Twelve Brewing Processes of Kung Fu Tea

The first one: burn incense and meditate, and cook the sweet spring alive.

Burning incense and calming the air is to create a peaceful, solemn and extremely warm atmosphere by lighting this incense. I hope this refreshing smell can make everyone relaxed and happy, and I hope your heart will sublimate to an elegant and magical realm with this long cigarette.

Su Dongpo, a great writer in the Song Dynasty, was a tea man who was proficient in tea ceremony. He summed up his experience in making tea and said, "Live water should be boiled with live fire." Boiling spring water alive means boiling the mountain spring water in the pot with a big fire.

The second way: gloating and rewarding guests with Ye Jia.

Proud as a peacock to show her beautiful feathers to her companions. With the help of smug procedures, we introduced the exquisite Kung Fu tea set used to make tea today. "Ye Jia" is Su Dongpo's laudatory name for tea. Ye Jia rewards guests by inviting them to appreciate the appearance and shape of oolong tea.

The third road: the big guest Mulin, the oolong enters the palace.

Da Bin was a master of pot-making in Ming Dynasty. The teapot he made was amazed by later tea people and regarded as a treasure, so later people called it Dabin teapot. Dabin Mulin scalded the teapot with boiling water, with the purpose of washing the pot and raising the temperature of the pot.

The fourth way: high mountains and flowing water, spring breeze blowing on your face.

Wuyi tea art pays attention to "high water, low tea." The mountain water is about to raise the kettle and rush into the teapot, so that the tea in the kettle will roll with the water waves and play the role of boiling water to make tea.

"Spring breeze stroke" is to gently scrape off the white foam on the surface of the tea soup with the lid of the pot, so that the tea soup in the pot is clearer and cleaner.

The fifth way: Oolong enters the sea and then washes the fairy face.

Drinking Wuyi rock tea pays attention to "the first bubble, the second tea, the third bubble, and the fourth bubble is fine." We usually don't take the first sip of tea soup, but pour it directly into the sea of tea. Because the tea soup is amber, it flows into the tea sea from the hukou, just like a dragon entering the sea, so it is called oolong entering the sea.

"Re-washing the immortal face" was originally a cliff stone carving on the banks of Wuyi Jiuqu River, which means Erchong here. The second washing should not only fill the teapot with boiling water, but also pour boiling water outside the teapot after capping, so that internal and external heating is conducive to the distribution of tea fragrance.

The sixth way: mother and son eat each other and then inject nectar.

It takes two pots to brew Wuyi rock tea. A teapot is specially used for making tea, and it is called "soaking pot" or "mother pot". Another teapot with the same volume is used to store the brewed tea soup, which is called "sea pot" or sub-pot. In modern times, some people use a "fair cup" instead of a sea pot to reserve tea. Injecting the tea brewed in the mother pot into the child pot is called "mother-child feeding". After the tea in the mother pot is poured clean, the pot is heated and boiled again, which is called "re-injecting nectar".

Pour the tea soup in the sea pot into the fragrant cup quickly and evenly in turn, which is called "auspicious dragon rain" and takes its auspicious meaning of "rain falling"

When there is not much tea soup left in the kettle, the quick tea pouring tour should be changed to point pouring. At this time, the tea girl's gesture is high and low, and she pours tea rhythmically, which is vividly called "Phoenix Nod", symbolizing the salute to the guests.

In the past, some people called this procedure "Guan Gong patrolling the city" and "Han Xin spotting soldiers". Because this explanation is full of swords and shadows, it is too murderous and violates the basic spirit of "harmony" in tea ceremony, so we abandon it.

Eighth road: when husband and wife get together, carp turn over.

After the fragrant cup is filled with tea, the sipping cup painted with dragon is covered on the fragrant cup painted with phoenix in turn, which is called harmony between husband and wife, and can also be called "auspicious dragon and phoenix". Turning the locked cup upside down is called "carp turning over".

According to ancient myths and legends in China, carp can turn over and leap over the dragon gate, turning dragons into heaven. Through this program, we wish all the guests present a harmonious family and a successful career.

The ninth way: holding a cup of tea with huge hands.

Holding tea means that the female tea lady holds the dragon and phoenix cup high to Mei Qi with both hands, then respectfully nods to the first guest on the right and hands him the tea. After receiving the tea, guests should not taste it first, but also respectfully nod their thanks to Miss Tea Ceremony, and pass the tea to the next guest in turn according to the posture of Miss Tea Ceremony until it reaches the guest sitting farthest from Miss Tea Ceremony .. and then pass the tea from the left in the same order. Holding a cup of tea and passing it around, the guests and hosts present can feel closer, feel closer and have a more harmonious atmosphere.

The tenth way: appreciate two colors and like to smell high fragrance.

To enjoy the double color is to ask the guests to hold the teacup with the dragon and phoenix pattern on it in their left hand and slowly raise the incense cup in their right hand. At this time, all the hot tea in the fragrant cup is poured into the tasting cup. As the temperature of the tasting cup increases, the oolong pattern made of heat-sensitive ceramics will change from black to color. At this time, we should also pay attention to whether the tea soup in the cup is bright and colorful amber.

Like to smell the high fragrance is the first smell of Wuyi three teas, that is, invite guests to smell the bottom fragrance of the cup. The first smell is the purity of tea to see if it is high, sharp and odorless.

Line 11: Three dragons protect the tripod and taste strange tea for the first time.

Sanlong tripod protection requires guests to hold the cup with thumb and forefinger, middle finger to hold the bottom of the cup, and hold the cup safely and gracefully. The three fingers are referred to as three dragons for short, and the teacup is like a tripod, so this posture of holding a cup is called three dragons to protect the tripod.

Twelfth Road: Have sex again and explore Lan Zhi.

Pour Liu Xia again, that is, pour tea for the guests for the second time.

Fan Zhongyan once wrote a poem in the Song Dynasty: "Fighting tea tastes light, and fighting tea tastes thin and fragrant." The fragrance of orchids is recognized by the world as the fragrance of kings. The second time I came to Lan Zhi, I invited guests to smell the fragrance for the second time, and carefully compared it to see if this quiet, elegant, sweet, distant and unpredictable tea fragrance was better than the simple orchid fragrance.