Seeking about the development of Teochew tea culture

The culture of Chaoshan has a long history. At least 6,000 years ago, there were human footprints on the land of Chaoshan. Chaoshan culture is not only a regional culture, but its existence and influence have long transcended the local area and crossed the oceans.

Working tea is the essence of Chaoshan culture. Tea tasting is not about quenching one's thirst, but pursuing a kind of spiritual enjoyment. Fan Zhongyan in the fighting tea song has this sentence; "Applaud the heavenly production of stone on the English, on the merits of not ashamed of the steps before the penny, the crowd of turbid I only clear, a thousand days of drunkenness I can wake up." Ancient people are in love with tea. I can't say how obsessed with tea, but I've tasted a lot of tea since I learned, and I'm only addicted to Kung Fu tea.

This summer vacation, the family went to Chaozhou to visit relatives. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get a good deal on the way to the next level.

The Teochew people are very particular about their work tea. A small set of Yixing purple sand tea set, exquisite, but see the "purple jade gold sand to welcome guests to" several words painted on the purple red tea set like a full moon, especially elegant; that honey orange size of the purple sand pot, walnut large tea cups, exquisite small, exquisite. I have not tasted the tea, first by this antique-like tea set drunk.

Uncle will be boiling water into the teapot, and then quickly poured in the cup, one is to wash the tea, the second is to warm the cup. After that, and then the kettle hanging high and rushed, first fast and then slow, slowly all over the shower outside the teapot, at this time as the water mist rises, suddenly the fragrance of tea. Good tea! Mom could not help but shout good, this tea is worthy of the top quality of tea. At this time uncle will be three small cups placed next to each other, the end of the pot slowly pouring tea, next to the number of turns in the cup. Uncle to the work of tea practice so skillful, really a kind of technology to art, and then from art to a realm of wonderful course.

We picked up the cup of tea, the first smell, a fragrance straight into the lungs, and then a small sip to savor, sweetness and tea so that I "drink the breeze born two limbs", a cup into the belly, teeth and cheeks, such as into the wonderland.

The custom of Teochew work tea has long been known. However, the women of this region once loved to drink "women's tea" custom, but little is known.

Once I heard my mother say, "women's tea" is comparable to "work tea". "Women's tea" is to "oil hemp tea" as the main, with "Chaoshan rice square" tea drinking style, called her "women's tea "

This kind of "women's tea" is made of "Tieguanyin" from Wuyi Mountain in Fujian Province and "Phoenix Tea" from Phoenix Mountain in Chaoshan, which are put into a pottery bowl with teeth and a "tea-beating mallet" made from the peeled guava tree. The tea leaves are beaten into powder with a "tea mallet" made from the peeled guava tree, then fried sesame, peanuts, soybeans, cilantro, garlic and a little bit of salt are added, and the tea is mixed together and washed with boiled water. Drinking, plus fried rice, will become a sweet, salty, sweet and astringent flavors, a unique "Chaozhou oil hemp tea". Drinking "oil hemp tea", and then with a quick "Chaozhou rice square", that can really be a unique flavor.

The culture of Chaoshan has a long history. Tea culture in Chaoshan is very unique. With the passage of time, Chaoshan tea culture will be carried forward from generation to generation.

Wherever there are Chaoshan people, there is Gongfu tea. A pot of Kung Fu tea becomes the only way for them to remember their relatives and friends in their hometown. The so-called Kung Fu Tea refers to the extremely delicate way of making tea. It requires a certain amount of effort to operate, and this effort is the learning of steeping and the effort of tasting. Kung Fu tea originated in the Song Dynasty, prevalent in the Chaoshan region of Guangdong, Chaoshan Kung Fu Tea, is the integration of the spirit, etiquette, steeping techniques, tea art, evaluation of the quality of the tea ceremony as a whole.

The water used to make tea is spring water or well water. Brewing work tea, generally oolong tea, hipsters only oolong tea, especially Fujian Anxi Tieguanyin, Wuyi Rock Tea, the most favored. Boomers cook tea, mostly with stranded charcoal. The advantage of stranded charcoal is that the wood fat is completely removed, the smoke and odor do not exist, knocking sound, once lit, the room can also be heard faintly "charcoal incense". When brewing, boil the water first and then brew the tea. When brewing, you should master the following key points, namely: "high punch", "low sprinkle", "bracket foam", "shower cover", "Beaker and Hot Pot", "Clarify" and so on. Kung Fu tea is famous for its high concentration. Teochew Kung Fu Tea is usually made for four people, with the host personally operating the tea. First of all, the host will light the fire to boil the water and put the tea leaves into the brewing canisters, which will take up about seven minutes of its volume. When the water boils, the tea leaves are put into the canister and then covered with foam. The first cup, with the first steeping of the tea pouring punch cup, the purpose is to cause the spirit of the tea, the charm of the atmosphere inside and outside. After washing the tea, and then rushed into the shrimp water, at this time, the tea has been soaked, sex flavor all hair, you can pour tea.

Pouring tea, four teacups and surrounded by four cups to punch the can circuit shuttle between the four cups, until each cup is up to seven minutes full. At this time, the tea in the can should also be poured, the rest of the Yu Jin also need to be a little bit of a head up in order to point into the four cups. The Chaoshan people call this process "Guan Gong patrols the city" and "Han Xin points the troops". The amount of tea in the four cups and the color must be even and the same, and only then is it a top grade of kung fu. Drinking tea can not be a cup full and then pour a cup, but according to the number of cups back and forth in turn order to pour. Therefore, in addition to the work of tea brewing kung fu, drinking tea also requires effort. No wonder people say, there is no work, do not drink work tea.

Kungfu tea is the essence of Chaoshan culture. Drinking tea is not only a way to quench your thirst, but also a kind of art.

With the accelerated pace of life and the diversification of social structure, the tea culture in Chaoshan is changing quietly. The development of traditional tea art is becoming more and more sophisticated; the way of drinking tea is changing, and the place of tasting tea is also changing, all of which brings certain impact to the tea culture in Chaoshan, and also injects a new connotation to the traditional tea culture.

Some people say that tea culture belongs to the farming civilization, and modernization is incompatible with the pace of development and construction of the city is not coordinated, I think this theory is wrong. Tea, whether as a drink, or as a cultural carrier, it has some of the characteristics of the modern society needs, the lack of. Modern society, a series of social contradictions and the solution of the problem, the need for "harmony" to lead. As a food culture, etiquette culture, culture of leisure intersection of Chaoshan tea culture, in the "lead" more and more to become a positive impetus for social harmony, family harmony, harmony between man and nature and the construction of spiritual civilization highlights. In the Chaoshan area, which emphasizes family tradition and courtesy and affection, the connotation of tea culture is the best interpretation of this. Zhongyong" says: "We can fulfill the nature of people and then we can fulfill the nature of things". The main body of Chaoshan tea culture construction is human, and the spiritual state and moral style pursued and embodied by human in the process of operating the tea ceremony is combined with the philosophy of life. Therefore, through a variety of channels and carriers for the construction of Chaoshan tea culture, must be "people-oriented", the relationship between man and nature, man and society, man and the economy into the development of Chaoshan tea culture. All acts contrary to the spirit of tea culture, should be corrected, overcome, so that the cause of Chaoshan tea culture will always be along the healthy and civilized path of development.