The continuous autumn rains finally stopped, ushering in a clear sky. White clouds on the blue sky, the sun softly illuminating the earth, walking in the slight autumn wind, suddenly have the feeling of "autumn victory over spring dynasty".
Autumn is coming quietly. You listen, the osmanthus flowers floating all over the street are refreshing, sweet, light, not as strong as the peony flower fragrance, not as high and cold as the plum blossom, but emitting a seductive fragrance. Osmanthus is the best work of autumn, is the most beautiful style of autumn, without the elegance of cinnamon, autumn will lose its charm. In the evening, a bright moon hangs high on the branches, the breeze is gentle, and the fragrance of flowers is overflowing. The moonlight was like water, paving the streets and alleys, and the fragrance of flowers filled the sky, but I couldn't find its figure. I looked for it in the green trees, among the dense leaves, bunches of yellow buds bloomed on the branches, inconspicuous, but the fragrance was far away, and people could not forget it for a long time.
In my memory, the osmanthus flower is the Jiamu of the south, and it is rare in the north, so it seems rare. The Song Dynasty poet Liu Yong wrote about the beauty of Hangzhou in "Wanghai Tide": "There are three autumn guizi and ten lotus flowers", which is said to have aroused the envy of the golden lord Yan Liang, so he had the intention of crossing the river with a whip. Regarding the more popular poems of osmanthus flowers, there is no sentence in the words of "Butterfly Love Flower Answer Li Shuyi": "Ask Wu Gang he has everything, Wu Gang holds out osmanthus wine." "Closing his eyes, I wonder what kind of jade liquid jelly is osmanthus wine, which can make people so fascinated." Legend has it that there is a laurel tree in the moon, and Wu Gang was punished to cut down the laurel in the middle of the month, but this tree can not be cut down with the combination, and it is tired enough. Only on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival can Wu Gang take a break, taste the fine wine made of osmanthus flowers, and spend the festival with the world. The ancients believed that gui was the length of a hundred medicines, and the osmanthus wine was sweet and mellow, and had the effect of appetizing and awakening the mind, strengthening the spleen and replenishing the deficiency, and after drinking, it could prolong life.
The first time I drank osmanthus wine was five years ago, in a mountain in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. In August, the heat is unbearable, friends meet to go to Enshi Grand Canyon, in the evening, live in the homestay. The mountains are full of mountains, green bamboo, cool breeze, and the sound of cicadas singing, which makes people feel relaxed. Several people came to a local tavern and drank the popular bowl wine of the Tujia family. The shallow small bowl is the size of a fist, the earthy yellow bowl body is not glazed, filled with a bowl of wine, the two people hold the bowl to touch, drink it all, and then smash the bowl hard, the sound is loud, and it is unrestrained.
There are many theories about the origin of "wrestling bowl wine", some people say that it is the Zhuangxing wine drunk by ancient soldiers when they went out on expeditions, some people say that it is the ancient Miao tribe's Talking and Drinking Wine, and the Enshi locals say that this is the Gaoyi wine that their ancestors drank to defend the country. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Ba was in distress and asked the State of Chu to send troops to rescue it. After the rescue, the State of Chu demanded that the State of Ba cede three cities as a token of gratitude, and the hero of the Tujia family, Ba Manzi, could not bear to cut off the territory, so he exchanged himself for the city. As he was leaving, he drank a bowl of wine, then smashed it and drew his sword to kill himself. In order to commemorate him, posterity had a bowl of wine.
I was overwhelmed by the wine, but I was still involved, and the good drinkers chose the strong baogu wine, and I chose the sweet and fragrant osmanthus wine. This is a kind of local wine brewed by the locals, the color is light yellow, crystal clear, the entrance is fragrant, sweet and rich, there is no spicy taste of white wine, there is no bitterness of beer, not only the fragrance of osmanthus flowers, but also the mellow and soft of the wine, it is a taste that my taste buds have not tried, and I just fell in love with it after taking a sip. Although the alcohol content of osmanthus wine is not high, it still has stamina, and after a while, I drank with a flushed face, but I couldn't stop, took the wine bowl and drank it all, and spent an unforgettable night in the sound of falling bowls.