In the past, although the life of the mountain people in Linxu Mountain was bitter and cold, their lives were not scrupulous and vulgar, and the mountains had the wonderful environment of the mountains and the interesting intentions of the people. Food, clothing, food, housing and transportation have their own characteristics, chai rice oil salt sauce vinegar tea has its culture, especially tea, but also preserved the unique tea customs, tea affairs and tea fun in the mountains. Mountain Ballad Cloud: "The years are light and nothing, and the yellow flowers are drunk in front of the stone slab room." ”
The ancestors of the people in the mountains also tasted all kinds of grasses, and then chose forsythia as a tea tree from among the plants that spread over the mountains. People in the mountains have their old customs to pick tea, that is, when the yellow flowers bloom in the early spring, the mountains are positive, and the people who go up to the mountain to pick tea must be busy with women, in order to achieve yin and yang, rigid and soft, and the exquisite people's homes in order to prevent the aroma from leaking due to the sun, but also in the early morning light, please the unmarried mountain girl to pick, to hurry before the sun comes out, put the picked tea leaves into the cage to steam, use fruit firewood to burn, when the sun is shining, you must spread the steamed tea leaves on the drying foil to dry, to win the first rays of sunshine, do not miss the spring invitation, In this way, after six or eight consecutive steaming and drying, drying and kneading, kneading and re-steaming, steaming and fermenting, and becoming soft and soft after fermentation, can we concoct a kaleidoscopic tea rhyme. In The village of Xianyunping, Mrs. Shen told me that the forsythia flowers and leaves before processing did not have the slightest aroma, and after several times of hard work, the fragrant fragrance gradually overflowed after fermentation.
Most of the tea guests do not come looking for incense, but the tired people they encounter on the way to the mountains, drinking because of thirst, because they do not forget to drink, the name of the mountain tea slowly spread. Go to the mountains to drink tea, drink mountain tea, and feel the customs and customs of the mountains the most. Just like the unrestrained personality of the people in the mountains, this camellia is also very grinning, no rules, standing and sitting, sitting and drinking, absolutely nameless tea, endless tea rules and tea ceremonies, let you follow the fate at will, with your interests and interests, there is no point of attention and scruples. The tool for making tea is coarse and clumsy, or pot or pot; the use of drinking tea is also a bowl and a bowl, even if the cup is not a tea dish thin cup, but a drinking utensil commonly known as a tea tank. Tea, to brew a thick, slightly bitter taste, but drink soft and slender, very comfortable! This homemade earth tea, the locals have given it a beautiful name - yellow flower tea, as pure and feminine as the mountain girl. Although drinking yellow flower tea also has its own way, not only the tea to the entrance so simple, but today it is difficult to achieve the elegance of the ancients, so it is also much simpler. Yellow flower tea is made of young leaves and flowers concocted by forsythia, the color is dark green, fresh and tender, the aroma is elegant, the first drink is slightly bitter, the taste is sweet, the soup is dark after brewing, but it is mellow like porridge, drinking the thick fragrance and warm mouth; when brewing water twice, it is more and more mellow, the teeth and cheeks remain fragrant; three brews of water, will feel like a mu, the five organs like washing the kind of transparency and freedom, Fang Zhi recorded that its tea "although cold, but warm and the main disease"...
Why is yellow flower tea so interesting? It is all up to Lin Ton shan shui. LinXu Mountain is majestic, the peaks are listed, and the perennial clouds cover the fog, a hazy scene. More fog, then the clouds gather, the clouds gather, then the rain is born, the aura of Lin Shu Mountain is all in its clouds, the higher the mountain, the more fog, the thicker the clouds, the more diligent the rain, the whole mountain, the forest and the ancient temple are hidden in it, a moment of sunrise in the east, a moment of cloud rain in the west, sometimes the clouds open and the fog disperses, the peaks are clear and clear, sometimes the fog locks the mountain, within three steps do not distinguish the situation of the landform, the weather changes greatly, the mountain scenery is beautiful, let people have a sense of haunting. The forsythia trees that spread over the mountains are green and azure, ancient and clumsy, tall and not full of feet, wide and dissatisfied, not born and not destroyed, not prosperous and not decaying, not vines and branches, enjoying the moisture of the mountains and rivers, absorbing the spirit of clouds and mist, obtaining the glory of the sun and the moon, very unusual, just like the prime minister in the mountains. But it has grown among the rocks for many years, the wind and rain have been pale, the vastness has not known how many years, the steaming tide, like clouds like fog, like rain like smoke, left and right, snuggled with each other, unconsciously has been leisurely into Zen, its leaves and flowers in the grass and trees among the people carelessly change, from grass and medicine, from medicine to tea, from tea to god, and finally into tea. Although the tea is warm, long drinking also has anti-cancer, sterilization, anti-inflammatory, anti-toxic effects, many benefits for people, so it has the name of fairy tea, but it has not yet gone out of the deep mountains, has been in a humble posture, in the mountain people's stone house firewood between each other, until today still retain a trace of mystery. In recent years, in order to attract tourists, good people have changed the yellow flower tea to "Lin Xuyun tea", and some people have le shi inscription poetry cloud: "If he is repairing the history of flowers, I will set the yellow flower as the first", giving it a more mysterious story and legend, the ethereal poetry, more to help it become more famous, popular in the market, hot sales, but for me, it is not as good as "yellow flower tea" to be intimate and warm, there is affection. Although tea is elegant, it is also an everyday custom in the eyes of people in the mountains, and between the world and the world, between the elegant customs, is not the leaf in the cup of the mountain people floating up and down several times? In fact, the most elegant and customary, that is, one of the seven things in the daily life of mountain people. Yellow flower tea is not a fairy herb for people to drink slowly, but a common thing that makes people drink heavily, if you understand it, you know its wonders, and over time it will become a distant thought and temptation in life; if you don't understand, it is just a reincarnation of the birth and death of the natural plant world. Because of the character of camellia, it is in line with people themselves, consciousness is not conscious, it is happening, so the rush of time crushes life into a fragment that is difficult to stitch together, but that camellia can actually comfort your wounded soul in the world, let people return to the baby, forget the worries, and be happy as ever!
About author:Wang Xingzhou, pen name Dongpo Shi, poet, writer, member of China Writers Association, member of China Prose Literature Society, member of Henan Writers Association, director of Henan Prose and Poetry Society, visiting professor of The School of Literature of Anyang Normal University. He has published monographs such as the poetry collection "The Moon Boat Collection", the prose collection "The Collection of Clouds", "The Flowers Bloom at That Time", "A Little Notes on the Customs of Taihang", and "A Few Flowers in the Dream".