Autumn is a time when you have a good appetite and are suitable for tonic, but it often hurts your appetite because of greasy food. Housewives who know how to live often make a cup of strong tea, saying that drinking it will help digestion. Sure enough, a cup or two of hot tea will make people feel refreshed.
When it is a little cold, it is often insipid, so people naturally want to drink some tea. Although chrysanthemum tea, jasmine tea and osmanthus tea are fragrant and lovely, many people are still willing to make a cup of green tea and black tea.
When a distinguished guest arrives in autumn and winter, the host often takes out good tea after taking a seat, and then starts to talk about work, friendship and occasionally the origin and color of this tea. Guests like it, and the host will not be stingy. When you leave, if there is a complete one, give them a complete one. If there is no complete packaging, half a box of tea is also a gift.
Tea is so ordinary, but it is so magical.
So who invented tea first?
This is really unclear. In ancient times, people tried to get food and medicine from herbs, just like chrysanthemums, which were born with people in this land. Some people say that chrysanthemum was discovered by the Yellow Emperor, while others say that tea was discovered by Emperor Yan. In fact, it is the experience of using plants and herbs accumulated by the ancients in their daily lives. Because the fresh and tender leaves of tea are undoubtedly the food source of the ancients, it is normal to find that it is beneficial to digestion, cleaning the stomach and fragrant breath in this process. Therefore, it is also correct that many people directly slide to Shennong and find something. Because Shennong is a symbol of the wisdom of the ancient working people.
Ancient people had a deep understanding of vegetation. Although many plants are bitter, they are considered harmless and beneficial to human body after identification and analysis, which is very rare. Including many Chinese herbal medicines, are all bitter, and tea is also bitter. But it is such stubbornness and persistence that it has been passed down.
In fact, before Lu Yu in the Tang Dynasty, tea was widely popular and was an important means of subsistence. Therefore, tea was not invented by Lu Yu, nor was it invented by Lu Yu. He just summarized, refined and sublimated the methods of making tea and drinking tea.
Because when he wrote The Book of Tea, he wrote that tea in 43 states was the best, and there were more than a dozen states, so he didn't have time to taste it. That is to say, in his early Tang dynasty, tea was already a common local specialty in various state capitals, and the best of them was presented to the emperor as a tribute. Before Lu Yu, Emperor Taizong married Princess Wencheng, and there was a lot of tea in his dowry.
Not long ago, Bai Juyi, who was in the Lu Yu era, wrote the famous Pipa Trip.
Being left out in front of the pommel horse, she finally married herself to a businessman.
Who, first of all, stole money, accidentally left her and went to Fuliang to buy tea a month ago. Pipa trip
This proves that in the Tang Dynasty, the profit of tea was objective, and the pipa girl married a rich man. Because the weather turned cold in autumn, her husband left home and continued to do tea business. Floating beam in Jiangxi, Bai Juyi met a pipa girl on Xunyang River, which shows that there is more than one boat in this family. Compared with the previous dynasties, the Tang dynasty had more convenient land and water transportation, allowing local specialties to go out of the mountains and be transported to other places through the hands of businessmen.
So when merchants buy and sell tea, in autumn, do they buy and sell the stock collected in spring or the new tea in autumn? Actually, they should all be.
In fact, this business has been going on for hundreds of years, even dating back to the Han Dynasty. Only then was tea called "tea" or "tea".
These merchants were in parallel with Lu Yu, who traded tea, and Lu Yu summarized the prosperous tea culture in the Tang Dynasty.
"Jiuri Mountain monastery, hedge chrysanthemum yellow.
Laity is full of wine, who can help tea? "Tang's" Nine Days of Drinking Tea with Luyu "is charming.
This is the first poem related to Lu Yu, and it may also be the earliest poem about tea.
Because some people have written them before, but they are not famous, these poems are annihilated.
Interestingly, Lu Yu talked about spring tea in the tea classics, but this monk, who is two years younger than him, left a poem about drinking tea in autumn. In the temple of the Double Ninth Festival, the fence is covered with chrysanthemums.
Most people in the world drink chrysanthemum wine at this time. Who can enjoy tea quietly like us?
This is really a kind of pride and Versailles. Because chrysanthemums are really everywhere, ordinary people can pick up a few wild flowers on the fence and brew them in drinks economically and practically, while tea leaves are noble and niche. They must be collected, dried and transported, and reach the people through the hands of businessmen. Those with financial resources can buy well, and those without financial resources can not buy at all.
