How different is ancient tea drinking from modern times?

Since ancient times, tea seems to have become the most common culture between literati and Bole friends. Since the inheritance of tea culture, modern people have been changing tea-drinking cultural customs different from their predecessors and ancestors. I believe many people have seen many scenes of drinking tea in many costume TV dramas, but how different are these tea drinking methods evolved by modern people in ancient times from the pure tea drinking methods in ancient times?

In fact, there is no essential difference between ancient people drinking tea on TV and modern people drinking tea. Wash the tea with boiling water, put it in a tea bowl and eat it directly. In fact, before the Ming Dynasty, there were various ways to drink ancient tea. Making tea, ordering tea, making tea, etc. is dazzling and the steps are quite complicated.

The main way of drinking tea in Song Dynasty is to order tea, and the main steps are moxibustion, rolling, waiting for soup, holding cups and ordering tea. So in addition to the regular tea set, we also need a set of tea set similar to garlic, a small tea roller, a tea sieve and a tea basket.

First, bake tea.

Mash the tea leaves first, put them in a mashing pot, and then bake them until they smell like tea. Never burn them.

Second, grind Luo.

Put the roasted tea leaves into a millstone and grind them into powder. Screening again, using a small dustpan with a filter screen. Roll out the fine tea powder. This step is called grinding.

Third, wait for the soup

Put the fine tea powder into a teacup, and quickly mix the tea powder and water into a paste with water.

Fourth, the lamp

As the name implies, it is to take a lamp and bake it on carbon, and then divide the tea cream from the previous step into the lamp.

Fifth, order tea.

While dipping the water with a fine brush, paint tea cream on the lamp. This is some tea.

One * * * these five steps, the ancients did not pay much attention to color and taste when drinking tea, and may prefer this process. After ordering tea and pouring hot water, it is a good bowl of tea. Mid-levels room waiting for the bright moon, a lamp of green tea rewards friends. Friends come from afar, tea respect ~