Yi Zhi (1) is pregnant in Yishui (2) Kongsang (3), through ghosts and gods, good food (4), is a female teacher and servant of the Xin family (5), and marries in business. Wang Lingzhi took charge of the palace and ordered the world to offer auspicious beasts as their materials. Worship the ghosts and gods, take the fire as the flame, participate in the stars, set the Quartet, lie Jiuding to the array of Xuanming, Yun Yin and Yang as the two comprehensives, and get the soup of the world. The king said, "I have the spirit of heaven and earth." Zhi said: "The insects of the three groups of husbands, those who live in water are fishy, those who are fleshy (6) are ashamed, and those who are herbivores are fat." The smell is still beautiful, and there is a reason for it. Only one of the things of tea, the spirit of the stars, the breath of the mother of the earth, the vigor of spring, its soup and immortals, its effect is spiritual. "The king sacrifices the world and gets tea, because the people ignore the law, but pass it on. Zhi said: "All things in the world are born in the Tao, their lives are Xuanhuang, and their laws are like the country, all according to the law." "The king has tested it, and it is the tea method.
Yicha Law "Cloud: The foundation of all tastes, water is the beginning. Five flavors and three materials, nine boiling and nine changes, fire for the age. When the disease is slow, the bitterness is eliminated and the astringency is removed, it will be victorious, the temperature is hot, and the essence is abandoned, without losing its reason. The things that are blended must be sweet, sour, bitter, pungent, and salty, and mixed with salt to increase their freshness, and add ginger and onions, spicy flavor, orange peel and dogwood, mint corn, and soup porridge to be hungry. How many successes, their Qi is very small, and they all have their own origins. The change in the tripod, the subtle microfiber, the mouth can speak, the zhi can speak, if the shooting is small, the transformation of yin and yang, the number of four hours. Therefore, it is scorching but not scorching, boiling but not old, flashy but not radiant, sweet but not thick, bitter but not cool, salty but not reduced, astringent but not strong, thick but not thin, fragrant but not exhausted. The beauty of water, the dew of the three dangers, the well of Kunlun, the hill of the frustrated river, the name of the shaking water, the water of the mountain, the mountain of high springs, there are springs on it, the plain of Jizhou. The beauty of tea, the sizawa (7) Jia Ye, makes people tireless; The West Sea wishes for the rest, so that people do not hunger; Fu Yu kui tip, so that people are not confused; (8), which makes people infertile; Kunlun Shenxue (9), so that people have gods; Curved wood (10), which makes people powerful; Li'er Wood (11), so that people do not forget; Shedding (12) planting (13), so that people do not sleep; The cow's head ghost leaves make people forget their worries; 畛水 (14) ten-grass makes people beautiful; Qin room oak wood (15), so that people are not jealous. Therefore, it is impossible to reach the horse, the horse of the green dragon, and the ride of the wind. If you are not the first Son of Heaven, you can't get it. Tea is beautiful, its effect is beneficial to people, its taste is fragrant, its nature is minimal, its virtue is good, its rational channel, its method of cultivation, and Taoism. Therefore, the Son of Heaven must not be forced, but must know first. The Taoist stops at himself, he becomes the Son of Heaven and the Son of Heaven becomes the taste. Therefore, the trial is close so it is far away, and it is also the best way to become oneself. The way of the saint is to be carried out, and the more karma there is.
Notes] Excerpt from "Shishantang Strange Chronicles". The author Chen Zhen, the word is one, and he is from Minding. Based on Chinese tea culture, the author collects and imitates the stories of the ancients' tea customs, and fakes historical news.
1) Yi Zhi: Yi Yin (?) 1550 BC), Mingzhi, Yin was an official name, a figure in the late Xia and early Shang periods. The founding father of the Shang Dynasty, a statesman, a military strategist, and a thinker.
2) Yishui: Yishui is a river recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".
3) Empty mulberry: hollow mulberry tree. Li Bai's "Ji Nanling Inscription Five Song Mountain": Yi Yin gave birth to Kongsang and donated to the emperor.
4) 庖馔 (zhuàn): refers to a dish. From "Qi Dongye Yu Hong Duanming into the Underworld".
5) Teacher and servant: the tutor (slave) of the children of the slave owner and noble.
6) 肉玃 (jué): 玃同攫. Grabbing meat and eating refers to the genus of eagle eagles.
7) 泑 (yōu) Ze: An ancient name for a lake, which is located in the Lop Nur region of present-day Xinjiang, China.
8) 蓇 (gū) 蓉: A legendary herb.
9) 神薲 (pín): A legendary perennial aquatic fern.
10) 櫰 (guī) wood: a legendary sacred tree.
11) 櫔 (lì) wood: a legendary sacred tree with chestnut-like fruits.
12) 扈 (hù): 扈 Mountain, in the north of present-day Ruicheng County, Shanxi.
13) Plant 楮 (chǔ): A legendary herb.
14) 畛 (zhěn) water: 畛水 is a river recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".
15) 栯 (yǒu) wood: a legendary alien wood.
Translation] Shang Dynasty Yiyin, Mingzhi. Born from a hollow mulberry tree by the Yinshui River, he has the ability to communicate and drive away ghosts and spirits, and is also a skilled chef. After Yi Yin was born, he was adopted as a slave by the lord of Youshen and became the tutor of the princess of Youxin, and later followed the princess to marry to the Shang Dynasty and became a capable minister of Shang Tang.
