Unscramble the beauty of traditional culture

Liu Songnian's "Dou Cha Tu" 6 1.9cm×56.4cm silk color.

In the Song Dynasty, ordering tea, burning incense, arranging flowers and hanging pictures were called "four elegance", which was part of the literati's pursuit of elegant life at that time. In the Song Dynasty, people paid attention to plain colors, simplicity and lead washing. They paint with ink and wash, and black and white show humanistic romance; Burning monochrome glazed porcelain, the sky blue of your kiln is a glimpse.

In the history of Chinese tea, there has always been a saying that "tea flourished in the Tang Dynasty and tea flourished in the Song Dynasty". The way of drinking tea in the Song Dynasty evolved from the method of frying tea in the Tang Dynasty to the method of ordering tea, which has the saying that "Tang cooked the Song Dynasty".

The popular way of drinking tea in Tang dynasty is called fried tea, with some pepper and salt. It adopts the processing method of steaming green tea.

The tea ceremony with such a long history, whether it is the skill of making tea or the way of drinking tea, is very different from today.

In the Song Dynasty, the tea ceremony in China changed. Different from the way of frying tea in Tang Dynasty, it is fashionable to drink tea in Lebanon, from princes to ministers to ordinary people, and the way of drinking tea is mainly to order tea.

(Cai Xiang)

Cai Xiang, a famous scholar in the Song Dynasty, recorded the steps of ordering tea in the Book of Tea: "Pour tea for one yuan and seven cents, first pour the soup to make it very uniform, then add more notes and blow it again, so that the lamp on the soup can stop in four minutes, depending on whether it is clear that there is no water mark on the surface."

(order tea)

In order to keep the real taste of tea, the tea ordering method does not add salt when cooking tea. Song Huizong and Evonne said in "On Daguan Tea": "If the lamp is only hot, the tea will last." Heat the teacup with boiling water before ordering tea.

Analysis of tea ordering process

Salute—

◆ The tea-ordering personnel appear and bow to the guests.

Tea tasting—

◆ Take out the tea cakes from the tea stove and show them to the audience.

(Song Dynasty Longfeng cake tribute tea)

Grinding tea leaves—

◆ Put the dried tea leaves into a tea mill and grind the tea leaves with a grinding wheel.

1. Wrap the tea cake in clean kraft paper and pat it gently with a mortar to make the outside of the tea become small pieces.

2. Pour small pieces of broken tea cakes into a tea mill and grind the broken tea with a grinding wheel.

Grinding tea—

1. Sweep the broken tea in the tea house into kraft paper with a tea broom, and pour the tea leaves into the tea house.

2. When grinding tea, two people cooperate and turn the stone mill clockwise to make the tea powder fall into the outer groove bit by bit.

3. Sweep the tea powder in the jar into kraft paper, then pour it into the stone mill, continue grinding for three to four times, and put the tea powder into the teapot.

Sift tea—

◆ Sieve the ground fine powder to make the tea more fine.

Waiting for soup—

◆ You can't boil water, but you can't burn too much. Take the bottle out of the oven and wait a little.

Light the lamp—

Whenever you order tea, you must heat it first. If the lamp is cold, the tea will not float. Pour boiling water into the bowl and wash the tea bowl warm.

Tea—

◆ Take a proper amount of tea powder out of the teapot with a tea spoon and put it in a tea bowl.

Order tea—

◆ Put the tea first. The consumption of tea is about 8 grams. Then pour in the soup and stir well. After that, I started ordering tea.

1. Paste mixing: lift the soup bottle and slowly pour a small amount of boiling water into the tea bowl. Hold a tea bowl in your left hand and a tea basket in your right. Stir the tea powder into a paste.

2. Water injection: lift the soup bottle, surround the lamp wall and inject boiling water.

Living is the most important water for ordering tea. When you order tea, you need to inject water seven times, so that the tea powder and water are integrated, and the surface of the tea soup is snowy white, thick and white, and it will last for a long time. After ordering tea, the tea soup tastes like frankincense.

(tea basket)

One soup: You can mix the tea powder into paste with a spoon first. Water should be sprayed around the tea leaves, not directly on the tea powder.

The second soup: the second water injection requires a straight line back and forth, and the injection should be stopped quickly.

Three soups: When boiling water for three times, the tea basket should be light and even. At this time, tea noodles are mostly a foregone conclusion.

Four soups: inject less boiling water to relieve the beating of tea.

Five soups: At this time, the injection of boiling water depends on the state of tea soup foam, which determines the severity of the blow.

Liutang: If the foam cake is born in a rage at this time, just stir it slowly.

Seven Soups: The boiled water injected finally depends on the thickness and solidification degree of the foam cake. If it meets the requirements, you can order tea.

3. Stir: First, stir tea cream, gently handle and stir the tea soup back and forth.

Tea—

◆ Order tea soup and offer tea to the guests.

(Qizi Teahouse-Building Station)

Ordering tea is an artistic activity, and this superb way of ordering tea is also the embodiment of the developed tea culture in Song Dynasty.

Song Huizong once boasted: "In recent years, careful selection, production, quality, and wonderful cooking have all achieved the ultimate."

(Mr. 12, Picture of Tea Set)

Song Huizong is a master of the art of fighting and distributing tea. He not only made his own paintings and calligraphy, but also inherited the Tang and Song Dynasties, leading the Song Dynasty to become the golden age of China's painting. This is a gentle era, people borrow tea to introspect and explore the beautiful ideal of life.

In recent years, people pay more attention to our traditional culture in their lives, and tasting a cup of tea is actually tasting Zen and life. The highest state of tea is the unity of heaven and man, harmony but difference.

Then, as Qizi Teahouse, we should carry forward and inherit the tea culture in China, and at the same time, we should increase our personal cultivation and temperament. It is worth mentioning that in Qizi Teahouse, traditional cultures such as tea art, flower arrangement and fragrance can be experienced in Qizi Teahouse and Qinyuanhao Pu 'er tea. Whether you are a beginner or interested in traditional culture, you can feel the beauty and truth of traditional tea art at close range.