[Comprehensive History] Clothes are all over the world

The young man who begged his junior brother but suffered misfortune patted his head innocently, feeling quite bewildered.I saw the old man waved his hand, turned around and walked into the house, asking, "What are you carrying in your hand? Didn't I tell you not to waste money with me? Now that you have a family, Taking care of your own home is serious."

"Sir," Er Jia hurriedly took two steps to catch up with his teacher, and explained, "This is the Pucha I just bought from the south. It is said that this tea sells very well in Tibet. I want to sell it to the Central Plains. Try it, but you also know that I am a wooden tongue, so I would like to invite you to taste it."

"...cough, since there is a valid reason, this old man will help you with this favor, just order it and try it." The little old man who was flattered suddenly felt a little proud, he pretended to dust off the dust on his body, and walked into the room with proud steps. room, and then sat down on the small bench leisurely.

(Ahem, I’m getting old, it’s too embarrassing to sit in this posture. The old man’s muscles are broken. When you don’t need to pretend, it’s more comfortable to sit on a wooden stool! ——Mr. Wang’s words)

But the expression of the old gentleman froze when he saw the student's next move. He saw that Er Jia opened the kettle, grabbed a handful of tea leaves roughly and threw them in, and then put them directly on the fire to boil. stand up.

Before the old man could react, Er Jia lifted the kettle away from the stove, quickly poured the tea into the cup and brought it to Mr. Wang.

The young man smiled honestly: "Sir, this is the local way of drinking tea, why don't you try it, is it a fresh drink?"

Mr. Wang lowered his head stiffly, looked at the tea leaves and the light soup in the teacup that had not been fully stretched, and fell silent.

Although this old man was born in the era of the Yuan government, but because he was born in the old capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, he was influenced by a lot of legacy from the former Song Dynasty. Therefore, the old man who can master the skills of ordering tea in the Song Dynasty trembled slightly as he stretched out his hand towards the teacup.

Waste it, waste it! !

But the students are all recruited by themselves, and it is true that I have never taught this aspect, so I can't blame others.

When the old man picked up the teacup, there was a crystal drop in the corner of his eye.

While the other side was trying new food, Mu Bai was still walking on the road under a dark cloud.

Although Yunnan is located in the south, due to the plateau climate and cold winters, the locally grown rice is still grown twice a year.

Regardless of the fact that the Yuan government stationed in Kunming is not very in charge, in fact they firmly control the income from the salt mines in Yunnan, and they are not ambiguous at all in terms of tax collection.Moreover, it is located in a remote place, and transportation costs are added to all kinds of living resources, so it is not cheap to purchase.

Therefore, under the superposition of various factors, the life pressure of the people of Yunnan is actually quite high.

Even though most of the local people will plant some other economic crops to subsidize their families during the rice rotation, their life is still not rich.

Therefore, in order to save money, the local area, like many cities in the north that are not rich, implements the traditional two meals a day system.

Breakfast is around ten o'clock in the morning, and dinner is around four o'clock in the afternoon, so, don't look at Mu Bai and the others having had breakfast just now, in fact, it is already the time when the sun is rising.

This time is a bit awkward, usually at this time he should have finished the housework and started to preview his homework, but now Mu Xiaowen's little quilt with the map drawn is still soaked in the barrel.

Well, you can’t do laundry now. Mu Bai and his family are in the upper reaches of the creek. According to the customary rules, if you wash clothes at a meal time when everyone needs water, you will be beaten, not to mention that Mu Bai’s family does the laundry. Wen drew a map and a quilt, you have to be kind.

So what are you doing now... If you go back, you have to read a book, I really don't want to read a book!

At this moment, Mu Bai's mood is exactly the same as every modern student who starts to play with stationery before doing homework. He knows that these things cannot be escaped, but he just wants to escape, even if he can touch the fish for a few minutes. happy.

Fortunately, he really came up with a reason to escape.

In fact, there were still a few omissions in the trap spot he inspected in the morning. It was because he saw that the prey around the village had decreased, so he quietly touched the upgraded trap placed in the mountain.

But there is a little walk to that place... Mu Bai glanced at his younger brother's bulging watermelon belly, forget it, just treat it as digestion.

