China's tea culture has a long history, that prevailed in the Song Dynasty, how is the tea ordering method is a way of drinking tea?

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Opening China is the hometown of tea, tea culture has a long history. The drinking of tea is closely related to people's lives. The Tang Dynasty was dominated by the decoction of tea, decoction of tea, also known as boiled tea, is to pour tea into the boiling water to make the tea soup drinking method. The boiling state of the water and the timing of pouring the tea into the tea is the test of the success of the decoction of the key links.

The tea saint Lu Yu in the previous research on tea, summarized a set of tea cooking techniques, tea drinking customs and tea tasting method, and wrote a monograph "Tea Classic". In the "tea cooking" chapter, Lu Yu on its detailed discussion, and will be summarized as "three boiling" meaning. It can be said that the tea drinking method in the Tang Dynasty was mainly based on the decoction of tea.

The tea drinking style of the Song Dynasty was unabated, and the literati met friends with tea, used tea as poetry, and took pleasure in tea. Tea and the Song Dynasty people's life and culture have an unbreakable bond. Song tea in the inheritance of the essence of the previous generation on the basis of the new, Song Zhenzong the first year of the emergence of cake tea, renowned Beijing and China. The real trend of tea drinking in the Song Dynasty was the point of tea.

Dot tea method is the tea leaves in the tea bowl, injected into a small amount of boiling water into a paste, and then injected into the boiling water, or directly to the tea bowl into the boiling water, while holding a tea brush (made of bamboo wire tea tools) stirring at the right time, the tea floats up to make the tea soup.

Song people point tea, the quality of tea, water, fire, tea utensils are very careful. In the eyes of the Song people, cooking tea water to mountain spring water for the top grade, well water is second. Tea to white tea for the top tea; tea ground as fine as possible, so that the tea point tea to achieve the best state; fire is also very important, the Song people said "waiting for the soup is the most difficult, uncooked is the end of the floating, overcooked is the sinking of the tea," to the water just over the two boiling is just right; tea tea marigolds to Jianjian is appropriate; finally, point out the color of the tea soup to be pure white, tea froth The color of the tea broth should be pure white, and the tea foam should be fresh white.

According to the characteristics of the point of tea, the folk have risen to fight the tea culture. Fighting tea, mostly for two people to catch the "kill", three fights two wins. Decide to win two standards: one is the color of the soup, the second is the soup flower.

Soup color is the color of tea, pure white for the top. Greenish white, grayish white, yellowish white, and so on. The color is pure white, indicating that the tea is tender, steaming fire is just right; color green, indicating that the steam fire is not enough; color gray, is steaming fire is too old; color yellow, the harvest is not in time; color red, is baking fire is over the head.

Soup flower refers to the soup surface foam, to determine the merits of the soup flower there are two criteria: the first is the color of the soup flower, to fresh white for the top; the second is the soup flower after the emergence of water marks appear sooner or later. The first is the color of the flowers, fresh and white; the second is the appearance of water marks after the flowers, the early and late.

If the tea powder research and grinding fine, point soup, hit the whisk to the benefit of the soup, soup flower uniform fine, as if the "cold porridge noodles", you can bite the edge of the lamp, a long time to gather and do not stop. This is the best effect, known as the "bite". On the other hand, the soup flowers, can not bite the calabash, will quickly disperse. Once the flowers are dispersed, the place where the soup meets the calabash reveals "water marks".

Song Huizong in the "Daguan tea theory" on the tea process has a pithy description, he will punch point and stirring as a whole, the two at the same time, the amount of soup and stirring the strength of the subtle discussion, and will be divided into seven stages of the tea process that is "seven soup".

"Seven soup tea method" is the Song Huizong "Daguan tea theory" recorded in the Song tea method. This "seven soup" named: sparse star moonlight, pearl gui lei Lu, Su Wen crab eye, green clouds gradually rise, dredge the snow, milk point Bo Ran, thin and thick in. Based on this, the "Seven Soup Tea Dispensing" process experienced the elegance of the Song Dynasty tea dispensing, which was mainly reflected in the elegance of the soup, tea utensils and tea dispensing techniques.

"To the clear guide and" is the Song Huizong put forward the idea of the tea ceremony. Qing and and, in addition to the above content it also contains the spiritual connotation of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, such as Confucianism and modesty, Taoism, Taoism and nature, Buddhism, people can be experienced in the process of tea.

Another example is the instrumentation of the tea person, which requires the tea person to be simple, clean and neat; the selected tea utensils must be clean, and the prepared tea leaves are plants picked from the nature personally, with the flavor of nature, and so on. Secondly, the action and process of tea ordering requires that the tea orderer has the moral sentiments of respect and courtesy, introversion and calmness.

