The Year of the Dragon has arrived, and many people must be facing the reality of renewing the job responsibilities of the unit after experiencing the annual assessment. In fact, the job description book is not only modern times, but has been available as early as the Western Han Dynasty.
During the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Bao, a native of Zizhong (now Ziyang), lived in the house of Yang Hui, a widow in Anzhili, Chengdu, and fought wits and courage with a bearded slave named "Ben" who renewed the contract. This kind of thing that kills two birds with one stone, I'm afraid that even Wang Bao didn't expect it at that time.
Then he asked the new master Wang Bao to write clearly what he should do: "Since this is the case, you should also write everything you want me to do in the contract clearly in the contract, as Master Yang did when he bought me, otherwise I won't do it!" ”
Presumably, because he was illiterate or illiterate, he deliberately embarrassed the new master who made him dissatisfied. As everyone knows, Wang Bao is good at resignation, proficient in the six arts, writing articles is a piece of cake for him, so in order to teach a lesson, make it obedient, and in order to put him in the right position, not to interfere with his interaction with Yang, he wrote a 600-word contract - "Servant Contract", which is now the "Job Responsibilities Book", which lists the labor items and time one by one.
After a few days, the complicated work on the contract made it unbearable, and I had to confess to the new master, Wang Bao: "If you work like this, I am afraid that you will soon be tired and die of loess. ”
Later generations can see from the ridicule and humorous sentences in Wang Bao's "The Covenant" that in fact, this is just a pastime of the author on a whim. I didn't expect that Wang Bao would unintentionally insert willows and willows in this kind of daily ridicule with his servants, and he actually left a very important document for the history of Chinese tea. According to the data, tea is mentioned in two places in the "Servant Covenant", namely "cooking tea is exhausted, and the wine has been covered" and "Wuyang buys tea, and Yang's bears the load". "Cooking tea" means frying tea and preparing clean tea utensils, while "buying tea in Wuyang" refers to going to Wuyang, a neighboring county (now Shuangjiang Town, Pengshan District, south of Chengdu) to buy tea.
It can be seen that tea has become a must-have in Wang Bao's daily life. And Wuyang is known as "Nan'an, Wuyang are famous for tea" ("Huayang Guozhi Shu Zhi"). Therefore, going to Wuyang to buy tea has become one of the convenient jobs. What's even more interesting is that after this "Servant Covenant" was seen by tea history researchers, they learned that in the era of Wang Bao's life, tea had become a commodity to be sold in the market. This shows that tea drinking has at least become a favorite drink for middle and upper class people, which shows that tea drinking has been popular in the Western Han Dynasty.
The time of "buying tea in Wuyang" mentioned in the "Covenant" is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in 59 BC. If William Oakes, an authority on American tea science, had seen Wang Bao's "Covenant" and understood the historical significance of tea represented by "Wuyang Buying Tea" when he wrote "The Complete Book of Tea", he would not have arbitrarily written "In the fifth century, tea gradually became a commodity" and "At the end of the sixth century, tea changed from medicinal use to drink". After all, the time of "buying tea in Wuyang" was five centuries ahead of their "fifth century".
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