But Jiao Ran and Lu Yu are different, relying on mountains to eat, or having fresh autumn tea at this time. Everyone likes to eat pointed tea. After baking and kneading, they cook tea soup with green foam and eat cakes, or add broken rice, salt, ginger and fresh red dates to the tea soup to make autumn porridge rice, which is warm and refreshing.
Of course they are proud. Because although the emperor has tea, he may not have such leisure.
For example, the Double Ninth Festival of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty is much more difficult than the Double Ninth Festival of Lu Yu and Jiao Ran, because he wants to lead ministers to climb mountains to express condolences to the elderly in the palace and set an example for the whole people. In front of him is tea. That's the process, not the taste of life.
So how did people drink tea in the Tang Dynasty? What the hell is fried tea?
In fact, drinking tea in the Tang Dynasty was similar to drinking medicine, so it was called decocted tea, which was similar to decocting medicine. But not everyone likes medicine, but many people like tea, because tea can be made into semi-liquid food at this time.
First, there is no doubt that fresh tea tips have always been edible. It should be normal for people in Chashan to fry a few young leaves. However, because of the developed economy and good life, the bitter taste of young leaves is a bit heavy, and it is not easy to separate out the nutrition of tea. So this practice is not popular.
Second, fresh tea leaves must be preserved and fresh-keeping after collection. In some places, steaming is used, and in some places, frying is used to squeeze out the water in the leaves, destroy the protective layer on the surface of the leaves, make the tea quickly dehydrated and reduce the astringency. As a commodity, tea will be pressed into bricks or cakes, dried in a ventilated place, packaged and labeled with the origin.
Thirdly, before using the tea brick, the person who gets it will slowly dry the remaining water in the tea with slow fire to make the tea scattered and dry, and then grind it into powder with a stone mill or a wood mill. Of course, this money is the essence, so it must be clean and economical.
Fourth, then pour the powder into a container for frying tea and boil it with clean spring water.
5. According to your own taste, you can add ginger, salt, dates and even broken rice and vegetables.
Six, a few people get together, this time is extremely poetic and lively, quieter than drinking, similar to talking, but the warm atmosphere of tea soup will make autumn and winter get along more harmoniously, because it is similar to cooking and talking.
Seven, warm stomach, digestion, refreshing, refreshing, moistening dryness, losing weight, meditation.
This tea is the coffee of the Tang Dynasty. The longer you drink it, the longer it tastes.
As you can see, in the Tang Dynasty, tea has become an art of life. Of course, the mastery of this art is high and low. As a daily solution to greasy food, you can directly boil water with leaves, but as a social food, you can play infinitely.
But in the Tang Dynasty, tea was soaked in water, so drink it slowly. Judging from the health care effect, it is definitely the best, and it has been eaten in the stomach. But it is also a slow life that can be carried forward.
Japanese tea ceremony, but learned the nature of stubbornness.
"Business is frugal, leisure is long.
Don't drink autumn tea at night, make your own paste. Ten Poems of Zhang Ji and Zuo Siyuan Lang Mid-Autumn Festival in Tang Dynasty
Zhang Ji was born 30 years later than Lu Yu, and he also had tea with friends here in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Autumn tea also appeared here, which can be understood as a popular way of entertaining guests in every festival in the Tang Dynasty. Maybe spring tea is put in autumn.
So, he said, we won't have tea tonight. I have the juice of new pine trees here, which is healthier.
Therefore, in fact, people in the Tang Dynasty love to drink tea at night, which is different from that of modern people who drink too much tea and hurt their stomachs.
Because if you look at tea powder, it is all kinds of tea porridge, which is a refreshing snack.
Contemporary people don't drink tea at night. Be careful, it really hurts your stomach and can't sleep.
At this point, I think we should find a good prescription from the ancient tradition for drinking tea now.
"Tired of rustling sideburns, lying on the window screen watching the waning moon.
Boil cardamom into boiling soup, and you don't have to eat it in the spirit of tea.
How easy it is to read with a pillow, and the scenery is better before the rain.
Accompany me all day, only the deep and reserved osmanthus. "Li Qingzhao's" Chuan Huan Xi Sha "
This is Li Qingzhao's autumn ci. This is from Mid-Autumn Festival to late autumn. The moon has turned and disappeared, and a waning moon shines on the lonely room.
