"Your Majesty, you don't know something. Jingzhongshan toon is different from toon in other places.
Jingzhongshan toona is famous both inside and outside Kyoto for its unique color and delicious taste.
The toona here is fat, tender, thick, and has a strong fragrance. Before and after Grain Rain, the fragrance can float for ten miles. The color of the toon in Jingzhong Mountain is very different from the toon in other places. It is red and is also called red toon, while the toon in other places is generally green. If your Majesty is absolutely good, you can make the Jingzhong Mountain Red Toon a tribute to the imperial court. "
Jingzhong Mountain is located in the hinterland of Yanshan Mountain and is unique in Jidong.
The mountains are mainly composed of gneiss, which contains potassium, sodium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron, calcium, silicon, manganese and other nutrients needed by plants. The soil in this area is mainly brown soil. The soil layer is thick, the structure is loose, the organic matter content is high, the pH value is between 5.6-7, and it is neutral and slightly acidic. It has a good geochemical environment for the growth of Toona sinensis.
The temperature in the mountains decreases as the altitude increases, and the temperature difference between day and night is large, which is conducive to photosynthesis. Therefore, it is very suitable for the organic transformation of minerals in the toon body.
Every spring, the buds of the toona tree bloom, and the fragrance is attractive. After being picked and processed, it becomes a popular delicacy. The best toona buds should be picked before Grain Rain. The ancients said: "Before the rain, the buds are tender and silky, but after the rain, the buds have their essence."
"This "Yu" refers to "Grain Rain". People pay attention to eating the chun buds picked before and after the Qingming Festival. They are extremely tender. Once the Grain Rain has passed, the flavor will spread far away. There is a folk saying "If you don't eat chun buds when spring is over, Eat chun and wait for spring."
"You can taste it when you taste it. Forget it as a tribute. If I want to eat it again, I will naturally send someone to buy it." Zhu Youjian said.
"Yu Gong·Shu" records: "Those who offer tribute are called tribute from the bottom. They use the valleys from which they come out, market the foreign objects produced in the land, and offer what they have, which is called Jue Gong." It can be seen from this that the tribute items , is a "foreign thing" born in a place, that is, a special product.
Tribute culture is China's unique cultural heritage that integrates material and intangible culture. - Tribute: famous, special and excellent. The tributes mostly come from all over the country, which are of excellent quality, rare and rare, prestigious or auspicious.
But are tributes necessarily a good thing?
It’s hard to say. It may be a benefit to officials, but it may be a disaster for the people.
Since ancient times, it has been common for lower-level officials to pay tribute to the court, and the tribute items are also varied.
From gold and silver treasures to rare birds and beasts, as long as there are good things in the world, people will bring them as tribute.
But there is one thing that people can never imagine that can also be used as tribute. What is it? That is to offer living dwarfs (also called dwarf slaves) as tribute, which is really cruel.
Starting from Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, Daozhou (today’s Daoxian County, Hubei Province) has had such a "custom": paying tribute to "self-produced" dwarfs to the court for the entertainment of dignitaries. But there are so many dwarfs among the people, what should we do?
In order to complete the task, the local state official found a little boy from a poor family in advance and put him in a clay pot with only his head exposed to control his growth.
When they reached adulthood, they would break the jars, take people, and pay tribute to the court with the artificially created dwarfs. This is the so-called "self-produced" dwarf. In the Tang Dynasty, this cruel "tradition" continued.
This "custom" has caused suffering to the poor local people.
During the Tang Dezong period, a man named Yangcheng served as the governor of Daozhou. That's when things changed.
