The boss is called Ao Qing, is the general manager of the "Zhengqinghe" tea factory in Chongqing Banan Stone Forest, this tea factory has thousands of acres of high-quality tea gardens, producing the famous tea "Bashan Silver Bud", which has been cultivated by the boss for many years.
"Bashan Silver Bud" does not seem to be famous, but in 1986, it won the national gold medal and entered the national version of the "Tea Classic", becoming a "Chinese contemporary famous tea". It's just that the output is too small, and outsiders don't know it.
Ao Qing began to go to the tea factory zhiqing at the age of 15 to join the team, first planted tea, and then ran business, selling tea all over the country, in 1982 began to take over the current tea factory, conscientiously did 36 years, he said "a lifetime just did one thing to make tea."
Ao Qing is different from others, since the beginning of making tea, has been using the most solid mentality to manage and operate the tea factory, he did not want to do more and more strong, but has always wanted to make the best tea, in the altitude of 600-900 meters on the mountain, is completely in a pollution-free environment to make organic tea, every tea plant here has his painstaking efforts and memories. Seeing the management level of his tea factory, people had to admire the boss for being shrewd and serious.
Although he has been the general manager of the tea factory for many years, the people and friends in the factory do not care whether he is called the manager or "Ao Zong", but are used to calling him "boss", which is the habitual title, but also the biggest honorific title, in the tea shop to be "boss", not everyone can take responsibility.
Life only does one thing, which is more obsessive and calm. The boss has spent 45 years making tea, and his focus comes entirely from his love of tea and personal interest. He is not only the manager of the tea factory, but an absolute tea connoisseur, and he is the boss in all aspects.
Every spring, the first leaf of tea is picked by him, and the first pot of tea is also fried by him, because this practice is the formation of the "Bashan Silver Bud" standard, with his understanding and interpretation of tea, it is his strict control of the quality of his tea products.
The boss is actually very low-key, he said that he is not the leader of the domestic tea field. But in his own tea factory and circle of friends is an absolute god man, many people learn tea with him, stir-fry tea and even be a man, the boss has won absolute respect.
The indifferent and persistent boss also has a number of titles, the most important of which is the national first-class tea appraiser, and there are only three people in Greater Chongqing who have this honor, and the boss is the only one who is directly engaged in the tea industry. He is also the absolute authority on tea evaluation and debate in China.
The tea sets he uses are all standard tea utensils distributed by the State Commodity Inspection Bureau, and this seemingly ordinary tea set is not only not seen or even heard of by many people, which is both an authority and a representative of identity.
The boss said that the tea should first look at the shape and color, then smell the aroma, look at the soup color, taste the taste, and finally examine the bottom of the leaf. When commenting on tea, the tea soup is not filtered to ensure that the tea soup contains impurities, and to feel the glycol of the tea with "head soup". Like the sommelier, the tea critic must have a keen sense of smell and taste, and find differences in the subtleties.
The boss reveled in his own world, and he said that he was happy all his life because he did the one thing he loved most: tea.
The boss is 60 years old this year, to the legal retirement age, but he said that he will not leave the field of tea, retirement will make him more relaxed and calm, he said that in fact, the biggest dream is to go through the mountains and rivers of the motherland to see tea, to find good tea, with his real professional vision to discover, because in the field of tea, we still have a lot of unknowns and waiting to be discovered. Isn't this to be the contemporary Lu Yu?