Spring is an exciting season.
Degang Guo said in the cross talk: "Winter left, I just took off my long pants and Miss Chun came.". Degang Guo is a comedian, and his words are a bit erotic, which makes Miss Chun so impatient, but the pace of spring is really fast, and she comes to you inadvertently. The grass seems to grow out overnight, and the earth becomes as soft as a woman's chest. A few days later, the tree turned green and bloom died. The wind is so soft. Like a girl's sandy hands, people take off their thick winter clothes and become much lighter. They began to go out for an outing, looking for flowers. Cats and dogs are more playful, flirting everywhere in the fields, everything is in bud, the world is clear and spring is everywhere.
In fact, for me, spring has different expectations, that is, the expectation that spring tea will be listed.
Just after the New Year, I called Wang Boss, a Hangzhou native who runs Longjing tea, and asked him when the new tea would be on the market. He told me exactly that in late March, tea was not good to drink, and it was expensive to die. It is for the powerful or the rich. Since then, I often look at the calendar and look forward to that moment. Finally, just the day before yesterday, Mr. Wang called me and the tea arrived. I can't wait for him to send a package and open it. A unique aroma of Longjing came to my face, and the green tea leaves were panoramic. The long and narrow leaves were crowded and shy, like a group of inexperienced girls. Wash your hands, rub a little into the cup, and then soak them in boiling water. After a few minutes, those introverted, shy and curly leaves scattered and restored their true colors in nature. They rushed to the bottom of the cup in ecstasy and took a sip. Wash away the lead of human beings, and accumulate the taste of plant essence in a winter, the smell of damp fields in the south and the smell of sunshine.
I don't know when I really became a tea drinker. The reason for saying this is that our family has never had the habit of drinking tea. My grandparents' generation didn't have enough to eat and couldn't drink tea. My parents' generation barely ate enough, but it was far from good enough. It is not easy to bring up our three brothers and sisters. Drinking tea is a luxury for them. Just coming here, life seems to suddenly slow down.
When did you start drinking tea?
The earliest memory can be traced back to the 1980s. It should be 1985 Spring Festival. I went back for the first time for the New Year after leaving my hometown for several years. I met a group of children's friends and walked around the street with them for a long time. After a long time, I became a little bored. It is extremely cold in winter. This is really not the season for coquetry in the street. There are not many girls and idle people in the street. A friend named Changshun said he would go to his house for tea. Changshun is two years older than me, and his family is poor. His face and hands were covered with chilblains and he stammered a little. He smiles obsequiously at everyone, saying that when drinking tea, others are somewhat contemptuous and seem to disbelieve. When he arrived at his home, he dug around and found several grinning and mutilated teacups and a teapot with a half-lid off. I don't know where to shake the rope and take out a small bag of tea powder. A few of us drank the first pot of tea in our lives with this bag of tea powder.
When I was in college, a friend's house in a dormitory belonged to Zaozhuang. Whenever we stay in the classroom enough, he says to me, "Let's go back to the dormitory and have tea." At first, I thought he had some good tea for me to taste, but I didn't expect it to be a cup of boiled water. It turns out that people in Zaozhuang call it drinking tea. I guessed its origin. About a long time ago, when a large family drank tea, the poor envied it and could not afford it.
When I first joined the work, a middle-aged uncle in the office looked very anxious, holding a big enamel cup to make tea every morning. The tea is horribly thick, and the soup is red and turbid. Then I took a small cup, drank a cup, poured a cup and was intoxicated. Sometimes I will kindly pour me a cup. "Xiao Wang will give it a try." I tasted it and it was bitter and bitter.
Later, the factory issued herbal tea, and I also learned from my uncle. Make a cup at work every day and have a drink when you are free. After a long time, it became a habit, and my hobby of drinking tea was gradually cultivated.
The earliest drink was scented tea, which was cheap and delicious. It smells like jasmine, but one year I drank too much. In just a few months, I lost more than 20 kilograms, and my body, which was not fat, became more and more graceful. I don't care. People around you can't stand it. They advised me, what happened to Xiao Wang? Go to the hospital quickly. I can't catch them. Finally, the hospital gave you a general conclusion of "superficial gastritis". After I came back, I stopped drinking tea and soon regained my weight. It suddenly dawned on me that my stomach could not adapt to the temperament of scented tea, and it was insulated from scented tea from now on.
