It is said that during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there lived a Taoist named Han in what is now Changchun in Northeast China.
This man was born in a well-dressed family and later served as a local arresting officer.
When he was middle-aged, he once met a strange man.
The two of them hit it off so much that they ate and lived together all day long, as if they were brothers.
The strange man preached to him every day for more than a month.
Later, he resolutely resigned from his official position, joined Taoism, and concentrated on cultivating Taoism.
One year at the end of autumn, after an autumn rain, Han Taoist was walking alone in the mountains.
Suddenly he saw a large leaf flowing down the river in the mountain.
Han Taoist didn't pay much attention to it at first, but then he walked upstream from the river.
Several large leaves floated here and there, and between the leaves there was a large peach, as big as a tripod.
While drifting down, it happened to be blocked by a reef in the river and got stuck not far from the river.
Upon seeing this, Taoist Han quickened his pace and ran to the river, and slowly carried Da Tao ashore.
He held the big peach and looked at it carefully.
The surface of the peach was soft and rosy, and the peach fragrance was fragrant and refreshing, which was by no means common to ordinary people.
Taoist Han knew that this peach was a rare thing in the world, so he turned around and picked up a large leaf from the river, wrapped the peach in his arms, and prepared to go up the mountain to worship the ancestor before eating it.
The Taoist took the peach and climbed to a high point on the top of the mountain.
He placed the big peach in a central position.
After paying homage to it, he cut it open with a knife, took out the peach core, divided the peach core into two and took it out.
Put the kernels in your mouth and swallow them.
When the kernels enter your mouth, Taoist Han immediately feels that the taste is as sweet and delicious as honey.
He looked at the two halves of the peach pit again.
Each half was like a wine glass, and the amount was about a spoonful.
So Taoist Han packed up the remaining peach meat and went down the mountain with the two halves of the peach core and returned to his residence.
From then on, he used peaches to satisfy his hunger every day.
Later, after eating the peach meat, the Han Taoist people drank wind and dew all year round, or went without food, and at most ate some wild fruits, and never touched any other grains.
When they were sixty years old, they still looked like a forty-year-old person. young.
In the meantime, when Taoist Han drank from the mountain spring with the two peach cups, there was spring water in the cup, and the peach core immediately became as red as new, as if it had just been taken out of the peach, and the wine also had a strong peach aroma. , very surprised.
Later, this pair of peach cups has been passed down.
In the 1980s, a family surnamed Yin in Changchun, Northeast China, had a pair of peach cups like this, which were used to hold wine.
An ordinary pot was better than an old wine.
It is said that these were once items in the Ouchi Imperial Palace.
As for whether they are the pair of peach cups used by Taoist Han, it cannot be verified
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