Tea ceremony and flue

Tao is a big topic, "Tao can be extraordinary for Tao", which Laozi summed up, involving everything in the world, beyond words. Later, people have been exploring the true meaning of Tao. Literati like to learn from ordinary trivial things in life. They went, but they haven't gone yet.

Smoking and drinking tea is a hobby, a minority, and a minority's life. They like to compare and understand the current state of life under the smell of smog and tea.

Say cigarettes first. I went to the countryside to be an educated youth. It happened that the production team distributed local cigarettes. The local name is Ye Ziyan, and there are a group of people. At that time, I didn't smoke. I lived alone in the country, and there was no one around. The bugs croaked and I was very lonely. Just like the villagers, spray the leaf tobacco with water, cut it into the same length, spread it on the table, and wrap it tightly layer by layer, and a kind of soil tobacco was born.

In order to test whether it is Tongtai, I lit one myself in the dead of night and read the formula for wrapping cigarettes: "First, the leaves should be wrapped loosely, second, the fire should be lit, and third, the cigarettes should be fierce." "As a result, I choked and threw up. Later, when I learned to smoke, I couldn't tell the smell of smoke.

Soldiers eat public grain. In the army meeting, all the leaders sitting in the front row are big leaders. One of them is the deputy political commissar, 1938 anti-Japanese war veteran. He always smokes and coughs when he doesn't smoke. Deputy political commissar attended the meeting, holding a box of "Jinshajiang" brand cigarettes without filters. After sitting down, he lit one, smoked it to the end, drew another one from the cigarette case, knocked on the tea table, and then connected the cigarette butts in his hand.

A meeting lasts for two or three hours, and there is no cigarette butt in front of the deputy political commissar except a pile of soot. Before the end of the meeting, the head of the stage should ask the head sitting in the front row to add something. The deputy political commissar never meant to make a supplementary speech. He raised his cigarette finger and waved it slowly, which was a greeting to the stage and the audience. The deputy political commissar has been sitting firmly in the front row, unable to get on or off, and has become a tumbler.

As a soldier for several years, the deputy political commissar smoked "Jinsha River" brand cigarettes for several years. Others handed me other brands of cigarettes, never smoked, only recognized "Jinsha River".

I work in a local place, and the director also has the habit of smoking without losing his cigarette butts. He smokes "Spring City" brand cigarettes, even if there is a filter, he should tear it off. I haven't finished smoking one cigarette, and the other one has been connected. I bring two boxes of cigarettes to work every day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Take it home if you can't finish it. Those who visit or drop in don't smoke "clouds" or "China" and put them on the table. He only smokes "Spring City". The director has a habit of bringing three packs of cigarettes, one more than usual, and thinking hard and writing thousands of words on the table when the main leaders of the unit exchange places.

This is the characteristic of the system. Every time the unit changes leadership, there will always be a commotion because of the offer.

In those years, the top leaders of the unit frequently went up and down. Every time a new leader comes, the director is like an old horse who sees Bole and stays up late to write his big article about the province's economy. I don't know what the new leader will do with the smoking manuscript. Did you read it or not? Anyway, there have been several leaders, and the director has not been promoted and reused. Until a minister was transferred from the rural department of the provincial party Committee to take charge of the work, and at the same time a group of new people were brought in. The gameplay changed and the director was transferred to an irrelevant department.

Later, I went to a copper company and cooperated with a chaozhou people. The boss of Chaozhou shook hands with everyone, showed his cards, and declared that he could not read and had only read one book. Please forgive me for not doing well. Translated, I have read the first half of the first grade of primary school, and my cultural level has just written my own name.

Chaozhou boss surnamed Fang, nicknamed A Guang, likes to show off in crowded places and never smokes various brands of cigarettes in the market. The cigarettes he smokes are said to be specially made by Macao Cigarette Factory with the best tobacco formula in Yunnan.

At that time, there were always people asking for help when running a business. Behind every yamen and every threshold lived a grandfather. A-guang always takes out special cigarettes when he comes in. Seeing someone throwing a bag, he said in a low-key and modest way that alcohol and tobacco don't separate.

This kind of cigarette, which has never been seen in the market, is beautifully packaged and makes people curious. That's a-guang's cigarette, curiosity kills the cat.

When smokers often encounter the failure of the leading lighter, A Guang will take out a shiny gold-plated lighter from Montblanc's handbag and throw it to people to play casually. Men have three loves, watches, belts and lighters. With this set, coupled with covert operation, A-guang's industry is getting bigger and bigger. I once wrote an article called "A Guang Er San Shi", and interested friends can look for it.

After talking about cigarettes, let's talk about tea.

Most people who drink tea are influenced by the people around them. I grew up in a single-parent family, and my mother drank tea. She said that when she was a child, she and her sisters were playing wildly in the fields, sweating and thirsty, so she hurried home. Hearing the footsteps of four daughters, my father quickly lifted the teapot and filled several cups with tea, hot tea to quench his thirst and herbal tea to cool off the heat.

