Basic information of rootless water

Rootless water is a way of taking water, which is cheap because of time, place and specific conditions. For example, some tea people take the water of the first snow, the water of the morning dew, and the "rootless water" in the breeze and drizzle (taking it in the open air, not making it fall to the ground). There are even people who specialize in making merlin, taking the snow off the petals of plums, watering them, storing them in jars, burying them in the ground, and making tea next year.

The saying of Journey to the West is more common. Journey to the West said to the Monkey King in 69: "The water in the well and the river in Hanoi have roots. My rootless water is not this theory. It falls from the sky and is eaten without touching. It is called rootless water. " In other words, there is no rain on the ground.

Why use rootless water to make tea and decoct medicine? Because it is the cleanest water!

Rootless water, also called Tianshui, generally refers to water falling from the sky, such as rain, snow, frost and dew. This is described in detail in A Dream of Red Mansions. Generally, it mainly refers to rain. Water is evaporated by the high temperature of nature into clouds on the ground, and then the clouds in the sky become water when they fall to the ground at low temperature. It has also been mentioned many times in the Romance of the Gods that the antidote or elixir should be taken with rootless water. From a modern point of view, rainwater is a kind of distilled water without impurities. When it falls to the ground and flows through the rock layer, it will dissolve calcium and become "hard water". It also dissolves a lot of dirt on the ground and turns it into sewage.

Rootless water can keep the medicinal properties of some medicinal materials from being destroyed and maintain the original flavor of tea, so it is scientific for ancient elegant people to love to make tea with rootless water to obtain better taste. "The history of every major civilization in the Milky Way will go through three distinct stages, namely, survival, questioning and sophistry. The characteristics of the three stages are how to eat, why to eat, and where to eat lunch. " -Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Let's solve the simplest problem, which is what our proposition is. Nature spent 5 million years shaping apes into human beings, and humans spent 1000 years thinking about why we are human beings, and then began to think about what we will eventually become. Look, this is a general logic, which can be applied to many problems, such as mental dilemma. If we expand this topic, we may have an answer.

Why are we so confused? Why do you get lost on the way to find yourself? This is the inevitable collision between mainstream ideology and self-consciousness. You can make a symbolic metaphor to describe the future development of this world. The lonely fantasy of urban utopia will eventually be shattered, and people will enter the muddy and gloomy era of Cyberpunk style, just like the long and dense Gothic in the Middle Ages, and become blade runner struggling on the edge of subversion of ethics and human nature. Ruins, ruins, continuous spread, where is the last extension of life? If the flickering light goes out, does the final form of life only retain the electron flow of self-consciousness, so life will not last, and what else will not be annihilated? When you tell yourself not to be a melancholy idealist and nihilist, you have become that kind of person.

Finally, where are we going? Finding the answer may be one of the common themes of everyone's life course, and the common way is to explore the essential commonness. We regard it as a "root", which can be the spiritual pillar of all people, because any belief must have its foundation, and belief embodies the reliable realization of the value and meaning of life. Especially religious belief, to a certain extent, is an explanation and the road to the answer. Its characteristic is that theism, such as Islam and Christianity, has only one god. Human beings need a sense of absolute and unconditional dependence born of intuition "infinity" and "sacredness", which is the basis of religion.

It is true that there are few pure atheists now, and the proportion in China is even less. Then discuss the generalized "root", a kind of homeland complex. The typical area is Taiwan Province Province, because it has a special historical background and social development process, and is deeply influenced by Japanese and American cultures. No matter how the outside world develops, it is free. In Taiwan Province Province, two couples are considered as typical. During the new Taiwan Province film period (1980 ~ 1990), a number of outstanding filmmakers emerged in this new wave of Taiwan Province films, among which Hou Xiaoxian and Yang Dechang are undoubtedly the most representative. Their personal growth experience is also typical of Taiwan Province people. Yang Dechang and Hou Xiaoxian were born in the same year, both of which are 1947. They grew up in Taipei and went to the United States for further study after graduating from college, and got a master's degree in electronic engineering. After returning to Taiwan Province Province, they devoted themselves to the movies with great enthusiasm, looked directly at Taipei with their cameras, and pointedly exposed all kinds of "urban diseases". Finally, they found an outlet in criticism, and vividly described people's figures under the appearance of rapid urban development and urban noise. In all his films, he dissected these trivial people and things one by one and then spliced them into magnificent scenery. Almost all our puzzles about cities and society can be found in it. On the whole, the restless and exaggerated plot is more like an urban sketch. Hou Hsiao-hsien is another style, which embodies the plot of hometown and local flavor in the background of personal growth. Like Shen Congwen's prose, it seems beautiful and plain, but it is full of strong emotions. His long shot and forbearing emotion made his oriental aesthetics highly praised by the international film circle, and a large number of filmmakers in Taiwan Province Province blindly imitated it, but just like the East, it was also one of the reasons why the film circle in Taiwan Province Province collapsed after the new film period. Another pair of typical figures is Bobby Chen and Hu Defu. Bobby Chen is an old-school artist in Taiwan Province Province. He used to have a good time and a strong literary atmosphere. He calls himself a chauvinist. His works pay attention to thoughts and self-expression, and his singing and songs are a little different. If you think he is a little strange, it is because he is too real. Hu Defu, a native of paiwan, Taiwan Province, is a pioneer of the aboriginal movement in Taiwan Province Province. He was praised by Cai Mingliang: "Hu Defu's singing is sincere and soulful, calling for our lost mountains and rivers and forgotten sea and sky." City and country, self and nature, they are all rooted in the same land. Although they have different flowers and different smells, they have the same charm. This is their root and a sense of belonging.

