Ming Wen Zhengming", "Tea Tasting Diagram"
Chinese drink tea for thousands of years. In the long river of Yang yang years, the way of drinking tea has undergone many transmutations, the most classic is that the Tang boiled Song ming and qing bubbles, but you may not know, sometimes the ancients drink tea, it is not so serious, especially the literati who love to play tea, the tea is drunk into "tide play". Next, let's see how fashionable the ancients drank tea!
The ancients drank tea, and it was so tide!
1 water delivery: for drinking tea, thousands of miles "express" to send water
Lieutenant Li ... In the Zhongshu, do not drink the water of the capital, use the Huishan Spring, and sometimes have the number of water delivery.
- Tang Ding's Obscure Shibata Lu Li Deyu
This Li Taiwei is Li Deyu, a famous politician and writer of the Tang Dynasty.
His grandfather Li Qijun, who was the assassin of Changzhou, had contacts with our "tea saint" Lu Yu, and at Lu Yu's suggestion, he paid tribute to the emperor with Yixing Yang envy tea, and since then Yang envy tea has become a tribute tea.
Li Deyu (787-850)
Li Deyu roughly inherited his grandfather's good tea "gene", and is definitely called a "ashes-level" tea drinker, and the requirements for drinking tea are almost harsh. He couldn't look at the water of Chang'an City at all, and he must use the Huishan Spring in Wuxi, Jiangnan, thousands of miles away.
In order to satisfy their taste buds, they do not hesitate to ask people to express Huishan Spring to the capital, but the courier brother is tired! You know, this is the Tang Dynasty more than 1,000 years ago, absolutely no same day to reach the next day, all rely on fast horses and whips! Labor hurts the people and money!
Compared with Yang Guifei, who "rode a red dust concubine laughing", this move was really more than enough!
Therefore, the late Tang Dynasty poet Pi Rixiu wrote a poem and complained: When the minister of the tang was thinking of cooking tea, the county marquis urged only worry about the delay. Wu Guan went to the country for three thousand miles, and Mo laughed at Yang Fei's love for lychees.
2 Tea Mixing: Song Cai is the pioneer of tea mixing
The tea has a real fragrance. And the tribute is slightly with the dragon's brain and ointment, to help its incense. Jian'an folk do not enter the incense, afraid to take away its truth. If you cook it, and mix it with rare fruits and herbs, it is very beneficial and should not be used.
——Song Cai Xiang, "Tea Records and On Tea"
In the United Kingdom, where afternoon tea culture is prevalent, add sugar and milk to drink tea, or add coffee and brandy to drink.
In addition, in modern urban life, young people also like to add flowers, fruits, etc. to drink tea, making tea soup more flavorful and fashionable.
In fact, this kind of drinking method, we Song Dynasty people have long played. Moreover, people who really love tea are very disdainful of this way of drinking. Therefore, Cai Xiang said: "If you cook it, and mix rare fruits and herbs, its benefits are even greater, and it is not used." ”
Cai Xiang (1012-1067) and the Tea Book
3 Tea Hundred Plays: Order tea like coffee pulling flowers
Under the soup luck dagger, do not use a magic trick, so that the soup pattern water vein into an object, the genus of animals, animals, insects, fish, flowers and grasses, delicate and picturesque, but the whiskers will be scattered. The change of this tea is also called tea drama.
- Song Taoyu, "Qing Yilu"
People who like to drink coffee know that coffee pulls flowers.
Baristas, with their skillful skills, pull out a variety of exquisite patterns on the coffee surface, such as hearts, flowers and leaves, etc., and are deeply loved by young people.
However, you know what?
This kind of "pulling flowers" technology was as early as the Song Dynasty more than 1,000 years ago, and the technical content is much higher than that of coffee pulling flowers!
Ordering tea was a popular way of drinking tea in the Song Dynasty, and tea play was a "tide play" derived from tea ordering. Tea ordering masters can not only "pull" flowers on the soup noodles of tea soup, but also chant poems and paint, perfectly combining the art of tea drinking with calligraphy, painting, literature and art.
Painting in tea soup is more than coffee pulling flowers and cows!
According to Tao Yu's records, there was a monk named Fuquan in the Song Dynasty, who grew up in the tea village and had the skill of injecting soup and magic tea. He ordered tea in four tea urns, and each tea urn had a poem on it, forming a unique sentence: Generate water danqing in the cup, and skillfully draw kung fu to learn. But laughed at the time When Lu Hong gradually, Sencha won a good reputation.
Good refreshments, good poems, 666!
4 Qingquan Baishi Tea: Ni Yunlin's "Bubble Tea"
Ni Yuanzhen is a good drinking tea, in the Huishan Mountains, with walnuts, pine nuts and real powder into small pieces like stones, placed in the tea to drink, known as Qingquan Baishi.
