Why do people in the twelve hours of Chang an love to eat mint leaves?

Why is Zhang Xiaojing's mouth always chewing a mint leaf in "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an"?

It's not science fiction, it's Ma Boyong's best historical suspense**, it's essentially a spy war suspense**, but the story background was put in Chang'an City during the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, and it will be published in December 16, and now only the first seven chapters released by Ma Boyong are released, and I made an epub version for my own convenience. I quote the opening paragraph: "Old man.

In fact, it's similar to our modern chewing gum, cigarettes and the like. In the original book, only Long Bo chewed mint leaves, but the author originally wanted to write something like chewing betel nut, but he thought that there was no betel nut in the Tang Dynasty, so he changed to chew mint leaves.

In fact, in the Tang Dynasty Xu Jian and others compiled the "Beginner's Record: Career and Official Department", there is a quote from the Eastern Han Dynasty scholar Ying Shao's "Han Guanyi": "Shang Shulang contains chicken tongue incense, volt music, Huangmen Lang kneels and accepts, so it is called Shang Shulang Huaixiang Hold Lan, tend to go Danqi" In the Northern Wei Dynasty, chicken tongue incense began to be called cloves, and Jia Sixian's "Qi Min Yaoshu" also wrote: "Chicken tongue incense, laypeople think it looks like a child, so it is 'clove'."

Ding is the ancient word for a nail, describing the appearance of a painted pedicle that has not yet fully bloomed, resembling a nail. So the chewing mint we see in the film is actually more accurately called chewing clove leaves, and its effect is the trick of the ancients to close their mouth and have bad breath.

But can mint leaves be eaten at all? What we now call peppermint is actually a collective name for a variety of mint plants such as spearmint, American mint, and peppermint. At present, there are more than 10 kinds of mint in China, generally around the farmland, mostly in the suburbs, and many families will plant mint leaves as ornamentals.

Peppermint can be eaten raw, raw with fresh leaves, or dried to make tea. Yunnan people love to eat mint, and use it as a hot pot shabu-shabu, as well as cold salad, fried, and there are many ways to eat it.

In the Tang Dynasty, mint leaves were mostly used as a vegetable, spice, or tea. For example, at that time, some people put mint leaves in rice cakes as condiments. In modern times, mint leaves can be extracted as raw materials to make toothpaste and chewing gum, but they cannot be eaten in large quantities.

Peppermint can also repel mosquitoes, refresh the mind, and be made into cooling oil, menthol and other external medicines.

I love to eat mint leaves, in order to get closer to the original work, **There is such a plot in it, it may be that southerners love to chew betel nuts, and the performance of such details shows that this drama is very attentive, and other details are handled very well.

Because it is adapted from**, Long Bo loves to eat mint leaves written in the original book, and Mr. Ma Boyong wrote this may also have learned that southerners love to chew betel nuts to design this plot.

Because ** is written, and there should be many people in the south who like to eat betel nut, and then in the TV series, it was changed to eating mint slices, which should also be to respect the original work.

I think eating mint slices is just a hobby in life, maybe ancient people are the same as modern people, and now people like to eat chewing gum. And the ancients ate this to relieve stress.

It's very simple.,It's just to follow the original book.,The plot of mint slices was written in the original book.,So there's no big problem with the plot design.。 And these details can be restored, which shows the sincerity of the crew.

The characters in the play chew mint leaves just like people chew betel nuts now, and they are refreshed when they are sleepy. In the interview, Ma Boyong also explained why he wrote chewing mint leaves, but in fact, the author made it up blindly, and originally wanted to write about chewing betel nut, but at that time, the Central Plains did not introduce it, so it was changed to mint leaves.

Just like smoking and betel nut, it may not be advocating everyone to eat betel nut, so it was replaced with mint leaves, which was healthy, and also represented a culture of the Tang Dynasty at that time, indicating that the society was generally harmonious.

It's like a snack, and the mint has a cool feeling, and there is a fragrance, which is also to eliminate bad breath, similar to chewing gum.

Some people like to eat mint slices, probably to reduce this bad breath, after all, there was no toothbrush at that time, no toothpaste could not brush teeth, so naturally there will be this bad breath.

There is no obscure meaning, the original author wanted to write betel nut, but because the betel nut did not match the dynasty, it was replaced with mint leaves, and mint leaves can refresh the mind and is a good thing, so it will appear in the plot, and it is also the demand for people to express their state in the plot, and mint leaves are sobering things in the drive.

The author originally wanted to write that they chewed betel nut, but because it did not correspond to history, they wrote mint leaves, and its function was to refresh the mind, which was logical, but it was still apocryphal, and the Tang Dynasty people in history did not eat mint leaves, but chewed some other things, and there was already "chewing gum" at that time.

Now there is mint-flavored chewing gum, obviously, mint leaves do just that, and people have been discovering these magical things since ancient times, and there must be some meaning in this.

Peppermint leaves are the leaves of plant mint, with a cool taste, with lotus leaves, human dancao, shengyang grass, mint known as lotus, mainly containing peppermint oil, menthol and menthol, isomenthone, rosmarinic acid and other ingredients. It can strengthen the stomach and dispel wind, expectorant, choleretic, antispasmodic, improve fever, throat, swelling and pain, and eliminate headache, toothache and nausea. It is also commonly used in dishes or desserts to remove the fishy smell of fish and mutton, or with fruits and desserts to enhance the taste; It can also be made into an anti-inflammatory and swelling lotion.

The mint leaves are fresh in breath, which must make the plot look tighter and less awkward.

It is rumored that the author originally wanted to write that they had nothing to chew betel nut, but since there was no betel nut in the Tang Dynasty at that time, it would be inconsistent with history to write about chewing betel nut, so he simply wrote about chewing mint leaves. In order to refresh the mind, it is more logical. These are apocryphal articles, so did the Tang people really like to chew this leaf in history?

In fact, in the Tang Dynasty, there were indeed people who chewed some "chewing gum".

The effect of mint leaves in Chang'an is similar to smoking, refreshing and refreshing, and it is also similar to chewing gum and refreshing breath. The Chang'an Twelve Hours TV series is adapted from Ma Boyong's name**, which tells the story of the case that occurred in Chang'an City during the Shangyuan Festival of the Tang Dynasty, and Zhang Xiaojing and Li Bi jointly solved the conspiracy of criminals.

Because it is necessary to express the ruffian feeling of the characters, and because it is also needed to wake up the mind while driving, the author chose to let them chew mint leaves, and mint leaves meet these two requirements, but originally the author wanted betel nut, and later because it was necessary to be practical, betel nut did not have in that dynasty, so he chose mint leaves.