In modern life, sweet and delicious milk tea can be bought everywhere, and the variety of milk teas is dazzling. Milk tea as a derivative of tea, milk tea this tea drink is sought after by young people. In the Song Dynasty, about a thousand years ago, milk tea was also popular.
Milk tea is the Song Dynasty people's way of drinking tea, the Song Dynasty people poured mountain spring water in the tea bottle, placed on the stove, to be boiled slightly, that is, add tea mill grinding tea leaves to boil, at this moment can be seen on the tea soup floating a layer of milky white foam, milk tea hence the name.
Su Shiyun, "Living water must also be cooked alive, and the fishing stone should be taken from the deep clear... The snow milk has been fried on the feet, and the pine wind suddenly makes a sound of diarrhea. Su Shi was well aware of the importance of sencha using a living spring, and climbed to the riverbank to take the living spring water on the rock wall. When Su Shi lived in Lin'an, he once traveled to the Hupao Temple, "the tiger moves the spring to take advantage of the foot, the dragon makes the waves for the palm", this spring water is exactly in line with the clear, clean flowing water necessary for sencha, its impurities are few, the water source is clean, worthy of "the third spring in the world".
Hangzhou citizens fetch water from Hupao Spring in the early morning
Another patriotic poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, Lu You, who drank milk tea, even carried a tea making tool with him, as can be seen in his poem "Sencha after the Snow":
The snow liquid is clear and sweet, and it is cooked and fried with the tea stove.
If you don't care about anything, you won't live on earth for a hundred years.
After the cold silence after the snow, take firewood to make a fire, boil water to make tea, drink hot tea in the gap between his years of worrying about the country and the people, and willingly comfort himself for a moment.
Enjoy hot tea in the snow, which has a unique taste
I don't know whether tea can soothe people's hearts, or the optimism and exuberance of poetry are inspiring us, Chinese can always enjoy ourselves in hardship. Modern China can have such remarkable achievements, inseparable from the lovely people who work day and night for this purpose. In news reports, we often glimpse their insulated cups, and the secret of that connotation may be the Chinese tea culture that has been drunk endlessly for thousands of years.
The Song Dynasty's "Tokyo Dream Record" wrote, "The big food shop, the big one's so-called tea, there are head soup, chalcedony soup, white meat..." Lu You did not eat at the large net red snack bar, but lived in the apartment to share the tea. "Low paper slants idle grass, and the clear window fine milk plays tea." Last night, it rained in Lin'an City overnight, and when it was sunny today, he was idle at home to share tea and drink.
Another meaning of "tea sharing" is a technique of sencha in the tea culture of the Song Dynasty, which refers to boiling water and tea into a tea bottle, stirring milk foam with a teaspoon, and the ripples of tea soup change into many forms. This is the same as the modern coffee pulling flower. "In that year, I once won the reward, raw incense smoked sleeves, live fire to divide tea", the female lyricist Li Qingzhao also enjoyed the pleasure of cooking tea in her homeland.
In the Middle and Tang Dynasties, the wind of tea drinking spread from the court to the streets and alleys. The Tang people held a tea feast, "Takeshita forgot to say to the purple tea, Quansheng Yuke drunk Liuxia." The dust heart is washed away, and the sound of a tree cicada is oblique", Caizi Qianqi invited Zhao Ju to hold a tea banquet in the bamboo forest, where a crowd of people pursued to wash away the inner dust and pursue inner peace and purity.
Tea culture reached its peak in the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty followed the Tang rites, and the Northern Song calligrapher Mi Fu also held a tea feast. "Man Ting Fang Yong Cha" says, "... Make the King's High Will Be Wise... Open bottle test, a poinsettia... Light waves, fragrant jade milk, snow splash purple Ou circle....." The wise men gathered together to enjoy milk tea together, and the grandeur was momentary.
Hangzhou West Lake put on a tea feast for 10,000 people
The Son of Heaven of the Song Dynasty could have a drink with the Prime Minister. Zhou Bida, then the prime minister, was given tea by the emperor, "the envoy preached to sit down and give tea", "returned to the Yutang Qing sleepless", or the caffeine effect oozing from the tea leaves, or the reply to the emperor's countermeasures made the brain excited, and the prime minister went home and was still awake and sleepless. Being given tea by the Son of Heaven was undoubtedly a great honor in ancient times, but in the eyes of modern people, this is no harm in tea anecdotes.
