156: Jade liquid nectar, granny Liu drinking in a wooden cup, pearls are delicious, but the banker can't tell eggplant from fruit.

Grandmother Jia set two seats in the Grand View Garden and hosted a banquet in honor of Granny Liu at the Champs Elysé es. At the party, everyone plays with wine. Cao Xueqin ambushed and designed a lot of foreshadowing behind everyone's drinking order. Everyone wants to hear how Granny Liu ordered wine. Except Xiangyun, Baochai and Daiyu, everyone else made mistakes and skipped. It will be granny Liu's turn soon.

Grandma Liu's wine list is very interesting. It is a caterpillar, a radish, a garlic and a pumpkin. At first glance, it is amazing, but it is full of meaning. I didn't explain too much in the previous article.

After drinking, the original left an interesting tail. Grandma Liu put her hands together and said, "The flower has become a big pumpkin. Everyone burst out laughing. Listen to the noise outside ... "

The 40th time came to an end here. I didn't know what was shouting outside, but by the 41st time, the plot didn't continue, so I just skipped shouting and became a case-solving. You're welcome.

Granny Liu followed the Jia family for a day or two, becoming more and more courageous and relaxed. She weighed the cup with her hand and joked that she was afraid of falling. As a result, Wang Xifeng and Yuanyang once again adjusted her plot and took out a set of mugs carved by boxwood roots, which made Granny Liu play another joke.

Granny Liu spoke freely, knowing that Yuanyang took out a whole set of cups to make fun, and also said some funny words to amuse Grandmother Jia.

However, Cao Xueqin introduced the boxwood cup in a long article, and it is impossible to say that there is no bedding. So, what does the author pave the way behind grandma Liu's "ignorance" of boxwood? Maybe we need to develop brain holes. Look before you leap.

Boxwood is called yellow pine by granny Liu. Did she pretend on purpose or did she really not know her?

As far as things are concerned, although Granny Liu grew up in the countryside all her life, there is a big gap between the trees grown in the wild and the carved works of art, and Granny Liu admits her mistakes.

The cup is carved from the root of boxwood, which is quite different from the texture, wood and even smell of boxwood. In particular, American yellow pine is very oily, and rural people often use it as a kindling. Rich rosin is not suitable for making wine vessels and tea sets. Granny Liu may be more thoughtful.

Granny Liu deliberately made a mistake because she amused the Jia family, but this was another important foreshadowing for Cao Xueqin. The key lies in this boxwood and yellow pine.

First of all, Huang Tong's "yellow" represents Jia's aristocratic status.

The essential difference between Jia family and court officials is that they have aristocratic status and privileges like the royal family.

As far as credit is concerned, Jia Jia is a noble and meritorious person.

As far as kinship is concerned, the Jia family is a relative of the country.

Secondly, yellow pine is different from boxwood.

Yellow pine is strong, beautiful in texture, hard, not perishable and more talented, and it is the pillar of the building.

Boxwood is not strong and too short to be used as a material, so it is often used as an "impractical" bonsai or ornamental ornament, and solid wood is used as a comb, carving or inlay material.

Jia's century-old wealth comes from the reward of imperial power, which is as "expensive" as Huang Song and as "useless" as Huang Yang.

Jia Jiacheng, who is not worthy of the name, also has imperial power, and he lost it. "Companion with a gentleman is like a tiger" was confiscated by the emperor. "It's really clean to fall into a vast white land." From expensive to cheap, yellow pine has become boxwood.

To understand "Euonymus japonicus" and "Euonymus japonicus", we should remember the foreshadowing of everyone's drinking in "Jin Yuanyang San Xuan Tooth Brand Order". Although Cao Xueqin gave everyone a different proposition. But the center remains unchanged, which still alludes to the rise and fall of Jia family. Yellow pine and boxwood are still an extension of the foreshadowing.

Cao Xueqin used boxwood and yellow pine to illustrate the position of Jia family, both of which were in the emperor's mind. The decision of prosperity and ups and downs depends on the emperor, but it also depends on whether they work hard.

It's ridiculous that the Jia family can't be broken. They think that they have power and army behind them, and they can compete with the emperor for the best interests. But the emperor didn't give them a chance, so he just let them return to dust.

Grandma Liu thinks that there is no cheap boxwood in the Jia family, but it should be good boxwood, which is the wealth of the Jia family in her eyes. The real Jia family has long been in happy ever after, destroyed in happy ever after and decadent. That is "cheap wood" boxwood.

The author gave the Jia family a prescription, that is, "boxwood" died when it was useless, and the yellow pine, as a pillar, would not perish. However, the Jia family chose the incompetent boxwood and dug out all the "ribs" for decoration.

Pine trees represent longevity and immortality.

Yang stands for decoration and great use.

