Jietan Tea - Revival, reproducing the glycol of the heyday
Latitude 28 ゚, a mysterious latitude. On this mysterious latitude, a treasured gift from the sunshine sweet spring, after more than ten centuries of secrecy, finally re-emerged from the joy that spanned thousands of years, which was once the grand Tang Dynasty national drink - Yuanling Jietan tea.
At that time, Jietan tea went west through the Shaanxi-Gansu Tea Horse Ancient Road and the Shaanxi Kangzang Tea Horse Ancient Road, as a luxurious high-profit trading commodity, spanning Sichuan, Yunnan, Qingqing, Tibet, extending outward to South Asia, West Asia, Central Asia and Southeast Asia, as far as Europe. The other way, as a cultural export, reached the Korean Peninsula during the unification of Silla and Japan during the Daehwa Revolution. Drinking Jietan tea has thus become a high-standard cultural symbol and status symbol in East Asia. After the Tang Anshi Rebellion, with the decline of the atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty, the Chinese civilization fell to the extreme, and as an outstanding representative of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Chenzhou Jietan Tea also went to the wind and rain of the late autumn and qing of the courtyard. In 1972, when Sino-Japanese relations broke the ice, then Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka visited China and asked Premier Zhou Enlai about the Tatsushu Jietan tea, which was recorded in the Japanese secret history texts as a symbol of the atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty, and this incomparably sweet and mellow legend was revived after 1400. Under the personal concern of Premier Zhou Enlai, this taste of traveling through thousands of years was finally found again on the Jietan Mountain on the banks of the Yuanshui River in Yuanling. Yuanling Jietan tea is mellow and silent, and elegant and full of rhyme. Once it came out, it was integrated into the long history of Chinese tea culture. In the vast and profound, it does not live up to the reputation of "Wen Yun Yuanling Charming Tea Town". In early 1981, under the guidance of the late tea expert Liu Xianhe, this Miao family Hanzi, who grew up drinking unitary water, plunged into the Jietan Tea Farm to engage in the restoration and development of Jietan famous tea, a tribute of the Tang Dynasty.
The geographical location is too remote, perhaps one of the important reasons for the silence of Jietan Tea, Jietan Mountain is located in the dangerous place of a large river, except that the waterway is feasible, and the land road has not been passed until now. Jietan is like a paradise that has been forgotten by time, and the land still maintains the appearance of a thousand years ago, which makes the mellow taste of Jietan tea become a sunshine secret that spans thousands of years.
Returning to this homeland, Xie Changqing's face was full of joy. Thirty-two years of spring and autumn came, and every mountain and water here, one leaf and one leaf had long been integrated into his bloodline and had become a part that he could not give up.
Life is like tea, tea is like life. Xie Changqing's life path is paved with one tea tree after another, which is his familiar taste and his lifelong pursuit.
Today's Elder Xie is in his sixties, and the most commonly called is "Xie Gaogong". This title is inextricably linked to Jietan tea.
In 1980, Xie Changqing returned from the tea department of Hunan Agricultural College, but was arranged to work as a cashier at the county seed company. Under the influence of "the unity of knowledge and action", in order to apply what he has learned, he wrote four reports in a year to request the change of guard to engage in professional work. At the beginning of 1981, Xie Changqing finally got his wish and came to this strange land to carry out his beloved tea research career.
The rolling, shaking, turning and stir-frying in the production process of Jietan tea are very exquisite: the hand should feel warm, the eyes should look at the color, the nose should smell the incense, the tongue should taste, and the rings should be tightened one by one. Xie Changqing often practiced to refer to the hair numbness, eyes flowering, legs soft, and finally practiced a unique skill - temperature measurement by hand; smell the incense to know the grade, drink tea to know the variety.
Restoring an ancient skill that has passed away is somewhat hesitant for the young man of that year. But in addition to being nervous, it is more about exploring and anticipating this new thing.
Jietan tea is like a father who conceives a baby in his infancy, willing to pour all his efforts into it, witnessing its growth in the long river of time, rejoicing, worrying, and looking forward to it.
The Tang Dynasty tribute tea making process, which had been sleeping for more than 1400 years, was finally restored and a new connotation was interpreted in xie Changqing's hands.
Tea is the most patient, the meticulous and gentle kneading in time, in the flow of light and shadow, waiting for a good cup of tea, quietly enjoy a touch of fragrance.
Soak the years and sunshine into a lamp of Jietan tea, take a sip, after the sweetness, a slight touch of bitterness, as if the stubborn wild nature has not been lost, and as if the millennium years are long, although the fresh and tender tea fragrance is the same, different lives, different moods can taste different sorrows and joys. This is Jietan tea.
(Source: Xiaoxiang Tea)