No regrets about making tea in this life
Author Cai Lu
Wei Zijian, Bayu tea people, the Jianghu people called "worm pot pot - tea worm old light", self-proclaimed "tea walker", meaning people looking for good tea. Love tea into obsession, advocating Zhuangzi-like unrestrained state of life, acting as you want, free and at ease, known as the tea industry "Zhou Botong". Source: Xiamen Micro Tea City
First, west lake on tea
April Fangfei, Hangzhou West Lake sparkling like gold, green willow smoke, liancheng tea house, tea guests like clouds. Wei Zijian (known as Tea Worm Lao Guang), the owner of the Chongqing Jiangfeng Tea Ceremony Training Hall, who has just participated in the "Chinese Tea Art Facing the World Seminar", came to Hangzhou to participate in the annual annual meeting of the national tea house owners. Wei Zijian, who shaved his head, dressed in a Chinese-style silk shirt and with a leisurely and confident smile, casually walked into an elegant and simple tea house, and the service lady wearing a light red cheongsam smiled and stepped forward, "Welcome, we have Longjing tea here, there are West Lake Longjing, Hangzhou Longjing, Zhejiang Longjing, what kind of tea do you want?" ”
Wei Zijian: "Thanks, I only need three cups and a pot of water, and I bring Chongqing tea myself." ”
The young lady flashed a pair of curious eyes, "Do you have tea in Chongqing?" ”
Wei Zijian took out a bag of tea leaves from his bag and put them on the table: "This is the 'Bashan Silver Bud' and 'Yongchuan Xiu Bud' and 'Longyin Xiu Bud' that we made in Chongqing." ”
In the quaint, melodious, wonderful and moving piano field, Wei Zijian used skillful tea-making techniques to make tea: "We in Chongqing tea use different tea sets, for different water, different brewing methods, in different tea customers, environments and seasons, you can brew a variety of tea soups, each tea brewing process can not be reproduced." Wei Zijian smiled, moved softly and stretched, and used an infectious tone to highlight people's fascination with Bayu culture: "Chongqing tea bred by Bashan Yushui integrates the rhyme of tea with the fragrance of flowers, and the green leaves and fragrant flowers are always appropriate." With the eyes to taste, Chongqing tea like Chongqing beauty, beautiful appearance, tender green color, pleasing to the eye; with the nose to taste, Chongqing tea aroma is elegant, let people feel the floral fragrance, fruity fragrance, fresh and rich, a cup of fragrant tea is known, the cup of fragrance is floating and interesting; with the ear to taste, listen to the voice of the tea brewer and the sound of water when brewing, as if it is a spring water dingdong, and it is just the Bashan Yu water meets the zhiyin; with the mouth to taste, it is different from the Chongqing hot pot spicy and fragrant, warm and bold, it is clear, sweet, slippery, fragrant, taste raw, sweet and bitter self-knowledge, taste a life has a bitter and sweet process, Taste a cup of nectar in the world; taste with your heart, heart and qiankun, mountains and rivers and grass, he is sincere in dealing with things, treat people with faith and righteousness, taste the taste of life, suck bitterness to be inspirational, swallow Gansi to repay kindness, taste a kind of tranquility when impetuous, taste a dream in the days of entrepreneurship, taste a kind of care when you are lonely, taste a kind of truth when you are empty, taste a belief when you are frustrated, and taste a kind of happiness when you succeed. Meet friends with tea, gather and exhibit the industry, and have endless fun! This is the cultural heritage of our Chongqing tea, welcome to taste! Wei Zijian said while brewing, attracting a burst of applause, the service lady added a tea cup, the tea guest surrounded Wei Zijian for advice, Wei Zijian while throwing tea, running tea, while brewing tea, respecting tea, tea guests appreciate tea, taste tea, thank tea, West Lake on tea, the small tea house has become a stage to interpret Bayu tea culture.
