Liu Xiangxia
Speaking of sesame rice, adults and children in our place like to drink it. After drinking a few bowls, my stomach was uncomfortable, and I said that I hadn't drunk enough, and the more I drank, the more I wanted to drink. Who handed down this sesame rice? Let me tell you a story.
is talking about Liu Xiu, the ninth grandson of Han Liu Bang, who was seized the throne by Wang Mang and escaped from the palace. Wang Mang led the army to chase and kill day and night. On this day, Liu Xiu was chased to the territory of Xiapi, and the soldiers he brought were killed by Wang Mang, and those who ran away were scattered, leaving Liu Xiu to flee alone. Liu Xiu fell down and got up, hearing that the chasing soldiers behind him were getting closer and closer, he was so anxious that he couldn't find a crack in the ground to get into. People will be unlucky, and they will stuff their teeth when they drink cold water. There was another mountain blocking the way. How good is that! Liu Xiu really didn't have the strength to climb over this mountain. I saw that there were a few big trees in front of the mountain, and when I came to see it, the trees were strangely tall and the leaves were strangely thick. It doesn't matter what kind of phoenix dragon grandson he is, he will climb up first to avoid the pursuers.
Liu Xiu lay on the old Keba tree, thirsty and hungry, sleepy and tired, and fell asleep unconsciously. I don't know how many times later, Liu Xiu suddenly smelled the smell of rice. Rubbing his eyes and looking through the cracks in the leaves, there was an eldest sister standing under the tree, wearing a blue coarse cloth trousers. A long, black fork was placed in the crook of the leg. He held a white cloth handkerchief in his hand and wiped his sweat with his back to the tree. In front of the eldest sister, there was a bamboo basket in the shape of an ingot, and it was covered with a rice cloth, and the burst of rice fragrance came out of that basket.
Liu Xiu looked around, and the eldest sister was alone. Presumably, Wang Mang's pursuers didn't see her and went elsewhere. As soon as my heart was relieved, this stomach was terrible, and I was growling. You think, Liu Xiu was chased for two or three days without eating or drinking, and his stomach was stuck in the front cavity and back cavity, can he not call it when he smells the smell of rice! Liu Xiu thought to herself: I'm alone, where can I find food! If you enter the village and ask Wang Mang to catch him, you won't have to eat, and you have to be a starving ghost. It's better to take advantage of the fact that this eldest sister doesn't care, go down and grab the food in her basket, and let her beat her up, it's better to die than to starve to death......
Liu Xiu was so hungry that she came down from the tree; He lifted the rice cloth from the basket, grabbed two coarse cakes, stuffed them into his arms, turned around and climbed up the tree with his feet. The eldest sister under the tree suddenly looked at a person running down from the tree, grabbed her food and climbed up the tree, but she was frightened, covered her heart with both hands, and came back to her senses for a long time. When I looked up at the old man from the tree, I saw that the person sitting on the old of the tree was choking on the cake that he had snatched from his stomach. Take a bite. Pat your chest, stretch your neck, and swallow hard. Looking at his appearance, he is not very old, and his face is black and white, in fact, this person has fine skin and tender meat, red lips and white teeth.
The eldest sister guessed: This person doesn't seem to be from the village, eighty percent of them are from big families, and they look strange and pitiful, so they call him in a soft voice: "Hey! The little brother in the tree, Sensei is afraid, I don't call someone to arrest you. I still have a jar of porridge in this basket, if you come down and take a sip, rush down, you will choke, you will get stuck! ”
After Liu Xiu heard this, she got down from the tree and gave the eldest sister a salute and said, "Eldest sister, I am in distress, I just robbed you of your food, and my eldest sister's heart is really good." May I ask the eldest sister's surname, where does she live? I will repay it in the future. "Look at what you say, who doesn't get into trouble! My surname is Yin, my name is a flower, and my family lives in the west of this mountain. I went to East Lake to deliver food to my father, passing by here, after you finished, I will go home to my father to get it, I don't want you to repay anything, I see that you are hungry and pitiful. Liu Xiu secretly swore that if he could sit back in the country one day, he would take Sister Yin to the palace and be named a mother.
