Who are the famous people who love tea in history?

Zhang Ailing: Love that goes deep into the bone marrow Few people can integrate the love of tea into literary works. Zhang ailing can!

In the famous Love in a Fallen City, the first thing Zhang Ailing invited tassel and Fan Liuyuan to Hong Kong was to have tea.

"The residual tea in the cup is tilted to one side, and the green tea sticks to the cup, and the backlight looks like a green banana. The tea leaves piled under it are miscellaneous, like knee-deep creeping weed and wormwood. "

How can you write such a detailed description and metaphor without observing and deeply understanding tea?

▲ Zhang Ailing

Zhang Ailing's Jasmine Fragrance is directly named after tea. She has a soft spot for tea, so she simply expresses it naked, hehe.

At the beginning of Jasmine Fragrance, I said, "This pot of jasmine fragrance I brewed for you may be a little too bitter. I'm afraid the story I'm going to tell you next is just as bitter-Hong Kong is a gorgeous but sad city. You pour a cup of tea first-be careful not to burn it! You pointed your mouth and blew gently, in the smoke of tea ... "

Zhang Ailing was brilliant, but her life was eventful. After wandering in poverty, she did not gaffe for mercy, but still maintained a restrained, rational and pure interpersonal relationship. People are as light as tea, and probably so!

▲ Bing Xin

Bing Xin: A woman who can get out of the hall and out of the kitchen. Strictly speaking, Bing Xin is not a "qualified" tea friend. Although she was born in Fuzhou, the birthplace of jasmine tea, she did not have the habit of drinking tea before middle age. In Tea in My Home, she wrote: "I didn't have the habit of drinking tea until after middle age."

Bing Xin devoted himself to the torrent of the times in his youth and struggled for the rise of the new culture movement. It was not until middle age that she began to pay more attention to her family. She said, "Now I make a cup of jasmine chips and several chrysanthemums every morning." "As for' rice, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar', as a housewife, I have to deal with them every day, at least with my aunt who buys food and calculate these things."

From Bing Xin's way of drinking tea from scratch, we can see a woman's great adaptability in the process of naturally changing from the role of leading the cultural trend of the times to the role of housewife. Just as tea can be treasured by princes and nobles and tasted by ordinary people. Such a tea-scented woman may be the ideal companion for men in China to pursue "going to the hall and going to the kitchen".

▲ Lin Yinhui

Lin: Using the humor of tea to measure the length of life, a charming woman who has been dumped by countless people also has a deep relationship with tea.

Lin wrote in a letter to Hu Shi in 193 1: "I just need to be worthy of these people-my parents, my husband, my son, my family, and I will be worthy of another person who loves me in the future." This person is Jin, who has lived by the forest all his life and has never been married, but he can openly accompany her for tea.

Lin also wrote a poem "Tea Shop" for tea. In her works, she wrote: "various postures depict different aspects of life ... every night, the length of life is measured by the taste and humor of this bowl of tea." The weight of tea in forest life can be seen.

▲ Cixi

Cixi: A generation of Lafayette, the Lafayette Empress Dowager Cixi, is definitely addicted to tea and has a high understanding of tea. She drinks tea for health, appreciation and display, which is a unique royal tea art.

According to Empress De Ling, the empress dowager cixi is very particular about drinking tea. The tea set she used is of gold and jade, including a gold saucer, a small white jade teacup with a lid, two gold-rimmed porcelain cups and a pair of gold chopsticks. The second is to prepare flowers. Cixi loves to drink scented tea.

When the eunuch offers tea to Cixi, he should offer a saucer with both hands, kneel in front of the back seat of Cixi and shout "Lafayette tastes tea". Then Cixi did it herself, smiling and admiring the flowers first, then slowly uncovered the lid of the trolley handle, picked up gold chopsticks and put the flowers in, gently closed the lid, and let the fragrance penetrate into the tea for a few minutes. Finally, I picked up a small cup, narrowed my eyes, smelled it first, and then had a drink.

Besides drinking tea every day, in order to beautify Cixi, pearl powder is used to make tea every 10 day. In addition, as usual, Cixi will drink a cup of sugar tea before going to bed in the park, and then put a pillow with tea in the sky to sleep peacefully.

▲ Portrait of Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria: Let afternoon tea last forever. Queen Victoria's name symbolizes an era, and she is the longest-serving monarch in Britain, ruling for 64 years. During the reign of Victoria, the British people were United as never before, and Britain became a powerful empire, which continued to grow and develop. Among them, her contribution to tea is also a highlight.

The queen must also know the truth of drinking tea for health. She loved a kind of mixed tea all her life-a kind of herbal tea made of China Qimen black tea and bergamot essential oil, called Count Gray.

Before tea landed in England, most English people drank light beer for breakfast. Since the sale of tea, the British people have become one of the people who love tea most in the world, almost to the point of not drinking tea. The queen's favorite collocation can be said to be the classic collocation of black tea.

Since Queen Victoria fell in love with tea, afternoon tea has become a fashionable social way in the court at that time. Since then, this custom, which was originally exclusive to the court, has continued to spread and become a way of life pursued by people from big cities to remote villages until today.