In Wu Liting tea wholesale market that morning, the early winter sun shone warmly on us, but our mind was not on sunbathing outdoors, but on approaching tea, so that our senses could feel the charm of tea from a distance.

Almost every store in spacious places, where the light is good and the sun can be avoided, there are women sitting quietly by bamboo baskets of different sizes to choose tea. The quality of tea to be selected varies from Huang Jingui, which costs more than 20 yuan a catty, to Tieguanyin, which costs more than 600 yuan a catty. All they have to do is pick out the tea stalks from the coarse tea pile, which is said to be picking. When a tea buyer approaches to see tea, smell tea and ask for tea, he does not shy away, and his hand does not stop, but he will persuade the tea buyer to make a cup and will definitely say, "It doesn't matter if you don't buy it."

If a guest comes into the store, the situation will be different. The shopkeeper will greet him warmly and ask him what kind of tea he needs and what price. He will quickly remove the tea he wants from the display shelf, open a bag of beautifully packaged tea without hesitation with a pair of scissors that look strange but sharp, take out the tea in a small basket made of bamboo sticks and lift it sincerely.

Who can refuse the temptation of tea fragrance? The shopkeeper will gently take out the tea soup selected by the guests and send it into a small kung fu teacup with gentle movements. When the tea grains only enter the cup, they make a tinkling sound. When the water is boiled in one hand, the water makes a cheerful noise, rushes into the cup to make tea, and then pours on the small cups arranged according to the number of guests; As soon as the tea washing water comes out, it is poured into the transparent tea sea, and then poured on the small cup by sensible heat. The yellow-green tea soup is full of fragrance, and the small handless cups, tea cups and tea trays are all fragrant for a time. When the guests squinted and sniffed the tea with exaggerated nostrils, the first sip of tea had been delivered to their eyes. Guests who know tea will never drink it as soon as it is served. On the contrary, he will hold the small cup carefully like old wine or Martell wine, and move it gently between kisses. At this time, if there is still tea fragrance just now, it is like a woman who is committed to herself, with no cover, warm and pure feelings! It was a feeling of being in the fragrant forest of orchids and in the grass with dewdrops shining in the blood vessels. For this graceful feeling, people who drink tea should move lightly and breathe heavily, and no one will waste a little fragrance. At that moment, how can the tongue with developed taste buds hold back ... At this moment, the shopkeeper will properly finger the lid of the cup and signal the guests to smell it. People who know tea will not refuse the taste, tea. Kung fu tea is the most important link to push tea fragrance to the extreme. If the quality of tea is high, people who touch the lid and smell the fragrance of tea will be afraid of losing their manners, all reserve will disappear, their expressions will be exaggerated as much as possible, and their vocabulary will be as colorful as possible! He will explain to you afterwards, it's all the fault of the tea! In fact, for tea drinkers, exaggerated expression is caused by inner pleasure, and it is a wonderful experience that can only be understood but not expressed.

You really don't need much to drink kungfu tea. You only need to drink the first three bubbles, and people are already fragrant. Seven Bowls of Songs says that one bowl moistens the throat, two bowls are lonely and boring, and three bowls are boring. Only five thousand volumes of words ... what do you mean, only five thousand volumes of words? In today's vernacular, it must be that these three bowls of tea are exciting and knowledgeable. Think about it. At that time, when you drink tea in a tea shop, you will definitely feel the fragrance of tea in the shop, and the streets are full of tea fragrance. Of course, that street must be Xiyingli, but it may also be Wu Liting. Among more than 300 teahouses in Fuzhou, more than 200 in Wu Liting tea wholesale market and dozens in Xiyingli tea market have spent many tea tasting days. At least seven or eight. Because of good tea, I stayed in Fuzhou for half a year, but I haven't been to several fashion shops in the clothing market, such as Dongjiekou Scenic Resort Scenic Area, Zhong Ting Street and Wu Si Road, but I often go to the tea wholesale market and have a good visit. I remember the first time I went to Xiyingli Tea Market, and I saw many shops, including black tea, green tea, oolong tea, yellow tea, black tea and white tea, especially oolong tea, Tieguanyin in Anxi, bergamot in Yongchun, Baiyaqilan in Zhangzhou, Wuyiyan tea and Shancha in northern Fujian. Black tea, brick tea, Pu 'er tea, and even some "alternative tea" shops specializing in European customs use traditional tea as a tea base and mix it with various flowers and plants to become a natural and healthy flower and fruit tea. When I came out of the tea market that day, the first thing I did was to find a bookstore to buy tea classics and rush to make up lessons for myself.

On the first day of going to the tea market, I tasted my first cup of tea. Because I have never made tea in a tea shop, I was deeply impressed by that first cup of tea. In the north, buying tea means buying tea. Generally, there is no such thing as making tea, and some people buy it first, but the price must be above 1000 yuan, and the high-end price bubble is ok. For example, the tea we want to buy costs 50 yuan to 60 yuan. Isn't it cheaper to buy first? In addition, I am afraid that the product is not good or bad, that I must buy it after drinking it, and that I am afraid of being cheated.

Visiting the tea market, almost without exception, is in a good mood. That's because the atmosphere of the tea market is different from that of restaurants and food markets, where the air is dirty, but the smell of the tea market is pure and fragrant, which is a bit out of touch with human fireworks. Tea fragrance, tea ceremony, tea ceremony and tea culture meet people's psychological needs, cultural satisfaction, high-grade cultural leisure and high-grade cultural consumption. From the aspects of tea quality, brewing skills, appreciation of tea sets, tea tasting environment, interpersonal relationship, etc., we have intervened in the way of enjoying a beautiful cup of tea, and further deepened into the realm of "tea art" and put ourselves into the whole process. Almost without exception, I have gained something from every visit, which helps me to observe and understand the city. "It is feasible to sulk, drive away fishy smell, nourish qi, eliminate furuncle, benefit the people, respect the taste, maintain health, and be stuck in the heart."

I have long memorized Liu's Ten Virtues of Tea in Tang Dynasty, but only in Fuzhou, Xiyingli and Tea Market can I really understand it. Just think, isn't it the whole connotation of tea culture to treat guests with tea, walk the streets with tea, cultivate personal sentiment, coordinate interpersonal relationships and purify social atmosphere? People, wandering in the tea market, also have relaxed times. I remember once in a store specializing in Tieguanyin in Xiping, Anxi, I saw Zuo Si's poem "Nv Jiao" in the Western Jin Dynasty: "The heart is a teapot, boasting." I once played a joke on the shopkeeper and asked him why he didn't deserve a painting. Clear voice, the boss said seriously, "two charming girls, eager for tea, blew into the boiling pot with their mouths." Is this a good painting? " Everyone laughed relatively, not to mention how happy they were!