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Those tea-related things
Tea
Before and after the valley rain, the timing was moderate
Zhou Huacheng/Wen
Published in the May 20, 2021 Issue of Literature
Gu Yu wants to drink tea this day. Green tea, of course. Drinking Guyu tea is said to have special effects, such as special clear mind, cool and detoxification, and so on. It should be a custom, to put it bluntly. Gu Yu, the fame of this festival is really thriving, the valley is born of rain, tender green and green, good to see tight.
Xu Cishu, a tea man in Qiantang in the Ming Dynasty, said in his book "Tea Shu" that the season for picking tea was "too early in the Qingming Dynasty, too late in the summer, before and after the valley rains, and the timing was moderate." Now everyone picks tea, we have to hurry early, gu rain is naturally late, even Qingming is too late, the best before the Ming, after the Qingming, tea is a price a day, and the roller coaster like a fall. When longjing tea was mined this year, I forgot, checked the newspaper, it is the twelfth day of March in the Gregorian calendar (the twenty-ninth day of the first lunar month), at this time the spring equinox has not yet arrived; on the eighteenth day of the first month, I interviewed in the countryside of Taishun, and I have seen that the tea garden is full of peasant women picking tea. However, Taishun belongs to southern Zhejiang, the temperature is higher than Qiantang, and it is understandable that the tea picking season is earlier.
■ Lu Yu's Tea Classic
All year round, that is, in the spring, the most suitable green tea is the most suitable, drinking the most green tea. In the bright spring light, under the wisteria flower stand, brew a cup of green tea, watch the new leaves stretch and float in the water, a mountain of new ideas, reflected in the cup. Take a sip of tea, full of incense, scary incense. "Scary incense" is another name for Biluochun. Biluochun, and only the Biluochun of Dongting Mountain outside Suzhou, is eligible to be called "Dongting Biluochun". In addition, the picking of Biluo spring tea begins around the spring equinox every year and ends around the valley rain, and the tea picked during this time is of the best quality, fine and tender. After the tea leaves on April 20, the locals are no longer called Biluochun, but called Fried Qing - not even a name.
The shape of the biluochun, curled into a snail, the color is turquoise, and its name can be thought of. In fact, green tea, after the appearance of the stir-fry, is more durable than other teas, so I think that "eye food" is an important part of drinking green tea. When it rains in the Jinshan Mountains of Jixi, Anhui Province, it looks like a silver hook, and the leaves are slender when it opens, like an orchid blooming in the water. BiLuochun bends into a ball, and the bubble opens up straight. In Longjing, Hangzhou, a leaf is pressed thinly, in fact, it is a piece of the look, with pekoe, after soaking the leaf tip down, upside down in the water. Wuniu is the tea of Yongjia in Zhejiang, growing in the Nanxi River, the local tea farmers also call it "Lingxia Tea", which looks similar to Longjing, which is also flat, but it is shorter, and after brewing, it is short and fat, the buds are full, it looks like a grain, and it can be restrained. Anji white tea, a leaf rounded and fine needle-like, a little inattentive, will feel similar to the withered bamboo leaves. Who let Angie have a big bamboo sea. Trail camellia is too famous, because there is a trail mountain temple, this tea color is emerald green, the strip is tight, it is also curled up, when brewing tea, you can first flush the water, and then throw the tea, and when the tea leaves are slowly unfolded in the water, the goddess scatters flowers, and slowly sinks. Kaihua dragon top is also what I like, friends will send me some every year, this green tea slender and round, tall and beautiful, clad in silver, spring shirt hidden green, after opening, the cup in a tight embrace, upright water, a moment of sinking, a moment of floating, back and forth several times, as if it is a floating water forest, quite impressive.
■ Button Cardinal Cypress Test Tea Shaft (Partial)
The taste of green tea, although slightly different, the aroma is also different, but it is generally fresh and pleasant. When you drink, it is as if a spring light spreads on your tongue. In jiangsu, Zhejiang, Gansu and Anhui, there are many green teas, often one place and one tea, with different names. For example, Huangshan Maofeng has a delicate and curly appearance, and there are hairs and peaks. There is a tea in Xiuning, which is often seen in tea books, called "Song Luo", but now it is gradually becoming less and less popular.
The name Songluo is good and most suitable for poetry. Zheng Banqiao has a poem, "No Wind and No Rain, No Rain, Positive Sunshine", which has a sentence "Favorite evening cool guest, a pot of new tea bubble pine lotus". Zheng Banqiao is a poem, painting and calligraphy, but his poem is not very clever: "No wind, no rain, no sunshine, green bamboo pavilion is good." Favorite late cool guests, a pot of new tea bubble pineapple. A few new leaves xiao xiao bamboo, a few strokes across the pale mountain. Just in the morning and rain, a cup of fragrant tea sat in the middle. In a poem, Cuizhu and Xiao Xiaozhu appear repeatedly, and no matter how much love bamboo is, it cannot be pushed so strongly. A pot of new tea bubble pine lotus, a cup of tea sitting in the middle, tea appeared twice, really tea intoxicating.
Tea drinkers often drink more and more exquisitely, either drink the latest and freshest tea, have to hurry up, drink that mouthful of fresh; or drink the oldest and oldest tea, pay attention to the old, drink that mouthful of mellow. Once, a tea friend shared with me a small jar of aged tea, made in the late 1970s, older than my age, this tea does not dare to drink easily - what kind of grand occasion, enough to match such an old tea? Add a little awe. The same is true for white tea, the popular saying is one year tea, three years of medicine, seven years of treasure, put seven years of old white tea, the price is high, which also leads to many people hoarding old tea.
In contrast, drinking green tea has no burden at all. Brewing is very simple, tasting is also simple - nothing more than a glass; nothing more than boiling water from eighty degrees to one hundred degrees; nothing more than pouring tea first and then flushing water, or flushing water first and then pouring tea, and then paying attention to a little, first with a small amount of boiling water and then slightly cooler water slightly awake tea, followed by boiling water brewing. Next, watch the tea leaves floating and sinking in the water, and when you drink, you feel a spring-like breath coming to your face, and you are very happy.
After the summer, green tea is not much drunk.
It's not that I'm done drinking, green tea can't be drunk every year - from spring onwards, all kinds of green teas want to taste, they all want to taste. Before you know it, spring is over. In the blink of an eye, summer was over—there was still a lot of green tea to drink. Green tea can not be stored for a long time, a year later, that is the old tea, can only be used to boil tea eggs - boiled tea eggs, people also say that black tea is the best. Then, when the next spring comes, when the wild tea plantations in the mountains are lively again, there are many new teas to drink; then, those teas that have not been drunk, the stories that have not been talked about, can only be left by it, in the time that has passed in a hurry.
Manuscript Editor: He Jing New Media Editor: Zhang Yingying
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