The poet said: "On a cold night, guests come for tea and wine, and the bamboo stove soup is boiling and the fire is just beginning to turn red."
On a cold and windy winter night, a guest suddenly came to visit. I quickly entertained him with tea instead of wine. The stove was burning brightly, the coals inside were blazing red, and the water in the pot was boiling.
The "bamboo stove" here refers to a small bowl used to hold charcoal fire. Simply put, it is a small stove with a woven bamboo strip decoration on the outside. It is very elegant and deeply loved. A favorite among "tea addicts".
When it comes to "cooking snow to make tea", we need to talk about a man named Tao Gu in the Northern Song Dynasty. It is said that one day it snowed heavily, and Tao Gu came up with an ingenious idea to use snow water to make tea. , the taste is particularly fresh and sweet. Therefore, many people think that he is the first person to "cook snow and cook tea".
In fact, as early as the Tang Dynasty, Bai Juyi wrote the poem "Leng Yongshuang Poems, Tasting Snow Tea in Leisure" and praised "Snow Tea". This also shows that making tea with snow has been around for a long time, but it only became popular in the Song Dynasty.
"Snow Water Tea" was also mentioned in "A Dream of Red Mansions". Jia Baoyu went to Caicui Temple and drank Miaoyu's tea and praised it repeatedly. Miaoyu explained: "This is the snow on the plum blossoms that I collected while staying at Xuan Tomb Panxiang Temple five years ago.
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