In the afternoon, Wang Chen and the other two slept until they woke up naturally. Last night, no one was disturbing each other to let them sleep until now. The postman in the post station saw Wang Chen stretching his waist and pushing open the door and appearing in the corridor upstairs.

Then he went up the second floor and smiled and asked, "Dear guests, you need to prepare lunch for a few now. Breakfast time has passed."

Wang Chen thought for a while and said, "Please ask someone to prepare a meal for four people, I'll call them up."

The postman clasped his fists and said, "I'll let the kitchen prepare, and then have someone get some hot water to wash up."

Wang Chen said, "I'm working hard." Then he looked at the railing on the second floor for a while and the crowd was eating in the hall downstairs. He felt that it was not very meaningful, so he returned to the house and sat up, opened the window, and looked at the garden in the backyard.

After a cup of tea, he got up again and called them to get up one by one. At this time, several postmen had already brought hot water, willow branches, white cloth towels and other things to the stairs, put them in the house, and asked them to wash. After the few people were cleaned, Wang Shen and others walked slowly downstairs.

I found a clean table in the hall and sat down. After a while, a postman brought them steaming food from the kitchen. Wang Chen glanced at the food on the nearby table.

He looked down at the dishes in front of the four people on the table in front of him. He felt that there was not much difference, so he began to greet the people and started to feast on them. Anyway, they had eaten much worse in prison than here in the past few days, so there was nothing to worry about for the time being.

After lunch, everyone walked through a winding corridor and sat in a small pavilion in the garden. There were also a pot of tea in the mud stove in front of them. There were several ponds in the garden. The lotus flowers in the midsummer were blooming enthusiastically, as if they wanted to attract people's attention. There were many fish swimming around under the lotus leaves.

There are also some green plants and flowers in various homes in summer, such as green bamboo, hollyhock, crape myrtle, and bougainvillea, which are common in summer, attracting many bees, but no one has any idle care about them. In the afternoon, there are only a few of them "idle people" in the huge inn.

The others were busy, either stepping up cleaning up the bowls, chopsticks, soup stains on the tables in the hall, or busy welcoming and seeing off the trips. After all, this is the inn in the capital of Shu, and the abortion is not comparable to that of other states and counties.

There were also officials from Shu who came to Beijing to do business after lunch and quickly wiped the oil stains on their mouths with a towel and a little tidying up their official robes. Then they went out of the inn to find the corresponding government office and government office to do business. Only the four of them, who had no official positions, were waiting for appointment here.

Hollyhock is an important traditional flower in China. It has tall plants, rich flowers, gorgeous colors, long history, numerous names, and is native to southwest China.

Since the Han Dynasty, there have been many documentary records about hollyhocks. It was first from "Er Ya", and its annotation was "王应, Rong Kui". It can bloom in Shu for four seasons and never defeats it. Later generations once had a poem about hollyhocks saying:

The tree on the south side of the sword gate moves to Huixian Pavilion.

The flowers are full of the Jinshui River and the Minshan Mountains are full of green leaves.

Wenjun is ashamed of the gentle childbirth. The goddess lets Pingting.

The red and purple are fragrant. The fragrance is embroidered.

The stems of the plum tree are thick, with drooping branches, hairless or sparsely pubic hair; the thorns are axillary, 5-15 mm long. The leaves are paper-like, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, and like warm and humid climates, not tolerate coldness, and like sufficient light.

Half an hour later, the tea had been cooked. Wang Chen poured a cup of tea in front of the people with a pottery bowl and let the people drink it. Although Guo Xiu didn't speak today, he couldn't stand the heat of the weather and had a dry mouth. So he picked up the pottery bowl and started drinking it.

Although they were just prisoners today, they had no power for the time being. A few days ago, they could still provide some tea cakes, green onions, ginger and other seasonings.

When did China start drinking tea? Everyone said it was different, and there was no consensus. Generally speaking, it can be said that it began in the Han Dynasty. The simplified sprout of the word "tea" also began in the Han Dynasty. In ancient Han seals, some characters "tea" have been subtracted and become the shape of the word "tea".

Not only the character shape, but the pronunciation of "tea" was also established in the Western Han Dynasty, and the budding of tea culture gradually formed.

At the end of the Warring States Period, the national tea drinking style was prosperous and developed until the Western Han Dynasty. The tea drinking atmosphere was strong. Tea began to form an elegant pastime with the popularity of the palace and officials. Wang Bao's "Child Reunion" has been recorded in "Wuyang Buying Tea".

According to historical records, tea was spread abroad during the Western Han Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, envoys were sent to the Indochina Peninsula. In addition to gold and brocade, the items they brought also had tea.

Tea culture is very important in the lives of Chinese people. The "Shennong Bencao Jing" records: "Shennong tastes hundreds of herbs, encounters 72 poisons a day, and gets tea and relieves it."

In the history of Chinese cultural development, the origin of everything related to agriculture and plants is usually traced to Shennong. Therefore, the legend of Shennong and tea is widely circulated among the people.

According to legend, Shennong, the leader of the ancient tribe, invented slash-and-burn cultivation, taught the people to reclaim wasteland and plant grain crops, and tasted hundreds of herbs personally, used herbs to cure diseases, making the tribe increasingly powerful.

Once, he cooked water in a cauldron (an ancient cooking utensil) in the wild. A few leaves fell into the pot inadvertently. As a result, the water cooked was slightly yellow in color, sweet and fragrant in the mouth, which produced saliva and quenched thirst, refreshed the mind and refreshed the mind. The toxins accumulated in Shennong's body were also dissolved due to tasting all kinds of herbs. Shennong, who was experienced, immediately realized that this was the magical effect brought by tea, so he called on the people to grow tea and drink tea.

When King Wu defeated Zhou, tea had been used as a tribute. In the late period of the original commune, tea became an item for goods exchange.

During the Warring States Period, tea had a certain scale, and there were records of tea in the "Book of Songs" of the pre-Qin Dynasty. For example, "Who says that tea (tea is tea) is bitter, and it is sweet like shepherd's body", "Picking tea and firewood to eat my farmer", etc.

In the Han Dynasty, tea has become a special tonic for Buddhist "sitting meditation". First, it can refresh the mind, second, it can help digestion when the stomach is full; third, it can be used to eliminate the thoughts of the world.

During the Three Kingdoms period, tea affairs further developed on the basis of the Qin and Han Dynasties. Guangya records: "When the Jingba tea is picked and made into cakes, the cakes are made with rice paste. If you drink them, roast them to make them red in color, mash them into powder and pour them into porcelain, and pour them with soup. The drinking will sober up, which makes people sleepless."

The tea making and drinking methods at that time were recorded: the picked tea leaves were processed, roasted on fire until the color turned red, and the baked tea leaves were ground into fine powder with a tea mill, and added grease to make tea cakes, put them in porcelain for storage. When drinking, wait for the water to boil, grind the tea cakes into tea powder and poured into a pot, add onion, ginger and other seasonings, and you can drink them after cooking. They are all the prototypes of tea making today.

During the Three Kingdoms period, tea drinking has begun to enter a period of development and promotion. With the increasing development of the national tea industry, along the Huai River Basin, the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and central China, drinking methods have also evolved from cooking to mixing drinks.

Wang Chen also poured himself a bowl and tasted it and said, "The tea produced in Shu real estate is good, and the tea produced in Chaling, Wu Kingdom and Guoshan are all delicious, and they are all good tea!"

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