How to drink tea is the healthiest?
The first cup is morning tea, which can be drunk at 9:00- 10 after breakfast. It can refresh, detoxify and resist fatigue. Morning tea should choose scented tea. The second cup is afternoon tea, preferably after lunch or after nap 1 ~3 o'clock. Afternoon tea can be moderately dark, and green tea is the most suitable, because green tea has anti-oxidation and other health functions. The third cup is evening tea, which is drunk from 6 to 7 after dinner. Black tea is the first choice for late tea, because it can reduce blood fat and help digestion.
The benefits of tea
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Pu 'er tea, also known as daughter tea. Picked before rain, it tastes bitter and cold, and has the functions of eliminating phlegm, regulating qi, clearing stomach and promoting fluid production. Can be used for reducing fat and relieving boredom, is beneficial to digestion and absorption, and has the effects of reducing weight and preventing and treating cardiovascular diseases. Drinking Pu 'er tea regularly has obvious fat-reducing effect.
keep out the cold
It is found that fermented black tea leaves will undergo a series of complex chemical reactions under the action of microorganisms, and some functional components beneficial to human body will be generated, which is especially helpful for keeping out the cold and suitable for people with deficiency-cold constitution.
Cancer prevention and radiation protection
Green tea is rich in polyphenols such as catechins, which is very beneficial to health, cancer prevention, cardiovascular health improvement, weight loss and anti-ionizing radiation. In addition, green tea is the tea with the most kinds of vitamins and the richest content. Compared with other teas, green tea has a better anticancer effect. Many studies have shown that green tea can reduce the cancer risk of prostate, lung, mouth, bladder, colon, stomach and pancreas.
Warm stomach and protect skin.
Black tea warms the stomach and nourishes the skin, especially suitable for women to drink. Black tea belongs to fully fermented tea, which is refined through a series of technological processes such as kneading (cutting), fermentation and drying. Black tea is warm and has many functions such as warming the stomach. In the process of black tea processing, tea polyphenols are oxidized to theaflavins and thearubigins, and most of the saccharides are hydrolyzed to soluble sugars, resulting in the unique aroma and taste of black tea.
Three stages of drinking tea
The first stage: quenching thirst
Quenching thirst is not only quenching thirst, but also including all aspects of human physiological needs.
"Shennong tasted a hundred herbs and encountered 72 poisons every day, so he solved it with tea." Tea was first used by people and first used as medicine. Tea can quench thirst, refresh and benefit thinking. People make a handful of tea in the big tea jar at home and drink it all day. Some old farmers who are used to drinking tea have no energy to work without tea.
People who have just started drinking tea are very concerned about the benefits of drinking tea, how to drink tea to be healthy, what kind of tea is suitable for drinking in what season and so on. This is normal and reasonable. However, it should be noted that tea can coordinate and balance the physical condition, which is completely different from the medicine for treating diseases.
Long-term adherence to good tea drinking habits is self-evident. The healthy properties of tea also laid a good foundation for tea tasting.
The second stage: tasting
Drinking tea itself is a kind of enjoyment. If "treating diseases" is the goal, then drinking tea becomes a burden.
After drinking tea, I entered the second stage of taste. This is not to say that they do not attach importance to healthy tea drinking methods, but that they are already familiar with the relationship between their physique and tea and can grasp it flexibly.
People who taste tea will pay attention to the brewing skills of tea, because only when the tea is soaked can the best tea soup be tasted. From dry tea, soup color, aroma, taste and leaf bottom, every detail has been carefully pondered and tasted.
Tea lovers' pursuit of tea is endless. They go to teahouses, participate in tea exhibitions, visit tea markets, and even go to Chashan to explore the most extreme experience on the tip of the tongue. At this stage, they are crazy, spend a lot of time and energy, and don't want to miss any good tea.
The third stage: Yi Qing
Tea lovers can slowly calm down after a period of crazy tossing.
They gradually realize that the crazy pursuit of sensory experience runs counter to the essence of tea, which is "quiet, elegant and true".
Knowing how to taste tea is the most valuable, regardless of the fineness of kung fu or the delicacy of tea taste. This is exactly the same as "seeing mountains is mountains, seeing mountains is not mountains, and seeing mountains is mountains".
Drinking tea, the most worthwhile experience is this state of mind. The joy of friends' gathering, the loneliness of a person in a foreign land, the enrichment after being busy, enjoying the quietness of a person, being satisfied with success when frustrated, sharing the ups and downs with you for tea, and finally finding inner peace for a long time.
There are three stages in drinking tea: quenching thirst, tasting and enjoying. No matter what stage you are in, I believe you will eventually find the best way to get along with tea, which is the greatest happiness.
Etiquette of drinking tea
1, "Tea seven, rice eight, full of wine"
In China's tea-drinking culture, there is a saying that "wine is full of respect and tea is full of deceit". "Tea seven" means that when the host pours tea for the guests, he divides the teacup into seven full cups. This is because the wine is cold, and the guests will not be hot after drinking it, but the tea is hot. If it is too full, the guest may be scalded, and the cup may fall to the ground because of scalding, causing embarrassment to the guest. So pour tea for seven points and leave three points as a favor.
2. Don't rush people at the spout.
When placing the teapot, don't point the tea mouth at others. When the tea mouth is pointed at someone, it means that the person is unwelcome and has the meaning of driving people away. This statement comes from the old saying "farewell wine (tea)". In the past, when someone wanted to travel far away, everyone had to toast or drink tea to say goodbye to him, and pointed the spout at the person who was leaving, so the spout rushed at the person, meaning that the person was leaving.
3. Be old first and then young, and pay attention to seating.
In crowded places, the order of drinking tea is also particular. When you pour tea for the first time, you should pour tea in the order of "old before small" and "respectful before humble". The second time you pour tea, you can change the order. After talking about the order of drinking tea, let's talk about the order of seating. Elders or guests usually sit on the left side of the tea maker and pour tea from left to right.
Don't frown when drinking tea.
Don't frown when you go to someone's house for tea. Some people may frown because the tea is hot in the mouth, but frowning when drinking tea usually sends a message of dissatisfaction, indicating dissatisfaction with the tea and disgust with the host's family.
5. New customers need new tea.
In the process of drinking tea, if new friends join in halfway, you should make tea again, and invite new friends to taste the newly brewed tea first.
6. It is not advisable to drink tea after drinking.
Drinking strong tea after drinking is easy to cause kidney disease. After drinking, the alcohol in the wine enters the body and is converted into acetaldehyde through the liver, which is then converted into acetic acid. Theophylline in tea has diuretic effect, thus promoting undecomposed acetaldehyde to enter the kidney prematurely. Acetaldehyde can stimulate the kidney, which in turn affects the kidney.
7. Don't invite tea again and again.
Don't persuade a friend to have tea again and again because he is kind. In the old society of China, there was a saying that tea was repeatedly invited as a way to see the guests off, and people were repeatedly advised to drink tea, indicating that there was no topic of communication and the guests had to leave. Although this saying has disappeared in most places today, many elderly people still follow this practice, so people are advised to be cautious when drinking tea.