Kong Yiji, a scholar who was deeply poisoned by the imperial examination education, often took some useless words seriously as knowledge and skills.
Lu Xun wrote in Kong Yiji, "He didn't answer, but said to the cabinet,' Warm two bowls of wine and ask for a plate of fennel beans. "
In "Kong Yiji", Lu Xun described four ways to write the word "fennel" when Kong Yiji ate fennel beans, so it was widely circulated among the people.
Anise bean was originally a special local snacks in Shaoxing, Zhejiang. The main ingredients are broad beans and eggplant, and the auxiliary materials are star anise, cinnamon and salt. Fennel beans are fragrant and salty, with a slightly sweet aftertaste.
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Because of its low price, good quality, economy and practicality, it is gradually regarded as a "wine blank" for urban and rural hotels in all seasons; Children and women are also willing to spend a little change to eat.
Therefore, teahouses and stalls are also happy to see this small-scale operation and gradually become local specialties with strong local flavor.
Fragments of Lu Xun's famous novel Kong Yiji;
"The hotel pattern in Luzhen is different from other places: they are all big counters on the street, with hot water inside, and you can warm wine at any time.
After work in the afternoon and evening, people who go to work often spend four coppers to buy a bowl of wine-this was more than twenty years ago, and now each bowl has to rise to ten pence-standing outside the cabinet and drinking a hot drink;
If you are willing to spend an extra penny, you can buy a dish of salted bamboo shoots or fennel beans to make wine. You can buy a meat dish for a dozen pence.
But these customers, mostly short clothes gangs, are generally not so rich. Only people in robes walk into the house next to the shop, ask for wine and vegetables, sit and drink slowly ... "
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-fennel beans
Baidu Encyclopedia-Kong Yiji