Brief introduction of arthralgia drinking:
Bitong drink is to pick fresh lotus leaves that are rolled up like lamps and just surfaced to hold wine, pierce the heart of the leaves to make them communicate with the stems, and then suck the wine from the stems. People drink the lotus stems and the wine flows into the mouth. It is one of the summer festivals. Lotus leaves used to hold wine are called "Lotus Cup", "Lotus Lamp" and "Blue Tube Cup". Because the stem is bent like a trunk, it is called "trunk cup".
For example, Quotations mentioned that Li Zongmin, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, gave a banquet, with water as a seat and lotus leaves as a wine glass in midsummer. Tie the lotus leaf full of wine tightly, then put it in a person's mouth, poke a hole with chopsticks and drink it. If you can't finish it in one bite, drink it again. Use the lotus leaf as a cup and drink it with chopsticks. Don't spill it, or you will be punished. Many people will be punished and everyone will be happy.
The drinking method with lotus leaf as cup first appeared in Cao Wei era. At that time, some people gave a banquet to drink, taking lotus leaves as cups, sticks through petioles, and handles as pipes for drinking, which was called "blue pipe drinking". According to the ancients, that feeling is "the wine smells like lotus, and the fragrance is better than water cooling".
Lotus plays an important role in Jinan people's life. In the use of lotus, Jinan has some special customs. Among them, the most interesting is the blue tube drink.
According to the records of Ren Duan in Youyang Miscellanies in the Tang Dynasty, in ancient times, when the lotus flowers in Daming Lake were in full bloom, some officials and scholars often went to the lake to escape the summer. They cut off the big lotus leaves in the lake, filled them with wine, and then stabbed them in the center with hairpins to make them communicate with the hollow lotus stems.
People drink wine from the end of the lotus stem, and the taste, in the words of the literati who experienced it at that time, is "the wine is mixed with lotus fragrance, and the fragrance is better than water cooling." This is the beautiful talk "Bitong Drink" handed down by literati in Tang and Song Dynasties. In Jinan, lotus leaves can be made into wine and many unique foods.
For example, fresh green lotus leaves are slightly scalded with hot water, covered with porridge when they are cooked, and then added with sugar when the cooked porridge is cold, which is a famous snack in Jinan in summer; Traditionally, "rice flour meat" or "steamed meat";
First, cut the pork, stir-fry the rice, mix with soy sauce, then choose the tender lotus leaf only the size of a bowl produced by Daming Lake, wash it, wrap a piece of pork with lotus leaf and a proper amount of fried rice, spread it in a bowl, and then steam it in a steamer. After steaming, it becomes "lotus seed meat". Eating is eating meat with lotus leaves, which is delicious with pork and the fragrance of lotus leaves, especially delicious.