Why do you advocate kneading tea leaves with your feet instead of machines?

1. The first is hygiene and food safety. Rubbing tea with feet is of course a traditional tea-making process that has been passed down for thousands of years, but tradition does not mean that everything is good. For consumers, the overall quality, including hygiene standards, is the standard to judge the quality of tea. Therefore, we must pay attention to whether these finished tea products stamped with our feet meet the hygiene standards. This is a regulatory issue. As long as the tests meet current health and safety standards, we may want to keep this tradition going.

But how many consumers can accept this tradition has to be tested by the market. This depends on another criterion, that is, consumer preferences. In other words, even if these stamped teas are proved to be hygienic and safe, it is understandable if some consumers know the production process and refuse to buy them because they are uncomfortable. Nowadays, machine-made tea has largely replaced the technology of stepping on tea, and consumers can vote with their feet. Of course, the premise is transparent enough, and the ideal state is to clearly mark the process to help consumers make better judgments. If consumers buy stamped tea without knowing it in advance, it may be easier to rebound if they know it afterwards.

3. Generally speaking, as long as the safety and hygiene are up to standard, stamped tea is only one kind of tea products, and there is no need to reach an absolutely unified understanding. I feel that only the tea twisted with my feet is authentic, so it is better to protect the tradition with my own consumption; But I don't trust this technology. There are many tea leaves made by machines on the market. According to some data, the first wooden hand-pushed tea rolling machine in China was born in 1936, and has been developed iteratively since then, and now it has entered the era of intelligent mechanized processing. After nearly a hundred years of development, stepping on tea still exists, which shows that the so-called "modernity" and "tradition" can still coexist and develop.