What do you mean in front of the club?

Qianshe refers to the pre-Spring Festival society. In ancient times, the fifth day after beginning of spring was the day of offering sacrifices to the land gods, which was called social day.

According to the arrangement of branches, during the 465 and 438+0-50 days after beginning of spring, the handover date is generally one solar term earlier than Qingming, around the vernal equinox. This kind of pre-meeting tea is very delicate and rare. Picking Huzhou bamboo shoot tea tribute in Tang Dynasty in front of the clubhouse. "Tiaoxi Fishing Hidden Conghua" said: "Tang tea only pays tribute to Huzhou purple bamboo shoots, and every year it is Qingming tribute, first recommending the ancestral hall and then giving it to the near minister."

Judging from the traffic conditions at that time, it was at least one solar term in advance, that is, at the vernal equinox, to send purple bamboo shoots tea from Huzhou, Zhejiang Province to Chang 'an, the capital, before Tomb-Sweeping Day. Li Ying, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, described the scene of sending tribute tea in "Songs of Chashan Baking": "The whip of the post road is like electricity, and whoever drives his husband in the middle of the night will see you again." On the 10th, the Imperial Road was 4,000, and when it arrived, there was a Qingming banquet. "In the Song Dynasty, there was pre-meeting tea called Tanchun. The so-called "Song Fa gave birth to a dragon group, and Tanchun returned to the Lord". This new tea with buds is a tribute enjoyed by the emperor.

There is also a kind of spring tea called "before the fire". Monks in the Tang Dynasty said in tea poems: "Sweet all over the world, your name is in front of the fire." This means that tea is precious when it is picked before the fire. Before the fire, that is, before the Ming dynasty According to legend, the day before the Qing Dynasty (two days before the Qing Dynasty) was the day when Jin people pushed firewood and burned to death in the Spring and Autumn Period. After Zhong Er returned to China, he lived in seclusion in the mountains. Zhong Er burned the mountain and forced him out, but the meson refused to follow, clinging to the wood. Later, in order to mourn him, Wen Gong banned cooking with fire and eating cold food for three days on the day when Zi was pushed to death.

Since then, it has become a custom, called "cold food and no fire". Many famous teas in China are famous for picking before fire. Bai Juyi wrote a poem, "After a letter is written on a piece of paper, ten pieces of spring buds are in front of the fire", and Sichuan Mengding tea is also better than "before the fire". West Lake Longjing tea was once the best one picked from "riding fire". This is what Emperor Qianlong said when he inspected the West Lake tea area: "The fire is tender before, and the fire is old after. Only riding fire is the best.

"Su Dongpo also has a saying:" After a cold meal, I feel uncomfortable after waking up. Don't miss the old country for the old friend, try new tea with new fire. "After three days of banning cold food, the poet couldn't stand herbal tea, so he simply ate cold food, cut short the gossip and couldn't wait." Try new tea with a new fire.