What is the legend of Meng Po Tang?

In the ancient folklore of China, Meng Po Tang is a kind of tea soup made by Meng Po in the underworld, which can forget all the memories of love, hate and troubles.

Its practice is to mix human ghosts with human herbs; To put it another way, I quote Meng Po-tang's eight tears: one raw tear, two old tears, three bitter tears, four cups of regret tears, five inches of lovesickness tears, six drops of illness tears and seven feet of parting tears. This eighth taste is a sad tear for Meng Po. Meng Po's soup is made by eight tears, so it takes a lifetime to make a good soup.

Zhengzhou's "Meng Po Tang" is actually a "soup" made of traditional Chinese medicine and Kuding tea, which has four flavors: sour, sweet, bitter and spicy.

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One of the legends of Meng Po:

The so-called Meng Po is Meng Jiangnv. When Meng Jiangnu cried down the Great Wall, she saw countless bodies under the Great Wall and never found her husband's bones. In order to forget these painful memories, Meng Po Tang was made to make people forget. Later, God missed her feeling of missing her husband and saved her from the pain of reincarnation.

Let her cook Meng Po soup by Naihe Bridge, and let the ghosts involved in reincarnation forget everything in their previous lives. The so-called "past lives have passed, and good and evil in this life are only from the mind." Meaning. This statement has been widely circulated since the Yuan Dynasty, and it is often seen in the notes of scholars in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is also the most widely circulated statement among the people. In many legends about Meng Po, this statement is quite realistic.

In this legend, Meng Po is actually not an old woman, but a peerless beauty. The reason why Meng Po first made Meng Po Tang was to forget his past. Meng Po's only memory is to send a bowl of Meng Po soup to ghosts coming and going on Naihe Bridge.

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