Spring sunshine, the old western suburbs of Chengdu, Chengdu city folk. Drink strike with Doujiu, twice-cooked pork mouth leaving a trace of the lingering fragrance, Mr. Feng Shuimu Provincial Writers Association members, and local history expert Mr. Wang Dawei into the restaurant in town, two "old Chengdu," You're a word, I have a word to the public lecture and old patrons Chengdu's story, recalling over half a century ago, an old teahouse in Chengdu.
Civilian Chapu and "overtime tea"
In 1935, Chengdu, selling the hottest "new news" contains, Chengdu has 60 million people at that time, a total of 667 streets, there are thousands of big and small Chapu; of these, there is a name Cha Pu 599 . In other words, an average of every street has at least one Chapu.
At that time most of the civilian population of the old Cha Pu Cha Pu, wooden table, bamboo chair, Gaiwan Cha, copper pot. Chengdu people drink tea, pay attention to is the "casual" word. Do not play mahjong, talk about national affairs, the people themselves well on it. Tea in general remained at 4 cents a bowl, boiled water is more expensive, 2 cents a bowl. To the sixties of last century, Chengdu, a popular drink of the "three flowers", 6 cents a bowl, this price has been maintained to the eighties of the last century. In addition, patrons can bring their own tea, drinking water would only cost money. Patrons more than 50-year-old Mr. Gao recalled dog day hot day, pull three, selling vegetables for the next power of people thirsty, and after calling on the Cha Pu as long as soon as: "Drink 'overtime tea'!" Definitely no one will be refused, tea passengers soon will scoop a lid covered with teacup tea, quickly handed him. Speaking of grand old Cha Pu, 72-year-old Wang Wei remember. Chengdu was selling thousands of daily bowl of tea Cha Pu, there are three, namely, "China and China Chamber of tea", "is entertainment," and "wash river." This can be an almost daily basis to sell three Chapu 3000 bowls of tea and patrons all day, clouds, between Rusuo.
This thriving old Chengdu Chapu situation continued until the last century, five, early sixties. By 1965, Chengdu old Chapu rapidly declining, reducing the more than 400.
"Eat stresses tea" and "listen to the Warring States"
The "soft ear" of the years, Mr. Feng Shuimu, will feature the old teahouse summarized as follows: to maintain neighborhood harmony, popular culture and historical knowledge, exchange of information. Maintenance of neighborhood harmony, through the "eating tea and talk" approach to achieve. If there is a neighborhood dispute, or the trouble of doing business both sides of conflicts we supposed to? This case, the parties usually go to a local person of high moral standing to be judged on the merits. At this time, highly respected person would say: "Walking to the Chapu to talk reason!" Ever since, both parties offer a good family and friends, ranging from fifteen or twenty people, as many as hundreds of people, we sit together, listen to respectable persons put reason, to judge the merits of the final statement by the party to pay how weak tea capital. Do not need to "sue government officials", the parties to resolve the contradictions and settle the problem, everyone is happy.
Chengdu people's speech has always been very polite, even the illiterate old lady would say "put Ghost Story", "poor Si excessive carry on" (a phrase from the Confucian "Analects of Confucius"). In the past, be able to read books, literate knowledge, very few, most people's knowledge came from listening to the Chapu heard of the book.
Daytime chat, playing a long card, a meal at noon Chapu. In the evening, listening to storytelling in Chapu, "eat the book of tea", "Yue said," "Suitangyanyi", "San Xia Wu Yi" have been staged. However, most poor people can not spend money on tea sat listening, we supposed to? They stood Jieyan to "listen to the Warring States Period", that is Zhanzhao Ting storytelling. Cha Pu was still a variety of guilds, the society and the community to exchange information, contact the feelings of an important place. For example, the "pillow flow" is a meeting place frequented by students, the gentry were always in the "Wing Melodies" tea parties, scholars like "Chang Fu Museum", tea merchants, the real estate sector will often appear in the "three-Yi Park" Chapu. Before Liberation Association, the students will be gathering at the Cultural Palace Chapu most choose up when the door Chapu Association, the students will be listed as many as dozens.
A couplet and a well
Speaking of Shu tea history, the earliest age when the number of the Qing Gu Yanwu reasoning book "Daily Understanding", which read: "Since taking into Shu Qin Then, things start, Tea drink." So doing we Shu has been 2300 years of history of drinking tea. Shu's tea culture has a long history, from Chengdu, the reputation of the old teahouse, which could be get a glimpse of couplets. "Heming" Chapu for nearly a hundred years of history, is still in Chengdu, People's Park. "Heming," the word is from the "Book of Songs? Xiaoya? Heming": "Heming YU Jiu-Gao, Shengwen in the day.". Chunxi on the road of "Shu-Quan," Cha Pu. "Spring", meaning water, tea is sounding name of "Shu-Quan", which were elegant and very interesting. Workers who have the same essence as well as "drink-tao," Cha Pu, rolling boiling water is not exactly rolling in the waves do? For no reason than the "tea," a little more flavor.