The Origin of Qingming Tea

The origin of Qingming tea is as follows: In the Qing Dynasty, the book "Long Shu Yu Wen" recorded: "Mengding tribute tea has been in the official position for more than a thousand years from the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, and it has to be paid tribute every year for the royal' Tomb-Sweeping Day' to worship the heavens and ancestors." Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, I haven't heard much about "Qingming Tea", and I haven't seen anyone use tea as a way to pay homage to their deceased relatives during Qingming. Instead, there are various brands of Tomb-Sweeping Day Qiancha, such as Zhuyeqing, Yizhichun, Sword Bud, and Green before the Ming Dynasty. More people habitually call it Qiancha.

Every Qingming Festival, I wear a pointed bamboo hat and go to the mountains to pick tea. That's the impression given by the Qingming tea-picking map. I am the tea-picking girl in the picture. Thin leaf buds slowly gather from the fingertips to the palm of your hand and throw them into the basket from the palm. A person can't pick a basket a day. But my passion for picking tea comes purely from the beautiful tea girl I saw in a book. The top quality of tea is mostly before Tomb-Sweeping Day. "Try to pick its buds, ..., and carefully cut them and be eaten by insects. Pick only one leaf from each bud, then bake it with fire ..., then spread it on paper, hang it on the spout to dry, and carefully pick out those that are wet and clean. " This is a description of the production of top quality tea in Qing dynasty, in which the technology and links are very detailed. Qingming is a solar term that evokes nostalgia for old friends. It seems that Qingming tea is also rich in a philosophy of life. It seems that in this day of missing our old friends, we should remember their teachings and remind ourselves that we should not be careless and cautious in order to reach a superior state. A person's life is like making tea. Any negligence may lead to mistakes and rewrite our lives.