Erya Cao Shi XIII, tea, bitter vegetables. Sonchus oleraceus is a perennial herb of Compositae. In the Book of Songs, who called tea bitter, the national wind of the country, and the valley wind of the country? It is as sweet as a cup of tea. The book of songs is full of tea in July, and the book of songs is full of purple tea. It is generally believed that tea in the above poems refers to bitter vegetables. The bitter vegetables recorded in Lu Ji's Poems on Plants, Birds, Animals and Fish in Shi Mao are characterized by growing in Shan Ye or swamps, and being sweet and crisp when eaten in first frost. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica in the Ming Dynasty (Volume 27) recorded a bitter medicine: seedlings were born in early spring, the stems were hollow, and white juice would flow out intermittently. Yellow flowers are similar to wild chrysanthemums. Their seeds have white hairs and can fly with the wind. Bitter vegetables are the original meaning of tea and taste bitter. After frosting, they taste sweet, so they are as sweet as tea.
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Notes in Zheng Xuan's Zhou Guan in the Eastern Han Dynasty: Tea, Maoxiu and Maoxiu are white awns attached to the seeds of budding grass. In The Book of Songs Zheng Guofeng Guo Out of the East Gate, some women like to drink tea, while idioms like to be in full swing. The above-mentioned tea leaves are generally considered to refer to white hair show. Maoxiu is an extension of tea, because white awns are attached to the seeds of bitter vegetables, and then extend from bitter vegetables to thatched Maoxiu.
Tea sets are bitter and astringent, so we use the same bitter tea (bitter vegetables) to refer to tea.
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From Mao Xiu to Lu Hua, it was interpreted as purple Polygonum hydropiper and polluted land. Erya has ten eyes and fourteen eyes, bitter tea. If you are wooden, you should be wooden, so bitter tea is also wooden. Therefore, bitter tea comes not from grass, but from wood. Erya was not written by one person at a time, but was finally written in the Western Han Dynasty. It is a collection of ancient exegesis before the Western Han Dynasty. From Er Ya to the Western Han Dynasty, it can be confirmed that replacing tea with vegetables will not be later than the Western Han Dynasty.
In the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Baozan praised "Tongyue", making all the tea, and Wuyang bought tea. It is generally believed that tea here refers to tea. Because, if it is a common bitter dish in other places, there is no need to go to Wuyang far away to buy it. Wang Bao's Tongyue is scheduled for the third year of Xuandi Shenjue in the Western Han Dynasty (59 BC), and borrowing tea refers to tea before 59 BC. "Shuo Wen Jie Zi": Xun, vanilla also, set the tone from the grass. Duan Yucai Note: Vanilla is used as grass fragrance. The original meaning of glutinous rice refers to vanilla or grass fragrance. Tea set is used to refer to tea because of its fragrance. Yang Xiong's Yan Fang in the Western Han Dynasty: Southwestern Sichuan people say that tea is the bane. But in dialect, it should mean that there is only tea in southwest Sichuan, and there is only this kind in ancient books.