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Since ancient times, the elderly's longevity has been called elegant. People wish birthdays for long-lived old people. There are Xi, Mi, Bai, and Cha Shouzhi sayings: Xi Shou refers to 77 years old, and the cursive character Xi looks like seventy-seven; Mi Shou refers to 88 years old, because the character Mi looks like eighty-eight; Bai Shou refers to 99 years old, and one hundred characters less than one horizontal is white; Cha Shou refers to 108 years old, and the grass head of the tea character represents twenty. The eight and cross below represent eighty, and a skimming is another eight. That adds up to 108 years old.
Speaking of Chashou. Not only can it be interpreted literally, it also has an inextricable origin with Chinese tea culture.
According to legend, in ancient times, an old monk was ill and could not be cured for a long time. One day. An old man told him that there was tea on the top of Mengshan Mountain, and that thunder broke out around the spring equinox. You wait on the sidelines and pick in time for three days. Get one or two. Frying clothes with Mengshan water can cure any old illness; Two or two, a lifetime to eliminate disasters and diseases; Three or two, reborn; Four taels, become immortals on the spot. The old monk obeyed the instructions. Get more than two teas, take the decoction, and drink half of each time. The disease is cured, the eyebrows turn from white to black, and even acquaintances meet. I dare not recognize each other.
The above records of Wang Wenxi's "Tea Recipes" of the fifth generation say that tea is "the medicine of ten thousand diseases", which has the effect of rejuvenating the old and rejuvenating, which is inevitably mysterious. However, it is a consensus that tea can cure diseases. Emperor Wen of Sui suffered from a headache, which was ineffective. Listening to the monk's advice to drink tea and heal, it was rumored all over the world that people were competing to fry clothes. Drinking tea has a long life, and the official history is also recorded. The Old Book of Tang Xuanzong records that a monk over 130 years old came to Luoyang, and Emperor Xuanzong asked him: "What medicine can you take so long?" The monk replied, "Poor monks don't know medicine, but they just drink fragrant tea." Everywhere only tea is sought. "The secret to longevity is to drink tea.
Modern science has proved that tea is rich in nutrition, and drinking tea can meet the body's needs for a variety of vitamins and trace elements. Tea can cure diseases because tea contains caffeine, catechins, vitamins, trace elements, amino acids and other substances that are closely related to human health. Japanese scientists discovered. The anti-aging effect of tea is about 20 times that of vitamin E. A Japanese cardiologist said: "The proportion of atherosclerosis and heart disease in China is lower than in the West, except for genetic factors, lifestyle, and diet." At the same time, it is related to Chinese love to drink green tea. ”
The term "tea life" is very popular in many tea towns in the mainland, and under closer examination, perhaps the tea village people can better understand the relationship between "tea" and "longevity" in the process of long-term companionship with tea:
▶ The history of tea has a long history of thousands of years, and the "Tea Classic" written by Lu Yu, the tea saint of the Tang Dynasty in the mainland. It is the first special work on tea in the mainland, which discusses the properties, quality, origin, cooking methods and utensils of tea, systematically reflects the world's earliest discovery of the function of tea and develops drinking, and clarifies the glorious tea culture of ancient China.
▶ Tea plants have a long lifespan Without the direct impact of environmental changes such as human damage and soil erosion, tea plants have not yet been found to die of old age. Some tea tree trunks have died. But after sawing off the orange branches, new branches and leaves will soon grow at the head of the tree. The growth period of tea plants is indeed much longer than that of humans.
Phoenix Mountain in Chaozhou City is the highest mountain in eastern Guangdong, often cloudy and foggy, and nearly 3,000 ancient tea trees of the Song Dynasty survive here. There is also no exact record of growth. At present, the growth is still strong. The quality of these ancient tea leaves has maintained the status of national excellent tea for more than 20 consecutive years and is famous. Therefore. Tea farmers once gave poems: Song Ancient Tea is young. Xiangpiao Wuzhou earned US dollars, participated in the evaluation and won many awards for good performance, and was well-known for broadcasting true love.
▶ Drinking tea makes people healthy Natural, nutritious, health care and disease treatment are the biggest characteristics of tea as a contemporary green and healthy food and beverage, and have become a health drink that prolongs life and prevents and treats diseases. With the development of society and the advancement of science, the application range of tea will be expanded day by day. The nutritional content and pharmacological functions of tea determine its practical value for both edible and medicinal effects, therefore. The demand for tea will also increase rapidly!
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