From the court to the streets and alleys, the Song Dynasty had a variety of tea drinking places, no less than in modern times. The Jisheng of the Capital City records the economic prosperity of Lin'an City (present-day Downtown Hangzhou):
"The big tea house hangs celebrity calligraphy and paintings, and only hangs paintings in the beijing master's delicatessen, so it is also left to stay for a long time... Many of the tea houses have children of all people occupying this meeting, learning musical instruments, or singing and the like, which is called hanging up... Human tea house, this is not to take the tea soup as the positive, but on this grounds, more tea money also ... There is also a class dedicated to the use of work and selling tricks to gather in the old place, called the head of the market... Lifting a tea bottle is a person who takes advantage of the tea to fill the tea wine..."
In the old tea house in Pengzhen, Sichuan, tea people gathered to drink tea and talk freely
Tea houses, tea houses and other places to meet the needs of people of all walks of life such as tea drinking and socializing, learning, etc.; the prosperity of the day continues to the evening, the Song Dynasty allows the opening of ghost markets, night markets, tea houses also break the daytime business hours, sell tea at night, in the "Tokyo Dream Record" can be seen "tea house every five more lights" "Beishanzi Tea House, there are fairy caves, fairy bridges, ladies often travel at night to eat tea in the other" evidence, the female companions of the eunuch family accompany the night tour tea house, as if modern people gather in the tea room, café, fashion is really a circle. There are even mobile tea sellers at night, "to the three more parties there are bottles of tea sellers". It can really be said that everyone is in the twilight, drinking tea for fun.
The Song Dynasty people also moved the tea place to the boat, "the utensils in the boat, one by one, are prepared, but when they go out to board the boat and drink, the twilight will return, without labor, but the cost is money." Boating in the West Lake, boiling tea and appreciating lotus, it is not happy. Nowadays, the cruise ships and cruise ships on the rivers and seas are just following the old in the eyes of the Song Dynasty!
Zhu Xi of the Southern Song Dynasty served as an official in charge of tea salt, and there were also professionals who served tea and wine full-time, "Tea Wine Division". "Specially in charge of guest tea soup, swinging sieve wine, please sit at the table, open the cup to sit, unveil the table to welcome and send, should dry the festival", let us see the tea art service of the rich and noble.
"Cup" specifically refers to the porcelain milli-cup of tea drinking, the cooking utensils of the Song Dynasty, and the tea set mainly includes the milli-cup, tea mill, tea stove, teaspoon, tea bottle. Song Huizong's "Treatise on Daguan Tea" mentions that "the color of the cup is noble and green and black, and the jade strip is the highest, and it is also the color of the tea." "Milli-lamp is best for that. The black glazed rabbit milli-cup of the Song Dynasty, its inner shape like a rabbit millimeter is delicate and clear, and the shape is exquisite, which can be observed as the style of drinking tea in that year. The tea bottle is "the mouth of the soup is large and straight, and the soup is tight and not scattered." At the end of the round and sharp, the soup is knotted and not dripping", which has a profound impact on the shape of today's teapots.
Black glazed rabbit, Song
The Song Dynasty was also keen to develop new teas, not only vegetarian teas with floral flavors, but also herbal teas, tuan teas and other good teas. Ouyang Xiu in the "Guitian Collection" advocated Shuangjing tea as the first herbal tea, Huang Tingjian used this tea to give Su Shi, "Shuangjing Tea Send zi Zhan" can be seen in the depth of the friendship between the two, tea people mellow as tea.
The Song Dynasty was the first person to love tea, and Emperor Huizong of Song did not give in. He tasted the best tribute tea at that time, Longtuan Tea, Fengbi cake tea, Xiaolongtuan tea, and praised "Dragon Tuan Fengcake, famous in the world". He also pushed the study of tea to a new height, the most famous of which is the "tea point" tea art, and the development of tribute tea established the tea order method as the main way of drinking tea. The process of ordering tea, starting from its ointment, and even the complicated seven processes, brings us many sensory experiences of color, sound, fragrance, taste, touch and law, so that tea art moves towards a higher aesthetic realm.
Drinking tea and tasting tea has been integrated into all aspects of our lives today, tea is fragrant, toasting and laughing, the light and bitter, simple and timeless tea soup entrance, which is in line with the diligence, simplicity and optimism of Chinese, and good manners. After appreciating the style of the Song Dynasty people's "snow milk sencha", we returned to God, we rested for a moment in the busyness, brewed a pot of winter black tea, this tea soup carried, is no longer just refreshing and thirsty, but also an endless spiritual inheritance.