Chapter 28 Li Bai with wine and tea

There is no doubt that Li Bai is good at drinking. Since the millennium, the only drinker who has left his name is Li Bai.Compared with the characters who can be on the stage, Cao Cao's "How can I relieve my worries? Only Du Kang", as for Wu Song's Eighteenth Bowl, it is not a romantic figure, but a hero.But heroes, throughout the history of ancient and modern China and foreign countries, are all supporting roles.Otherwise, when it comes to the character of Li Bai, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty often just plays a supporting role for him.There are 1,500 Li Bai's poems that can be consulted so far. According to Guo Moruo's textual research, those who wrote about wine accounted for 16%, which is obviously inseparable from poetry and wine.However, Li Bai was not the only poet in the Tang Dynasty who could drink. His poet friend Du Fu had 1,400 poems, and 20% of them wrote alcohol. First of all, Du Fu, a great wine saint, was covered up alive.Du Fu's wine name was covered up by Li Bai, and he tried his best to promote Li Bai's wine name. Du Fu wrote in "Eight Immortals in Drinking": "Li Bai fights wine with a hundred poems, and sleeps in a restaurant in Chang'an; the emperor can't get on the boat. Claiming to be a minister of wine."

Li Bai can drink, but Du Fu can't?Is it that the historical evaluation system is too biased, and Li Bai is the only one?It is estimated that the mystery here is that Li Bai's poems must be spawned by wine: poems, smelling of wine; people, writing in a drunk state in a wine room, referred to as drunk writing.Du Fu may drink more than Li Bai, but he doesn't write drunk, or doesn't often write drunk. Most of his poems are written when he is awake, so Du Fu lost the opportunity to complement each other with poetry and wine. Poetry, drinking is drinking, so people in the world don't know that Du Fu can still drink, which is somewhat unfair to Du Fu.Then again, although Li Bai was called by the Imperial Academy, he was a freelance writer based on his writing career. Du Fu was not. It cannot be considered that history has been unfair to Du Fu.

Apparently so, as Du Fu said, Li Bai's Hundred Poems on Wine, the word Dou, only says it is a fight of struggle, as long as Li Bai has a Dou of wine, his poetry is like the water of the Three Gorges surging, the word Dou, Exact judgment is a verb, not a measure word. It is interpreted as a measure word in the market, and it is just a rhetorical trick to use wine to forcefully pour wine. , 18 altars, 18 cylinders... people who talk about this have occasionally seen it.Li Baidou's hundred poems on wine, these hundred poems are adjectives.Otherwise, based on Li Bai's 1,500 poems and his drinking capacity, one bucket of one hundred articles is counted, and his life is only 150 buckets of wine.If it is true that wine is measured by buckets, there are indeed many people who can drink 150 buckets of wine in their lifetime, which should be far from the title of Jiuxian. I think that Wu Song just turned over Jingyanggang and drank eighteen bowls.How many "Jingyang Ridges" should a hero like Wu Song climb over in his life?

Li Bai is fighting wine, not drinking it with a bucket of wine, nor is it measured like drinking two buckets of wine. This issue should be no longer entangled, and the tradition of fighting wine has remained very intact, but the difference is the difference in fighting skills. and also.But what kind of wine did Li Bai drink?For thousands of years, it is still a mystery. Baijiu is definitely not. Li Bai's name also has a white, and this white is not the other white.It is widely rumored that the wine Li Bai drinks is only low-alcohol rice wine, but you can drink it but you can’t think that he really has a large capacity for alcohol. Let Li Bai drink 56 degrees Erguotou to see if he can still fight wine poems?Indeed, one year, I went to Fang County in Shennongjia. This place used to be called Fangchuan, also called Lulingzhou. It was the place where Wu Zetian exiled her own son Li Xian. This place still drinks a kind of imperial wine. .Imperial wine, the court wine brought by King Luling from Chang'an, also includes 360 kinds of wine regulations.

There are 360 ​​kinds of wine rules for wine fighting, which are still popular in Shennongjia area. During ordinary banquets, some of them are always used, such as turning the cup, laughing at each other, jumping, catching sparrows, etc. These ways of fighting wine, in the After staying in Shennongjia for ten and a half months, you can probably learn a little bit about it.It is a pity that imperial wine has been hidden deep in the deep old forests of Shennongjia, and there are no hundreds of millions of wine shops spread all over the land of China, so that today's common people can taste the brewing flavor of the Tang Empire.