Mother said that a circle of tea trees was planted on the ancestral grave of my father's family. Before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, grandma would take her mother and sisters up the mountain to pick tea, pick the tender leaves from the tea heads, go home and burn them on a small fire, and rub them with her hands in an oil-free iron pot. After the new tea is brewed, it will be left for a period of time, which is called tea-removing fire.

My knowledge of tea comes from my uncle, who puts Laojiu first at home. We call him Jiujiu. My uncle was very impulsive when he was young. He followed my father to Qinghai, became close to some radical professors and college classmates, was expelled from his hometown, and was framed. He was a political prisoner on a reform-through-labour farm for more than ten years. After being released from prison, he is homeless, working on a farm, and can go back to his hometown to visit relatives every year. The farm where he lives mainly grows and makes tea. Every year when he goes back to his hometown, he will buy several big bags of tea as gifts.

Jiujiu's tea is either tea powder or tea stem, mainly coarse tea. In his eyes, the variety and producing environment of tea are the most important, and the preservation of tea is the most important. Can't smell it, can't get wet, and the tea is delicate and easy to attract the taste of other things. Scented tea is wasted. Scented tea, on the other hand, takes advantage of the properties of tea and injects pleasant fragrance.

People in my hometown Leshan like green tea. My first job supervisor's name was Qin Zhao. He is not tall and elegant. He is from Pingshan. When he was a child, he studied in a private school and had a good foundation in ancient Chinese. Many chapters of Three Amethysts, Disciples' Rules and Guanzi in ancient Chinese are just random. He thinks the best tea is green tea, and Leshan people like to call it vegetarian tea.

A simple sentence means that the quality of tea should be clean and pure, and it cannot be doped. One place and one tea, he started "Mahleping", the former site of the old Mahufu, now Leibo County of Liangshan Prefecture, pingshan county of Yibin City and Mabian County of Leshan City.

"Leimaping" is located in the east of Hengduan Mountains, which is the transition zone between Sichuan Basin and Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. It is a magical land cut by Jinsha River. This place became famous when the Ming emperor Judy moved the capital from Nanjing to Beijing. In order to build the Forbidden City, he visited all the stone pillars in the world, and finally found the "Shenmu" in Mahu House, which is the town Nanmu that the world talks about. Thousands of people were cut down and transported to Beijing through Jinsha River to Yangtze River.

This is the glory of "Mahleping" in Ming and Qing Dynasties. By the time of the Republic of China, experts and scholars who had inspected the development of the world economy, after several comparisons, found that the geographical environment and climatic soil of Leimaping could produce world-class tea products. So we organized a reclamation team to cultivate tea. In the mouth of Director Qin Zhao, the green tea produced there is the best among vegetarian teas, with fragrant and sweet taste.

Most people who drink fried green are temperamental people, with little courage but clear love and hate. This is another story.

Chaozhou people is partial to Kung Fu tea. Maybe he likes seafood. Tieguanyin is a perfect match. On holidays, Chaozhou boss sends out red envelopes, with a word, and gives money for tea.

Tea shops selling Tieguanyin are more interesting. The guests went to look around and ask questions. At first glance, they were tea drinkers who had not started yet. All the guests come, and the tea sellers will look at their faces and colors, stand by and wait on them carefully. Seeing that the time is ripe, I asked in a low voice: at what price is Mr. Wang going to start tea? If you make an offer, the bartender will ask you to sit down. "It doesn't matter if you don't buy it. Make friends first. Let's talk about two lower-priced teas first. " So I skillfully washed a cup, bought tea and smelled a cup. After three tours of tea, I took the tea at the last price, and went on wave after wave, drinking tea in by going up one flight of stairs. At this time, if you like one of the teas, you can bargain. Even if you can't sell it, the store will give you a cup or two of tea for free when you leave.

Tea has its own way, just like brick tea in Ya 'an, Sichuan and Pu 'er tea in Yunnan, all for the convenience of long-distance transportation. The former is suitable for people's backs, and the latter is horse-pack, which is the product of the post-road economy in the farming era. This kind of tea is best drunk under the snowy mountain or by the river. Burn a pile of firewood, put the tea leaves in the earthen pot, and then blow them away when the water rises.

I once broke into a hotel at the foot of Cangshan Mountain on a winter night. There are five or six tea drinkers, each with his own worries. One of them is about to leave for the mountains in northern Myanmar to become the groom of local girls. A Buddhist with a deep Buddhist background will go to the Tibetan area to worship Buddha the next day; The innkeeper from Wuhan was informed that he was not allowed to continue his business. Where are you going? A pile of burning fireplaces and pots for making tea have long been empty. A wandering singer sang in a hoarse voice, "I have been asking you endlessly when to come with me." But you always think I have nothing! "

No tea is better than tea at this time.