Then drink green tea instead. First of all, it is green spring. A small ball is soaked in a teacup, and soon it expands into a complete leaf with a round and smooth feeling. Then there is Huangshan Mao Feng, a handful of messy grass. When soaking, I almost filled the cup, but it was full of water, but my eyes were pleasing to the eye and converged into a small ball. Then the melon slices and some big leaves wait for a while. The trend of "east, west, north and south wind" is followed by bamboo leaf green, which is produced in Emei Mountain. Its appearance is flat and straight, its color is light green and oily, and its germinated buds are upright, with light taste and faint medicinal fragrance. Later, I drank a lot of local tea in Shandong, such as Rizhao Green, Laoshan Green and Taishan Tea. Finally, I respected Longjing, and the others gradually alienated. This is because, compared with other green teas, Longjing tastes more mellow.
I also drank the Dahongpao in Wuyishan, Fujian, which is known as the "king of tea". Full-bodied taste, mellow aftertaste, domineering side leakage. What I drink may not be authentic, but the soup is Huang Liang's, but the taste is bitter. After a few times, I gave up. Tieguanyin used to be my favorite, especially the alpine tea in Taiwan Province. The fragrance of orchids is refreshing, but it is not suitable for drinking on an empty stomach. The most suitable meal is a pork stew at noon and a mutton hot pot at night, which is full of greasy taste. At this time, I made a pot of Tieguanyin, and I felt refreshed after drinking it. In an instant, it changed from a rude Lu Zhi to.
Black tea was first rejected by me, and the aroma was unbearable. If Tieguanyin has a man's heroic spirit, then black tea has a woman's gentle posture, tender and fragrant, but with the growth of age, I like black tea more and more now. Be sure to have a drink before you get up in the morning and eat. One of the biggest benefits of black tea is that it warms the heart and stomach.
Drinking tea seems simple, but in fact it pays attention to a lot. It's the same tea, but it tastes different. Miaoyu in A Dream of Red Mansions has made an extremely incisive exposition on this. "One cup is delicious, two cups are stupid things to quench your thirst, and three cups are mules to drink." By this standard, I can be called a cow to drink. I just use one cup every day, and I can drink more than a dozen cups.
But let me see, Miaoyu's way of drinking tea is also a bit melodramatic. We should store the winter snow in a clay pot and enjoy it slowly after it melts in the next spring. It is said that the tea brewed in this way has the fragrance of orchids. I have some doubts. Snowflakes falling from the air are bound to get a lot of dust. Even if there was no smog at that time, how clean could it be? In this case, Baoyu, an idiot, believes that I don't believe it anyway, or that a layman like me and Meiyu live in two worlds, so how can a fish know the happiness of a fish?
I remember reading a novel. The protagonist is an old couple who have a hard time and prefer to drink tea. The first thing they do when they get up in the morning is to boil water and make tea. They can have no meat to eat, no place to live and a car, but they can't drink without tea. At that time, they thought it was a miracle and didn't care too much. I didn't expect to be alive, so I lived in this state. I didn't drink porridge. Get up in the morning and drink tea until evening. However, the types of tea drinking have changed from miscellaneous scented tea, Tieguanyin tea and Pu 'er tea in youth to black tea and green tea now, and they have a special liking for Longjing.
If people's life is compared to tea, I feel that teenagers are like scented tea, lively, smart, pure and natural, with a refreshing jasmine fragrance; Young people, like oolong tea, are full of vigor and vitality, and have a wild and unruly spirit of love and mixing; Middle age is like black tea. After years of precipitation, the mentality gradually calmed down and the days were long. Old age is like green tea. It has seen big winds and waves, brilliant and dull, and its taste is as light as chrysanthemum.
Tea is like life, and life is like tea. It is a part of life, whether it is rich, indifferent, bitter, sweet, unrestrained or restrained. When you savor it, savor it, and the days will pass like a trickle. Youth can pass, wealth can change hands, and love is not always so reliable. Only tea, a cup in hand, never give up, hold your hand and grow old with your son.