What's the difference between boiling tea and steaming tea?

1. Cooking tea: In the Tang and Song Dynasties, cooking tea was very common. The method is to grind tea leaves into powder and make tea pills. When drinking, the tea leaves are mashed, and seasonings such as onion, ginger, dried tangerine peel, mint, jujube and salt are added and boiled together.

2. Steaming tea: In the Tang Dynasty, there were seven processes from picking tea leaves to making tea cakes: picking, steaming, pounding, patting, baking, wearing and sealing. Steaming tea is the second process. After picking tribute tea in Song Dynasty, before steaming tea, there was one more process than Tang tea: picking tea.

Second, tools

1, tea: teapot, charcoal stove, tea bowl, etc.

2, steaming tea: steaming tea tools are stoves, pots, clams, forks. Its material is made of earth, iron, wood, tile and bamboo.

Third, principles.

1. Boiling tea: Tea soup used for boiling tea. The color of tea soup is one of the important criteria for evaluating tea soup. Before drinking tea, there is a very important process called: turning the bowl and shaking the fragrance.

2. steaming tea: steaming tea with high temperature and high pressure steam to soften the stems and leaves, which is convenient for pressing and molding.

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