Li Qingzhao has just recovered from illness and has nothing to do. She boiled water with cardamom, but said, don't share tea.
Cardamom boiled water, which is the deficiency of tonic cold disease, but friends often play and drink tea together in festivals. Obviously, it is not fun for friends to have tea here.
There are only poetry books on the pillow and osmanthus flowers at the door.
So what does it mean to share tea, so that she can't forget it? Lu you has a famous saying, "clear window and fine milk play tea." Is it because best friends can't count tea stalks together? How boring.
It turns out that this is a game created by people in the Song Dynasty more than those in the Tang Dynasty.
Of course, group activities have the most atmosphere.
Didn't the Tang Dynasty boil tea like porridge?
In the Song Dynasty, things changed. The process of grinding tea into powder is constant.
But instead of boiling, stir the tea powder with warm water, and then pour it into the bowl with boiling water. Then we usually use the mg of the so-called translucent rabbit. When boiling water enters the tea powder, it will instantly roll into various foam patterns and settle down after a while. Then, when you drink tea for the first time, you will see different patterns in each bowl.
Because the tea foam is very fine, with half-milky foam flowers. Tea is just around the corner for friends who talk about food. Such an excellent tea set, such a warm friendship, is not pleasure, a little romance of quality and life details.
Of course, this tea will definitely add something according to everyone's needs.
Then the color of the pattern is different. I have seen someone painting on the surface of coffee milk tea with a spoon, which makes people visually happy and tastes better.
Li Qingzhao said that drinking bitter medicine, no one came to share tea, with the sadness of loneliness and illness in autumn.
"First, tea will be fumigated, but medlar tea will be picked.
Confucius said that people are not literate, and sages know that I am a melon. Song Metabolism Sihui Tea Wine
In autumn, when medlar matures, adding tea powder will certainly nourish the liver and improve eyesight. So now people often add autumn chrysanthemum and medlar to tea. However, the tea of the people in the Song Dynasty was not due to the lack of clear soup, semi-liquid drinks and semi-medicated diet.
"Flea years to learn to kill the dragon, suitable solid sparse broad.
Wen guang sinks in salt, making tea is against the autumn moon. "Huang Tingjian's" Lin Gift Pen and Play for it "
Drinking tea is like cooking porridge, so it is really a pleasure for friends to drink tea and porridge together on the night of the autumn moon and moon.
Bite by bite, warm and sweet, holding a teacup and looking up at the bright moon, my friend said, I'll give you some new warmth, which is more nourishing than wine. Many important events in your country and country are decided in meditation and brewing. Then spread out the rice paper and make a good poem, which is elegant, pleasant and gentleman. Of course, wine is much more tacky than tea.
"Mid-Autumn Festival yellow flowers, afternoon tea after new tea.
Don't be too busy talking. Manjusri asks Pierre more. "Fan Chengda's" Sticking the West Lake to Send Pure Feelings Show Old Three Samples, Mid-Autumn Moon and Yellow Flowers "
It's already the Double Ninth Festival in late autumn, and the poems written to monks are so elegant. You don't need to drink, but drink hot tea porridge in the afternoon.
This kind of afternoon tea was not invented by the British Empire. In the afternoon of the Song Dynasty, as long as people have leisure, they will naturally make tea. Compared with a mouthful of black tea and a little dessert in England, I believe afternoon tea in China contains more contents than tea.
So how did tea become brewed tea?
First, the baking technology of tea leaves is getting higher and higher, and tea leaves can separate out fragrance and effective substances in hot water.
Second, with the popularization of tea and the acceleration of life rhythm, ordinary people sell tea. First, they have formed hospitality etiquette, and second, tea is really the top grade to solve the greasy diet in life.
Third, with the improvement of life, people pay more attention to the ornamental and social value of tea, forming an aesthetic of making tea with good color, flavor and taste. Tea porridge is separated, porridge is porridge and tea is tea.
However, it is also interesting that tea is used in many foods and cosmetics, and this is precisely the tea powder extracted by modern methods. At this point, the way of drinking tea in the Tang and Song Dynasties has not disappeared in the contemporary era, such as popular matcha food and cosmetics and drinks containing tea.
In fact, everyone will drink tea carefully. For example, some people will add vegetables with freshly made tips, and some even use tea to soak rice. What they want is the kind of tea with special taste and fragrance.
The first coat is better than snow to explain the love and beauty in the poem for you. .