What spiritual enjoyment can tea taste bring us?

Making tea is a skill, and tasting tea is a spiritual and material enjoyment. The book "Practical Book of Tea Art" introduces you to the knowledge of tea art in detail.

Let's start with making tea. Making tea seems simple. Actually, it's very particular

Cao Xueqin has a very vivid description of making tea in A Dream of Red Mansions: Jia Mu, Baoyu, Daiyu and others came to the Jade Hall, and Miaoyu personally made tea for the guests. She soaked the "old man's eyebrows" for the grandmother with the rain accumulated in the old year and put them in a small colorful cover; Baoyu, Daiyu and Baochai are treated differently. The water used for making tea is actually "the snow on plum blossoms collected five years ago, buried in the urn, and only opened this summer". Tea sets are all ancient antiques, and their exquisiteness is really eye-opening.

Tea is the material basis for making good tea. Different teas have different tastes and functions. You can choose the right tea according to your own preferences and specific conditions. There must be a certain proportion between the amount of tea and the amount of water used, otherwise the brewed tea soup will be too strong and too weak.

Water is the carrier of tea flavor and beneficial ingredients. The color, fragrance, taste and various nutritional and health-care substances of tea must be dissolved in water before it can be enjoyed by people. The Qing people said in the "Notes on the Plum Blossom Cottage":' Tea love must come from water, and eight points of tea, when it meets ten points of water, tea is also very good; Eight parts of water meets ten parts of tea, and tea is only eight parts. "So good tea must be mixed with water.

Tea set can keep the fragrance and taste of tea, set off the color and shape of tea, and often has artistic appreciation value, so it is a link that can not be ignored when making tea. Especially when entertaining guests with tea, it is necessary to carefully select tea sets to reflect the enthusiasm and respect for the guests. There are many kinds of tea sets with their own characteristics, including porcelain tea sets, purple sand tea sets and glass tea sets. Porcelain tea sets, including white porcelain and celadon, do not absorb water and have moderate heat transfer and insulation. White porcelain tea set can accurately reflect the color of tea soup, and its appearance is often painted with patterns and patterns of various colors. Both white porcelain and celadon are very ornamental. The purple sand tea set is dense and hard, but it has certain air permeability, which can keep the true color of tea and is not easy to deteriorate in summer. Zisha tea set has slow heat transfer, which is neither hot nor conducive to heat preservation. In particular, it has a variety of shapes and high artistic value, which has become the new favorite of tea people and collectors in recent years. Glass tea sets are cheap and transparent. Used to brew famous teas such as Yinzhen and Biluochun. The soaked tea leaves stretch and roll in the water, which is very ornamental.

Let's talk about the word "quality" of tea bar first, which includes the meaning of quality, appreciation and careful experience of the spiritual and material enjoyment brought by tea. The famous "Seven Bowls of Tea Poems" written by the Tang people said: "One bowl moistens the throat, two bowls are lonely and boring, and three bowls are boring, but there are only five thousand volumes of words. Four bowls of sweat, life is not smooth, scattered to the pores. Five bowls are strong and light, and six bowls are fairy. I can't eat seven bowls, but my eyes are blowing gently. Penglai Mountain, where is it? Yuchuanzi wants to take this breeze to go home. " The experience of drinking tea can be said to be extreme. Except the first bowl is a physiological experience, the rest are psychological feelings. After drinking seven bowls of tea, he was already on cloud nine.

Tea tasting generally includes four links: smelling fragrance, distinguishing shape, observing color and tasting.

Smelling incense can be divided into dry smell, hot smell and cold smell. Smell the dry tea first. Some dry tea is fragrant, some sweet and some burnt, and it should be made before brewing. Hot smell is the smell of tea soup after brewing. Besides the fragrance of tea, scented tea has different natural floral scents. Cold sniffing is carried out after the tea farm is cooled, and then other smells that were originally covered by aromatic substances can be smelled.

Shape identification is to observe the shape changes of tea leaves after brewing, and the tea leaves are soaked in water. The original shape of fresh leaves has gradually recovered. Some famous teas with delicate raw materials have graceful bud leaves in the tea soup. After some teas are brewed, the bud leaves fluctuate and roll up and down in the cup, which is really beautiful.

Look at the color mainly to appreciate the color of tea soup. Tea soup will change color with the exudation of tea contents, often from shallow to deep; Different teas will form different colors. Some are yellow-green, some are orange-yellow, some are light red, some are deep red and so on. For the same kind of tea, the color of tea soup will be different because of the different tea sets and soaking water. White tea was expensive in Song Dynasty, and red tea cups were used to set off the color of tea. This practice of selecting tea by tea also promotes the development of tea set manufacturing technology.

Taste is to feel the wonderful taste of tea through the taste organs of the tongue. Different teas have different tastes, such as strong, clean, fresh and mellow, which will bring people different feelings.