The Xiangtan people are a treasure, and their mouths contain grass.
Many people have heard this saying, right?
It was not only passed down by word of mouth, but also recorded in the Hunan Proverbs Integration.
The book explains it like this:
Xiangtan custom loves to chew betel nut, outsiders do not know, think it is chewing grass.
Treasure is not a treasure, but a fool.
Originally, these words should have been spoken by people outside of Xiangtan, who listened to it playfully, picked it up, often laughed at themselves, and over time, it became a local saying.
Ugly words ahead, in my side of the see, I think, as a class of carcinogens, betel nut eat less is better, not eat the best.
Of course, I also know that friends who see this will probably not quit betel nut betel nut because of this.
After all, tobacco, alcohol and bacon are all carcinogens.
There is a chance of carcinogenesis, and everyone thinks that they will not be the one who is recruited.
Anyway, rat tail juice bar.
(Good for yourself)
Why do Xiangtan people like to eat "grass"?
There are said to be three sources.
First, Xiangtan was extremely prosperous in the Ming Dynasty, the Xiangjiang River turned a big bend here, the dock was deep, the north wind could not blow, it was convenient to stop the ship, the geographical location, more important than Changsha, the number is Jinxiangtan.
Medicinal materials are distributed here, as the saying goes, medicine is not even in Xiangtan, and medicine is not good in Xiangtan.
Among the medicinal herbs, there is betel nut fruit. Some people ate it, thought it was good, and slowly spread it.
The second theory is that in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Xiangtan was slaughtered, and Anhui merchants Huang Xiqian and Cheng Qing gathered the bones together with the old monks, and the betel nut was able to get rid of the epidemic.
After Xiangtan regained its prosperity, people built Xiqing Pavilion to commemorate them, and chewing betel nuts has become a habit since then.
(Old photo of Xiqingting)
There is also a saying that in the forty-fourth year of the Qianlong epidemic, the residents of Xiangtan were swollen like drums, and Bai Jing was a Guangdong person in Zhixian County, who knew that this substance had the effect of lowering the qi, and shared food with the patient, and was indeed cured.
Since then, not only those who have been sick have eaten, but also ordinary people have become accustomed to it.
There are so many sayings that it can only show that Xiangtan people eat betel nut relatively early, and when they arrive early, they do not know.
However, some friends on the Internet said that Hunan people drive Hubei and Guangdong people to eat.
This pot, Hunan people can't carry it.
From the previous statement, it can be seen that BaiXian Ling, as a Guangdong person, has long eaten betel nut.
Let's go back to the historical record.
The Ming Dynasty king Shisheng (1547-1598) mentioned in the Guangzhixuan:
Guangdong "is customary to chew betel nut with a leaf, cover no land and no time, no dignity, no guests, no official palace, in the front are arbitrarily eaten, there are questions, then the mouth is right, do not spit or swallow, do not know its solution."
Whether in front of the elders or in front of the chiefs, there is no taboo, which shows that this custom has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
It is also said that the betel nut eaten by the Dian people is different from the broad, as wide as the chicken heart, if the meat, the Yunnan is like the Qiang core, like the fruit shell, the Dian stops dyeing ash, and does not clip the leaves... The leaves are large and thick, resembling mulberries, and their seedlings are fuliu vines, which are eaten by people, and the lips are like smeared zhu. Yang Wanliyun: "Everyone chews betel nut with vine leaves, and every household has a thatched eaves covering the earthen bed." ”
It can be seen that not only Guangdong people eat, Yunnan people also eat, and the two places eat different ways.
Yang Wanli's poem is called "Yingzhou Xiaobo", Yingzhou, which is now Guangdong Yingde.
As early as the Southern Song Dynasty, Yingde chewed betel nut into the wind.
The Fuliu vine mentioned by Wang Shisheng is found in more ancient books.
Ji Han (263-306) of the Jin Dynasty said in his Southern Chronicle of Grass and Trees:
The betel nut tree is more than ten feet tall, the skin is like a green tree, and the knot is like a laurel bamboo... In fact, the taste is bitter, cut its skin, its skin, ripe as a consistency, as strong as a dry date, to support the vine, the ancient ash and eat the slippery beauty of the valley, out of the forest, the other people think that the guests of the noble marriage will be advanced, if the encounter is not set to hate each other...
(Stills)
It seems that the way to eat leaf and oyster ash has a history of nearly two thousand years.
To entertain guests, you must first send betel nuts.
What's more interesting is that when friends meet, if you don't rush to open the betel nut, you will be disgusted and hated as impolite...
Although the Xiangtan people are not the first to eat, they should laugh when they see this sentence.