Mid-Autumn Festival are the most important festivals in China. Second only to the New Year, it is stronger than the Qingming Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival. Mid-autumn festival has several great joys that I have to mention.
One, Mid-Autumn Festival Banquet, enjoy the lunar eclipse "melon cake wine". Watermelon and moon cakes are indispensable. First, to pay homage to the bright moon, and second, to bless the reunion.
Second, appreciate cinnamon and eat crabs, the fragrance of osmanthus flowers in August, the crabs are plump, and enjoy the joys of life with cinnamon.
Although the melon cake wine on the Mid-Autumn Festival may not necessarily have crabs, eating crabs is definitely a must-have item during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
" Dream of Red Mansions " did not mention eating crabs twice during the Mid-Autumn Festival. But after the steganographic Mid-Autumn Festival, a famous crab feast was held at Grand View Garden . Appreciating osmanthus and eating crabs that day wrote chrysanthemum poems and crab poems.
So, how did the Jia family of the top giants eat crabs?
First, choose the site
(the thirty-eighth episode) Fengjie said: " Ouxiangxie has been set up, the two sweet-scented osmanthus flowers are blooming well under the hillside, the water in the river is clear and clear, sitting on the Isn't the pavilion in the middle of the river open and bright, and the eyes of the water are clear." Jia Mu heard it and said, "This is very true."
Eating crabs is a beautiful thing, and the environment is more important. Nesting in the room is not enough. It needs to be in the empty lotus flower pavilion adjacent to the water, next to the big osmanthus tree in full bloom and fragrant.
Secondly, Zuo Shi
(the thirty-eighth episode) entered the pavilion for a while, and saw two other bamboo cases placed outside the railing, one with a cup and a wine set on it, and one with a tea bowl tea bowls and various tea sets. . There are two or three girls over there fanning the stove to make tea, and a few other girls on this side are also fanning the stove to scald wine.
It's not enough to eat crabs alone, even if you manage to get enough, you can't eat enough.
And the crab feast is a luncheon between breakfast and dinner for the Jia family. The banquet was completely different from the meal in the life of the ancients.
Eat is to eat, just finish eating a few dishes and a few meals without a word.
The banquet is wine, food and no rice. Mainly for drinking and entertainment. Poetry and songs, wine-ordering games, opera, singing and dancing, and chatting and scolding Fang Qiu.
finished drinking, and when it was time to eat, the rest of the table was removed and the food was put back on. If you don't have time, you can make up a little snack.
The crab feast was a wine feast, and it was outdoors, so I prepared utensils to make tea and warm wine. "
In this way, the crab feast becomes elegant. Cooking tea and wine, eating crabs and appreciating cinnamon are far more romantic than feasting. The wind and water of the Wei and Jin Dynasties are nothing but this.
Finally, Pin Crab
(the thirty-eighth episode), Sister Feng smiled and said, "When I come back to eat crabs, I am afraid that I will have a cold heart in my heart. I will make my ancestors laugh and be happy. If you are happy, you can eat two more."... Sister Feng instructed: "Don't bring more crabs, keep them in the steamer, take ten, and take them after eating." After washing her hands with water, she stood in front of Jia Mu and peeled the crab meat, and asked Aunt Xue for the first time. . Aunt Xue said, "I can eat it by myself, and I don't need anyone to let it go." Sister Feng went to her mother Jia. The second time was with Baoyu , and he said, "Bring the wine hot." Then he ordered the little girls to get the mung bean noodles smoked with chrysanthemum leaves and osmanthus stamens, and prepare to wash their hands.
Crabs are "cold" and can't be eaten too much. Wang Xifeng Makes mother Jia laugh, which is also considered by the ancients to be hot and can counteract the "coldness" of crabs. After
, Mother Jia instructed Shi Xiangyun not to eat too much, and it is also not suitable for girls to eat cold crabs. Lin Daiyu even eat a little "leg meat" and feel uncomfortable.
In order to counteract the "coldness" of crabs, more ginger and vinegar should be added, which is still the same diet today.
Crabs are more delicious when eaten hot, and there is no fishy smell. Wang Xifeng told him to eat as much as he wanted.
Jia's daughter-in-law cannot cook and eat with elders, younger siblings. Although there were two tables of banquets by Li Wan and Wang Xifeng at the door, it was just for the occasion. They have to stand and serve.
Wang Xifeng stayed in front of Jia's mother, taking care of Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu. Li Wan stood in front of Mrs. Wang .
The crab came up, and Wang Xifeng and others were responsible for peeling the crab meat. And peeling crab meat is also very particular. Today's " crab eight " tools are inherited from the ancients.
The first episode of the 1987 TV series "Dream of Red Mansions" Zhen Shiyin Mid-Autumn Festival banquet Jia Yucun , specially filmed the episode of eating crabs, and used tools such as eight crabs. The original text does not have this plot.
Wang Xifeng is a daughter-in-law. To learn how to serve her mother-in-law and elders, peeling crabs is a necessary skill. How to open the shell, how to remove the gills, how to take out the crab legs, get the yellow, meat, and legs all done, and then pour ginger vinegar over them before handing them to Jia Mu to eat...
The crab smells fishy, and it's hard to clean if it sticks to your hands. They will wash their hands with "mung bean noodles smoked with chrysanthemum leaves and osmanthus stamens", which must work well.
To sum up, eating crabs is not just for eating. The Jia family loves crabs and they are not short of crabs, but they don't eat them often. All because crabs are good enough to eat. And it's not something you can eat. It is far from the gluttonous gluttonousness of Su Shi "can laugh at Wu Zhongz greedy the prefect, a poem can exchange for two top regiments".
Crab is an excuse to party. Only grandmother Liu will count crabs five cents of silver per pound. Compared with Jiajia's crab eating, now you and I eat crabs, which is comparable to Grandma Liu's "Old Liu Lao Liu, who eats as much as a cow, eats an old sow without looking up".
After eating crabs, it is perfect to have crab poems.
Jia Baoyu, Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai each made a crab poem. The life of the three people can be seen from the poem.
Jia Baoyu is satisfied with the status quo, and is a rotten to the rich life. For crab eaters.
Lin Daiyu is lamenting herself and her love and pity for the unpredictable life. Man Yu crab.
Xue Baochai satirizes world affairs and mocks the scorching state of the world. Satire for crabs.
Such a crab feast, in the rich and prosperous, the food is also prosperous in culture and warm and warm. Although scholars do not eat crabs, they are quite chewy.
The above opinions are organized and deduced based on the story clues of "A Dream of Red Mansions" before 80 episodes.
Article｜Jun Jian Yakan Illustration of Red Mansions｜Qing Dynasty painter Sun Wen's "Dream of Red Mansions"
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