There is no scandal in Cao Xueqin's works. What I said is the actual situation of Jia's family. If you think about it carefully, you will understand the meaning. Unfortunately, the truth told by the author through Grandma Liu was kept in the dark from Jia Mu to Jia Jia. Through these clouds, how can I know which corner of the mountain it is facing .

Of course, when it comes to eating and drinking, we must mention diet. This is a display of Jia's wealth, and it is also a rare description of Cao Xueqin without hiding a pen, such as "eggplant", which is the epitome of Jia's exquisite life.

Grandma Liu ate eggplant, but she didn't taste eggplant for a long time, and Wang Xifeng gave it to her slowly. Is this plot familiar? Is it like "Pig Eight Rings Eat Ginseng Fruit"?

The pleasure of reading is to cut open the author's careful machine layer by layer and get the happiness it deserves. Many plots may really be written casually by the author, but it does not prevent readers from having certain associations. Inference from others is the transcendence of self-thinking over standard thinking.

Needless to say, when it comes to eggplant, Cao Xueqin writes very carefully, and Wang Xifeng explains the method and ingredients. He can make a dish of "eggplant" according to the map. However, eggplant shows Jia's profound food culture.

Apart from social status, family rules and children's success, the most important thing for wealthy families in ancient times is "banquet wine". Drama is the cultural entertainment in Ming and Qing Dynasties. "Raising drama" is like a little actor in pear fragrance court, with a large investment and a long period, but with great influence. At that time, whose troupe was brilliant would make dignitaries flock to it, and it was an important social media.

Diet is also the embodiment of a family inheritance, which is earlier than China traditional opera. Especially in the Song Dynasty, the records of excellent chefs were even more fascinating, and their cooking skills were amazing.

Jia's banquet is both a face and a lining. Chefs not only subdivide many kinds, but also their diet has formed their own style. The inheritance of "family banquet" has been popular for hundreds of years. It has surpassed the standard of "never getting tired of eating" and reached the cultural level.

Eggplant out alone, this is undoubtedly a unique dish that Jia family can eat. It seems that cooking is not complicated, and you can't see kung fu without doing it. And an eggplant is so complicated, and the previous lotus leaf soup is so delicate. How extravagant it is to really hold a grand banquet! Eggplant is really small and big.

Wang Xifeng "never touches the spring water" and will never cook. She knows a lot about eggplant, which proves that she has memorized the recipe. If Granny Liu is not here today, but Taifei Nan 'an. Wang Xifeng's rhetoric will make people think that Jia's daughter-in-law is good at cooking and doing housework.

Therefore, A Dream of Red Mansions should know more about the story behind the words. In addition to superficial meaning, deep understanding is also very interesting.

There was another little thing at the banquet that reflected the Jia family's family rules. At the end of the wine, Mrs. Wang stood up with a hip flask and poured wine for everyone. This is the etiquette that outsiders should have. But no one can stand it except Jia Mu.

Mrs. Wang fell to the ground and everyone stood up with her. This is the rule. The elders can pour wine, and the younger generation must stand up and wait, and they must return the gift to accept it.

Aunt Xue is Mrs. Wang's sister. Even if she can sit opposite her grandmother, she should stand up at this time and not surpass her sister. This is also a gift.

In fact, Mrs. Wang's wine is doomed to fail, and it is also a gift for her grandmother to order Wang Xifeng to make wine for her. He also ordered everyone to do the same, which is a respect for Mrs. Wang.

A banquet, which is dominated by entertainment, food and etiquette, is mixed with the author's metaphor, which makes the readers chew more and more delicious.

Granny Liu has finished eating and drinking, and the banquet is over. In free time, provide "small meals" to "supplement" meals. In order to prevent the host from starving, the Jia family often ordered two meals and often added meals, which also proved that the banquet just now was not based on eating and there was no staple food.

Small meals are snacks, sweet and salty, but they are not labor-saving. "This box is the same as the lotus root starch osmanthus sugar cake, and it is the same as the goose oil roll; In that box, there is an inch-long jiaozi. The old lady asked what kind of stuffing it was, and the women were busy answering that it was crab's. I don't like this. " Grandma Liu picked up a peony-shaped noodle fruit and said she didn't want to eat it, which showed that there were other styles.

Jia's diet is indeed a work of art, although the form is greater than the reality, it is also a symbol of family inheritance. All aspects of aristocratic life are exquisite.

Therefore, as long as you look at the Jia family's rules, etiquette and lifestyle, you can see everything from the exquisite food, and you don't need to introduce anything else in depth.

After leaving the Lotus Champs, we came to the next stop, Cuiqi Temple, which is a special place. It is also the place that needs the most attention. The important foreshadowing of Jia Jia and Baochai will be revealed here. If you want to know what will happen next, listen to the next chapter.

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