Throat duster. Strange invention.
It is said that some nobles of the Qing Dynasty used a special use of the throat of the duster, at that time these Tianlong people's life was very arrogant and eroded, they sat on the high-ranking officials Houlu, did not want to benefit the country and the people, but were intoxicated with eating, drinking and having fun, often in the palace to put "full Han full table", because the number of dishes is too much, to eat in three days six times to eat, eat too much at once sometimes it is inevitable to digest, they will prepare a "throat duster", after eating a meal, they will use that duster to scratch the throat, making themselves sick, Vomit out as much food you ate earlier, so that your stomach will be vacated, and you will continue to taste the dish for the next meal. (Note: Instead of spitting up and eating, it is used between meals.) And it doesn't have to be done every time, depending on the actual situation. ）
Post an article by Liu Xinwu "Throat Duster of the Royal Palace"
I was once very close to Wang Ye, and for some external social reason, we got together from time to time and had a small talk.
At that time, we lived in the same alley, each in a courtyard. Wang Ye told me that these miscellaneous courtyards, which belonged to each other decades ago, were all parts of their royal palace, and they were not the main parts, but some "lower houses" and horse pens or something. Although the Qing Dynasty collapsed in 1912, the royal palace survived until the end of the 1920s.
I was born thirty-seven years later than Wang Ye, and when we met, I was twenty-eight years old, and he was sixty-five years old.
Our common language is Kan's Dream of the Red Chamber. Kan's focus is on the dietary depictions. We all look down on Gao Osprey, the reason is that Gao Continued the eighty-seventh time, writing Lin Daiyu to eat, the list of foods is actually fire meat cabbage soup, shrimp rice, green shoots, seaweed, rice porridge, spiced kohlrabi - it can be seen that Gao Osprey did not understand the exquisite eating of the noble family at that time.
As for Cao Xueqin's dietary descriptions in the first eighty times, Wang Ye did not feel how knowledgeable he was. For example, the description of eggplant, I think it is really strange, the process is so complicated. Wang Ye said that it was far from a labor-intensive dish, and there was a lotus lotus lotus chicken in their palace, and according to the practice in the palace, it took thirty-nine processes!
When Wang Ye and I were talking about eating the scriptures, even pork and cooking oil had to be supplied with tickets, and our income was very low, so it was impossible to go to a restaurant to fight tooth sacrifices. So, when I got together, I drank the cheapest shochu I had brought with me with a few cloves of garlic, and listened to him in nostalgia, extremely vividly describing the delicious food he had enjoyed in those years, which was also a painting cake to fill the hunger, and it was better than nothing.
Once, I escaped from the "movement" in full swing again, and quietly ran to his hut to "get away", and he said to me happily that he had some hazelnuts, made a little sauce, opened up with enough oil, and minced meat, and fried a bowl of hazelnut sauce, and let me eat with him with the fried hazelnut sauce. At the beginning, I wondered, such a sauce, mixing noodles, smearing steamed buns, wouldn't it be more compatible? Why bibimbap?
He explained to me that when he was a teenager, he "didn't learn badly" and ate home-cooked meals in the palace, and he liked this way of eating the most. I tried, stir-fried hazelnut sauce mixed with brown rice hot rice, just a cup of the cheapest tea leaves to brew coarse tea, the taste is really wonderful, even ate two bowls in a row!
Another time, I asked him, "You still love to eat bibimbap with fried hazelnut sauce when you're not learning bad, so what do you like to eat when you 'learn bad'?"
He sighed and said that it was really a sin - from time to time, or in the big rice village, or in the coolness of inviting the cooks to the palace, and making the whole table full!
He said that there were 134 hot dishes and 48 kinds of cold meat, snacks, and fruits in the whole table, and it would take three days and six times to eat!
I was stunned and said, how can it be digested! I'm afraid that after eating the first meal every day, I won't be able to eat the second meal! He said, that was, though, there was a way.
I asked him what he could do? He didn't say a word for a long time.
Later, he told me that knowing that I would not expose his "nostalgia for the decadent life of the exploiting class," he could show me one thing—the only thing he had left behind when he was a prince, and that the Red Guards had not copied it when they raided his home.
If he hadn't explained, no one would have noticed that thing... He pulled something out of a large paper box under the paver for clothes and handed it to me.
At first I thought it was a kicking and playing chicken feather, but then under his explanation, it was a small feather duster that could reach into the throat, and the chicken feathers were already rotten and moldy...
Ah, it turned out that at that time, when they were a group of princes and nobles, when they ate all the Han feasts, in order to eat and still eat, they kept eating, often, using this throat duster, reaching into the throat to induce vomiting, so as to empty the stomach bag.
I was sick in my heart, and I was busy throwing the throat of the royal palace back to the prince, but I did not expect that at this moment he sighed and said a loud and loud word: "Just rushing this thing, you can't help revolution."