Lin Qingxuan and I are colleagues. Of course, I won't have the cheek to say that I am as good as others' general works, but that the master once had a ten-year journalist career-it is said that it is a shame for us to write four or five thousand words an hour!
Most journalists have a rough life, such as master Qing Xuan's "romantic poetry, wine and tea". My colleague, beauty reporter S, counts as one.
Yesterday, S went out for an interview, drove through an alley, and met an old woman selling a bouquet of wintersweet on the roadside: seven or eight branches were tied into a bunch with pink plastic ropes; On the dry branches, the goose yellow flowers with big nails are matched with lovely buds like beans, which are fragrant and delicate!
Stop, this bag is round. After putting all the bouquets in the trunk, I took a photo and sent it to my circle of friends. Just four words: who wants it? sign up
It's not good to fight fast. Fortunately, s is kind, knowing that I like flowers and plants, I reserved a bunch.
Although flowers are good, people who cherish them are more important. Wang Yangming, a great thinker and Confucian in the Ming Dynasty, once said, "If you didn't see this flower, it died with you. When you come to see this flower, the color of this flower will be understood for a while. " This only stays at the level of "seeing". If we love flowers, understand them and live up to them, Lin Qingxuan will be even better.
In Lin Qingxuan's works, drinking, a vulgar and worldly thing of the gentry, was immediately refined by adding "flowers" as seasoning.
For example, in Warm a Pot of Moonlight Wine, he wrote-
Drinking is philosophical. Preparing a lot of appetizers and drinking in a mess is the way to drink. A few peanuts, a plate of dried tofu, three or five friends, the world is all over. It's a good idea to drink alone until I raise my glass, ask the bright moon, bring my shadow and let the three of us.
Regarding the excellent drinking method, in spring, you can drink acanthopanax bark in front of the azaleas in full bloom in the garden; In summer, I drink beer in the wild flowers on the tree; Autumn dusk, bamboo leaves boiled chrysanthemum, people drunk Haitang; In winter and cold season, facing the honeysuckle in the fence, make a pot of Daqu with wintersweet. These things have reached the point where there is nothing to drink.
The four seasons are different, each flower matches each wine ... Master realm, pay attention!
Fortunately, it is winter in the south of the Yangtze River, and there is a faint fragrance of wintersweet lingering in the streets and alleys from time to time.
When working at night shift, it is absolutely impossible to "share a pot of Daqu with Lameiwen", but a roundabout way can always be found: Master Lin once wrote the book "Ordinary Tea is Extraordinary", which has been brought to this company from the last company in my office for more than ten years and has been occupying a square space on the bookshelf for chatting.
Osmanthus fragrans, lotus fragrance, chrysanthemum Pu 'er, fermented herbal tea, cold-dipped silver needle, sun-dried tea, Yunxiang tea, pine nut tea, agarwood ... Master is proficient in tea ceremony, why is there no wintersweet tea? Want to come or because Taiwan Province Province is located in the tropics, and there are no plum blossoms in winter?
However, wintersweet can really be used to make tea. Chinese medicine says it can clear away heat and toxic materials and prevent colds and colds. However, as a traditional Chinese medicine, wintersweet is cold and weak, so pregnant women should not drink wintersweet tea.
When making wintersweet tea, the choice of flowers is very particular, and it is advisable to use "half-blooming" flowers: the so-called "half-blooming, slightly drunk wine" is good.
Boiled water can also be supplemented with other white tea and green tea. But only people who have drunk know that wintersweet is bitter, and the brewed tea also has bitterness. When the water temperature drops slightly, it is better to drink with honey.
If you want to store it, you need to put the selected wintersweet on a mat and expose it to the sun until the petals are dehydrated, and then you can carefully store it in a tea jar. If so, the color, fragrance and taste of Chimonanthus praecox can be appreciated and tasted all year round.