Shang Tang knew Yi Yin's ability, so he put him in charge of the imperial kitchen, and passed on the king's order to pay tribute to the world and exotic beasts as ingredients. After sacrificing to the ghosts and gods, Yi Yin drove them to steal the Sheji Divine Fire as fuel, understand the mysteries of the stars, determine the position of the gods in the four directions, communicate with the Yin gods in a nine-tripod array, reconcile the qi of yin and yang, and cook the world's delicacies for Shang Tang.
Shang Tang said: "I have enjoyed the top food in heaven and earth. ”
Yi Yin said: "There are three types of rare and exotic beasts in the world, the aquariums swimming in the water have a fishy smell, the carnivorous animals on land have a foul smell, and the grazing birds and beasts have a foul smell. These ingredients, whether they are foul smelly or delicious, are due to their special numerological reasons. There is only one kind of plant that can be used for tea, they absorb the aura of the stars upward, gather the aura of the earth downward, pick the sprouts that sprout in spring and cook soup, and their deliciousness can reach the immortal product, and the effect has its own magical powers. ”
Shang Tang also issued a royal order to the world to find new sprouts of tea, and after getting the tea, because of the illegality of the tea maker, he sent Yi Yin to inquire.
Yi Yin said: "There are spiritual gods in the world, they are derivatives of the Tao, and numerology contains the chaotic qi of heaven and earth. The method of boiling tea is like governing the country, you must understand numerology, and only according to the laws of numerology can you make delicious food. ”
SenseTime asked Yi Yin to verify his claims and pass on the Yi Tea Law as a national treasure.
Yicha Law: The root of tea flavor lies in water, and the quality of water determines the final taste of tea from the beginning. The balance of the five tastes (sweet, sour, bitter, pungent, and salty) and the quality of the three materials (water, fire, and wood) are infinitely changing when boiling tea, and the method of controlling fire must be measured.
Fast boiling on high heat and slow simmering over low heat, and adjusting the bitterness in the soup by controlling the fire, can the tea soup be made; Open flame decoction and dark fire simmering soup can discard the bad parts of the tea and save the essence, which must know the numerology law of tea so as not to lose its inner quality.
The harmony of tea soup must be based on the five flavors of sweetness, sourness, bitterness, pungent and salty, and reasonable salt can increase the freshness of tea soup; Add ginger and green onions, which will add color and spicy taste; If you add orange peel, dogwood, mint, corn, etc., it is generally boiled tea porridge to satisfy hunger. When to add ingredients, how much to add, how many kinds of ingredients to add or not to add, you need to consider whether to drink as tea or tea porridge, everything must be clear.
The changes in Dingzhong tea soup are subtle and subtle, and there are thousands of changes, among which the truth cannot be expressed through words, and it is impossible to learn to grasp the law of change through other people's ideas. Just like the archery technique realized by the marksman, it is the manifestation of the way of yin and yang in the heart, and the changes of the four seasons are different mathematics. Therefore, the boiling tea can not be burned, the boiling water can not be old, the essence of the tea soup gathers but does not disperse, sweet but not thick, has a proper bitter taste, salty is not excessive, astringent but not stuck, elegant but not thin, fragrant but not strong.
The best water: the spiritual dew of Sanwei Mountain; the well springs of Kunlun Mountain; In the hills by the Fu River, there is a sacred spring called Shake Water; said the water of the mountains; In the mountains of the high springs, there are springs in the mountains; Water from the source of the rivers in the Jizhou area.
The best tea: the tea of Takizawa Mingjia leaves, which makes people eliminate tiredness; The tea of the West Sea will not make people hungry; Fu Yu's famous kuijian tea, so that people are not bewitched; The tea of the name of the silver is used to make people contraceptive; The tea of Kunlun's famous god makes people sober; The tea of the name of the song is made to enhance people's strength; The tea of the famous tree makes people enhance their memory; The tea that takes off the name of the plant makes people not sleep; The tea of the first ghost leaf of the cow makes people forget their sorrows; The tea of the famous grass in the water makes people look beautiful; The tea of the Qin family's famous oak wood makes people not jealous.
The location of all these extreme spiritual objects is difficult for non-divine horses to reach, only divine horses such as Qinglong and Relic Wind can. If you don't understand the way of heaven and become the son of heaven who has become all things in the world, you can't enjoy these spiritual things. The reason why tea has become a beautiful spiritual creature is because its efficacy benefits others, and the taste and aroma are the essence of heaven and earth; And the nature of tea is minimalist, virtuous and good, and the inner numerology is connected with the avenue. The method of boiling tea is the application of the law of the Great Dao, and in the practice of the Tao and the Law, the two are interdependent and complementary to each other. Therefore, to become the Son of Heaven of all things in the world, he cannot force war to unify, but must first be moral. The place of the Tao is not in the teaching of others, but in one's own understanding. After comprehending the way of heaven, he naturally became the son of heaven of all things in the world, and the son of heaven felt that all the beauty in the world was beautiful, and all things showed the most extreme delicacy to the son of heaven.
Therefore, it is said that only by judging the near can we know the far, and we can become ourselves. The way of the saints is the most important thing, and it is not to do a lot of trivial things for the enjoyment of food!