Chapter 354 The Romance of Literati(2/2)
"Don't be restrained, just treat it as your own."
Seeing that Yu Hua was really restrained, Lin Chaoyang found a topic and asked, "This is the first time Yu Hua has eaten mutton hotpot?"
"yes."
"Speaking of this, you can eat this way of eating shabu shabu in Jiangsu and Zhejiang much earlier than in our north."
Yu Hua looked at Lin Chaoyang curiously, waiting for his noble statement.
"In the Southern Song Dynasty, Lin Hong wrote a book called "Shanjia Qing Gong", which specializes in recording elegant diet. One of them is about him going to Wuyi Mountain to become a disciple in winter and getting a rabbit in the snow.
His master told him that he could only thinly put rabbit meat in the mountains, marinate it with wine, sauce, and pepper, and then sit in the water in a blast stove. After the water boils, each person has a pair of chopsticks, pick up the meat into the soup and place it in cooked, dip it in different juices with their own preferences.
He commented that this way of eating is not only simple, but also "has the joy of reunion and warmth".
Five or six years later, he visited Yang Yongzhai's house in Lin'an and saw this way of eating. Yang Yongzhai was a poet and wrote poems specifically for this:
The waves are surging and the snow is snowing, and the wind is shaking the sunset.
Jiang Xue and the surging are all in the pot, while the sunset is sliced meat. Lin Hong gave this method of eating a poetic name, "Boxia Gong", and explained that not only rabbit meat, but also pig, olka, beef.
So, you eat this shabu pork much earlier than ours in the north.”
Seeing that Lin Chaoyang was able to tell an allusion, Yu Hua couldn't help but admire Lin Chaoyang's erudition and talent.
At this time, Lin Chaoyang said again: "It is best to eat shabu-shabu pork in the wind and snow. The snow is dazzling, covered with silver, and the flying flowers are scattered and intertwined, and you will see the charcoal fire again, and it will have a unique artistic conception.
The red meat, the green vegetables, the wind, snow, waves, clouds, and poetic."
Yu Hua couldn't help but immerse himself in the picture depicted by Lin Chaoyang, and he actually experienced endless poetry from a meal of mutton.
He first saw what the knowledge of food is! What is the romance of literati!
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Chapter completed!