"Huhu..." Li Chen gasped, and then he stopped, "Huh~~ The air is so good." , Li Chen took a deep breath, in the Tang Dynasty, where there was no industrial pollution, his breath was really fresh.
"How tired are you?" There is a place to take a break in front. A manly man is not as good as a woman like me.'" "Woo... This sentence is really...", Li Chen is a little injured, even if it is true, don't say it.
Now, they have abandoned their boats and landed on their way to a place. Li Chen, who was not very familiar with the history of the Tang Dynasty, didn't know where they had been, and only heard the boat family say that this was Shannan Dongdao and under the rule of Dengzhou.
Shannan East Road, Li Chen knew that there was no province in the Tang Dynasty, only the road, it used to be called Shannan Road, as if it was divided into east and west after the Tang Dynasty. Shannan Dongdao has a general understanding, but what place Dengzhou is, don't slaughter sheep. However, it doesn't matter, just follow Wang Erniang.
However, Li Chen found that he didn't look at this body, but he was also a prince and grandson. The stamina is really not very good, you can run fast, but the stamina is not long.
He felt that this body was much better than before he was reborn. I'm tired now, but I've come a long way. However, if you are in good health, you also have to look at who you compare with, Wang Erniang in front of you walks briskly and flexibly, fast and steady.
He is really tired now, and Wang Erniang's face is only slightly flushed, and he is not very tired, Li Chen can only pretend to breathe fresh air, saying that he just stopped to look at the scenery, and he is not really tired.
It's just that... His little action did not hide from Wang Erniang. In other words, only modern people will understand this sentence, in the Tang Dynasty, people were not uncommon to get fresh air here. Before industrialization, no one would care about the fresh air at their fingertips.
"It's pretty lively." Li Chen and Wang Erniang are now in a simple shed, which is a roadside, under a big tree, and a few tables and chairs are randomly placed for people to rest.
Tables and chairs, this kind of thing in the Tang Dynasty, although it cannot be said to be rare, but it is not common. After the early Tang Dynasty, it was quite rare, but in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, it slowly became popular, but it still took time to fully popularize.
"This is the only way to go to the longevity temple on the mountain, so there is such a pergola." In the pergola, there is nothing left, there is a pot of herbal tea, a small amount of money will give you a big bowl, and then a little vegetarian food is also provided for people to quench their hunger.
"Poof~~, is this tea?" Li Chen looked at the contents of the teacup in disbelief, and saw that Wang Erniang wanted to drink it, Li Chen hurriedly stopped, "Don't drink it, this tea tastes weird."
"Is there one?" No, ah.'" Wang Erniang first smelled the smell, and then took a small sip, which is normal.
"Normal?" Li Chen took another bite of his own, "Normal? This tea... What does it taste like, how is it salty, and it tastes strange, is this tea?" , Li Chen frowned, and took two more sips, since Wang Erniang said that he didn't ask, he was really thirsty. However, after two sips, I couldn't drink it anymore.
This tea is really unpalatable, not to mention salty, I don't know what is added to it, and it tastes very strange. Li Chen now thinks about it, the Tang Dynasty people's habit of drinking tea began to popularize, in the Han Dynasty, there was no habit of drinking tea, after the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, it slowly began to become popular.
Li Chen recalled those memories that were almost lost by himself, tea, flourished in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. During the Tianbao period, that is, the Xuanzong Dynasty, it was a watershed. Prior to this, tea drinking in the Tang Dynasty was still limited to some upper-class figures, after Xuanzong, the world was peaceful, and travelers were endless, and there was a peaceful and prosperous atmosphere. Then tea became popular.
In addition to providing tea shops on the avenue, it also goes deep into the people and forms a national tea drinking atmosphere. This trend also spread to foreign tribes, and began to have tea and horse trade, which opened from the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, a thousand years of tea prosperity, tea became China's most important foreign export, and also became an important magic weapon that could influence the political situation and was used by various dynasties to bind foreign peoples.
If you want to talk about the importance of tea, you can write a book, don't think it's a joke, if you are interested, you can look for it. Li Chen remembered that before he was reborn, he had read such a book, and after reading it, you would have respect for such a small and inconspicuous thing as tea.
The topic is far away, tea has gone through thousands of years, not only the varieties have changed, but the changes are more to lead the tea industry. Li Chen remembered that at this time, the Tang people's tea drinking habits were still very different from those of later generations, and they would be used to adding things to the noodles. Then the tea had to be drunk, and it evolved into the Japanese style, or the Song style, where the tea was ground and drunk. The modern method of soaking dried tea leaves in hot water appeared in the Ming Dynasty and has continued to this day.
Out of curiosity, Li Chen saw that the owner of the shop didn't pay attention, so he secretly lifted the lid of the teapot and took a look, and there were a lot of things added to it, and he could see that there were green onions, ginger, and some meat foam, and he didn't know what kind of meat this was.