Rootless water is a kind of material commonly used in ancient medicine introduction or pharmacy, and it is also a way to get water. Cheap because of time, place and specific conditions. Some tea people take the water of the first snow, the water of the morning dew and the "rootless water" in the breeze and drizzle. From a certain point of view, these untouched rainwater, well water and river water contain less bacteria, which is really helpful to the treatment effect. Some people say that this is the only way to solve the problem-no dust. Roots are a comfort. If you reach the rootless state, there will be no earthly troubles. Unfortunately, as long as water can be found in this world, it is not purely rootless, so there should be no so-called ultimate truth. Everything with universal logic, extending from a certain part, will run counter to it, but these small stones can't stop the water flowing down the trend. It's good that the local truth is fulfilled in the local area. For example, in Meilin, take plum petal snow, water it, store it in a jar, bury it deep underground, and make tea next year. Rootless water, also known as falling into the water, generally refers to the' rain, snow and frost dew' falling from the sky. These plots are all described in A Dream of Red Mansions, but' snow frost dew' seems to be even rarer, generally referring to rain. I vaguely remember Baochai's recipe of "Lengxiang Pill". It's really a bit busy to collect rootless water of "rain dew, white dew, first frost and light snow" from four seasons, and pick flowers in spring, summer, autumn and winter, supplemented by sugar and honey.

In ancient times, there were also many literati who boiled the petals of snow plums, canned them and buried them in the ground to make tea next year. Miaoyu seems to have used this rootless water when she made a cup for her brother in the temple. I wonder if the owners of modern teahouses have thought that they can use "rootless water" to make tea to attract customers. If they do this, they will certainly be able to "rip off" at a high price!

It rained all night yesterday and even moved for half a night. I woke up in the morning and stopped. Although I haven't swam across a few clouds in the sky and lived in the city, I can't find my childhood homesickness of "it rained all night yesterday, and I just started walking, and my feet were covered with mud". However, when I was writing, "Bitter is sweet brother" in Liu Huan's songs lingered in my ears.

Maybe I took a few photos of the crystal clear "falling soup spring" on the petals of camellia covered with rain last night in my yard in the morning; Maybe when you are old, you will consciously or unconsciously realize the "bitter homologous twin brother" of life; Perhaps, like those "white-faced people" who go to the plum petals to get "rootless water", there is much ado about nothing. Somehow, they remembered the seemingly inappropriate topic of "rootless water". Why? I don't know myself. In The Journey to the West's sixty-ninth chapter, "The heart governs the practice of medicine at night, and the king talks about evil spirits at a banquet", he wrote: King Zhu Ziguo was ill, and the Monkey King felt his pulse and diagnosed that the king "lost two birds". The Monkey King used rhubarb, croton and paraquat to prepare medicine for King Wang. Finally, he took it with horse urine and pills and with rootless water. What is rootless water? The Monkey King explained: "The water in the well in Hanoi has roots. My rootless water is not this theory, but something that falls from the sky and eats without touching. It is called rootless water. "

In the seventh episode of A Dream of Red Mansions, it was said that Xue Baochai had a disease when she was young, and any famous doctor's fairy medicine didn't work. Later, he was treated by a monk, saying that it was the heat poison brought by the fetus, so he opened a "maritime prescription" and gave the last medicine as a primer. Baochai took it and saw the effect. This "seashore" is actually dew, frost, snow and honey, plus four kinds of flowers: Bai Mudan in spring, white lotus in summer, Bai Furong in autumn and Bai Meihua in winter. Dew, frost and snow can also be used as decoction.

The water for decocting traditional Chinese medicine has always been very particular. Unlike now, no matter what Chinese medicine is decocted, it is taken in a can of tap water, and the curative effect is discounted. Then, the water used to decoct traditional Chinese medicine was very particular. What are the commonly used waters for decocting medicine?

Rain: It refers to the rain at the beginning of spring. Salt water is non-toxic and has the function of ascending qi, so it is appropriate to decoct the medicine of dispersing and tonifying.

Dew: refers to the water collected when autumn dew is frequent, which should be decocted to dispel summer heat and moisten the lungs.

Liquid rain: On day 10 after beginning of winter, liquid enters and light snow leaves. The rainwater collected during this period is called "liquid rain" and should be decocted with pesticides and indigestion drugs.

Snow water: cold in nature, it should be decocted and taken to treat qi, fever and madness.

Stagnant water: it is called stagnant water in the rain and stagnant water in the air. Drugs that regulate the spleen and stomach and dispel damp-heat can be decocted, but their light taste does not help damp-heat. This kind of water is the primer used by King Zhu Ziguo.

East flowing water: the water from rivers and streams, which is used to treat diseases such as weakness after illness, weakness of spleen and stomach, and yin deficiency after work.

Countercurrent water: that is, the water circulating in rivers, which has the opposite nature, can be used to decoct medicine and be used for stroke, sudden syncope, head wind, malaria and other diseases. The flowing water in the east and the flowing water in the counter-current are nothing more than the characteristics that the flowing water is not rotten, fresh and clean.

Well water: it is mostly used to decoct and take drugs for treating heat dysentery, nausea and quenching thirst, as well as drugs for nourishing yin and reducing fire. Well water is clean and sanitary after natural filtration, which is an ideal water for decocting medicine in rural areas.

Warm soup: refers to hot spring water, often combined with traditional Chinese medicine to wash scabies, dermatitis, rheumatic joint pain, hemiplegia and other symptoms.

Yin and yang water: that is, raw water and boiled water are mixed evenly, which is used to decoct and take drugs such as regulating middle energizer, promoting digestion and stopping vomiting.

Tap water: This is widely used decoction water at present. It goes without saying that it is clean and hygienic, but it is not suitable for frying immediately. It is better to fry in a clean container in the morning and afternoon. Otherwise, the chlorine is heavy and astringent, and the taste is poor.