Today we had our EG2 common test. In the afternoon, we had UESTC lessons. The lecturer taught us to appreciate tea.
The English word, “tea” actually has a chinese origin. It is derived from a plant’s name, “tay”. There are many different stories of how people derived “tea”.
A few thousand years ago, there was a divine farmer, namely shen nong, who is quite known in Chinese mythology. He sat under a tree to taste his herbs. Some dry leaves dropped from the tree into the water accidentally. He drank the boiled water as usual. The bitter and yellow water was known as tea. Another story will be a bodhiharma practicing meditation in a cave temple. After some time, he felt sleepy. To the extent that he cut his eyelids. However, when he tossed his severed eyelids on the ground, tea plants sprang up. He then used the tea leaves to brew tea to stay awake.
The original function of tea was to relieve poison. In ancient China, tea was regarded as the 7 daily necessities, as well as firewood, rice, salt, soy sauce, oil, vinegar.
Many people in Chengdu like to drink tea. Nowadays, there are some changes made to downtown teahouses. Some with pub type tea houses with pleasant décor. In the weekdays afternoons, they cater to people who came to chat or talk businesses. On weekends, families and friends will gather at the teahouses to chat and relax.
After class, we went on to hong guang zhen as we have not seen all the shops around that area. We walked around the stretch of shops. We ended up at a place with many stalls selling small snacks. We then decided to have them for dinner. We bought the sour and spicy dumpling, boiled potato which was shaped like fries, and the fried rice which is very famous here in Chengdu. After all the shopping and everything, we went to flag a cab and went back to campus to have some rest.
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