Second, the river wind tea edge
In the top square of Chongqing Linjiangmen Modern Book City, Wei Zijian opened the largest tea city in Chongqing, Jiangfeng Tea City. The reporter boarded the tea city, looked around, the high-rise buildings were lined up, the Kuixing Building held up an open square on the flat ground, the river breeze came slowly, the smell of books was fragrant, the pavilions were in the buildings, and there was silence in the noise. Because of the five yuan a cup of Jiangfeng real tea, within a few days of opening, tea customers flocked endlessly. Wei Zijian confidently told reporters: "After the completion of the second phase of the modern book city project, the operating area of Jiangfeng Tea City will reach 8,000 square meters, when I will declare the Guinness Book of World Records!" A sense of pride aroused the reporter's curiosity: "How did you form an indissoluble relationship with Bayu tea culture?" ”
Wei Zijian told reporters: "I don't know why I liked China's traditional culture since I was a child, when I was twelve years old, I began to read Mencius, Shangshu, University, Analects, Spring and Autumn, "Thirteen Commentaries on the Thirteen Classics", when I studied at Chengdu College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, I studied Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine, and after graduation, I was not at ease working in the hospital, going to the sea to do business, there were profits and losses, I fell, I got up again, when I was young and vigorous, I felt impetuous and dazed about life, what exactly adapted to me, to be able to realize self-worth, I have been looking for. Drink tea when reading, drink tea at work, drink tea when mood swings, drink tea simply, and never care about tea.
In 1990, during a warm spring season, I got together with a few friends to drink tea, and two of my friends who were familiar with the tea ceremony introduced me to how to drink tea and tea culture with great interest. The simple thing of tea is introduced by friends to be colorful and extremely complex, just like China's "I Ching" and "Tai Chi", which reduces everything in the world to the word "yin and yang", and yin and yang originate from "Tao". A friend suggested that Wei Zijian buy a few books on tea culture to see. Although I have a family property of hundreds of thousands of yuan, a simple life, smoking and drinking is often two yuan seven one pack, three yuan five a bottle, but never stingy about buying books. Wei Zijian carefully studied the Tea Classics of The Tang Dynasty tea saint Lu Yu, Pei Wen's Tea Narratives, Zhang Youxin's Sencha Water Records, Wen Tingjun's Records of Tea Picking, Mao Wenxi's Tea Recipes of the Five Dynasties of Shu Dynasty, Cai Xiang's Tea Records of the Song Dynasty, Yang Weizhen's Biography of Mr. Qing Bitter in the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Quan's Tea Recipes of the Ming Dynasty, Tian Yizhen's Boiling Spring Sketches, Lu Tingcan's Tea Classics of the Qing Dynasty, and Liu Yuanchang's History of Tea. Wei Zijian did not release the volume, and found that Chinese tea culture is broad and profound, and tea culture involves all aspects of traditional Chinese culture, including politics, economy, culture, art, religion, ethics, gardens, etc.
Tea culture has opened another window in Wei Zijian's life: to make a career successful, it must have a deep cultural heritage. Wei Zijian began to study tea culture, promote tea culture, open an ancient town tea house - Chongqing Magnetic Pin Jiang Feng Tea House, doing tea culture is worth the cause I strive for, Wei Zijian believes that he has found the coordinates of life, and his mood has become positive and exciting from depression. Wei Zijian studied art from his teacher, and he asked Professor Liu Qinpu of Southwest Agricultural University for tea culture, Wang Jiayang, a well-known tea culture expert in the country, for tea ceremony, and Professor Chen Xiangbai for the brewing technique of "Chaozhou Kung Fu Tea". In Huzhou, Zhejiang, he and Kou Dan, a tea culture expert in his seventies, visited Lu Yu's tomb on Zhushan Mountain, and when lu Yu of the Tang Dynasty tea saint lu Yu was young, he traveled to the Bashan Gorge, inspected tea affairs, went deep into tea households, picked tea for tea, commented on tea water, compiled the "Tea Classic" to boil fragrant tea, and the moving story of staying in the world for leaving a fragrance made Wei Zijian moved, and subconsciously inspired a strong entrepreneurial impulse.
When a person combines his interests, hobbies, and cultural heritage with his career, he can't help but devote himself to it. Wei Zijian felt that it was not enough for a tea person to drink tea, learn tea, and appreciate tea, but also to go out to find tea, pick tea, and more importantly, make tea, taste tea, and understand tea with his heart. Read thousands of books, travel thousands of miles. In Tongliang Bayue Mountain, Yongchuan Jishan, Wei Zijian was in the tea mountain bamboo sea, listening to the tea picking girl while picking tea, while singing; watching the whole process of tea farming, how to kill, fry, knead, dry to make tea, see how tea farmers process tea into flat, needle,curly, blue flower and other shapes. Wei Zijian chatted with the tea farmer while rubbing the tea leaves, and he was comfortable. To find good tea, you must also find good water, Wei Zijian carried a few pots of clear springs in the mountains to go home, and bought a few sand tanks, filtered with fine sand, wood fish stone, activated carbon, ore, good mountain water to make good tea, Wei Zijian's thumbs and index fingers were scalded with blisters, he completely ignored.