Facts proved that his decision was quite correct, because just as he was wandering to the third trap, Mu Xiaowen, who was walking out of breath, let out a cry of surprise.The child's voice was loud, and the sentence "you have meat" was shocking, and it even surprised the little falcon hovering in the sky trying to get a bargain.

Obviously, if they were a little late, the entangled prey would be the Kestrel's takeaway.but……

Mu Bai looked at the prey in the trap, hesitated for a while, touched his chin and said hesitantly: "Mu Xiaowen, I think this may not be edible."

"Why?" The child said the three words extremely simply. For a child who was still jumping out word by word, this kind of simplicity perfectly expressed his unbelievable emotions.

"This chicken is a little bald and may be sick." Mu Bai explained to his younger brother very seriously, "Xiaowen, you have to pay attention in the future. Before eating meat, you must observe whether it is sick or not. Otherwise, no matter how fat you look, you can’t eat it!”

The caged bird that was labeled as "fat + alopecia areata" raised its head and let out a humiliating and angry cry: "Oh!!"

The fat bird held by the two brothers is quite heavy, weighing about three to four catties. If it is stewed with some miscellaneous grains and pancakes, it can be eaten for several days, but the condition of this bird makes people dare not do it.

Reluctant to throw it away, and afraid to eat it, Mu Bai immediately grabbed the bird and took his younger brother to find a professional.

however……

"This is a peacock." The village head, who knows the animals very well, looked at the so-called "pheasant" in the hands of the two expectant unlucky children with a complicated face, and the corners of his mouth twitched, "It's not born Plague is the moulting in summer...you can't eat it."

The peacock is a sacred bird in southern Yunnan. Although it is in the north of Yunnan, the peacock has a special status in Buddhism. Mu Bai is now a monk. Although the local monks can eat meat, it does not include peacock meat, otherwise it will be known. Even if Mu Bai was still a child, he would have a scolding meal.

Mu Bai looked down at the "pheasant" that he was holding upside down by his two legs tied by a straw rope. His face was full of broken dreams and he couldn't believe it. He stuttered and tried to find words: "This, this Is it a peacock? The peacock that 'flies southeast and wanders five miles away'? The peacock that most resembles a phoenix? Is there something wrong, this one just looks a bit like it?"

He didn't even dare to say that this poor image was imaginary, but he had to say that it resembled [somewhat].

The village chief glanced at the child who was unwilling to accept the facts. Although he could understand his thoughts, as a qualified adult, he still had to let the child accept the beatings of the society.

He took the peacock that was carried upside down like a pheasant, and instead of straightening the bird upright, he used this convenient posture to pull the green scaly feathers on the peacock's neck to show Mu Bai, and then Hold the dizzy peacock's head and show off its iconic crest and feathers.

... Don't all pheasants look so colorful?And there is only one left on the head, so it can be regarded as a crown feather?Most importantly, it is said that it is a peacock, why does it not have the iconic big tail?What about the peacock's screen?Where?

The village head said very seriously, yes, even if there is only one feather, it is still a crown feather.As for the tail, oops, isn't that a molt, and it will grow out in a few months.

Peacocks begin to fall in love in late spring and early summer every year, when the coat color is the brightest.And when summer comes, peacocks will replace the feathers that have completed the task of attracting females with summer feathers that are more convenient to move around. The first thing to replace is the heavy covert feathers that affect balance, which is also the best feather for peacocks. collection period.

That's right, the huge tails of peacocks when they spread their tails are not their real tails, but just the covert feathers on their tails. The peacock's tail is only a small part, not much longer than a rooster.

Therefore, it is really hard to blame Mubai for thinking peacocks in the moulting period as pheasants. Ahem, after losing the iconic big tail, the peacocks in the low-value appearance are indeed somewhat similar to pheasants. After all, according to later generations According to the classification method, everyone is a cousin of Phasianidae.

Likewise, apart from being similar in appearance, peacocks and pheasants have fairly similar recipes.Although they have a very cold appearance and noble temperament, these little fairies are actually very easy to feed.

"You can live with just a handful of rice." The village head waved his hand, untied the straw rope from the peacock's paw, and stuffed it into Mu Bai's hand. He also told Mu Bai that peacocks in the moulting period have no flying feathers, so they resisted. The ability of natural enemies is much weaker, so be careful of foreign animals when raising them.

