Black teeth are dyed black teeth. It is said that this can better highlight the whiteness and tenderness of the skin. For this reason, after the nobles of the Heian period held an adult ceremony, both boys and girls would smear a kind of color on their teeth.
A black dye called 'iron paste' to indicate the age of marriage...
Where does 'iron slurry' come from? First, mix tea, wine, vinegar and other liquids, add rusty iron scraps, and ferment in the dark for about two months to make foul-smelling iron slurry water.
Mixed with "gallnut powder", it becomes a viscous liquid with a fishy smell and a black color. This stuff is quite toxic and can seriously damage the gums. The noble men and women of the Heian period used it to paint their teeth every week.
Once or twice. I really don’t know what I was thinking.
When Chen Ke watched "The Tale of Genji", he remembered a plot that said that the extremely young beauty Zi Ji did not dye her teeth when she was young, but after she was adopted by Genji, her grandmother dyed her teeth black.
, making her look 'more beautiful'. At that time, he didn't understand. Could it be that the so-called aristocratic style meant having big black teeth?
He had only seen one big black tooth in Nagaoka Castle, and that was the castle guard Fujiwara Noblekiyo. He thought this guy had poor hygiene habits and never made trouble by brushing his teeth. But when he came to Japan in the Heian Era, he saw that, damn, aristocrats
They are all like this! It is said that there was also a "non-mainstream" aristocratic woman who resolutely refused to dye her teeth black. As a result, she became an old woman and couldn't get married, which made her parents worry to death. Later, it was easy to find a "
The noble young masters with weird tastes finally managed to form a couple...
Think about it, Chen Ke was treated like this by a group of elegant ladies who were about one and a half meters tall and had a waist circumference of about one and a half meters, with thick white powder on their faces, a mouth full of black teeth, and a faint stench.
'Surrounded by others, let alone hunting for beauty. He is ready to kill him head-on!
Such a "beautiful woman" with such strong taste. No matter how considerate and supple she is, Chen Ke just wants to shout: 'Ghost!'
In other words, during these days in Kyoto, the more he looked at Yue'e, the more beautiful she became. He felt that she was simply a fairy.
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Since beauties cannot be eaten, let’s eat delicious food. Chen Ke was fond of Japanese food in his previous life. All kinds of fresh ingredients, carefully cooked by the chef, retain the natural deliciousness and are cleverly placed in exquisite containers.
People enjoy the dual enjoyment of their senses and tastes, and it is also known as the healthiest diet.
After becoming a native of the Song Dynasty, he made his own sushi and prepared 'wasami', but unfortunately it was not very authentic. This time when he came to Kyoto, he wanted to satisfy his appetite, and then brought two famous chefs back.
Cook food specifically for yourself!
After coming to Kyoto, he participated in various state banquets, feasts, and grand banquets, and he ate so much that he almost didn't... fade out of the bird!
This damn place doesn’t even eat meat! Damn it, all the people in Dali believe in Buddhism, and they only don’t eat meat for half a year. Here, from the emperor to the ministers, they don’t touch any meat! It is said that they think meat is for the lower classes.
If you eat a four-legged animal, you will be reincarnated as a beast in the next life, so only lowly farmers, hunters and low-level warriors will eat meat. If a minister dares to have a little bit of meat, once people know about it, it will be like in modern society.
People know that you actually eat people!
In short, don’t think about messing around.
It is said that in the past, it was still possible to eat fish. But a few decades ago, an emperor who particularly worshiped Buddhism felt that the living creatures in the sea were also fishy, so he simply issued a decree banning the consumption of fish, shrimp, and shellfish. No one was allowed to eat anything except vegetarian food!
What is even more speechless is that this ban has been implemented to this day.
So these days, the main food Chen Ke eats is white rice, rice balls, rice cakes, etc., served with various pickles and miso soup. Of course, a high-level banquet cannot be so monotonous, so there are also chestnuts.
To improve the meal, you can add beans, plums, turnips and other "tributes from afar", and then have a cup of tea and a few snacks made of rice noodles after the meal. That is a top-notch state banquet.
Although they have a nice name, their food is actually worse than that of farmers in the Song Dynasty.
They also knew that they were short of food, so they apologized to Chen Ke: 'It's such an unlucky time for you to come. If you come in spring and summer, you can taste fresh radishes and vegetables...'
Chen Ke just rolled his eyes, I’m not a rabbit!
As for the food he was looking forward to, forget about the fish, octopus balls, etc. There can always be sushi, right? He asked tentatively, and it turned out that it was indeed available, so at the next banquet, the host presented it like a treasure.
A plate of 'sushi'. Yes, it was sushi, at least that's how the owner introduced it, but no matter how Chen Ke looked at it, it looked like a plate of 'dog food'!
After the owner's enthusiastic introduction, he learned that this kind of sushi is made by mixing fish, sake lees, salt, vinegar, and rice, and pressing them on stones to ferment and pickle them. Except that no rust is added, it is exactly the same as the paint they use to paint their teeth.
, and it also exudes a strong stench!
He strongly suspected that this was the work of those rebellious nobles. Isn’t the imperial court not allowed to eat fish? Then I will chop the fish into pieces and mix it with the rice, and then ferment it to produce a smell. Let’s see how you can identify it!
