I am not good at tea, do not know tea scriptures, not to mention what the tea ceremony, from the experience of the two armpits under the Xi Sheng wind.
However, over the past few decades, drank a lot of tea, Beiping double cellar (xūn), Tianjin’s big leaves, West Lake’s Longjing, Liu’an melon slice, Sichuan’s Tuocha, Yunnan’s Pu’er, Dongting Mountain’s Junshan tea, Wuyishan’s rock tea, and even the tea stalks not in the hall of elegance in the full star with the pot of net high end child, have tried.
Tea is the Chinese beverage, dry mouth to quench thirst, push tea is still. Tea word, the shape is close to the tea, the sound is close to (Mu Jia), the source is very ancient, spread overseas, where there are Chinese people have tea. No one is noble or low, who have points, on the Yan Yan people sip the famous species, the next Yan people drink tea soup, even the roadside ridge there are people serving tea. Northerners get up early, meet on the road, always ask the inquiry “tea? “Tea is one of the seven things to open the door, is a necessity of life.
When I was a child, there was a large teapot in the house, sitting in a cotton-lined rattan box, quite insulated, to drink their own tea poured. We use the mung bean bowl, this bowl is large is the rice bowl, small is the tea bowl, for mung bean color, rough and durable, of course, can not be compared with the Song porcelain, and Jiangxi porcelain can not be compared, and foreign porcelain can not be compared, but there is a simple and honest style, now this bowl has long been extinct, I miss.
This bowl is not worth a few cents to break, the brain spoon is not to be slapped. Silver bracket white porcelain small cover bowl is the grandfather’s special, we do not look at the envy. Look at that little one, two sips will drink up, soak two or three times to change the tea leaves, how troublesome.
Now the bowl is rarely seen, unless it is to the National Palace Museum to visit President Jiang, his large living room will always be out of the bowl of tea to guests. Then again is also seen in the TV series cover bowl tea, but the actors in one hand holding the cover and one hand holding the bowl shrinking neck to sip tea that wretched phase, it is gagging, because they do not know how to drink cover bowl tea should be the way to drink.
He usually drank his own tea probably a glass cup, thermos and so on. Nowadays, we see here is the cover bowl, mostly in recent years, the local production of “longevity” kind of style, porcelain thicker; Japan-made cover bowl, the style is slightly Different, always feel some strange. Recently someone back to the mainland, by the way, talking about my old residence, brought me more than thirty years ago every day use a porcelain bowl, the original is a set of twelve, only this set is left, bowl rim there is a little knock damage, see this old things, evoke the mood of the past, can not help but be gloomy. Covered bowl is actually the best tea set.
There are many varieties of tea, each good at it. A friend from Huizhou, classmates Tsinghua, Huizhou tea production destination, but he saw me with a pinch of tea in the pot to make tea, expressed surprise, because he only knew that the tea is dried and packed bundle on the boat along the river to Shanghai and Hangzhou to sell, the rest of the tea stalks are the things that families drink. Just as the northerners called “selling mats to sleep on a cool bed”.
I usually drink tea, either fragrant pieces or Longjing, many times to Dajie bar East Hongji or West Hongji to buy tea, in front of the counter, the apprentice to move the stool to make a seat, see the guys scale tea, divided into a number of small packets, wrapped to see the angles, the craft can only be comparable to the pharmacy staff. Jasmine cellar tea leaves before selling and then grab a handful of fresh jasmine on the surface, so called double cellar. So the tea store is often the fragrance of tea and flowers, lush and fragrant.
Father executive named Yu Gui, the flag, fine dining, living in the constant half fragrant half Longjing mixed steeped, fragrant piece of the strong fragrance, and Longjing bitter clear. My family to follow the line, no good. Tea to people for the name, is the way to call this tea for “Yu Gui”, private secret, no outsiders know.
In fact, the most elegant tea. Before the war to visit the old man Zhi Tang in the bitter tea, the hosts and guests always have a cup of tea, light, astringent, green green. I have repeatedly served my late husband to tour the West Lake, never forget to taste the local Longjing, do not need to climb the South Summit Feng Huangling, near the Pinghu Quyue on the good Longjing tea, boiling water now brewed, excellent flavor. After tea into a bowl of lotus root powder, four beauty with carry on. It is “through the window and come, summer breeze winter day; roll up the curtain to see each other, the moon in front of the mountain mountain. “
A friend from Liu’an to come, I will be my melon slices a little, the leaves are large and green, drink it with the breath of the wilderness to the nose. One of the watermelon tea, really have a watermelon flavor. I have passed through the Dongting, boat berth Yueyang Tower, purchased a box of Junshan tea. Boiling water steeped, each piece of tea leaves are like needles floating upright, a long time to stretch down, taste and fragrance is not vulgar.
First came to Taiwan, light tea, quite want to pour all the Ruan bag and then drink tea end of the occasional luxury enjoyment. One day over a tea store, so good Longjing, the shopkeeper will me up and down, take eight dollars a catty of tea to should, Yu showed dissatisfaction, it is more to twelve dollars to offer, Yu still dissatisfied, the shopkeeper suddenly changed, sternly said: “selling things to see the goods, not exclusively the price set up and down. Raise the price, self-deception ear! Why do not you notice? “I love his stupidity. Now this tea store door to door, has become the industry’s leading. Since then, I drink tea, but on taste, not price.
Tea is stronger and stronger than kung fu tea.
Chao Jia Feng Yue Ji” said kung fu tea to fine charcoal first boil even pot with bowl pouring, pouring and sip carefully, the smell of fragrant, more than chewing plum blossoms more clear.
I have not chewed plum blossoms, but I lived in Qingdao when there was a Chaozhou Chenghai friends, every time we get together to drink Moet, always together to visit a Chaozhou gang giant business in their stores. There is a secret room behind the shop, smoking sets, tea sets are extremely sophisticated, small pots and pots like toys. More maiden Wan dao child wait for cooking tea, burning smoke, so often full of kung fu tea, such as Tieguanyin, Da Hongpao, after eating also carry a few boxes home. Not only whether the fancy, said the stove fire in the tea set seven steps away from each other for the degree, boiling water and temperature party to the standard. With a small cup and drink, if you drink from the cup to return to the plate, the host is not happy, must lift the cup to the nose dream sniff two. This tea is the most wine, such as chewing olives, tongue slightly astringent, after several rounds, as if the more thirsty drink, can not stop.
Drinking kung fu tea, to have work, sip and savor, to have equipment, to serve, who has so much effort in today’s chaotic society? Where to find a small red clay stove? The people who serve the tea soup are more regardless of carry on. Pu-erh tea, a dark mass, it is said that there are also green people, bubble cooking out of the black, Guangdong people like it.
In Beiping, I only watch people eat barbecue in Zhengyang House, eat mouth slippery stomach swollen Hen can not move, only to call on the hallkeeper bubble Pu-er tea.
Tuocha in Sichuan is not evil, but the general teahouse should be the market is not the top quality.
Taiwan’s oolong, famous in China and abroad, mass production, the good is not easy to get. Everywhere labeled frozen top, in fact, there are so many frozen top?
Drink tea, drink good tea, the past is like smoke. Speaking of the art of drinking tea, now seems to be unable to talk about it, do not mention it.
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