Sister Yin took out the dishes and chopsticks from the basket, poured out a bowl full of porridge from the crockpot and handed it to Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu choked uncomfortably, took it, "goo, goo", and went down in a fit of anger. Smacking his lips, his eyes still staring at the rice jar. Sister Yin saw that she hadn't drunk enough, so she poured another bowl. Liu Xiu took it and "snored" again, and was angry. Sticking out his head to see, there was still a bowl in the small jar, so he said: "Sister, it's not enough for your father to drink anyway, I drank it all, you can go back and get it!" Holding the crockpot in both hands, he drank all the mouth of the can. Licking the mouth of the can with his tongue, he was reluctant to put it down, and said, "Eldest sister, your meal is so delicious, I haven't drunk such a delicious meal since I was so old, what are you putting in this meal?" Is this porridge famous? ”
Sister Yin smiled and said: "I saw that my father was so tired from work that he couldn't eat, so I wanted my father to eat more, and I thought about it by myself, grinding the miscellaneous grains into a paste, and then putting 'silver silk white jade slices, red-billed green parrots' and then sprinkled fried sesame salt when drinking." I saw that this rice had paste and sesame salt, so I named it "sesame paste". Liu Xiu asked again: "Eldest sister, you said that there are 'silver silk white jade slices, red-billed green parrot brother' in the rice, what are they?" I didn't drink it! Sister Yin smiled and bent down: "The silver silk white jade slices are thin vermicelli slivers and dried potato slices, do you see that the vermicelli is thin and long, not like silver wire?" Isn't the dried yam slices white and thin, not like a piece of jade? Brother red-billed green parrot, look at spinach, green leaves, red roots, don't look like a red-billed green parrot, I'm teasing you! ”
Later, Liu Xiu killed Wang Mang, re-ascended the Golden Palace, and really took Sister Yin to the palace and named her mother.
One day, Liu Xiu wanted to drink "sesame rice", so he ordered the imperial chef to make "silver silk white jade slices, red-billed green parrot" sesame paste rice to drink. The imperial chef was ready to serve it, and when he drank it, it was not the original taste, thinking that the chef didn't do it with his heart, and ordered to kill! If you do it again, it's not delicious, kill it again! Even killed several imperial chefs, but did not make a delicious "sesame paste" meal that made Liu Xiu feel delicious.
This matter is known to Yin Niangniang. As soon as Liu Xiu retired from the dynasty and returned to the harem, Yin Niangniang cried and scolded Liu Xiu: "Duanjun, I want Wang Mang to chase and kill you at the beginning, you can't eat or drink for a few days, at that time, why didn't you kill the imperial chef?" You are so hungry that you grab my bread to eat, why don't you think it is not delicious? Now that you haven't sat down and the scars haven't fallen off, you have forgotten the pain! Do you know how many people in the world are starving to death because they can't eat? Because of this messy rice, you killed a few lives in vain, which really chilled the hearts of the ministers! If another 'Wang Mang' comes out to hunt you down, then you will have everything delicious......"
Yin Niangniang scolded and added a few points, Liu Xiu was ashamed and ashamed, and thought: "Yes, everything you eat when you are hungry is fragrant, what I eat now is delicacies from the mountains and seas, and of course it is not fragrant when I drink 'hemp paste' when I flee." There are still so many hungry people in the world, I have forgotten how to forget! It's a shame for my mother to wake me up, otherwise I won't be able to sit for long! ”
Since then, the "sesame paste" rice has been passed down among the people, and it depends on everyone's preference whether to put "silver silk white jade slices, red-billed green parrots" in the rice.
It is also because of the mountain where Liu Xiu fled at the beginning, in front of the village, out of this Yin Niangniang, in order to commemorate her, people called the mountain "Su Niang Mountain", now called white, called Su Yang Mountain.