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Guangdong tea culture is most representative of Teochew tea kung fu:

(a) "Kung Fu Tea" and its prevalence

The Teochew tea culture is another important series of tea culture in the Ling City, especially "Kung Fu Tea" is known. "Kung Fu", originally the name of tea (a medium tea), later evolved into a method of cooking tea. The Qing Dynasty Wild History. The Qing Dynasty," said: "China's tea cooking, to the Ting, Zhang, Quan three provinces of Fujian, Guangdong, Chaozhou Province, Kung Fu tea is the most."

Chaosu Kung Fu Tea, which began in the Ming Dynasty and flourished in the Qing Dynasty, has become a cultural phenomenon of tea-drinking customs in the Chaozhou region and is an important part of the food culture of Chaozhou.

The Teochew Kung Fu Tea is very common in the region, regardless of elegance and vulgarity, and it is used to meet friends with tea. Whether it is public occasions or residents at home, whether it is the roadside village or factory stores, everywhere people see long and short drink. Tea and not only to achieve the purpose of quenching the thirst, but also in the tea or contact feelings, or exchange of information, or gossip for fun, or negotiate trade, Chaozhou Kung Fu Tea contains a rich cultural content. Confucian family kung fu tea special care, tea boy (jokingly called "wind furnace governor") special service, picking, into the mountains, floating water, in the clear stream and cooking tea, watching the landscape and discussing the Taoist, endowed with poems and lyrics, and have a lot of fun. Kung Fu tea is an indispensable thing in the life of the literati, so in many poems are talking about Kung Fu tea, such as the modern poet Qiu Fengjia returned from Japan, living in Chaozhou made "Chaozhou Spring Thoughts" six poems, one of which describes the scene of cooking Kung Fu tea on spring days, said: "The courtyard of the spring breeze to sip tea day, the bamboo stove Lan charcoal hand hand frying. A small sand pot to boil new wrens, to try Chao Shan virgin spring."

(2) the characteristics of kung fu tea

Teochew kung fu tea, tea utensils exquisite and small, cooking and tea to send feelings for the characteristics. According to Weng Huidong, "Tea in Teochew", "Kung Fu Tea is special, not in the nature of tea, but in the tea utensils equipped with excellent, as well as the cooking method of leisure and relaxation." Kung Fu Tea generally do not use black tea and green tea, but the use of semi-fermented oolong, odd species and Iron Goddess of Mercy, unnecessarily superior tea, tea is far from the tea utensils to pay attention to. Kung Fu tea tea set, often "a style of multiple pieces", a set of tea with a teapot. Tea tray, tea cups, tea cushions, tea canisters, flasks, dragon jar, water bowl, red clay stove, sand yao, tea stretcher, feather fan, etc., generally 12 pieces of common, such as 12 pieces are fine, it is known as the "twelve treasures", such as which there are 8 pieces of fine, or 4 pieces of fine, it is known as the "Eight Treasures! "

The tea sets are made by famous producers and manufacturers, which are fine, small and of high quality, just like a set of handicrafts, reflecting the value of high taste in Chaozhou tea culture. Kung Fu tea teapot, more than with the production of Jiangsu Yixing Zhusha pot, the requirements of "small shallow Qi old", teapot "should be small", "small is dense aroma, large is easy to disperse hot", "alone to drink," the "small", "small", "small", "small", "small", "small", "small". "alone, the smaller the better"; tea cups should be small and shallow, like half a ping-pong ball, color white as jade, cups are small and sip, shallow water does not leave the bottom.

Kung Fu tea, all in the tea cooking method, although there are good tea, tea, and not good punch, but also all the work is ruined. Teochew kung fu tea cooking method, there is the so-called "ten methods", that is, live fire, shrimp water, picking tea, tea, hot cups, hot cans, high punch, cover foam, shower top and low sieve. There are also people to cook kung fu tea specific procedures are summarized as: "high punch low sprinkle, cover foam heavy eyebrow, Guan Gong patrol the city, Han Xin point troops." or "eight steps". Or "eight steps"

Governance - the preparatory work before the tea, from the fire to boil water, rinse scalding tea utensils;

Na tea - the tea leaves into coarse and fine, respectively, the tea leaves into the tea, the tea leaves into the tea, the tea leaves into the tea.

Na tea - the tea leaves divided into coarse and fine, respectively, after the tea leaves into the teapot, coarse at the bottom, in the middle of the middle, fine on, tea can not be loaded too full, only seven or eight can be;

Waiting for the tea - the water to cook, to the degree of the "crab's eye water", such as Su Dongpo said, "the crab's eye has been over the fish. "Crab eyes have been fish eyes raw", the first boiling water tea is best;

Charge point - pay attention to the "high punch", boiling water from the teapot side of the punch, do not rush straight to the heart of the pot to prevent the "punch through the tea gallbladder", "the tea is not a good idea. p>

Sieve tea - pay attention to the "low sieve", which is the Chaozhou Kung Fu Tea unique sieve tea method, the teapot spout close to the teacups have been neatly placed, and then as "Guan Gong patrol city" like Continuously sieve tea evenly sprinkled in the cups, can not once full of a cup to show that "equal treatment", but a pot of tea must be recycled sieve wine to the end of the so-called "Han Xin pointing troops" more is better.

Teochew kung fu tea, different from the general drinking tea, the difference between the two lies first of all in the non-generic drinking tea, big mouth big cup to drink, but a small cup small cup of taste, the meaning of tea rather than quench their thirst, rather than in the taste of tea incense, tea in the tea to talk about the feelings; Secondly, Teochew kung fu tea, especially pay attention to the etiquette of the tea, tea rushing to the end of the hosts and guests are always a humble, and then ask the elders, the first taste of the honored guest, the edge of the cup, lips, tea face to face the nose, the smell of the tea, the cup of tea to the lips, the face of the tea to the nose. The edge of the cup is connected to the lips, the face of the tea meets the nose, the fragrance of the tea is smelled, and the tea is sipped and finished. Kung Fu tea this set of etiquette is the traditional Chinese "tea ceremony".