Since Lu Yu learned from Shennong to taste hundreds of herbs, drink thousands of water, travel thousands of miles, and write the immortal "Tea Classic", the world's tea drinking atmosphere has opened up, how many literati and scholars have praised tea poetry, and how many red dust people are obsessed with tea.
People can't help but ask: What is tea, and teach people to promise each other for a lifetime?
A good tea brew, not only to have a tight and oily appearance, oil bright and clear soup color, delicate and long fragrance, floral fragrance, fruity fragrance and agarwood, but also to have a delicate and mellow taste.
"Sip bitterness and sweetness, tea also."
This is the earliest definition of tea by Tea Saint Lu Yu.
The moment the tea is injected with hot water, it begins its new life.
People are happy to appreciate the fullness and stretching of the tea leaves after gradually absorbing water, as well as the natural and transparent nature that slowly precipitates.
And of course, the most important thing is to be keen to taste the taste of tea.
Song Huizong's "Treatise on Daguan Tea" said: "Fu tea, with taste first, sweet and slippery, is the taste of the whole." ”
A good tea soup is a mixture of five flavors, which are bitter, sour, salty, spicy and sweet:
1, the bitterness of tea soup:
Mainly determined by the content of caffeine and tea polyphenols, with the bitter taste of tea soup as a prelude, the combination of tea polyphenols and protein, slight bitter diffusion, sweet is coming;
2, the acid of tea soup:
It is determined by organic acids and some amino acids, and the fresh and pleasant acid in the tea soup is different from the over-fermented sour taste, which is often only found in the ecologically excellent wild tea;
3, the saltiness of tea soup:
It is the taste of inorganic salt, because the content is too small, it will generally be covered by the bitter taste of tea, so that the salty taste is difficult to taste.
4, the spice of the tea soup
Occasionally encountered in special tea varieties, by chance, but it is absolutely refreshing.
5, the sweetness of tea soup:
Soluble ponds and amino acids, which are sources of sweetness;
A perfect and rich tea soup, bitter or astringent, sour or salty, does not particularly show one of the tastes, is harmonious in taste, and makes people happy and comfortable.
There are too many things that affect the taste of tea: the raw materials of the tea itself, the production process of the tea, the storage time and storage method of the tea, the water used to brew the tea, and so on... The taste of tea is lost in a millisecond, a thousand miles away.
The taste of tea can only be known after tasting.
Just like the road of life, you can only know it if you walk through it.
"The tea urn is not deep, and the breeze is worth a thousand gold."
Dongpo after a cup of tea, sleeping soundly on the bed is known enough, why ask the mirror flower water moon again?
From the poem we can read:
Tea can maintain health and can also cultivate the mind. Fame and fortune, troubles disturb the heart, are not as good as the taste of a cup of tea in the throat.
In a cup of tea, there is your state of mind.
The final taste of tea is added by the tea drinker and is the tea drinker's own creation.
The charm of tea is in its taste, in its rhyme, in its brewing, in its city, and also in its artistry.
Twenty-four famous tea ceremony items:
Character, tea, water, fire, tea utensils and tea room products, each product is subdivided into four products, a total of 24 products. (1) Character: clear, elegant, simple, light; (2) tea: clear, fragrant, sweet, light; (3) water products: clear, alive, sweet, and xian; (4) fire products: bright, alive, clean, dry; (5) tea utensils: quality, simplicity, elegance, vegetarian; (6) tea room products: simple, ancient, tong, you.
The twenty-four tea ceremony are the requirements of tea drinkers for tea, and they are also the requirements of tea for tea drinkers.
A good cup of tea, quenching thirst, clearing the mind, calming the mind.