Making Hakka tea is based on scientific and reasonable ingredients. In addition to using tea and sesame as the main raw materials, the ingredients can be changed at any time. In hot and humid spring and summer, tender wormwood leaves, mint leaves and rhizoma corydalis can be used; When the wind is dry in autumn, you can choose calendula or white chrysanthemum and honeysuckle; In cold winter, cinnamon, pepper, cinnamon and Ligusticum chuanxiong can be used. It can also be mixed with different ingredients according to people's needs to form a variety of multifunctional "tea scraps". If Herba Artemisiae Scopariae, Radix Paeoniae Alba and Radix Glycyrrhizae are added, it is "clearing away heat and breaking tea"; Adding Houttuynia cordata, Pogostemon cablin and dried tangerine peel is "heatstroke prevention tea". According to medical research, tea mashing has a unique effect of exorcising evil spirits and strengthening the body for Hakka people who live in ravines all the year round. Look at the old Hakkas. They are healthy, energetic, less sick and less painful. It can't be said that they often drink Hakka tea. Whenever Hakkas come back from work and enter the guest house, they should drink a bowl of tea before eating to relieve hunger. Hakka people often use glutinous rice to make Ciba, or rice to make rice fruit (Baba) as snacks. So there is a saying: "Drink tea, eat Baba, keep fit and have fun." Therefore, this peculiar Hakka tea is a "Hakka health drink" with the same medicine and food and delicious taste.
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Tea has a variety of ingredients, and different condiments and drugs can be added due to different cold and heat or different meat and vegetables, but the production process is basically the same. Hot and humid in spring and summer, fresh wormwood leaves and mint leaves are commonly used; Dry autumn wind, choose calendula or white chrysanthemum and honeysuckle; In cold winter, cinnamon, meat pillars, Chuanxiong and so on are used. Proved by traditional Chinese medicine, the tea set has the effects of promoting fluid production to quench thirst, preventing wind and dispelling cold, stimulating appetite and strengthening spleen, clearing away heat and toxic materials, clearing away liver heat and improving eyesight, moistening skin and caring skin, and prolonging life. In Shibi, the ancestral home of Hakkas, every household makes a bowl of ordinary tea every day, and when they come back to drink a few bowls after work, the happiness of the day disappears. Guests coming from afar, drinking a bowl will refresh their minds, satisfy their hunger and thirst, and be beneficial to their health. Vegetarian tea is a unique variety of Shibi tea. Meat tea is made of lard pickled in winter, with seasoning, fried shredded pork or small intestine, fried tofu, dried vermicelli, leek and so on. , and soak in tea; Vegetarian dishes are mixed with pure tea oil, and then cooked peanuts, mung beans, glutinous rice, sweet potato vermicelli, dried noodles and so on.
Production of Leicha
Lei tea is simple to make, fragrant and delicious. Because of its different components, it has the effects of quenching thirst, cooling, relieving summer heat and satisfying hunger respectively. Economical and practical.
When making tea, tea leaves are generally ground into powder, added with various ingredients and brewed with boiling water. Tea, in fact, is not all tea, but there are many varieties used as tea In addition to using old tea leaves, it is more important to pick the tender leaves of many wild plants, such as Yamanashi leaves, Isatis indigotica leaves (regardless of season) and snow potato leaves. Before Qingming, there were more than ten kinds. After harvesting, the leaves are cooked, fermented, washed and dried for later use. When in use, tea leaves are generally soaked, washed and mashed, put into a bowl, ground and melted with a pestle, added with various ingredients, such as oil and salt, and washed with boiling water. This is just a general drink. If used as medicine, such as expelling wind and cold, relieving summer-heat, clearing fire and detoxicating, it can be mashed with tea leaves, such as Phyllanthus altissima, Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Small Leaf Guest Bowl (horseshoe gold), Banzhun (shepherd's purse), yellow flower and mint. Chop all kinds of ingredients and easily cooked products, put them in a bowl and cook them with boiling water; Cook hard, put it in a pot, and wash the bowl with boiling water.