In order to find good tea and feel the true meaning of the tea ceremony, Wei Zijian used his savings to find tea, Sichuan Emei, Minshan; Xishuangbanna, Nannuoshan, Guangxi 100,000 Mountains, Guangdong Phoenix Mountain, Fujian Wuyi Mountain, Jiangxi Lushan, Anhui Huangshan, the most memorable is the Jingshan in Yuhang City, Zhejiang. Trail mountain tea in the Tang and Song dynasties has been famous, during the Song Dynasty, trail mountain prevailed "tea banquet", its tea was listed as "tribute tea", later spread to Japan, developed into "Japanese tea ceremony", trail mountain tea is known as "the source of tea ceremony". On April 28, 1998, Wei Zijian made a long journey to Jingshan Mountain, passing through the ancient temple, discussing the Tea Ceremony Buddhism with the host master, walking dozens of kilometers, picking up the steps from the foot of Jingshan Mountain, and tea farmer Xia Wenfu led the search for wild ancient camellia. In the misty valley of the silver waves, through the camellia rooted in the crevices of the cliffs, tenaciously growing in the deep mountains and dense forests of bamboo, the outer image of purple rhododendron leaves, at first glance does not look remarkable. Wei Zijian and the tea farmers picked tea together, looking for water, looking for tea utensils, brewing a bowl of tea soup with fresh tea leaves, Wei Zijian tasted wild tea for the first time in his life. Overflowing with fragrance, endless charm, fluttering after drinking, ordinary wild camellia does not attract people with dazzling flowers, but grows between heaven and earth with its own selfless spirit. Wei Zijian tasted the true color, true fragrance, and true taste of jingshan tea, and couldn't help but blurt out: "Jingshan seeks the tao to taste spring tea, the morning bell and the twilight drum listen to the fog, the enlightened way seeks the truth and the heart, and there is no regret about making tea in this life."
Integrating the concept of traditional Chinese medicine health care into tea making, "Lao Guang Tibetan Tea" is unique. Because of the study of traditional Chinese medicine, the tea worm Lao Guang is self-taught and handy for tea making. Chinese medicine dispenses medicine according to jun, subject, zuo and official, and tea making is mixed according to bitterness, astringency, sweetness and freshness. Every tea plant, every tea forest, Lao Guang will be carefully selected, coupled with the later golden ratio collocation, Lao Guang will always produce a unique and unique tea. Every year, he travels through Sichuan, Jiangxi, Hubei, Anhui, Fujian, Yunnan and other places, wading through mountains and rivers, looking for good tea in the deep mountains and ancient forests and high mountains and clouds, and then picking and making it on the spot, he is a "tea walker". Image source: Xiamen Micro Tea City
Third, the tea ceremony is intoxicating
In the modern book city Of Jiangfeng Tea City, the reporter and Wei Zijian were drinking tea while discussing the Tao, and the beautiful and moving melody of the Book City became the background of the discussion.
Reporter: Chongqing hot pot and Chongqing tea ceremony are both carriers of Bayu culture, what are their similarities and differences?
Wei Zijian: Chongqing hot pot culture and tea culture have one thing in common, that is, "he" culture. Eating hot pot three or five know that they have met, gather around the stove, talk and laugh, even people who have never known each other are happy, this is "people". The tea culture embodies "modesty" and "sincerity", drinking good tea to talk about friendship, and communicating information about ancient and modern. The difference is that Chongqing hot pot has a "fierce" culture, which reflects the honesty and boldness of Chongqing people, and also exposes some of the weaknesses of "impetuousness", while Chongqing tea culture has a "quiet" charm, refreshing and clear thinking, simple and indifferent to vanity, tranquility and far-reaching hidden and flexible. This kind of "stillness" is not unpredictable, so it is mysterious, but it makes people let go of some complicated thoughts and let the state of mind return to a state of calm and tranquility.
Reporter: The "quiet" in tea culture is the quietness of nature, or the calm mind and the calm of people's hearts.
