People often ask Zhang Lao's way of keeping in good health, and he answers many times. He simply summed it up as: "Not a day goes by without drinking tea, talking about tea and studying tea. Tea is my life. My appearance is young and my mentality is not old, which is all thanks to tea. "

Be friends with tea all your life

Zhang Tianfu has been engaged in tea industry all his life, and has been dealing with tea for more than 70 years since he graduated from Jinling University on 1932. He has been engaged in planting, scientific research, teaching and processing, all of which are related to tea. In his later years, he is still willing to participate in tea activities and actively promote the tea culture that has been passed down for thousands of years.

Be with tea every day.

Get up at dawn, have a cup of tea and read books and newspapers. Even in his later years, Zhang Lao still accompanied by tea every day and drank at least 10 small cups every day. He once said, "I receive 10 guests on average every day. As long as I drink 10 small cups with each group of guests, there will be 100 cups every day. Drinking tea often can prolong life. I am a' living specimen'. From youth to old age, I don't drink tea, talk about tea and study tea every day. "

The ancients said that "tea is the medicine for all diseases." I have been drinking about 1 kg of tea every month for decades. Tea contains hundreds of ingredients, which have nutrition, physiological regulation, health care and pharmacological effects. Although there is a very small amount of carcinogenic nitrosamines, tea polyphenols, vitamins C and E in tea will inhibit the formation of nitrosamines. However, the content of nitrosamines in meat products, smoked fish and other foods is higher than that in tea, but there is no such inhibition. Therefore, drinking tea is beneficial and harmless.

Zhang Lao also stressed: "Drinking tea can strengthen the body and prolong life. Drinking tea today and living longer tomorrow is not a long process. "

Zun cha Guo Wei yin

There are thousands of kinds of drinks, only tea is called national drink. Faced with a wide variety of synthetic drinks on the market, Zhang Lao thinks that they are not as good as tea, a natural healthy drink. From making tea in the Han Dynasty to frying tea in the Tang Dynasty, from ordering tea in the Song Dynasty to making tea in the Ming Dynasty ... Nowadays, tea is an irreplaceable drink for China people and a symbol of returning to the natural origin and drinking the essence of nature. Experts also predict that tea will become the "king" of beverages in the 2 1 century.

China is the birthplace of tea culture, which has deeply influenced generation after generation. It has become an important carrier for inheriting Chinese culture, and it is also the cause that Zhang Lao fought for all his life. In Zhang Lao's century life, he interacted with tea every day, accompanied by tea, which kept Zhang Lao alive and promoted tea overseas.