When ordering tea, through the natural and clean characteristics of the tea, a feeling of freshness and purity is achieved, so that the body and mind can be purified and a state of clarity and unity of heaven and man can be attained. Tea nature of the neutral and calm requirements of tea and tea drinkers should know how to enter and exit the degree of decency, demeanor, not arrogant, not impatient, can point to a good bowl of tea, in order to taste the flavor and taste.

Finally, the Buddhist pursuit of perfection, point of tea people only know the true meaning of point of tea, in order to point to a good bowl of tea, point of tea people can truly appreciate the beauty of the point of tea, the achievement of point of tea to "taste, rhyme, and the road to the" perfect realm.

Dot tea in the soup flower milky white, fresh white and other colors, changing flower shape, leisurely fragrance, the beauty of the soup flower vividly displayed in front of people. The beauty of the color of the tea mainly refers to the beauty of the soup flower, the requirement of milky white or fresh white color, pure white is the best. After pouring, a thick layer of white foam will rise on the surface of the tea. The foam is often called "soup flower". Song Dynasty writers often compared it to milk spots, clouds and snow.

For example, in Ding Pian's "Singing Tea," he recorded the sentence "Grinding the fine fragrant dust, cooking the new jade milk condensation," comparing the pure white soup flower to jade milk, clouds, and white snow. The water blends into the teapot and lights up the white soup flowers, which tumble in the teapot like snow-covered waves tumbling in winter. The white soup brought the Song Dynasty people the experience of beauty, as well as spiritual enjoyment in the process of tea ordering.

Ouyang Xiu's poem, "I try to cook it by drawing the well, but it is not the flavor of the world," describes the extraordinary taste of tea, bringing a taste experience that is different from life. The sensory experience of the fragrance often brings us the spiritual beauty of transcendence, away from the hustle and bustle, and peace and tranquility.

Song Dynasty tea ceremony has a unique aesthetic tea set, tea process, tea set is the main bubble, the most important. In China, the tea utensils to Fujian Jian'an Jian kiln black glaze marigolds for the best. The black glaze of the black marigold rabbit hair marigold is the most suitable for tea ordering.

Because of the pursuit of white color of the soup flower for tea ordering, the black tea set is convenient for observing the shape of the soup flower, which will form a strong contrasting effect of black and white. The texture of the rabbit's hair is also easy to make the tea drinker produce a clear visual effect of "biting the calabash". When the white flowers move in the black tealight, there is a feeling that the white flowers are steadily "biting" the tealight and moving slowly, forming a vivid and interesting dynamic scene.

Rabbit hair marigold color and heaviness also contains a simple and elegant atmosphere of life, black and calm, glaze warm and crystal, glaze and irregular and curved shapes under the glaze like the image of the mountains and rivers, the image of the rabbit hair marigolds and the integration of the marigolds, giving a kind of simplicity, calmness and elegance of the beauty of the people.

Seven soup point tea method, divided into seven water injection, each injection, have strict requirements, such as week back to a line, fixed-point water injection and hanging water line, etc., only strict point of injection, the soup flower to achieve the milky fog raging, overflow of the calabash and up and around the circle and immobile requirements, in order to point out the real good tea.

Seven soup tea point method from a soup began to brilliantly give birth to "sparse star bright moon" natural scenery, two soup whisked out of the "pearls and guillotines" gradually fall the shape of the tea soup, three soup "clouds and mist "The tea is then slowly risen, the fourth soup is knotted with "junmai" and "condensed snow", and finally "milky mist" appears in the calabash.

Song people in the point of tea, through the use of natural aesthetic way to dig point of tea aesthetic connotations and spiritual connotations, from the simple point of tea activities to perceive the beauty of nature's physical image, the beauty of art and natural beauty into one, the formation of a kind of beauty and natural interdependence of the state. The fun and interest of the whole process of tea ordering leaps out through the embodiment of nature and object images, so that one can quickly capture and feel the beauty of tea ordering just by reading the words.

The tea ordering of Song Dynasty is the crystallization of Song people's wisdom, and it has a strong value to promote the learning, inheritance and construction of tea aesthetics for people's modern tea art. We can combine the Song Dynasty tea ceremony methods, techniques and tea aesthetic direction to create a contemporary Chinese characteristics of the tea rituals, tea forms, but also to promote the development of modern Chinese tea culture, tea aesthetics, and then the formation of contemporary Chinese tea ceremony characteristics of the tea ceremony form.