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Tea Classics

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People who drink tea, Jia Mu in the south, are all one foot, two feet or even dozens of feet. Its Bashan gorge and Sichuan, two people embrace each other, and cut it (Dufei). Its trees are like melons and reeds, its leaves are like gardenias, its flowers are like white roses and its roots are like walnuts.

Tea is an excellent tree species in southern China. It's a foot or two high. Some even reach tens of feet. In Bashan and Xia Chuan areas, there are enough trunks for two people to hug. You must cut off the branches before you can pick the young leaves. The tea tree is shaped like a melon reed. The leaves are shaped like gardenias. Flowers are like white roses and seeds are like palms. The fruit stems are like cloves and the roots are like walnuts.

Its words, or from the grass, or from the Woods, or from the vegetation. Its name is tea, Ji (Ji M), Shen (She), Ming (Tea) and Shen (Chu M). On the ground, the upper one gives birth to rotten stones, the middle one gives birth to gravel soil, and the lower one gives birth to loess. Planting is rare where art is unreal. The method is like planting a melon, which can be harvested at the age of three. Savages go up and gardeners go down. Shaded forest on the sunny cliff, purple and green; On bamboo shoots, teeth are second; On the leaf roll, Ye Ji Shu. Those people in the valley on the shady hillside are unbearable, their nature is stagnant and they get a disease.

The structure of the word "tea" comes from the part of "grass", from the part of "wood" and from both "grass" and "wood". Tea has five names: tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea. The best soil for growing tea is completely weathered rock, followed by gravel soil, containing gravel and yellow mud. Generally speaking, the transplanting technology of tea seedlings is not properly mastered, and the transplanted tea trees rarely grow vigorously. The method of planting is like planting a melon. Tea can be picked after three years of planting. The quality of tea grown naturally in Shan Ye is the best, but it is planted in gardens. For tea plants growing on sunny hillsides and covered with trees, purple buds are better and green buds are worse; The bud leaves with long internodes and slender appearance like bamboo shoots are better and thinner. It is best to turn the leaves green and then spread them flat. Growing on shady hillsides or valleys is of poor quality and not worth picking. Because of its stagnation, drinking it will make people feel bloating.

Tea is used, tastes cool, and is most suitable for people who drink frugally. If you are hot and thirsty, stuffy and painful, your eyes are dim, your limbs are weak and your joints are uncomfortable, then say four or five mouthfuls to compete with you and Ganlu. Sometimes not refined, mixed flowers (Hu), into a disease. Tea is tired, and ginseng is needed. The upper one gives birth to the party, the middle one gives birth to Baekje and Silla, and the lower one gives birth to Korea. Those born in Zezhou, Yizhou, Youzhou and Tanzhou are invalid. If this is not the case, they should take water chestnut (qí nǐ) to make the six diseases last (chūu). Knowing that ginseng is tired, tea is exhausted.

The function of tea, because of its cool nature, can reduce fire, and it is most suitable as a drink. People with good conduct and thrifty virtues, if they have symptoms such as fever, thirst, chest tightness, headache, dry eyes, weakness of limbs and poor joints, drink four or five mouthfuls, and the effect is comparable to the best drinks, such as dew. However, if it is not picked in time, not carefully made, mixed with weeds and leaves, it will get sick if you drink it. Tea, like ginseng, has different producing areas and different quality, and even brings adverse effects. The first-class ginseng is produced in Shangdang, the middle-class ginseng is produced in Baekje and Silla, and the inferior ginseng is produced in South Korea. Produced in Zezhou, Yizhou, Youzhou and Tanzhou (the worst quality), the medicine has no effect, let alone worse than them! If you mistake coriander for ginseng, the disease will not be cured. If you understand the metaphor of ginseng and the adverse effects of tea, you will understand.

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Yan means baskets, cages and jǔ. Made of bamboo, five liters, or one bucket, two buckets, three buckets, and the tea man is also responsible for picking tea.

Osmium, also known as blue, also known as cage, also known as osmium. Woven with bamboo, it has a volume of five liters, or one bucket, two buckets and three buckets, which tea farmers use to pick the tea leaves on their backs.

Stove, useless protrusion, kettle, lip.

Don't use a stove with a chimney. Pot, mouth has lips.

Zan (zèng), or wood or tile, bandits waist mud, basket to reach it, rice to knot it. It was steamed at first, familiar and unexpected. When the pot is dry, it is poured into the retort, made of wood branches, and the steamed bamboo shoots are scattered all over the floor, for fear of losing their paste.

