As a country of etiquette, China has always paid attention to guests to toast tea and meet friends with tea. On the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2023, the famous actors Huang Xiaoming and Wang Jinsong in the entertainment industry, Feng Lun, founder of Vantone Group and chairman of Yufeng Group, business leader Vantone Group, and Wang Wenli, national intangible heritage inheritor and chairman of Ba Ma Tea Industry, four guests gathered together for a unique tea party, sharing an in-depth dialogue between themselves and tea, confidants, heaven and earth, culture and self, and sharing their life experiences and tea tasting insights.
Huang Xiaoming: Tea is like life, but bitterness is sweet
"The benefits of drinking tea are well known, I was brought by Mr. Jinsong to love tea, and he was the guide who made me really fall in love with tea tasting. He knows tea very well and knows me well. Huang Xiaoming mentioned in the tea narration that he brought his master Wang Jinsong to love tea tasting. Where there is tea, there are friends, it can be described as "tea confidant", tea is the medium to communicate all things in the world, but also the way to talk about things, geographical location is different, tea aroma is different, tea aroma is a taste that can restore the natural ecology, which is also the fun of tea tasting.
"In my tea drinking experience, the favorite is Pu'er, followed by white tea. Life is like tea, hiding a hundred flavors. This is my perception in many scenes, so I also took the initiative to design a tea drinking and brewing link in many film and television works, and I can calm down and think about many problems while enjoying tea. As Huang Xiaoming said, in fact, a person's life is the life of tea. In the process of growth, tea plants have experienced the baptism of wind and sun; In the process of growing up, life has experienced bittersweet and bitter trials. From simple to mature, from irritable to elegant and idyllic, from shallow to steady and calm, in the time when the tea leaves are stretched little by little, the bitterness returns to sweetness, and people's hearts gradually sink.
Wang Jinsong: Tea tasting is very similar to tasting Dunhuang culture, as if meeting a wordless messenger to a thousand-year covenant
As Huang Xiaoming said, Wang Jinsong loves the aroma of tea very much. There are many celebrities who like to drink tea, and only Wang Jinsong said that he wanted to thank tea. He is a national first-class actor and a veteran tea fan, he will carry various varieties of tea with him and prepare a pot of brewing anytime, anywhere. He is very particular about drinking tea, and will choose different types of tea according to different times and seasons. All thanks to tea, because tea is the best ritual of life, it is a blessing to be able to taste the four seasons in a cup of tea and feel the tension and warmth of life.
At this tea party, Wang Jinsong pointed out that the tea ceremony has a saying that "one quickly destroys everything", and if you want to make good tea, you must first sink your temperament. In fact, the process of brewing tea is the process of dialogue with tea, you have to understand the brewing method of tea, what utensils and water temperature are most appropriate, when you give tea enough ritual and patience, it will naturally achieve the best taste you require. In each tea making step, slowly understand the relationship between utensils and tea, tea and water, tea and people, although tea is silent, in fact, it understands you very well.
"I have been to Dunhuang many times, and unlike other tourists who travel and take pictures, I like to stand in front of different grottoes and murals, quietly savor art and culture, as if I have traveled through time and space to start a thousand-year dialogue." Because I saw the Mogao Grottoes, I fell into the world of cave art, where thousands of years of quiet time flowed between the pleated skirts of Dunhuang colored sculptures, and the light smile with bowed eyebrows was unique relief and detachment. As the years go by, the color will slowly fade and the mud layer will gradually peel off, but the wisdom and spirit contained in it will not be far away, and it will be reborn in the present day. The shock this brought to my heart is indescribable.
Feng Lun: Re-walking the Silk Road and meeting the Dunhuang Museum, I know that "Ming" is not worth the legend
Different from the appreciation perspective of teacher Wang Jinsong, Mr. Feng Lun once walked the Silk Road again and felt the unique charm of Dunhuang, where the four civilizations converged, which carries Mr. Feng Lun's unforgettable memories. "When I set off from Xi'an, passing through Xinjiang, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, and finally to India, the experience of re-walking the Dunhuang Road made me feel that the historical memory of the thousand-year-old culture is very shocking, the Silk Road once exported Chinese silk, tea and porcelain and other products to countries along the way, which is an important witness of the ancient East-West exchange." When talking about the ancient tea horse road, Mr. Feng Lun mentioned that tea is one of the most characteristic cultural symbols in China, and it is also the cultural connotation and spirit that has passed through thousands of years, and the gradual development of Chinese commerce has brought more cultural confidence.
At this tea party, the four guests tasted the characteristics of different tea soups. With the gradual improvement of the degree of tea fermentation, its appearance changes from green to yellow-green, yellow, green-brown, black, so it can be divided into green tea, white tea, yellow tea, green tea, black tea, black tea. As a social element in business activities, tea also has a unique charm to connect people. The current "Belt and Road" national strategy and the formation of the "dual circulation" pattern have positive practical significance for promoting domestic and global economic recovery, and also inject new vitality into the development of cultural tourism in the new era, inherit and carry forward the thousand-year-old tea culture on the ancient Silk Road, and carry forward the elegant life aesthetics with oriental charm.
As the chairman of Ba Ma Tea Industry, Mr. Wang Wenli is the thirteenth generation of Wang Shijang, the discoverer of Tie Guanyin, and also the representative inheritor of oolong tea making skills of the national intangible cultural heritage project, and the establishment of Ba Ma Tea Industry is not only the inheritance of the family's nearly 300 years of tea-making skills, but also the inheritance of tea culture. Under the leadership of Chairman Wang Wenli, Ba Ma Tea Industry will continue to adhere to the original intention of a century-old tea family, devote itself to the popularization and promotion of China's intangible cultural heritage tea culture, spread Chinese good tea to all over the world, and let more people appreciate the charm of tea culture.
At the end of the Sixiang Tea Talk, Wang Wenli, Chairman of Ba Ma Tea Industry, announced the official launch of the joint gift box and Mid-Autumn Festival products between Ba Ma Tea Industry and Dunhuang Museum, and the opening of the new Wuyishan Hall of Ba Ma Tea Industry will provide tea lovers with a new paradigm of China's tea industry exhibition hall, in order to pay tribute to the historical value of Chinese tea culture and Dunhuang Silk Road, where consumers will feel the unique charm of Ba Ma Tea and the far-reaching influence of tea culture.