# teahouse

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**Published on:** 2022-10-13
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## Content

Bubble Tea House "Bubble Tea House" is a language unique to the university students. It seems that there is no such saying in the local area, the local people only say "sit in the teahouse". "Bao" is a Beijing dialect. Its meaning is difficult to explain precisely. Reluctantly to explain, it can only be said that it is immersed in it for a long time, soaking in it like a pickle. "Bubble mushrooms" and "poor bubbles" have long-term meanings. Students in Beijing brought the word "buo" from Beijing to Kunming and combined it with real life to create a new word. "Bubble tea house" means sitting in a tea house for a long time. The local "sitting in a tea house" also means a longer time. To go to the teahouse, the first is to sit, and the second is to drink tea (called eating tea in Yunnan). However, the students of the United Nations University often spend much longer sitting in the teahouse than the locals, so it is called "bubbling". There is a classmate named Lu, who is a weirdo who once traveled half of China on foot. This guy is a real teahouse champion. For a period of time, he spent all day soaking in a familiar teahouse. His toilet utensils are placed in this teahouse. When we came together, we went to the teahouse to wash our face and brush our teeth, then sat down, made a bowl of tea, ate two sesame seeds, and read a book. Until noon, get up and go out for lunch. After dinner, another bowl of tea, until dinner. After dinner, it was another bowl, and it was not until the lights on the street were dim that I returned to the dormitory with a thick book in between. There are several types of teahouses in Kunming, I don't know. Roughly speaking, it can only be divided into two categories: one is a large teahouse, and the other is a small teahouse. There used to be a large teahouse on Zhengyi Road, with dozens of tables upstairs and downstairs. They are all eight immortal tables with water chestnut purple lacquer, very bright. Because in a lively area, the seats are often full and the voices of people are noisy. On all the pillars was a striking note: "Don't talk about state affairs." From time to time, a magician who looks at the picture will come in, holding a cardboard piece about six inches high in one hand, and writing the name of the magician (it can only be called the big name, because it often does not carry a surname, it cannot be called "name"; it cannot be called "fa name". ""Stage name", because he did not become a monk or sing opera), holding a paper matchmaker in one hand, he went around the tea table, and said in his mouth, "No money for palm reading", "Send to see" Palmistry doesn't require money" - the matchmaker in his hand is used to indicate handprints when reading palmistry. This large teahouse sometimes sings drums. The drums are sung a cappella by actors or fanciers. I love the word "circumferential drum". Actors and ticket-holders who sing drums don't seem to be paid. It's just a group of idle people who have the same kind of people gather to sing and play. However, the teahouse can borrow it to attract customers, so it is convenient for the teahouse to put up a notice in the busy market: "A certain month and the sun surround the drum". When you come to such a teahouse to listen to the drums and eat tea, it is also called "eating the drums tea". The word "surrounding drum" probably comes from Sichuan, but the surrounding drums in Kunming seem to sing more Yunnan opera. I have been in Kunming for seven years, and I have never been introduced to Yunnan Opera. I just remember that there is a lyric in some play, "The Lone King grows moss on his head". How can moss grow on the head of the lonely king? This idea is really strange, so once you hear it, you will never forget it.

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