Seeing those noble ladies eating with gusto, Liu Yue'e kept wanting to vomit.
Chen Ke couldn't stand it anymore, so he asked his cook to teach these poor children how to make miso, which is soybean paste, into soup... Miso soup was a battlefield fast food during Japan's Warring States Period hundreds of years later.
It had not been invented yet, and people in the Heian period only knew how to use miso as a dipping sauce and how to roll the rice, pickles and seaweed into colorful nigiri sushi.
As soon as these two foods appeared, they caused a great sensation. Many officials shed tears and said: "I just realized today that food can be so poetic..." So the miso soup was named Zhuangyuan soup and the nigiri sushi was named Zhuangyuan sushi.
, also solemnly recorded in the history of the country:
‘On the twelfth lunar month of the first year of Kangping, Chen Gong, the number one scholar in the imperial dynasty, traveled east, taught rituals and music, and taught poetry. Many of his calligraphy treasures were handed down. He also taught him how to make ‘number one soup’ and ‘number one sushi’ the national food of Japan...’
After returning from the banquet, Chen Ke saw that she was in a daze and couldn't help but asked with concern: "What?"
Liu Yue'e looked pale and said in a voice like a mosquito, "Am I pregnant?"
"What's there?" Chen Ke asked with wide eyes.
"There is a little baby..." Liu Yue'e immediately pursed her lips and wiped her tears and said, "Oh, grandpa will beat me to death."
"How is this possible?" Chen Ke asked in surprise: "Why do you say that?"
"I want to vomit all the time..."
"Is that because you were smoked by famous Japanese dishes?" Chen Ke smiled bitterly: "We don't have anything like that, how could we have it?"
"Why not..." Liu Yue'e's face turned red: "I already asked you to kiss me like that..."
"Hahahaha..." Chen Ke couldn't help laughing.
"You're still laughing!" Liu Yue'e stretched out her hand to pinch him and said, "I'm scared to death and you're still laughing..."
"Hahaha, let me stop laughing..." Chen Ke almost stopped laughing, but when he saw Liu Yue'e was about to roar like a lion, he stopped and said, "Who told you that you will get pregnant if you kiss her?"
"Isn't it?" Liu Yue'e widened her eyes and said, "My grandma has always said this..."
Chen Kejue was stunned. He held his belly and told her how a man and a woman created a third person. Liu Yue'e was embarrassed. At the end, he said with some resentment: "What worries do you have?"
"What worries do I have?" Chen Ke smiled and touched her red face: "I just want you to have a perfect first night..."
"I hate it." Liu Yue'e said, and kissed him on the lips, looking at him fiercely and said: "You idiot, nothing can be more perfect than that night..."
The two were talking sweet words when they suddenly smelled the smell of meat. Chen Ke immediately changed his expression and followed the smell to the yard where the guards lived. He found that these guys were too greedy to stand it, so his guards obeyed.
A few dogs came back, skinned them, washed them and boiled them in a pot, adding some salt...
"How dare you dare to eat secretly behind my back!" Chen Ke said angrily. The guards immediately looked pale, but they heard him change the topic and said: "Leave me two dog legs..."
All the guards were stunned. It turned out that the adults also wanted to eat meat and were going crazy.
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Chen Ke and the others had not eaten meat for half a month, so they had to steal someone else's dog to eat it. However, many extreme Japanese ministers not only remained vegetarians for the rest of their lives, but also listened to the deception of monks and simply stopped eating vegetables at all. The only food they ate every day was rice and rice soup.
At most, sprinkle some salt...it's really good to feed!
But this does not prove that they also have a "simple" side. The word "simple" is simply a stain on the Heian period. Although the food is a bit rough, they work hard on the tableware, wine sets and tabletops, making them look golden.
Painting, beauty, and elegant environment and artistic conception are also pursued. Waterside pavilions and courtyards are basic, and music and dance are a must... This is exactly what Japanese cuisine is, a deceptive way of putting only one chopstick on a big plate.
origin.
Chen Ke was surprised to find that the Japanese nobles and nobles were almost all young people, which made him wonder where all the old people had gone.
The answer is, they all went to the grave. According to statistics from later generations, the average minister of the Heian Period could only live to be thirty-two years old. And the average life span of aristocratic women was only twenty-seven years old! Among them, about 5%
Fifteen percent died of tuberculosis. Ten percent died of skin cancer, and 20 percent died of beriberi, and they generally suffered from rickets. According to the concept of modern medicine, these are mainly caused by clothes that are too heavy and cosmetics.
Diseases caused by toxins and nutritional imbalances!
However, the common people in Japan have an average life span of more than fifty years, and the samurai who eat meat and practice martial arts can live to nearly seventy years old, even exceeding the level of the Song Dynasty.
In contrast, those ministers who enjoy the best treatment but are short-lived will naturally feel a huge sense of loss. Therefore, they always like to lament the shortness of life, saying something like, "Life is as gorgeous as summer flowers, and death is as quiet and beautiful as autumn leaves."
'It's a silly thing to say. But I never thought that it was just my own fault.
One more thing, it’s the end of the world, why don’t you ask for a monthly ticket? If there is no tomorrow, won’t the monthly ticket in your hands become invalid?
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