A group of foreign consuls and businessmen were screaming at the dinner table, what was going on?
I have to start from the beginning:
Lin Zexu is known as "the first person to open his eyes to see the world". In December 1838, the Daoguang Emperor appointed Lin Zexu as his pro-messenger minister to Guangzhou to ban smoking.
In March 1839, Lin Zexu arrived in Guangzhou, and the British consul in Guangzhou, Yi Lu, and the merchants of the Thirteen Lines wanted to win him over, so they set up a banquet to invite Lin Zexu. Lin Zexu went to the banquet, Guangzhou is very hot, the last course of the banquet is cold dessert ice cream, Lin Zexu has not seen ice cream, because the cold is steaming, Lin Zexu thought that it was just out of the pot is relatively hot, he blew it before eating, those Western consuls and other people present here, all laughed loudly, joke Lin Zexu has never seen the world. Lin Zexu said very calmly, this dim sum seems to be very hot, but it is actually very cold!
Coming and going without being rude, soon after, Lin Zexu set up a banquet back to please, according to Chinese etiquette are famous dishes, the last dish on the dessert, a very beautiful, Tai Chi pattern dish "betel nut taro paste", these foreigners here, where have seen this, think it is the same dessert as ice cream, they all scooped a spoonful, directly into the mouth, once into the mouth to know how hot, when the hot jumped up from the chair! Opening his mouth and screaming, Lin Zexu said very calmly: This dish is called "betel nut taro puree", which is the opposite of ice cream, ice cream is like hot and cold, but taro puree is like cold and hot. I can't wait to eat!
At this point, these people understand that this Chinese is not good! After hard work, Lin Zexu forced the thirteen elements to hand over all the opium in only 18 days and destroy it at Humen.
I just want to verify what is the psychological shadow area of these consuls and businessmen!