Wei Zijian: Mainly meditation. When I was young, I was also impetuous, it was the tea ceremony that helped me to be quiet, I also crossed the Fusang in the east to find the tea ceremony, went to Lhasa to ask the Buddha, I did not know that the tea ceremony originated from the Central Plains, I also studied the tea ceremony for three years, thinking that I had a unique view of the tea ceremony, but when I opened the history books, I looked at it, the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, and someone had written into the history books and practiced it a long time ago. Peace of mind is to have a normal heart, not to be insulted, to see the flowers bloom and fall before the court, to stay unintentional, to look at the blue sky cirrus clouds Shu! You see that little tea tree, silently growing in the yang cliff yin forest, not attracting attention with dazzling flowers, but bringing us human beings an indescribable material and spiritual civilization.
Reporter: What is the relationship between people and tea?
Wei Zijian: How to write the word "tea"? "Tea" is a "grass and wood person" and is alive. It is natural, idyllic, peaceful, quiet, with the famous mountains and rivers as the body, with the breeze and bright moon as a companion, set the essence of the heavens and the earth, the sun and the moon, not only let people quench their thirst, cure diseases, but also cultivate themselves, nourish their nature, cultivate honesty, prevent corruption and open a tea party, rather than a cocktail party, there is a way is "a gentleman's friendship, a cup of tea", tea culture has entered all aspects of social life, chai rice oil salt sauce vinegar tea, it is more of a dedication to people a kind of touch.
Reporter: You have paid a lot for the promotion of Bayu tea culture, and you have gained very little, do you regret it?
Wei Zijian: Tea appreciation, learning tea, looking for tea, picking tea, looking for water, finding utensils, making tea, brewing tea, tasting tea, and understanding tea, I spent three years writing a 120,000-word "Eating Tea Scattered Records", which recorded my exploration of tea culture, tea art perception, only printed ten copies, let the ten apprentices all take it. I am not ready to publish before I die, I pursue the process of accumulation and thin hair, only seeking the process, not the result. Every time you make tea is an irreproductible process, in fact, life, the only thing you really have is the process! Money is not brought by life, death is not brought, the most important thing is that in the process of living at the age of 80 and 100, how to live wonderfully, live fully, and live a valuable life! The purpose of my savings to open a tea house is to run bayu tea culture. Don't say that Bayu culture is dock culture, lollipop culture, say what "Beijingers are in New York, Shanghainese are in Tokyo, Chongqing people are lollipop troops." "People look down on us. We in Chongqing have resources, Chongqing people have cultural heritage, where do Chongqing people lose? Bayu culture needs to be carried forward and excavated, carried forward and developed. So I used the money I earned from opening a tea house to develop tea culture, to investigate, study, buy tea books, train tea artists, and plan tea culture activities.
Reporter: Do you have any tricks to make tea?
Wei Zijian: I don't have any tricks, but there are differences, which is to use my heart to bubble according to different situations, and to use my brain to bubble. Brewing tea can mobilize all the sensory tastes of the human body, which is different from the appreciation form of Yiqi qinle, and different from the sensory aesthetic of the calligraphy and painting seal, and also different from the spiritual experience of mountaineering and water, different environmental atmospheres, tea guests, tea utensils, tea leaves, water, water temperature, seasons, time, places, to brew different teas. And most people, no matter what kind of tea, take water to brew. Some people say that I am weird, blame me for paying attention to the process of making tea, scalding cups, appreciating tea, throwing tea, running tea, brewing tea, respecting tea, tasting tea, thanking tea, every action is in place. Whether it is a few yuan a pound of tea or thousands of dollars a pound of tea, I will seriously brew, can give everyone a cup of good tea on the line. Brew a good mood, taste a good charm, to pursue a philosophical truth, moral goodness, artistic beauty, to love life, cherish life.
Tea is divided into elegant customs, Yaze "Qinqi calligraphy and painting poetry wine tea", and the custom is "chai rice oil salt sauce vinegar tea". "Ya" is quiet and placed in the temple of Jingshe; "customary" is bold and falls in the mountains and fields of the city. One elegant and one customary, one quiet and one moving, constitute a colorful and elegant "tea life". Tea, just a leaf, can bring some health to your life, bring a moment of ease and tranquility to your mind, and that is enough.
Cai Law revised on September 10, 2020