[Comprehensive History] Clothes are all over the world

The towering Daba Mountain between the Sichuan Basin and the Hanzhong Basin is a natural barrier for the Sichuan Basin. The mountains stretching for thousands of miles block the cold air from the north for this land of abundance.

Affected by this, the vegetation at the southern foot of the mountains is mostly evergreen trees. Even in the early winter, the mountains along the Shu Road are still green, and there are scattered trees with different colors such as tallow and fir trees in the forest.When these trees are stained with snow, the whole mountain forest looks like an overturned jewelry box.

The snow scene in Shuchuan is very beautiful, but it is really difficult to walk in the snow.

Fresh snow is okay, the foot feel is similar to sand, but once it is stepped on and frozen overnight, the snow surface is almost the same as the ice surface.

Mu Bai and others are now walking on the Jinniu Road, which is the most legendary and has the most stories in the ancient Shu Road.

As the earliest section of road opened up, the latest large-scale repair here dates back to the Tang Dynasty, and the maintenance thereafter depends entirely on the local people and the government.For the locals, the roads that are used to walking are not at the same level of difficulty for outsiders, and there are no railings on the plank road. I am afraid that a slippery foot in this weather can only get a result of seeing you again in 18 years. Therefore, people who come and go walk Be extremely cautious.

Where there is a need, there is a market. On the day after it snowed, a vendor selling straw sandals appeared in the station between the plank roads.The straw sandals sold by vendors are extremely rough and not used to keep out the cold. Its main function is to use a few thatch as a tie to fix the original boots to increase the friction of walking on the snow.

Don't look ugly, but judging from the penetration rate along the way, this method is quite reliable, and even some caravans with a little more money put such "boots" on their horses.

Mu Bai and his team were well prepared. In addition to carrying insoles to increase friction, they also prepared crampons to deal with worse weather. Therefore, they were not the target of greetings from these merchants, but the group of people did. This straw insole is really curious.

Because the straw sandals are called "Uncle Huang's straw sandals".

When they heard this name at first, they thought their Chinese was not very good, but they were shocked when they saw the signboard, and then the curiosity that was rolling around in their stomachs quietly emerged.

Curiosity is like a cat's paw scratching the hearts of the three young people. Except for Mu Xiaowen, who is heartless and unable to get to the point, all three of them are quite curious about the origin of the name of the straw sandal.

They all knew that the emperor of Ming Dynasty was born in a commoner, and it was said that he was extremely poor back then, so, could it be that the emperor uncle of the straw sandals was referring to Emperor Hongwu's brother?But they seem to have heard that Daming doesn't seem to have any princes?

Short oil, could it be some royal family secret?The three young men probed frequently as if they could smell the scent of melon fields.

I just don’t know if there is really some unspeakable secret in it, or everyone is indifferent to the origin of the name, until they reach the famous pass of Jinniu Road, which is also the largest rest and trading point on this road——Jianmen Pass. They don't know why this straw sandal has this name.

But now that we have reached Jianmen Pass, the straw sandals are not important anymore.

As one of the largest passes in Shu, the prestige of Jianmen Pass became famous because of Li Taibai's "The Road to Shu is Difficult". "One man guards the gate, ten thousand men are not allowed to open" is dangerous.

Relying on the blessing of culture, the reputation of Jianmenguan even surpassed Jiayuguan and Shanhaiguan, which have been competing for the reputation of "the most magnificent pass in the world", and became a name that people can automatically associate with the word "Xiongguan" .

In order to thank Mr. Li Taibai for his enthusiasm for calling, there are gold and stone craftsmen who engraved the full text of "The Difficult Road to Shu" on the cliff near Jianmen Pass.This is also a famous check-in point in the local area. When Mu Bai and others passed by, they could see many young local scribes in blue shirts and square scarves watching the writing on the cliff from a distance. Don't mention how admiring the eyes are.

However, this kind of copying exactly like the stone inscriptions requires considerable skill, which is the patent of cultural people, and more people choose to queue up to buy rubbings of the inscriptions here.

The land of Shu has become a place of humanities since Wenweng settled in and opened up the merits of enlightenment. Although the road to Shu is difficult, it cannot stop people who seek knowledge and advice, especially since Taibai came here. I have to leave some ink treasures.

So someone with a heart collected poems about the Shu Road from all over the country and carved them into stone tablets and placed them on this necessary place. With the tablet, there will naturally be a business of selling rubbings.

It has to be said that this is a very good business.As soon as Ah Tu, a lover of Han culture, saw the inscriptions written by famous masters and engraved by everyone, he couldn’t move.

Even Mu Bai, after hesitating for a long time, couldn't resist the magic of "everyone is here", and went over to buy a rubbing of Lu You's poem as a tourist souvenir.

Unlike later generations, which are merely tourist attractions, even now that the Ming Dynasty has been unified, Jianmen Pass is also a military center with troops stationed there.

However, since ancient times, the pass and the city have been integrated, and behind each pass there will be a large-scale living supply base, and Jianmen Pass is no surprise.

Today, except for a small number of military households in the Guancheng of Jianmenguan, most of them are local residents who have lived here for generations. These people mainly operate by opening post stations to provide food and accommodation and buying and selling. They are already quite mature. In this important commercial town, there is even a specially designated area for caravans to set up stalls and exchange goods freely.

Except that the censorship of people entering the pass city is stricter than that of other post stations, and there are often soldiers patrolling, this place is not much different from ordinary towns.

Mu Wen, who hadn't run freely for a long time, was so happy that he was carried off the horse and broke free from the thick mattress, and ran out excitedly with Halati.