--Ming Gu Yuanqing, "The Relics of Yunlin"
The bubble tea that first became popular from Taiwan on the treasure island can be described as a countless powder absorption among young consumers.
Q-bomb tapioca flour round, rich tea aroma, milk, fruit, delicious and delicious.
Bubble tea
Trace back to the roots, recognize the ancestors and return to the ancestors.
The initiator of "bubble tea" should be the famous painter Ni Zhan of the Yuan Dynasty.
Ni Zhan (1301-1374)
He knows how to drink tea. There was once a descendant of the Royal Family of the Song Dynasty named Zhao Xingshu, who admired his name and was introduced by a friend to visit his house. When Ni Zhan saw the guest, he let the boy serve tea. Who knows that this wang grandson is a straw bag, think that the tea is good, so he takes a big sip of beef and drinks, and the scenery is greatly troubled. He was suddenly displeased, and said bluntly: "Because you are a prince and a grandson, I came from afar, so I took out good tea to entertain, who knows that you don't know anything about tea, it is really a common thing!" From then on, he broke off his friendship with Zhao Xingshu!
Ni Zhan's "Anfu Zaitu"
Because others don't know how to drink tea and cut off friendship with people, this matter can be done except for Ni Zhan, I'm afraid there is no SEI.
It is also his spiritual "cleanliness" that will creatively create a fresh and unworldly ancient version of "bubble tea" - Qingquan White Stone Tea.
He mixed walnuts, pine nuts and powder into small pieces to make a rockery shape, and then placed them in the tea water brewed with Huishan Spring. This is to see the clarity of the spring water, appreciate the white of the rockery, taste the fragrance of tea soup, integrate the trinity of artistry, ornamentation and practicality, enjoy the pure heart and elegant fun, the name is called: "Qingquan White Stone Tea".
5 Travel Tea Box: More than 200 years before the LV equivalent
Yu Yue: "The wine and vegetables are solid, and the tea is lacking cooking utensils." Yun Yue: "Take a sand can, string the handle of the can with an iron fork, go to its pot, hang it in the stove, add wood to sencha, and don't you care?" Yu applauded.
——Qing Shenfu, "Six Memories of Floating Life, Leisure and Fun"
In 2018, the internationally renowned luxury brand LV cooperated with Chinese modern design master Chen Youjian to customize the "Tea Tour" tea ceremony hard box.
After the luxury version of the tea box was launched, some media commented: "A pair of tea boxes with a strong traditional Chinese tea tasting charm was born, and the quaint tones and garden-like elegance made LV's new series of tea boxes highly praised." ”
Indeed, it has a very Chinese taste, and it has a taste of money!
However, in the Qing Dynasty more than 200 years ago, a beautiful, kind and intelligent woman had already designed a "luxury version" of the travel tea box.
Her name is Chen Yunniang.
Shen Fu's "Six Records of Floating Life" Volume II "Leisure Memories" has the plot of Shen Fu and his friends drinking tea and drinking in the spring, which portrays the cute image of Yunniang, the "life artist", full and full.
Beautiful, kind and intelligent Lady Yun
The spring sun is graceful, in the south and north gardens of Sioux City, the waves of butterflies swim bees, chase and play among the flowers, and flow everywhere. Sanbai and the friends are afraid of spending this school of spring color, want to cook tea picnic in the beautiful sun and the wind, but the beautiful scenery and fragrant tea, wine and delicacies such as fish and bear paws can not be combined, or find drinks nearby, or watch the flowers to drink, are not satisfactory. Fortunately, the empathetic Yunniang, her ingenuity and creativity undoubtedly make the spring tour "vivid and fragrant" and elegant. She went to the market and hired a master who sold wontons, pots and pans, casseroles, cups and bowls. Therefore, the next day, everyone met in the afternoon, went to the South Garden, chose Liuyin, and sat in a group of cloth recommendations, cooking tea first, and then cooking warm wine.
Yunniang's ingenious luck makes the very urban and even vulgar ravioli pick complete the elegant thing of tasting tea and appreciating flowers
In the sea of bright golden flowers loomed green shirts and red sleeves, they put this intoxicating spring light into fragrant tea and wine, sitting and singing, eating large pieces, and enjoying themselves. Until the red sun is about to fall, I will return with pleasure.
Is it swollen?
The ancients drank tea cool enough!
In fact, the popular way of "playing" tea in our contemporary times can find prototypes in ancient times. For example, the tea fighting competition and tea king competition that are popular everywhere today are tea industry competitions that have continued from the five generations and two Song Dynasties to the present. In addition, there are iced tea, tea meals, refreshments, etc., all of which evolved from ancient times.
Source: Tea Ceremony Media