Although a beautiful appearance has various complicated meanings in the eyes of humans, in the natural world, no preferential treatment will be given just because of its beauty. Peacocks are just an ordinary link in the ecological chain, and they are still in the middle and lower reaches.

In the eyes of beasts, peacocks are quite popular because they are meaty and run slowly. Since Mubai's house is close to the mountains, there are no carnivorous animals who want to try it.

So, still have to be careful.

The two brothers Mu Bai and Mu Wen ran around and found no prey, and even brought back a small ancestor, so their feelings were naturally a little complicated.

Mu Wen is fine, children's attention is easily diverted, after confirming that the meat is not edible, Mu Wen's thoughts turned to how to raise this big chicken, and he was also interested in digging earthworms to feed peacock eats,

However, for some reason, the peacock refused the favor, and was not interested in the fat earthworm at all. Instead, it swallowed a big cricket that Mu Xiaowen had caught and planned to play with his brother at night.

After all, the child who sincerely paid by mistake endured it, couldn't hold it back, and ran away with tears of Jin Doudou.

Therefore, Mu Bai had to spend the whole afternoon alone to build a small nest with a high safety factor for this peacock who ran from southern Yunnan to northern Yunnan for some reason.Seeing the well-fed peacock huddled comfortably in the straw nest, Mu Bai had an idea and dug traps around the nest.

Huh?etc?trap?

That's right, can you eat and drink for nothing if you have a special status?Even the holy bird cannot be supported by him and Mu Bai. Since he wants to join their big family, then Mr. Peacock (← yes, peacocks with big tails are boys) should also put in some labor. OK.

Mu Bai thought very confidently, and did the same.

The author has something to say:

Yes, peacocks moult every summer, so don’t be foolish to see the birds at this time, you will be disappointed =w=

Peacocks in moulting period are not as good as chickens

In the Song Dynasty, tea was ground into powder and then quickly hit with a tea whisk to make foam, and then someone would quickly draw on it with a small bamboo stick, just like our coffee latte art, making various patterns, and then everyone Let's evaluate and compete together, also called "tea fighting"

The specific way to taste is probably whose painting looks good, whose foam lasts longer, and whose foam is thicker. As for the taste, I don’t care.Especially in the late Song Dynasty, ordering tea was basically not for eating, but for playing.

So can you imagine a group of people sitting in a coffee shop doing coffee latte art, and after finishing it, no one drinks it and just put it there to compare whose latte art finally disappears, and pour it away when the coffee is cold?

This is a very extravagant behavior. In modern times when materials are relatively abundant, if someone plays like this and is photographed on the Internet, they will say you are a waste, not to mention the ancient times when materials were not abundant.In the late Song Dynasty, this was no longer an art, but a display of wealth. Making some latte art did not improve the taste of tea at all.

Moreover, this thing is expensive and time-consuming. The process of ordering tea starts with breaking the tea balls and grinding them into powder. The whole process can be done in three or four hours. The tea balls are also very expensive. The tea leaves and gold are almost It is equivalent. To give an inappropriate example, the gold in our country is 1G503 yuan. In modern times, we drink about 10G of tea at a time. About 5K, if this kind of living expenses is popularized to the public in the future?It is not a good thing for a society to become vain, pompous, full of showing off and comparison.In modern times, some people sell kidneys for apples (so apples are also called kidney machines). In ancient times, there were not a few people who bought and sold children for money.

So in the Ming Dynasty, Lao Zhu directly abolished tea balls and changed them to loose tea (he did not abolish the method of ordering tea), the raw materials were charged, and ordering tea naturally gradually disappeared.Drinking tea has become the brewing method that everyone is used to, and tea has begun to really enter the homes of ordinary people, rather than luxury goods.

As for matcha in Japan, they are cousins ​​to Diancha, but they are not the same. The raw materials are different, and the things to play with are also different. Although everyone’s goal is to have thick foam, Japan is drinking this taste. We Song Dynasty people... are for playing.

I have to say that it is really a literati who can play.

Although many people are now trying to restore the method of ordering tea, I personally think that this thing is okay as a cultural inheritance. If it becomes a normal life like the Song Dynasty, it’s better to forget it. Saving food is more important.

Since someone asked...

Mu Xiaobai doesn't know how to be a monk, his desire for meat is very firm.