For this kind of cultural products, Harati and Muwen have the same idea - not interested at all!When Mubai and Atu went to line up, the two people who didn't know why they got together had already run hand in hand to buy local specialties.

The aroma of stewed pork was smelled when they were still halfway!For those who have eaten dry food for several days, they can't bear it at all!

As the hometown of Su Dongpo, who "eats the most cultured food and cooks the most delicious food", being able to raise such a glutton shows the rich food culture of Bashu.

But to be honest, Sichuan's capital as a gourmet capital is actually not strong.

The Chengdu Plain is surrounded by mountains and hills. Although there are abundant grass-fed resources due to the climate, the environment is destined to be unsuitable for raising large livestock, let alone large-scale stocking.Therefore, as a densely populated Bashu area, there is great pressure to supply meat for local residents.

Therefore, in order to meet the needs of the local people for eating meat, and also to satisfy their appetites, the people of Shu expressed that they had the conditions to raise them, and they thought of ways to raise them if they had no conditions. They opened up a new subject in the breeding industry-inconvenient meat. Raise big meat, then raise small meat.

"Brother!!" When Mu Bai carefully folded the dried rubbings and wrapped them in oiled paper, his younger brother rushed over, walking and rolling on the snow. The expression on the child's face was very complicated, a little excited and a little incredible.

When he finally grabbed his beloved brother's hand, Mu Wen said in a tone that could be called a fuss: "Brother, there are rabbits for sale here! There are so many rabbits."

To be precise, it was a lot of rabbit meat.

Yes, this is the "little meat" selected by the people of Bashu after thousands of choices - the meat rabbit breeding industry.Rabbits have strong fecundity and require little space for growth. Feed can be found everywhere in Sichuan. Coupled with the favorable climate, since Xun Xiu, an official in the Sui Dynasty, introduced rabbits to Sichuan, the meat rabbit breeding industry immediately became the local trump card industry.

How common is eating rabbit here?At a glance, almost every household in the station here has a signboard with the word "rabbit".

It seems that the stewed spices that they can smell from the plank road are nothing but rabbit meat.

Mu Xiaowen sniffed the houses just now, and with his delicate little nose, he selected a posthouse for the four of them in a slightly hidden place.

Several people handed over the horses to a special person, and after paying for the fodder, they entered this inconspicuous shop.

As soon as you enter, you can see a large pot of marinated rabbit meat kept heating in a large pot with a height of half a person. The rabbit meat is cut into small pieces, floating and sinking in the pot with the boiling marinade.

The mouth of the pot was not covered, and the aroma and steam poured out wantonly, making the entire first floor of the post house hot and warm.

There are not many customers in the store, except for Mu Bai and his group, there are only two or three scattered tables. They all look dusty and dusty, with a tired look on their faces, and they only show a little bit of comfort when the wine is pouring into their throats.

The soup waiter served the four of them a large bowl of hot white water, and gave them hot handkerchiefs for people to wipe their faces and hands, and Xiao Er came to report the names of the dishes.

The four of them were all from the most taboo-free provinces, and they could all eat, so the group ordered very casually, and basically ordered the dishes recommended by Xiao Er whose names sounded pleasant to their ears.

Mu Bai and the others don't have the habit of not eating rabbits, but rabbits are really not serious meat for them who were born in a large province of animal husbandry, and most of them appear on the dinner table on weekdays as snacks or accessories , They are really curious about treating it as a dish here, and naturally their expectations are extremely high.

Although the stewed rabbit meat was in the cauldron, it had to be processed after it was fished out, so Mu Bai called Xiao Er in this gap, and asked about the origin of the emperor's straw sandals.

Xiaoer laughed when he heard this question, and he waved his hands again and again: "You guys have misunderstood, our uncle's straw sandals here, this uncle's surname is not Zhu, but Liu."

He glanced at the costumes with national characteristics on the four young people, and knew that these people were all foreigners, and they must not understand the culture of the Central Plains, so he explained: "You must be from Chengdu on the Jinniu Road. We have to start with Chengdu Mansion."

"If you want to say that we in Chengdu have outstanding people, there were four emperors who built their capital here, and the first emperor was Uncle Liu." Xiaoer shook the handkerchief in his hand, and put on an appearance of talking about ancient times.

"Who is Uncle Liu? After Liu Sheng, King Jing of Zhongshan in the Western Han Dynasty, he was named Liu Bei. When he was young, his family was poor, and he was once so poor that he made a living selling straw sandals. Later, he joined the rebel army to fight Dong Zhuo. Merciful, with the help of good ministers and generals, he ascended to the throne of God in his sixties with a poor body, he can be called a legend."

For the people of Bashu, it is precisely because Uncle Liu Huang established the capital here, which brought a large population, and the prime minister Zhuge Liang worked hard, that the humanities, economy and infrastructure of Shu have developed greatly.Needless to say, the local people show their gratitude and reverence to these two. Therefore, even now that the Shu Han regime has been overthrown for more than a thousand years, their names and legends are still circulating among the local population.

For example, the Uncle Huang straw sandals are used to commemorate Uncle Liu Huang. Going a little further, they also have scenic spots such as Zhang Feilin and Guan Yuting. Of course, the same is true for the Zhuge tofu that Mu Bai and the others have ordered.

However, for visitors like Mubai, the history of the Three Kingdoms is too unfamiliar to them. Even Ah Tu, who is a lover of Han culture, only knows that three countries have fought for the world, but he doesn't know which Three Kingdoms they are, let alone Timo white them.

Xiaoer saw that they seemed a little confused, so he pointed them to a middle-aged scribe who was over half a century old sitting in the corner: "If you guys are interested, you might as well treat that gentleman to a cup of hot wine. That Mr. Luo is a master in this field and knows a lot."