According to legend, there lived a poor scholar named Yi Kui in Chen Zhong Township, Xiangtan County. Mother and son live together, and life is hard. Yi Kui is smart and studious. He is a scholar at the age of 17. He could have taken the exam the next year, but in order to take care of his sick mother, he gave up the opportunity three times in a row. At the age of 28, my mother said she would take him to the exam. After the exam, he hurried home and looked at it, stunned. It turned out that the old mother was unconscious with a wick in her mouth. Yi Kui was very sad and regretted leaving her mother. He was so anxious that he finally found some glutinous rice.
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He quickly ground the glutinous rice, put some sugar, steamed it into cakes, cut it into wick shapes and fed it to his mother one by one. Strange to say, after feeding, her mother opened her eyes and could speak soon. Yi Kui was very happy and told everyone. Soon, the good news came, and he got a juren exam. At this time, his mother was fully recovered, which was a double happiness. Since then, every household in Chen Zhong has learned to make this kind of cake. Its name is "Wick Cake". Later, the wick cake spread to the county town, and after scientific ingredients in the pastry workshop, repeated experiments and careful production, it became a valuable food in Xiangtan.
Junshan, Dongting Lake, Hunan Province produces famous tea with silver needles. It is said that the first seed of Junshan tea was planted in E Huang and Nv Ying more than 4000 years ago. Li Siyuan, the second emperor in the late Tang Dynasty, held a cup of tea for him when he first went to court. When boiling water was poured into the cup, he immediately saw a white mist rising and a white crane slowly appeared. The crane nodded to Mingzong three times, and then flew into the blue sky.
Looking into the cup again, the tea leaves in the cup are all upright, just like a group of bamboo shoots that have broken through the ground. After a while, it sinks slowly, just like snowflakes falling. Mingzong felt very strange and asked the courtiers what the reason was. The courtier replied: "This is because Baihequan (that is, Liu Yijing) in Junshan has soaked Huang Yu (that is, silver needle tea)." Mingzong was very happy and immediately decided to make Junshan silver needle into "tribute tea". When Junshan silver needle is brewed, the tea buds stand in the cup, which is very beautiful.