Chapter 100 Laba Festival, the elegant and the vulgar are indistinguishable.
When Concubine Wen came back from the night market, it was already the middle of the night, that is, from 9 to 11 o'clock in the night of the later generations, she happened to meet the enthusiastic imperial doctor and advised: "Dear Concubine Wen, you don't miss the good time with Emperor Xu. ”
Concubine Wen was full of suspicion, and asked modestly: "Sir, how do you say this?" Could it be that the supreme emperor still has to stick to the rules when it comes to favor? ”
"In the last hour, the mind was already very happy, so the next step is to make the body happy, which is called the unity of body and mind. When you think about what a pig looks like, when you are full, you will go to sleep, which means that people are like pigs, and when it comes to Hai, you should enjoy it. It can not only give birth to new life, but also allow the yang energy of the child to grow, so that you and Emperor Xu's body and soul can be immersed in the warm and charming darkness, so that the body and mind can be reincarnated in a healthy recuperation. ”
Concubine Wen's face was enthusiastic when she heard this, and she couldn't help but hide her face with a champa and continued to ask: "As the saying goes, there are only three things, dare to ask Mr., what do the other two important hours refer to?" ”
"The unitary time is the main time of the kidneys, remember to take care of the kidneys. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the kidneys mainly store essence, and people have three treasures, namely essence, qi and spirit, and essence is the material basis, that is, the most basic substance that supports the life activities of the human body. Human beings have to create and consume every day in life. At this time, the joy of clouds and rain, the consumption of kidney essence is particularly severe, and the philtrum will slowly flatten, and when the body is good, that thing can also stimulate vitality, otherwise, that thing will wear out the body. ”
"At this time, it's dinner time, what kind of health should we pay attention to?"
"Dinner should be light and small, and after dinner, you can take a walk in the imperial garden, watch the glow and listen to the birdsong." (Note, unitary time, i.e. 5 o'clock to 7 o'clock in later generations)
The Imperial Physician then preached, "When you are young, remember to take care of your spleen. You can read, you can manage your family, and you can raise flowers. When you are tired, you can sit quietly or knock on your teeth (saliva). The spleen distributes the qi and blood of the whole body, and the spleen mainly transports the qi and blood of the food that has been rotted in the stomach to the muscles. If the spleen is functioning well, the muscles will be well developed and the lips will be moist and plump. Whether the spleen is functioning properly or not is often expressed through the lips, otherwise, the lips will become deflated and dry. In fact, the eyelids are also dominated by the spleen, if the eyelids droop down, it means that there is a problem with the function of the main muscles of the spleen, and the body will have problems such as emaciation, drooling and dampness, which belong to spleen disease, which is common in patients with sequelae of stroke. (i.e. 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. hereafter)
Concubine Wen was amazed by the search for the root of Chinese medicine health care, and thanked the imperial doctor.
Concubine Wen explained these health care knowledge to Emperor Xu in detail, and the saint also felt incredible, and he restrained a lot in "doing what he wants".
After tasting the peach blossom rice like fairy millet, Concubine Wen suddenly felt that she was a carefree peach blossom girl, and the moistness of peach blossoms overflowed every cell in her body. After a few days, some good products came into the place.
After a stroll through lunch, Xia Hua sent flower cakes and jujubes, and Concubine Wen was delighted by this good smell, and hurriedly asked the chief waiter where this was the fragrant cake.
"This is Yunnan's special food, rose cake, the cake making process is very good, from the picking of roses, storage to cake making, every process is very particular."
"No wonder the fragrance lingers!" Concubine Wen then asked the source of this fruity jujube.
"Back to Concubine Wen, this is Xinjiang Hotan jujube, it is not easy to obtain this 'the world's first jujube', growers not only have to maintain the jujube forest all year round, but also need to carefully select jujube from the tree, after drying, and then select, the procedure is heavy, can be described as time-consuming and laborious."
"If you don't finish every meal, how can you be worthy of the hard work of the growers?" Concubine Wen thought that sometimes the imperial dining room poured out a whole plate of jujubes, and she couldn't help but feel a sigh.
On the eighth day of the lunar month, Concubine Wen will never forget. The skilled craftsmen in the imperial dining room first carved the fruit into human shapes, animals, and patterns, and then boiled them in pots. I also put the "fruit lion" in the laba porridge. The fruit lion is a lion-shaped object made of several kinds of fruits, with crisp jujubes roasted with the jujube core removed as the lion's body, half a walnut kernel as the lion's head, peach kernels as the lion's feet, and sweet almonds as the lion's tail. Then they are glued together with sugar and placed in a porridge bowl like a lion cub. What's more particular is to use jujube paste, bean paste, yam, hawthorn cake and other foods with various colors to knead into eight immortals, old birthday stars, and arhat statues.
After the steaming and nutritious Laba porridge is boiled, after worshipping the gods and ancestors, Concubine Wen tastes the Laba porridge made of mutton and fresh fish with various dried fruits and decorated with various "works of art", and the incomparably cold has long been driven away.
Concubine Wen and Ling'er gave some to their families. In her brother and sister-in-law's restaurant, Concubine Wen learned that Laba porridge also has the role of witchcraft among the people, and if there are flowers and fruit trees planted in the yard, she should also smear some Laba porridge on the branches, and believe that it will bear fruit in the coming year. Hearing this simple approach, Concubine Wen praised: "Trees, you should also have fun with others, what a great harmony in the world!" ”
Before going to bed, Concubine Wen felt that it was very unpleasant to talk about Prime Minister Wang with the maids, so she pulled Emperor Xu and asked, "Holy Lord, are you willing to give up Wang Anshi?" ”
"How to give it? It's a pity that when I was 9 years old, Prime Minister Wang passed away. I really like his poems, such as 'People are born thin and straight, and they are older and stronger. 'Unfortunately, I may not live to the end of my life. Concubine Wen hurriedly stopped his ominous words.
"Well, Qingmei, I also like his words of persuasion, such as 'The poor are rich because of books, and the rich are expensive because of books.'" ”
"According to the law, the law is inconceivable. May my six roots always be silent, and my heart is like the moon reflecting the glass. There is no doubt about the law. Emperor Xu recited affectionately, and Concubine Wen hurriedly echoed: "This poem expresses the poet's noble character, if a person always maintains the tranquility of the six roots, he will be inviolable, and his state of mind is as pure and flawless as the bright moon reflected on the glass. ”