The Tang Guozi trend is getting more and more popular. Even half-year-old children in the alley will ask when they meet: "Have you eaten Tang Guozi today?"
Child Yu Yuan looked at his friend who was still wiping his nose with disdain, squatted down and poked at the flying insects that jumped over: "I have told you so many times, those are called wagashi."
"But, my mother said it's Tang Guozi, a stuffed little rabbit." The friend bit his finger and spoke in standard Mandarin.
The child Yu Yuan looked up to the sky and sighed. What should I say to these little brats who still wet the bed? It’s really scary to be uneducated...
Wen Xiaolu, a student from the Department of History at Kyungseong University, is an out-and-out otaku. She has nothing to do on weekdays but watch dramas, history, literature, documentary films, and biographies. There is nothing she doesn’t know.
So when she saw that something like wagashi had become a hot commodity on the Internet, she was extremely shameless. She stretched her muscles and geared up to write a post: "On the Arrogant Behavior of Neon Country".
The full text is full of thousands of characters, recalling the past and thinking about the present, and I can summarize it in a few points: 1. Wagashi is from the Neon Country and has nothing to do with China; 2. When the Neon Country wants to compete with porcelain, it must hold something with a very short history.
Propaganda is the inheritance of the orthodox culture of the Tang and Song Dynasties; 3. Neon Country’s usual tricks are to separate the Chinese nation and culture; 4. In the end, it applied for a patent and publicized the cultural tradition as Japanese.
At the end of the article, I expressed my deepest emotions: Where are you going back and forth from? It’s easy to leave, but don’t send us away. Don’t come to Huo Huo, our young generation.
Wen Xiaolu looked at his masterpiece, corrected a few typos, and nodded with satisfaction. He was indeed a top student in the history department. This literary talent... tsk tsk tsk...
As soon as he loosened his finger, the send button popped open, and an article quietly appeared at the bottom of the portal.
First there was one click, then more and more. After a night of fermentation, it actually created a big stir.
The war between Tang Guozi and Waguozi completely broke out.
Nishimura Kowako's hand squeezed the tablet more and more tightly, and her fingertips turned blue and white. The Chinese people are indeed the most cunning race, and they have completely ignored the relationship between wagashi and Chinese history.
Indeed, although Japanese confectionery is an improvement of the essence extracted from Chinese culture by the Neon Kingdom, it has nothing to do with the tea snacks of the Tang and Song Dynasties.
And her teacher, Watanabe Murichi, is already working on applying for the intangible cultural heritage of wagashi. In time, wagashi will become a shining landscape of Neon Country.
At that time... no matter how much the Chinese people dance around, they will just be clowns!
Nishimura Kowako showed a calm and scary smile, and gently put down the tablet. Now... let the bullets fly for a while, and this can be regarded as free advertising for the teacher...
"Wazi? In the box number one, please add a piece of Jiugonggetang fruit!" The sushi chef opened the inner curtain and said in neon Mandarin.
"Okay, I'll do it now, wait a minute." Nishimura Kazuko calmed down her emotions and showed him a decent smile, as if the dark woman just now had never appeared.
The sushi chef was seduced by her sweet smile and touched the back of his head shyly. Kazuko was really the leader of women in the Neon Country. She was beautiful and had good cooking skills. It would be great if she could marry him back home...
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Zhou Xiaoyan set up the phone, adjusted its position, and made an OK gesture.
In front of the camera, Yu Jian is carefully grinding tea cakes: "The "Book of Tea" written by Lu Yu records the four steps of tea cooking in the Tang Dynasty: 'grilling, grinding, rolling, and boiling'. To make tea cakes,
When drinking tea, grind it into powder and then boil it."
At this moment, the flames appeared on the small charcoal stove, and the water in the pottery pot was emitting clear smoke and bubbling. Yu Jian poured the ground green tea powder into it and stirred evenly: "This is the ancient Chongzhou tea.
of white tea, last year I made them into tea cakes.”
The tea powder gradually merged with the water. Yu Jian showed her rice-like white teeth and gently stroked her sleeves. Then, she made an astonishing move and took out the salt shaker from the condiment table.
Pour a pinch of salt into the tea.
"Add salt at the first boil, scoop out a spoonful at the second boil and set aside, and add tea foam at the third boil." Yu Jian followed the steps, scooped out the tea soup and added it to the cup, and drank it with the last tea.
Jin said, "Drink tea while it's hot. Drink the mellow tea soup and soft tea foam together. This is the most authentic tea ceremony of the Tang Dynasty."
"After introducing the tea, I will make two tea dishes. This is different from the popular wagashi. During the Tang Dynasty, although China was prosperous, there were no white kidney beans. So wagashi is essentially the same as wagashi.
Tea snacks during the Tang Dynasty have nothing to do with it.”
The tea snacks made by Yu Jian are called Yulu Tuan, which is a kind of pastry carved snacks, and Tianxue, which just like the name, melts in your mouth like snow.
Raw milk is added to the squeezed juice of various vegetables and fruits to make soufflés of different colors. Put them in a frying pan and fry the thin dough made of white rice. Wrap a layer on top of the fried soufflés and carve them with a small bamboo skewer.
Different patterns appear. At this moment, the outer skin is crystal clear, and the various colors inside are also revealed. When you bite it, the pastry is crispy and the outer skin is thin and soft. The two flavors are intertwined with each other, which is wonderful.
Brush the dough with one layer of honey paste and stack it on top of another. Stop when the height reaches three or four centimeters. Put it in the oven and bake it. Sprinkle a layer of ripe white sesame seeds on it. Take a small piece and bite it in your mouth.
Inside, there was a "click" and a crisp sound. When it was put under the tongue, it quietly turned into a wisp of water, revealing the sweetness of honey.
Paired with a sip of the salty tea you just brewed, it is the highest level of tea drinking.
"There are countless tea snacks in the Tang Dynasty. There are sixty dishes recorded in the Shaowei Banquet, half of which are various snacks. What I want to say is, whether it is ancient or modern, in Chinese tradition, eating is closely related to elegance.
, but never stick to elegance. This is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese people for thousands of years." Yu Jian said seriously, "Of course, if you are interested, you can come to Yujia Restaurant on Lanhai Street to try it.
Try my replica of Tang Dynasty tea snacks!"
He winked mischievously and did not forget to advertise his restaurant.
"Bah bang bang!" Zhou Xiaoyan wiped away her tears and turned off her phone, applauding desperately, "Ajian, you said it so well. Food is the most important thing for the people. Those wagashi are not delicious and they keep talking about themselves.
What kind of orphan of the Tang Dynasty, bah! It’s just good-looking, how could the food of our ancestors be so delicious?”
After a pause, he burped, sniffed, and asked again: "Can you give me two yuan for the snack you just made? And that tea, can you pour me a cup too?"
It was so fragrant... When she was filming the video, she almost couldn't help but rush up to get a piece, and the tea, which looked like a dark dish, but at the moment the room was filled with an unusual aroma of tea...