It's just that the tea-related things I'm talking about here are just superficial and general. I don't study, just chat.
My father taught me when I was a child: full of wine to respect guests, full of tea to drive people away. What is the reason? There are many reasons, the most obvious of which is probably that Chata is scalded, too full and not delicious. Naturally, it is disrespectful to the guests. Where's the wine Very convincing, very straightforward, very temperament. So there is another saying that tea is seven meals and eight drinks. These are the custom deposits in people's daily life for hundreds of years, which is an end of China folk culture.
Let's go back to the topic related to tea.
Talk about tea and know tea first. There are many kinds of tea now, from south to north and from west to east. But in ancient times, when Lu Yu of Cha Sheng wrote The Classic of Tea, there was only one kind of tea, green tea. Today, people talk about tea ceremony in a rigid way with the Book of Tea, which is a bit out of place, because even the drinking method is different. Now besides green tea, there are black tea, black tea, yellow tea, white tea, oolong tea (green tea) and scented tea. Strictly speaking, scented tea is not tea, because it is not tea. This classification is mainly related to the degree of fermentation of tea.
China's top ten famous teas: West Lake Longjing, Dongting Biluochun, Huangshan Mao Feng, Lushan Wu Yun, Lu 'an Guapian, Junshan Yinzhen, Xinyang Maojian Tea, Wuyi Rock Tea, Anxi Tieguanyin Tea and Qimen Black Tea. China people like numerical induction, which is reasonable and unreasonable. Don't be too rigid. There are many real mountains besides the Five Mountains. The same is true for the evaluation of famous tea, which is the result of national selection from 65438 to 0959. I don't know how to say it now, and some people are not convinced of it.
Chatting and soaking. The so-called tea art is the "art" of making tea. Tea people summed up many skills and procedures, so they became tea art, such as making a cup of green tea, preparing a tea tray, making it at will, filling it with cups and enjoying tea lotus. The procedure is as follows: boil water and wait; Wash the cup with a little hot water, rotate the cup body and heat it evenly, and pour the washing water into the tea tray; Throw water and cover one third of the cup body; Taste tea, tea lotus (also known as Chaze) is full, observe the shape and color, and stimulate the love for tea; Throw tea, put tea into a glass with a tea guide (also called a tea paddle); Shake the incense, hold the cup in your left hand and right hand, and gently shake the tea; Rush, the phoenix nods to rush high (tender tea should rush low), to the height of two-thirds, to see the tea churning and tea activation; When serving tea, the posture is like shaking incense, serving guests to drink; Smell the smell, smell the fragrance and then drink it. When you are in a calm mood, you can drink it gracefully. Is this series of procedures enough? Close? What's the point of staring at the tip of the string? English? Hey? Take a deep breath and drink. What's the difference between them? The former takes tea as the premise, and they care about mood, atmosphere and interest in life. The latter is summed up in two words: quenching thirst.
Wuyi rock tea is brewed in a bowl, and Chaoshan single fir kungfu tea is more exquisite in style, including eighteen styles and twenty-four styles, and there are also a set of elegant rhetoric, such as purple mud meets spring rain, oolong enters the palace, and flies to the Three Rivers. These naming processes present a summary and cognition of tea culture.
A sip of tea is so shabby and delicate? You are surprised. There was a Zhang Dai in the Ming Dynasty. He liked food and was good at tea ceremony. He can distinguish the source of spring water, the types of tea and the various processes of making tea. In the section of "Min Laozi Tea" in Tao 'an Dream, he told the story one by one, which frightened his master Min Wenshui, a 70-year-old tea drinker.
Do you have to be so particular about drinking tea? Not necessarily. Adhering to these paradigms, people drink tea instead of tea. With a monolithic program, the human spirit no longer exists. Lu Yu also said in the ninth chapter "Nine Views" of the Book of Tea that in some specific scenes, some processes can be completely omitted, so don't be too old-fashioned. But he believes that in a wealthy family, this is an indispensable process because they have poor and exquisite conditions. According to the Book of Tea, the water used for making tea is "above mountains and rivers, water in rivers, and water underground". There are couplets to prove it: "Yangtze River water, Mengdingshan tea." In a word, well water has become the worst water quality. In the eyes of the ancients, our tap water now is simply for pigs to drink. However, there is a difference between ancient and modern times. At that time, the river was clear and no one disturbed it. Well water is pumped every day, so there is a natural difference. Nowadays, rivers, who will use them to make tea? I can't even drink fish, and it turns white. Therefore, when we read ancient books, we should be able to get in and out, or mud ancient books, which are baked in winter.
We talked about tea and tea art while drinking. At this point, we almost talked about the tea ceremony. The meaning of tea ceremony is difficult to explain, probably in ancient times. Tea Classic (Lu Yu), Tea Spectrum (Lu Tong), Tea Story (Cai Xiang) and Daguan Tea Theory (Evonne) are all tea classics in the Tang and Song Dynasties, during which there were also many tea poems, tea words and tea paintings, which were deeply loved by literati. Tea is also closely related to poets, poets and monks. In the Yuan Dynasty, the tea ceremony was silent for a hundred years, and it flourished again in the Ming Dynasty, and modern tea-making methods were born. The tea ceremony brought back by the Japanese envoy to the Tang Dynasty has been carried forward in this island country, especially the excavation of the artistic conception of tea Zen. I read Mr. Ye's History of Japanese Culture, and I was particularly impressed by Morino's "Cao 'an-style empty tea". Everything in Cao An Teahouse is very simple, with rough tea bowls, wall decorations, a scroll of ink painting, simple vase arrangement and dim lights. "General into the teahouse, must take the sword from the waist, can bow down to enter, tea people are equal. These descriptions are bleak and silent, reflecting the "nothingness" in Japanese Zen, and dialysis the spirit of Japanese tea ceremony of "harmony, respect and silence". When we say "literature carries Tao", we mean "tea carries Tao".
There are so many tea books now, all kinds of "one system tea", magazines of local tea associations, tea yearbooks and so on. These miscellaneous books have nothing to do with the Zen tea ceremony mentioned above. They are aimed at the general public and teach us some tea etiquette and health care. This is a popular tea culture. One such book is enough. However, some books with lofty ideas on the theme of tea might as well be collected and read. For example, Okakura Tenjin's Tea Classic in my hand has a great influence in the western world. It is a "flowing mountain" of oriental culture with the theme of tea ceremony. Its words are elegant and exquisite, and the old saying is handy, so it can be read as a literary book.
It's almost time for tea In your spare time, you might as well fiddle with your own tea set, get in touch with the six gentlemen of tea ceremony (tea cone, Chaze, tea needle, teaspoon, tea clip and tea leak) and enjoy the life of making tea. A little book and a cup of fragrant tea are not enough for outsiders to entertain themselves.
Finally, two interesting tea poems of Tang Dynasty are recorded for entertainment.
One: Lu Tong's Seven Bowls of Tea Poems (excerpt)
A bowl of throat kiss moistens.
Two bowls of broken loneliness.
Three bowls of heartbroken, only five thousand volumes of words.
Four bowls of sweat, life is not smooth, scattered to the pores.
Five bowls without tendons and bones.
Six bowls of faeries.
I can't eat seven bowls, but I feel the wind blowing under my arm.
Second: Yuan Zhen's pagoda tea poems.
Tea,
Fragrant leaves, buds.
Poets love monks.
Grinding and carving white jade, Luo Zhihong yarn.
Stir-fry the yellow core color and turn the bowl into dust.
Invite the bright moon after night, and light the morning glow before morning.
Wash away the tireless people of ancient and modern times, and you can't boast when you are drunk.