183 1 year (11th year of Qing Daoguang), the founder of Goubuli Steamed Bun Gao was born in Zhuang, Wuqing County, Zhili (now wuqing district, Tianjin). Because his father had a son at the age of forty, for the sake of safety, he named the baby "Dog Son", hoping that he could feed as well as a puppy.
When Gao 14 years old, he worked as a waiter in a steaming restaurant near the South Canal in Tianjin. Because of ingenuity, diligence, and the guidance of the masters, your friends' skills in making steamed buns have been continuously improved, and they have become good at it. After three years as a teacher, Gui Guiyou opened a snack bar specializing in making steamed buns-"Deju Haohao". Due to Gui Guiyou's good craftsmanship, serious work and never adulteration, the steamed buns made are soft in taste, fresh and not greasy, shaped like chrysanthemums, with good color, smell and shape, and the business is very prosperous.
More and more people come to eat his steamed buns, and aristocratic friends are too busy to take care of customers. As a result, the person who ate steamed stuffed buns called him "a dog selling steamed stuffed buns and ignored people." Over time, people called him "Goubuli" and the steamed stuffed bun he operated as "Goubuli Steamed Bun", but the original store name was gradually forgotten.
2. Kweichow Moutai
According to legend, one year on New Year's Eve, it suddenly snowed in that place in Maotai Town, and the wind was biting. There lived a young man named Li in the town. He saw an old woman lying in rags dead at the door, so he carried her into the house to make a fire to keep warm, treated the old man with homemade rice wine, made her bed to sleep, and lay on the ground by the fire. I heard the wonderful piano sound in the dim light. A fairy came from the horizon, wearing colorful feather tulle and holding a sparkling glass in her hand. Before she stood up, she tilted the wine in her glass to the ground, and suddenly the air was filled with rich wine fragrance, and a flashing galaxy appeared in front of her eyes.
When the young man woke up, the fire in the room was very strong, the water and rice were still warm, and the bedding on the bed was neat, as if no one had slept. He opened the door and saw that the snow had stopped. A crystal clear river was flowing out of the door, and there were bursts of wine on the river. Since then, the local people have used the river water given by the fairy to make wine, and the "flying" pattern has been used as the trademark of Moutai.
3. Xuan paper
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, after the death of Cai Lun, the "originator" of papermaking, Kong Dan, his proud disciple and famous young papermaker, missed his master very much, and often wept silently at the portrait of the master who gradually turned yellow and began to wrinkle. Kong Dan decided to look for better raw materials for papermaking, and made great efforts to create a kind of fine paper with anti-aging, anti-moth, anti-corrosion and white as jade, so as to draw another portrait for the master and make his face immortal.
Kong Dan embarked on the road of searching. At a sultry noon in summer, a poisonous snake swimming under his coat suddenly launched a fierce attack on him and bit his right hand hard. In a short time, Kong Dan felt very dizzy and unconscious.
Hazy, Kong Dan seems to hear an anxious and crisp voice constantly calling him. Unable to open his sleepy eyes, Kong Dan vaguely saw a girl squatting beside an old tree lying in a stream, holding her head in her hands. "Really thank you-little girl, you saved my life, I ... I ..." Kong Dan thanked the little girl, and the little girl said, "Don't just thank me, you have to thank me." The little girl pointed to several white slender plant fibers tightly wrapped around Kong Dan's right hand. Kong Dan touched and dragged these unheard-of plant fibers with his hand, and his eyes suddenly flashed with excitement.
It turned out that this ebony tree washed down in the landscape, after years of sun and rain, the bark has rotted and turned white, revealing wisps of slender white fibers in the slowly flowing stream. I found it! I found it! I finally found it ... Kong Dan suddenly seemed to forget the pain and everything. He stood up with a sigh, and then Kong Dan turned and stumbled towards the highly decayed rosewood tree. ......
Later, Kong Dan settled here and married a little girl. And built a paper shed beside the stream in the mountain village, and used this newly discovered raw material to develop paper with the people in the mountain village. After everyone's unremitting efforts, Kong Dan finally produced the world's first longevity paper at that time, which was tough and moist, slippery but not slippery, white and dense, pure in texture, rubbing without damage, not rotting or decaying, and extremely moist in ink. Later, Kong Dan used a large sum of money to invite a famous local painter to re-paint the master's portrait, carefully framed it and hung it in his own hall, which was handed down from generation to generation.
The paper made by Kong Dan through hard work is the Xuan paper called the national treasure by later generations.
4: Teapot
Gong Chun is a pioneering figure in the history of purple sand culture in China. His surname is Gong and his first name is Gong Chun. During Zheng De's reign in Ming Dynasty, Gong Chun, as a disciple of buddhist nun, followed scholar Wu Yishan to study in Jinshan Temple. In his spare time, he saw the old monk in the temple pinching a teapot with local purple mud and drinking tea and meditating. At this time, it has become a Buddhist custom. Perhaps out of curiosity, he took the hand-washing mud deposited at the bottom of the jar after the old monk washed his hands, and made a "finger-hidden" spring pot with reference to the gall of the big ginkgo tree in the temple.
Spring pot is simple and exquisite in shape, thin and solid, and natural in Wen Ya. It has a good reputation, better than jade. Zhou Shu's Hundred Poems on the Sun: "The most important small pot in spring is one that has been used for decades and is worth a thousand dollars." There are few spring pots handed down from generation to generation. 1928, Chu Nanqiang collected a pot for spring in Suzhou. The handle of the pot is called "for spring" and has no lid. Pei Shimin did it later. It is now in the Beijing Museum of History. The casserole made by Gong Chun has different styles. According to legend, he made pots such as "Tree Gallbladder", "Dragon Egg" and "Indian side". Among them, the "tree gall pot" is the most expensive. In the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, there were many imitations. Spring tree gall pot is called spring pot for short.
5: Jingdezhen Linglong Porcelain
In ancient times, in Jingdezhen, there was a pair of young people, the male named Ninglong and the female named Guqiao. They make a blank in the imperial kiln and draw a blank, just like bitter gourd on the vine, closely connected.
The porcelain blank made by Ninglong is clean and flawless, and all the pieces are top grade after being fired in a kiln. The blank of the ancient bridge painting is also very clever and lifelike. There is a bully in town named Hao. He coveted the beauty of the ancient bridge and deliberately made things difficult for Ning Long, asking him to cook 1200 sets of Qinglong tableware within 100 days, otherwise his life would be hard to protect. In the cold winter, it is almost impossible to make this 1200 set of rice utensils. Ninglong is full of resentment, but he can only do it. He worked day and night, and the porcelain blank of tableware was finally finished. But Hao intends to occupy the ancient bridge. How can he stop there? The jackal was so natural that someone put poison in the rice and poisoned Ninglong alive.
When Guqiao heard the bad news, she fainted on the spot. After waking up, I looked at the porcelain blank made by Ning Long before he was born, and my heart ached. She called Ninglong's name and painted it, and tears fell on it drop by drop. These Qinglong tableware porcelain, made by Ninglong and painted by the ancient bridge, are crystal clear after being fired by fire. Surprisingly, round transparent eyes as bright as pearls appeared on porcelain.
Some people say that this is a little tear that dripped on the porcelain blank when the ancient bridge missed Ninglong. Because the name of Ninglong sounds close to "exquisite", people have since called this kind of porcelain Linglong porcelain.