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Tea is a drink that embodies national nature and is closely related to life.
Song Huizong's "Treatise on Daguan Tea" said that tea "dilutes simplicity and rhymes high and quiet". Tea drinking is "the purity of the prosperous world", which shows the calm confidence of culture and represents the elegant height that can be achieved by an era.
As the ancestor of white tea, green snow buds seem to have never been treated by time, it was conceived from the ancient Taimu Mountain, walked through the Han and Tang Dynasties and the Two Song Dynasties, became famous in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and met the confidants who understood it. When indulging in the tea aroma of green snow buds, you may wonder, do I really understand it? How is Green Snow Bud Tea named? What kind of humanistic tradition has it accumulated and entered our lives through thousands of years?
The book "Green Snow Bud: A Cultural History of White Tea" can give you the answer, take you to deeply understand the past and present life of green snow bud, and understand the cultural story behind it.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="15" > Why "green" and "snow"? </h1>
A good tea name can well interpret the temperament of tea, just like a beauty, you need to have a good name.
The Ming Dynasty scholar Xiong Mingyu is the most likely to name the green snow bud tea, he believes: in order to seek elegance, the world's name is inseparable from the wind, moon, day, smoke, clouds, rain, and these words are the general scenery of nature, plain, and only snow can cover the above natural scenery. The wind is but the sound of snow; the moon is but the color of snow; the sun is but the light and shadow of snow; smoke is but the scene of snow; clouds, but the meaning of snow; rain is the texture of snow. All of the above are associated with snow, so the use of snow to name it is unique.
As for the word "green", it is because he prefers green bamboo. When the bamboo wind is windy, it shows rhyme and is full of wind; when it is fresh and loose, the color is pleasant; when it is the moon, it has a beautiful posture and a diagonal shadow; when it is smoke, it is like a condensed blue, and the pulse is sentient; the clouds are deep and interesting; and the rain is tough and extraordinary.
In other words, everything in the world can be found in the words "green" and "snow".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="99" > Tibetan snow cooking tea is a thousand-year-old literati custom</h1>
After the Tang and Song dynasties, cooking tea with snow was an elegant thing. In pursuit of elegance, the scribes of the Song Dynasty began to raise the activity of hiding snow so that they could be used at four o'clock.
Hiding snow is a popular way of life among scholars, and the various elegant things that happen between people and snow at that time are: watching snow, boiling snow, leaving snow, residual snow, hiding snow, attracting snow, smelling snow, drinking snow, beating snow, mocking snow, hanging snow, and making snow. The tibetan snow fashion has also spawned a yashi culture of cooking tea with snow.
(Photo: Zeng Ruifeng)
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Caizi Maoxiang was very fond of cooking new tea with snow, so he also wrote a poem to record his hiding of snow:
Hide the snow
The Urn is flawless,
Store good snowflakes in the winter.
Leave it for next year's three volt months,
Matsukaze pu fan try new tea.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="100" > historical and cultural details that are seen in small ways</h1>
Tea, the darling of Oriental humanism, condenses the beauty and spirituality of nature in this area. A tea often embodies the quality of culture and life, as well as the understanding of the world's taoist hearts, and is the embodiment of the inseparable social and cultural system of human beings.
Tea drinking, like reading, flowering, gardening, etc., implies a sense of identity. One possibility of the rise of green snow bud tea at the turn of the Ming and Qing dynasties was that after the fall of the dynasty, these Han scholars, who no longer believed in the reality of utopia, chose the mysterious aesthetics of ethereal, world-avoiding, and focused on personal narratives and natural theories.
They tried to immerse themselves in tea art and shape the culture of tea to maintain a way of life familiar to Han Chinese doctors in the past, find a balance in the complex Manchu-Han relationship, and show their enthusiasm for culture in sipping and drinking slowly. For them, to love a famous tea is to protect a cultural tradition.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="101" > ancient literati's socha and Xiecha poems</h1>
The ancient Chinese literati's poems of Suo Cha and Xie Cha added a touch of scenery to the history of literature.
Shi Yanzhang, a politician and writer in the early Qing Dynasty, loved to make tea in the mountains, and his skills were superb, and the tea was famous. Another scholar, Gu Jingxing, was so envious of this that he once wrote a poem to Shi Yanzhang:
Beg for green snow tea to Yushan
Thistle North Spring is deep into Gong Bud,
Yesterday I was blessed with the gift of sipping heavenly home.
Qingming Gate covers the dusk rain,
Consume Ningzhou green snow tea.
After receiving a gift of green snow tea from Shi, the scholar Pan Qian wrote a long poem expressing his gratitude:
Shi Yushan read Hui Jingting Green Snow Tea thanksgiving
Yashan Yangpi tea, the old name of the product.
How to pick rare, rare bushes closed cliffs.
Beiyuan and Dongshan, each of which is loaded.
Rotten style is humble, not enough to make a difference.
Wanling has a tea star, and Ou Cai did not let much.
Pavilion show eaves end, pre-spring every staff.
The turtle hand picks the silver wire, and the flag gun is aliased.
The heat is like returning dan, steaming and roasting carefully.
Fei Fei Lan Fen blows, mist jade color.
The same name as cactus tin, made than Cloud Dragon Creation.
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All in all, "Green Snow Buds: A Cultural Chronicle of White Tea" this "cultural chronicle" not only contains tea people and tea affairs about green snow buds, but also related to myths and legends, historical treasures and other aspects, involving history, politics, culture, art and other fields. From this, we can read the green snow buds and marvel at the exuberant vitality of tea and tea culture in Chinese history.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="102" > well-known designers</h1>
Liu Yunlai, the designer of the book "Green Snow Buds: A Cultural Chronicle of White Tea", has won the "China's Most Beautiful Book" design award five times, and more than 20 books have won national awards.
High-value bare-ridge hardcover, 100% unfolded, excellent reading experience. The inner text is made of Oriental writing paper, which is smooth and delicate, which can better balance the various types of illustrations in the book and restore the original picture color.
The protective seal is made of special paper, special texture, rich texture.
The book is interspersed with nearly 100 exquisite illustrations, including old photographs, celebrity handwriting, painting art, historical sites, photographic works, etc., presenting us with a rich and attractive visual feast.
Note: Feng Tianfang, editor of Henan Literature and Art Publishing Biography Publishing Center, responsible editor of "Green Snow Buds: A Cultural Chronicle of White Tea".
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