"How do you drink this tea, shopkeeper, bring me a pot of cold water." Li Chen can't drink it anymore, so this kind of tea is still left to the Tang people to enjoy.
"I'm not used to drinking, I'm too, shopkeeper, bring me a pot too." Wang Erniang put down the teacup, took two sips, and asked for a pot of cold water
"Many places are getting used to the way tea is cooked. It's a strange little place.'" , the god of tea? Lu Yu? When Li Chen heard the god of tea, he thought of writing tea to Lu Yu, so he asked.
"You don't know, of course it's Lu Hongji." was asked by Li Chen like this, and Wang Erniang was so excited that she started talking.
"Tea has to be used, it was not drunk like this at first, from the Han Dynasty to the early years of the Dynasty, it was used as medicine. It wasn't until the Xuanzong Dynasty that tea slowly became popular, and this is how it was first drunk.
"It wasn't until the tea god Lu Hongjian wrote the tea scripture that it slowly became a commonly used drinking method for ordinary people now." Seeing Li Chen put his eyes on the teapot in front of him, Wang Erniang was disgusted, "This kind of drinking method is rarely drunk like this now."
Wang Erniang talked about sex very much, and said a lot that Li Chen had never heard of. For example, Lu Yu not only became a high-ranking official and dignitary, but also had a high reputation among the people, and he was called the "God of Tea" after his death, and in some places there was a worship of the God of Tea, which was placed alongside the God of Wine.
"Oh, it turns out that the tea we drank was written in the Book of Tea." , Li Chen listened to Wang Erniang's explanation, and only then did he know that it is generally popular now, and the way to chop tea, grind, and brew it is the way written in the Lu Yu Tea Sutra, that is, the Song people's tea method in the future.
Later, it spread to Japan, where the Japanese completely inherited the Song people's way of drinking tea, and it has been preserved to this day as a unique tea ceremony for the Japanese. The Chinese, on the other hand, later evolved into the current brewing method.
(Later, I will have a chance to try the way that future generations are used to.) Li Chen is still used to the simple brewing method, and decided to try it himself if he has the conditions in the future.
"Speaking of this tea scripture." Wang Erniang continued to show off, and it was rare to have this opportunity, "A few decades ago, there was also the King of Fan, who used thousands of good horses just to ask for a tea scripture."
"Is it that powerful?" Li Chen was speechless, although he didn't believe in this statement, but it didn't prevent him from saying a few words that Wang Erniang loved to listen to. This is also a discovery by him, Wang Erniang's ears are soft, her temper is hot, she eats soft and not hard, as long as she is happy, many things are easy to talk about.
"Of course, you suspect the slave family." Wang Erniang is very proud, these days, in addition to telling stories, Li Chen has also talked a lot about the mountains, and said a lot of things that Wang Erniang has never heard of, and she seems to be very knowledgeable, and now that she has such an opportunity, of course she is proud.
However, in addition to Wang Erniang's pride, Li Chen noticed one thing, no matter how illiterate this general person is, even if he can write his own name, it is a very good age, Wang Erniang has obviously read many books. Li Chen had always thought that the second lady's family background was not very good, so she would be able to make a living and run around.
But now it seems that Wang Erniang's family background should be good. Otherwise, although there is no advocate of "women are virtuous if they are not talented", it is not easy for even men to study, and they are not large families, who can afford women to study, or even travel abroad.
Then, the second lady felt that she had rested enough, so she got up and went on the road, "I have never rested here before. I didn't know how bad the tea here was." , Wang Erniang is not bad, it's just this mouth, sometimes she doesn't realize that her words hurt people.
Like this sentence, it hurts people's self-esteem, especially a big man, but if you really care about him, it seems that you are a little chicken, so Li Chen can only touch his nose and admit it.
After walking for a while, the road was getting steeper and steeper than when I first got off the boat. Similarly, the road is full of people and its popularity is slowly increasing. It didn't increase the number of people in the road, but compared to the time when I first got off the dock, the number of people has increased significantly.
"Look, there it is." Wang Erniangzi pointed to a memorial arch in the distance, and several buildings can be seen behind the memorial arch, which is a complex of buildings built on a hill. In fact, they were climbing the hill from the pier, and now they can see that behind the complex, there is a steep hill, which is halfway up the mountain.
"Longevity Temple, that's where we have to go." Wang Erniang said happily, "The abbot there, I know the elders, you can stay here temporarily."
Is it finally here? Although it is said that Wangshan ran a dead horse, you can finally see the destination. A temple of a bit of scale.
Li Chen looked at the temple in the distance, assessed the strength of this temple in his heart, and came to the conclusion that it should not be a broken temple, but he didn't know what the origin was.
This temple has to be the size, and it will be a small temple in later generations, but in the Tang Dynasty, this scale was quite large. What's more, it is not convenient to see such a large and large temple group on the mountainside, it should have taken a lot of labor and money. It's not that you have the strength to get a temple, you don't have this scale at all.
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