Su Shi put bamboo shoots and Zen together, perhaps because the taste of bamboo shoots and tea is related to Zen Buddhism. The taste of bitter bamboo shoots is similar to that of tea, although it tastes bitter, but the aftertaste is incomparable sweet. The whole poem is as follows, which means meditation when read.

Author Su Shi? Dynasty and song dynasty

the water rose and returned to the old valley, flying clouds and thinking about the past. I miss you and forget my family, but I also feel homesick. Three rooms are quiet, and several steps are hidden deep. Save the golden dew and orange dock, and spread the fire to Yang Meilin. Tea bamboo shoots are full of Zen flavor, and pine and fir are true. There are shallow wells on the cliff, and jade villages are often half-searched. Therefore, the name Shen Liaoquan can make you feel comfortable. Carrying each other across the ridge, I didn't feel the decline of the year. Swallow the rivers and lakes at a glance, and everything is ancient and modern. I hope you can build a smaller building and solve my hairpin at the end of the year.

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But I'm a little worried about being metaphysical and tall. Let's talk about the taste of bamboo shoots. Our bamboo shoots in the south of the Yangtze River have no bitterness. The most traditional way is to cook fresh with salt, that is, stew fresh meat, bacon and bamboo shoots together. Sometimes you can add a venetian knot, which absorbs all the flavor essence and is the most delicious. In my opinion, the bamboo shoots of Yanduxian are the highest and cannot be surpassed.

In the Zen food Slow Taste, Japanese monk Zongzhe once said: "Light taste is not light taste, and light taste is not enough; Light taste, we must make the food itself have the flavor of vitality ... thick, fat, pungent, sweet and not true taste, the true taste is light. The taste is like this. Life is beautiful. " I think what I have been looking for is to bring out the original flavor of food, and what people are looking for in life is to return to their original selves.

I think Su Shi is also in such a state of mind, which is in line with the pure, new and refined Zen tea culture in my heart.