Glass is more suitable for brewing famous teas, such as West Lake Longjing, Biluochun and Junshan Yinzhen. It can be observed that tea slowly stretches, swims and changes in water. Especially some silver needles, after brewing, the tip of bamboo shoots washed up on the water, hung upright, and then slowly sank, like unearthed bamboo shoots like golden guns. The excellent Junshan silver needle can rise and fall three times, which is extremely wonderful. So in general, tea houses and green teas are brewed with glasses.
The ancients used it to build bowls. Compared with glass, covered bowls have better thermal insulation. Generally speaking, I like to make firm green tea, such as Zhu Cha plum. Personally, I prefer to build bowls. Good white porcelain can fully set off the light green and bright tea soup, and the bowl cover is more elegant, and the touch is incomparable to the glass. In addition, because good green tea is not brewed with boiling water (about 80 degrees), tea leaves float on the water and are easy to eat when drinking tea. If you cover the bowl, you can brush the tea leaves aside with the lid.
Generally speaking, whether it is a cup or a bowl cover, it should be small rather than big. The bigger the water, the older the tea leaves.
What kind of green tea is good?
Green tea is inherently light. The better the green tea, the clearer the water. The tea in the cup is already "the sixth palace powder faded into nothing", leaving only green leaves, just like the grass at the bottom of the pool, casually rippling in the water. Therefore, there is a visitor from the north. If a cup of green tea is served, the guest will gulp down and choke. The expression is written on the face: this tea is tasteless! There is another expression: this tea is so bitter!
Green tea has always been a bit unpopular in the north. The population in the north is heavy, and they like to eat things with strong fragrance. It is cold in the north, preferring hot drinks and warm drinks; It's freezing in the north, and this green and delicate tea tree can't be raised. Therefore, more than half of the northerners drink scented tea, jasmine chips, popular economical drinks and hot water from Xian Yi, and Xian Yi, old and young, can withstand brewing and are not afraid of discoloration. Dark brown and mellow, giving people a sense of calm dependence; On the dark brown light brown water, a semi-white jasmine flower occasionally floats, which is a bit playful; When the lid is lifted, the fragrance overflows and it can't be hidden. It's not tea, it's jasmine. In the cold wind in the middle of winter, the jasmine fragrance wafted in summer, though gaudy, is kind and warm after all.
Eight functions of green tea
Green tea is a precious and noble drink. Drinking green tea is a kind of spiritual enjoyment, an aesthetic art behavior and a method of self-cultivation.
There are different opinions about the various beneficial effects of green tea on people's body and mind, ancient and modern, at home and abroad, and Liu's Ten Virtues in Tang Dynasty is more comprehensive. He classified the benefits of drinking tea as follows: drinking tea for health, removing fishy smell, preventing diseases and nourishing qi, dispersing sulks, benefiting people, respecting people, nourishing the heart and using tea is feasible.
Eight functions of green tea
1. Green tea anti-aging
Antioxidants contained in green tea help to fight aging. Because in the process of human metabolism, if it is over-oxidized, it will produce a lot of free radicals, which are easy to age and cause cell damage. SOD (Superoxide Dismutase) is a kind of free radical scavenger, which can effectively remove excess free radicals and prevent the harm of free radicals to human body. Catechins in green tea can significantly improve SOD activity and scavenge free radicals.
2. Green tea is antibacterial
Studies have shown that catechins in green tea can inhibit some bacteria that cause human diseases without harming the proliferation of beneficial bacteria in the intestine, so green tea has the function of whole intestine.
3. Green tea lowers blood fat
Animal experiments made by scientists show that catechins in tea can reduce total cholesterol, free cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides in plasma, and at the same time increase high-density lipoprotein cholesterol. Human experiments show that it can inhibit platelet aggregation and reduce the incidence of arteriosclerosis. Green tea contains flavonol, which has antioxidant effect, prevents thrombosis and platelet aggregation, and reduces cardiovascular diseases.
4. Green tea slimming and fat reduction
Green tea contains theophylline and caffeine, which can activate protein kinase and triglyceride lipolytic enzyme through multiple functions, reduce the accumulation of fat cells, and thus achieve the effect of losing weight.
5. Green tea can prevent dental caries and remove bad breath.
Green tea contains fluorine, in which catechins can inhibit the action of cariogenic bacteria and reduce the occurrence of dental plaque and periodontitis. Tannic acid contained in tea has bactericidal effect, which can prevent food residues from breeding bacteria, so it can effectively prevent bad breath.
6. Green tea can prevent cancer
Green tea can inhibit some cancers, but its principle is limited to the inference stage. Drinking more tea is bound to have a positive encouraging effect on preventing cancer.
7. Whitening and UV protection of green tea
Experts found in animal experiments that catechins in green tea can resist skin cancer caused by UV-B.
8. Green tea can improve indigestion.
Recent research reports show that green tea can help improve indigestion, such as acute diarrhea caused by bacteria, and drinking a little green tea can alleviate the condition.