As a native of Taoyuan, if you want to ask about the specialty of my hometown, I will never forget to introduce it to you-smashing tea.

Of course, it is not as valuable as West Lake Longjing, nor as famous as Beijing Roast Duck. But it is the most popular sansheng soup, and bowl after bowl makes you want to stop.

Because grandma died early, and the old people usually make tea by themselves, the tea that I drink most in my memory is the tea made by grandma herself.

At that time, my grandmother lived by a stream less than a mile away from us, with her youngest uncle, and the other two uncles and my aunt were not far away. On weekends, a group of cousins basically go crazy together. In spring, we pick wild flowers and play hide-and-seek on the mountain behind the house. In summer, we catch shrimps and crabs in the stream in front of our house. In autumn, we pick up the ears of rice after the adults who harvest rice with sickles. In winter, we make a snowman and have a snowball fight in the sunshine outside our house.

The world of children, you know, is the most lively. And every time I see a group of Xiong Haizi playing around our house. Grandma will make tea for us to drink with her own hands. Tea is mainly fried with tea leaves, peanuts and sesame seeds. It is also called "Sansheng Tang" in China, and there is another story about this statement. My grandmother told us over and over again.

It is said that in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a general named Ma was ordered to go to Wuling, passing through Taoyuan, Changde. It was midsummer, the heat was unbearable, and it was catching up with the plague epidemic. Most soldiers can't bear to get sick, and General Ma himself is sick and bedridden. He had to order a camp on the edge of a hill, send people to seek medical advice, and send uninfected soldiers to help the local people farm.

At that time, an old woman in the village saw General Ma's strict military discipline and didn't do anything anywhere. She also helps them with farm work. She was very moved, so she took out her ancestral secret recipe and taught the soldiers to cook tea for them every day. Miraculously, within a few days, all the sick soldiers recovered one by one, and the plague never spread again. As a result, the reputation of smashing tea rose greatly and began to spread widely.

I remember when my cousins heard my grandmother tell this story, they covered their ears. First of all, they listen too much. Moreover, they think that my grandmother has smashed something in Chata, and the more she grows up, the less she believes it. But no matter how hard it is, it can't stop our love for tea scraps. As long as grandma stands under the eaves and shouts "tea!" Drink tea! "We will stop playing with everything, smell the fragrance and go straight to grandma's kitchen.

Although grandma often makes tea for us to drink, her operation is not simple. First of all, there are many raw materials. Besides tea, peanuts and sesame seeds, she also added rice, mung beans or soybeans, ginger and salt.

Put the ginger and salt aside first, and stir-fry the rest separately or in combination. Up to now, in our country, wood stoves and large iron pots are generally used at home, and they are fried quickly and much, which is particularly fragrant. ) then put them together in a mortar and crush them with a hammer (mortar and hammer seemed to be necessary for every family in China at that time), and then use ginger. Chop it up with a knife, and the more broken it is, the better. In this way, you can boil a pot of boiling water on a big fire, put all the raw materials in, and finally add salt and stir well to drink.

Of course, although tea is similar, some people can freely mix it according to their own preferences. Some drink directly with boiling water or cold water, instead of cooking in a pot; After cooking, sprinkle a handful of bubbles in it to satisfy hunger (Bubble is the dialect name of Taoyuan, which actually means steaming glutinous rice, drying in the sun, and then frying or frying it to make it grow up, so that you can grab a handful of food in your mouth at any time); There are also those without salt and sugar.

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I haven't drunk homemade tea since my grandmother died. Although there are many teahouses in our city and county, I have only been there once, because my parents hosted a midnight snack arranged by my father-in-law who came to my house for the first time. After all, it is our characteristic here.

There are more than a dozen people in our party, including seven aunts and eight children. We went to Taoyuan Snack Street, which is close to Taoyuan Textile Factory. The environment is antique. As soon as we sat down, a waiter came up with two pots of tea, one thick and one thin, and the special side dishes on the table were set one by one, including melon seeds, peanuts, dried sweet potatoes and wormwood. The real tea smashed into a supporting role.

However, although there were occasional language barriers, the atmosphere was particularly good, and all the people at the table were laughing and laughing until late. That kind of fate should also have a little credit for smashing tea, and I believe that what my father-in-law remembers most about his trip to Taoyuan should also be the first time in his life to smash tea in Taoyuan.

As the saying goes, the so-called homesickness is just the involvement of people and things. I think, as a Taoyuan person, making tea comes first, especially at home. I really want another bowl, another bowl. ...