It is difficult to count the number of times I got drunk in Shennongjia, but it will not be less than ten times.The color of Huangjiu is light brown, slightly sweet in the mouth, and gradually diffuses the aroma of the wine. Compared with Shaojiu, Huangjiu, which is also rice wine, does not have the sour and astringent taste of Shaojiu. , drink, drink still.However, its staying power cannot be underestimated, or it can make people float on the spot.The great imperial wine is so wonderful that you can drink it so that you can continue to drink it. You must drink it yourself. It is brewed with water from the fairyland of Shennongjia and rice. The production environment will not be far from that of the Tang Dynasty.

After drinking the imperial wine, I really believed that the rice wine Li Bai drank was different from all kinds of wine in reality. The wine of the Tang Dynasty was not lost, but only popular among the small crowd.Generations of mountain people in Shennongjia drink the imperial wine of the Tang Dynasty and talk about the rules of the wine of the Tang Dynasty. They live in the mountains and often tell the guests about King Luling and Xue Gang, and serve the guests with the imperial wine while talking.Having said that, the alcohol content of imperial wine is not high, but the law of drunkenness cannot be escaped. It is often the result of every heavy drink. The wine is not yet cloudy, just like the landscape of Shennongjia.

There is wine fighting in the world, and tea fighting is mainly reflected in the Song Dynasty. However, tea became popular in the Tang Dynasty. However, it is still in the stage of taking its medicinal value. There should be many opportunities for tea, but after reading many tea books, there are so many literati in history, only Li Bai does not drink tea.Li Bai doesn't drink tea, why is it difficult to obtain evidence? Is it a personal hobby? Didn't Lu Yu of the Tang Dynasty also drink alcohol? This year I even read the tea scriptures and suddenly saw Li Bai discussing tea. This incident almost subverted my impression of Li Bai.According to the introduction of the tea book, Li Bai also wrote the article "Li Taibai Collection • Preface to Zhongfu Yuquan Immortal Palm Tea to the Nephew of the Family": I heard that Yuquan Temple in Jingzhou is close to the mountains of Qingxi, and there are often milk caves in the caves. , There are many caves and Yuquan exchanges.Among them are white bats, as big as crows.According to "The Book of Immortals": "A bat is a fairy mouse. After a thousand years, its body is like white snow. It inhabits and hangs upside down, and it grows by drinking milk and water." There are grasses growing everywhere near the water, and the branches and leaves are like jasper.But Zhen Gong of Yuquan often picks and drinks it. He is more than eighty years old, and his color is like peach blossoms. This tea is different from other teas in terms of its fragrance, smoothness and ripeness, so it can restore youth and revitalize life, and help people live longer.When I traveled to Jinling, I saw dozens of tea leaves from Zongfu Zhongfu. They were rolled like heavy mulberry leaves and shaped like palms. They were named "Xianrenzhang" tea.Gaixin comes from the mountain of Yuquan, which has not been completed since ancient times.Because of the knowledge I held, I also donated poems, and I wanted to answer them, so I wrote this work.Later, the eminent monk Dayin knew that "Xianrenzhang" tea originated from Zhongfu Chanzi and Qinglian Layman Li Bai.

A kind of cactus tea that was born on the edge of Yuquan Temple. Li Bai had never seen it before. Because Zhongfu gave him dozens of tea samples, I began to doubt whether it was written by Li Bai, but when I thought of "Peach Blossom" The running water is a thousand feet deep, and it is not as good as Wang Lun's love for me." You can understand that Li Bai is not a god after all. Li Bai is not a member of the tea ceremony, so it is not unusual to write such an advertisement text for a kind of tea.But it is not Li Bai's style to say that he has never encountered rare tea products in ancient times, and he just contributed some fun to the world.It is a pity that the collections of Li Bai compiled by the people of the Tang Dynasty have not been handed down. There are 30 volumes of "Li Taibai Anthology" compiled in the Northern Song Dynasty, which were engraved in Suzhou, namely "Su Ben". collection of Li Bai.During the reign of Kangxi, Miao Yuefeng was reprinted according to the Shu version, and it was called Miao version.The latter is the annotator of Li Baiji. Yang Qixian in the Southern Song Dynasty has 25 volumes of "Li Hanlin Ji", and the "Li Baiji Annotation" written by Qu Yuyuan and Zhu Jincheng is the most detailed annotation of Li Baiji so far.

Li Bai and tea, it’s just such a story, after all, he is a wine fairy, let Zheng Banqiao drink the tea, and when Zheng Banqiao drinks the tea, he drinks it "rarely confused", which is unexpected.