Taoyuan leicha

As a native of Taoyuan, if you want to ask about the specialties of my hometown, I will definitely not forget to introduce tea smashing to you.

Of course, it is not as valuable as West Lake Longjing, nor as famous as Beijing Roast Duck. But it is the most popular sansheng soup, which makes you want to stop bowl after bowl.

Because grandma died early, and making tea is generally only for the elderly to make tea themselves, so what I remember most is the tea made by grandma herself.

At that time, my grandmother lived by a stream less than a mile away from us, with her youngest uncle, and the other two uncles and my aunt's house were not far away. On weekends, a group of cousins basically go crazy together. In spring, we pick wild flowers and play hide-and-seek on the mountain behind our house. In summer, we catch shrimps and crabs in the stream in front of our house. In autumn, we pick up the ears of rice after the adults who harvest rice with sickles. In winter, we make snowmen and have snowball fights in the sunshine at our doorstep.

You know, children's world is the most lively. And every time I see a group of Xiong Haizi playing around our house. Grandma will make tea for us to drink with her own hands. Lei tea is mainly fried with tea leaves, peanuts and sesame seeds. It is also called "Sansheng Soup" in China, and there is another story about this statement. At that time, my grandmother told us over and over again.

It is said that in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a general named Ma was ordered to go to Wuling, passing through Taoyuan, Changde. It was midsummer, the heat was unbearable, and it was catching up with the plague epidemic. Most soldiers can't stand being sick, and General Ma himself is sick and bedridden. He had to order a camp to be built on the edge of a hill, send people to seek medical advice, and send uninfected soldiers to help the local people farm.

At that time, an old woman in the village saw that General Ma had strict military discipline, and no matter where she went, she did not commit a crime. She also helps them with farm work. She was very moved, so she took out her ancestral secret recipe and taught the soldiers to make tea for them every day. Miraculously, within a few days, all the sick soldiers recovered one by one, and the plague never spread again. Therefore, the reputation of smashing tea was greatly improved and began to spread widely.

I remember when my cousins heard my grandmother tell this story, they covered their ears. First of all, they heard too much. Besides, they think my grandmother is so amazing at smashing tea that they don't believe it as they grow up. But no matter how hard it is, it can't stop our love for smashing tea. As long as grandma stands under the eaves and shouts, "tea!" " Drink tea! "We will stop playing with everything and go straight to grandma's kitchen after smelling the fragrance.

Although grandma often makes tea for us to drink, her operation is not simple. First of all, there are many raw materials. Besides tea, peanuts and sesame seeds, she also added rice, mung beans or soybeans, ginger and salt.

Put the ginger and salt aside first, and stir-fry the rest separately or in combination. Up to now, in our country, wood stoves and large iron pots are usually used at home, and they are fried quickly and in large quantities, which is particularly fragrant. Then put them together in a mortar and crush them with a hammer (mortar and hammer seemed to be necessary for every family in China at that time), and then use ginger. Chop it up with a knife, as much as possible. After that, you can boil a pot of boiling water on a big fire, put all the raw materials in it, and finally add salt and mix well to drink.

Of course, although tea is similar, some people can freely mix it according to their own preferences. Some drink directly with boiled water or cold water instead of cooking in a pot; After cooking, sprinkle a handful of bubbles in it to satisfy hunger (Bubble is the dialect name of Taoyuan, which actually means that glutinous rice is steamed and dried, and then fried or fried to make it grow up, so as to grab a handful of food in your mouth at any time); There are also sugar instead of salt.

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I haven't drunk homemade tea since my grandmother died. Although there are many teahouses in our city and county, I have only been there once, because my parents hosted a midnight snack arranged by my father-in-law who visited my house for the first time. After all, this is the characteristic of our place.

There are more than a dozen people in our party, including seven aunts and eight children. We went to Taoyuan Snack Street, which is close to Taoyuan Textile Factory. The environment is antique. As soon as we sat down, a waiter came with two pots of tea. The tea was strong and weak, and the special side dishes on the table were set one by one, including melon seeds, peanuts, dried sweet potatoes and wormwood. The real tea smashing became a supporting role.

However, although there were occasional language barriers, the atmosphere was particularly good, and a table of people talked and laughed late. That kind of fate should also have a little credit for smashing tea. I believe that my father-in-law's deepest memory of his trip to Taoyuan should also be the first time in his life to smash tea in Taoyuan.

As the saying goes, the so-called nostalgia for hometown is nothing more than the involvement of people and things. I think, as a Taoyuan person, making tea is the first thing, especially making tea at home. I really want another bowl, another bowl. ...