Retort, made of wood or pottery. Seal the waist with mud, put a bamboo basket in the retort as a retort, and tie it firmly with bamboo pieces. When steaming begins, put the leaves in the grate; When cooked, pour it out of the grate. The water in the pot is dry, so add water from the retort. And three eucalyptus trees. The steamed leaves of the tender buds are spread out in time to prevent the tea juice from flowing away.

Chu Jiu once said that it is best to use it constantly.

Also known as Chen, it is often used to mash steamed bud leaves.

Rules, one is a model and the other is a model. Made of iron, round, square or flower-shaped.

Measuring tools, also called molds, are made of iron. Some are round, some are square, and some are like flowers.

Bearing, platform, anvil. Take stone for it, otherwise Sophora japonica Sang Mu will be buried in the ground and will not waver.

Bearings, also called platforms and anvils, are made of stone. If it is made of locust trees and mulberry trees, the lower part should be buried in the soil so as not to shake.

Under the eaves, a dress. Take oil silk or rain shirt as losers, put it under the eaves and put it under the eaves to make tea. Drinking tea is easy.

The eaves, also called clothes, can be made of oil silk, worn raincoats and single clothes. Put the "eaves" on the "bearing" and then put the model on the "eaves" to make a compact cake and tea. After pressing it into a piece, pick it up and make another model.

"Bi Li" means "Zi" and "Bang". Take two small bamboos, three red in length, two red and five inches in body and five inches in handle. Woven with bamboo, the square eye is like a garden, and the population is plump, which makes tea available.

Billy, also known as Zi Kui or Que. Two small bamboo poles three feet long are used to make a tool two feet five inches long, five inches long and two feet wide. Among them, bamboo strips are woven into square eyes, like soil screens used by vegetable farmers to place tea leaves. There is a poem saying: I will take it to a mulberry pier. Send purple tea when opening, and the negative part will be exposed. Rest by the cloud spring and return to the smoke tree. This is a career, and there is not enough gold. )

Q (ǐ), an awl knife with a solid wood handle, is also used to wear tea.

Ba, also known as awl knife, uses solid wood as handle to punch holes in cakes and tea.

Jump up, whip. Take bamboo as a solution.

Jumping, also known as whipping, is made of bamboo and is used to string tea cakes for easy handling.

Bake, cut the ground into two feet deep, two feet five inches wide and one foot long, and make a short wall on it, two feet high and muddy.

Baking, dig a hole in the ground two feet deep, two feet five inches wide and one foot long. A low wall, two feet high, was built on it and leveled with mud.

Through, cut bamboo for it, two feet and five inches long, and bake it with tea.

Tube, cut from bamboo, 2 feet and 5 inches long, used for tea and baking.

Shed, a pile, is made of wood baked on it, with two boards, one foot high, used to bake tea. Half the tea goes to the shed, and all the tea goes to the shed.

Shed, also called stack. Make a shelf out of wood and put it on the shelf. The shelf is divided into two layers, one foot apart, for baking tea. When the tea leaves are half dry, they rise from the bottom of the shelf to the lower level; It's all done, all the way to the top.

Wear, jiangdong Huainan cut bamboo for it, Bachuan Xiashan line grain skin for it. Jiangdong takes one catty as the coat, half catty as the medium coat and 4252 as the underpants. Xiazhong 120 kg is top wear, 80 kg is middle wear and 50 kg is small wear. This word used to be hairpin, but it is not today. For example, the words "grinding, fanning, bouncing, drilling and sewing" are written in a flat voice, which means calling out, and its words are named after being put on.

Translation: wear, made in Huainan, Jiangdong; Bashan Shachuan is made of Broussonetia papyrifera bark, which is used to make tea cakes. Jiangdong calls one catty "upper wear", half catty "middle wear" and 4252 (hexadecimal) "lower wear". In the gorge, 120 kg is called "upper wear", 80 kg is called "middle wear" and 50 kg is called "small wear". The word "wear" used to be used as the word "hairpin" of hair clips, or used throughout. It's different now. The word "grinding, fanning, bouncing, drilling and sewing" is still pronounced flat (as a verb), but the pronunciation is pronounced and the meaning is also pronounced (as a noun). The pronunciation of the word "wear" means a unit.

Education is made of wood, woven with bamboo and papered. There is a partition inside, a lid on it, a bed under it, a door next to it and a lid. Put a device in the middle to store a slow fire to make it look natural. When it rains in the south of the Yangtze River, it burns.

Education, use wood as a frame, weave bamboo strips around it, and then paste it with paper. There is a gap in the middle, with a lid on it, a tray under it and a door on the side. Put a vessel in the middle and fill it with ashes, so that there is fire without flame. Jiangnan rainy season, add fire to dehumidify.