Chapter 388: Tea and Zen

The more places we walked, the more SC Johnson lamented that this wonderful journey of life is destined to be irreversible.

Travel is beautiful from choosing the right starting point, and meeting lovely friends in a ray of sunshine. Here you can eat home-cooked meals, drink tea, chat, read books, and listen to stories......

Passing by Wuyi Mountain, the sun rises slowly, the golden light is sprinkled down, a sea of clouds is vast, the mountains appear and disappear from time to time, and the scene is spectacular. The miraculous moment when heaven and earth turn from darkness to light must be experienced at least once before one can understand the secret and great power of warmth.

The reason why I came here is mainly because of the big red robe, which was given to Hao Baoli last time and was worth a lot of money, like a top-level mother tree, which is a treasure that can't be bought with money.

The fragrance of tea is overflowing, no matter which door or village you go to, there are bursts of tea fragrance around you. At this time, Wuyi Mountain has just experienced several rains irrigation, everything is full of vitality, and the tea trees in the mountain can't wait to grow new shoots, waiting for the arrival of tea farmers.

Usually, the quality of a tea is not only the growing environment and the variety of tea, but also depends on the craftsmanship of the tea master. There are also differences in the tea that comes out of the hands of different tea masters. Many tea masters have been dealing with tea all their lives, and they dare not say that their craftsmanship is good, which shows that tea making is a technical job.

Due to the hardship of tea making, there are almost no female tea makers, and locals often joke that if you want to lose weight, you need to make tea. In the tea-making season, I stay up late every day, and every tea brew is the fruit of hard work.

Straw hats, work gloves, and bamboo baskets are essential three-piece sets for tea picking, which is convenient and fast for tea picking. The rock tea of Wuyi Mountain usually picks one bud and three leaves, and no matter how much tea leaves, it will be old, and the production is only yellow flakes, which is not suitable for making tea.

The tea leaves are withered for a certain period of time, and the withering is mainly to make the tea lose a part of the water, improve the toughness of the leaves, and facilitate the follow-up work. At the same time, the substances in the leaves are moderately transformed to achieve suitable fermentation. Withering is a process that requires waiting, and this is the time when patience and the experience of the master are required.

After withering, it begins to make green, and making green is an important process in the production of oolong tea, and whether a tea can be successful mainly depends on this step. Usually this step is carried out by the master with the apprentices he handed over, and will not be handed over to the workers. Master's control of tea is very important, and these can only be relied on by many years of experience.

The special aroma and green leaf red trim are formed in the green. Put the green tea in a bamboo sieve, and the tea worker will hold the sieve with both hands and shake it repeatedly. During shaking, the leaves collide with each other, abrasing the leaf margin cells, thus promoting oxidation. However, it is not constantly shaken, but after a certain period of time, it is left to observe the condition of the tea leaves again.

This is repeated many times for about eight hours, after complex chemical and physical changes, the leaf edge oxidizes and turns red, showing the so-called "green leaf red border", losing water and wrinkling, and emitting a low and heavy fragrance, which feels loose and stiff to the touch, so that the shaking is over.

Different tea varieties and environmental changes, it is necessary to adjust the process of shaking green, grasp the best time and degree, the so-called green to do green, so that the change of tea to the extreme.

After making green, it is finished, and this step is to heat the green tea in a wok, and the workers stir-fry it with their bare hands. The endoplasm of oolong tea has been basically formed in the green stage, and fried green is a turning process that connects the previous and the next, which is like the greening of green tea, mainly to inhibit the activity of enzymes in fresh leaves, control the oxidation process, prevent the leaves from continuing to turn red, and fix the quality of green formation.

The green tea is placed into another kind of small bamboo plaque, which looks like the coarse bamboo is scorned all over the place, and the concave is highlighted, and the workers rub the tea green on it repeatedly, so that the leaves are kneaded and lightened, rolled into strips, and the volume is reduced. At the same time, part of the tea juice is squeezed and adhered to the surface of the leaf to improve the taste concentration of tea.

The traditional process is to use a bamboo roasting basket, fill it with tea leaves, put it on the charcoal fire pit, and roast it for a long time at a low temperature to purify the aroma and mature the taste. Of course, the heat and time are also adjusted according to different tea varieties and quality conditions. This step also depends on an experienced master to control the heat and time, and if the ability is insufficient, it is easy to stew the tea leaves.

Since you have come here, pack the best tea and go back and drink it slowly. One house, one field, one person to eat, is already the most enviable thing.

The grass is green, the birds are singing, you can also play chess, you can also play the piano, there is tea to the scene, and there is no poetry to sing your heart.

Where are the immortals, the grass and trees are in the shade of Wuyi Mountain, the boat, the return, where to find the flowers all over the ground.

On the cliff of the deep valley, a big waterfall flows down, straight down the deep valley, more than 200 meters long, more than 120 meters of drop, and the widest point is more than 40 meters.

It can really make people feel the irresistible charm of nature, only the wind rushes through the heavenly river, like a green dragon silver roaring out from the canyon, the waterfalls rush down the deep stream of the pool after pool, the exhaust wind brings the momentum, the surging roar, the waves are churning, the flying beads are splashing, stirring up bursts of roaring thunder, the water vapor is 100 meters away and the water vapor is overlooking as if it is suspended in the air, the silver dragon is flying, and finally hovering between the red cliff canyons, the right rushes and the left suddenly merges into the Tongmu Creek.

Walking into the canyon along the countryside, the tea plantations in front of you are stacked with greenery, mountain springs dingdong, birds singing and flowers, like a paradise. I really didn't expect that at the end of Jiuqu Creek, it would be so secluded, except for tea farmers who came here to farm, no one generally visited.

There are pine forests, tea plantations, mountain streams, temples, and naturally white clouds, but in fact it is only a little more than ten minutes away from the main scenic road.

The pine forest is getting denser, the birds are singing more happily, there is a thick humidity in the air, and several tall pines are full of poetry in the light mist. A small mountain stands in front of you, and this is the Dolomites.

There is always a place, although you are in the world, but it can lead you out of the world at the moment you walk.

There are many ancient temples and nunnery dotted in the deep mountains, they are hidden or visible, or standing or declining, uneven from the cliffs and ravines of the Bishui Dan Mountain, mottled vicissitudes.

Some are like medieval castles in Europe, with iron walls and copper walls, and towering rocks; some are like abandoned Mayan cities in South America, covered with moss and covered with vines, and silently hidden in the forest ravines; some are like mirages, high standard cloud cliffs, ethereal and ethereal; some are like eagles' nests and ape caves, dwelling in danger and danger, hanging but not falling, making people dream-like.

After the Southern Song Dynasty, northern Fujian became the key point of political geography and cultural geography, and Wuyi Mountain was the key point of the "southern crossing of clothes" in the Song and Ming dynasties. People who lack a sense of security and belonging, either to escape the chaos of war, or to refuse the interference of the world, or to pursue religious beliefs, have migrated to the Wuyi Mountains to retreat and study.

The main enemy from which they have fled has changed—from humanity itself, from cannibalism and self-infliction.

Climb over the mountains and mountains to find historical sites and visit famous buildings, hoping to explore the culture of every corner of Wuyi Mountain. With a good cup of tea, calm the noise of this floating world, and wait for the flowers to bloom in this world.

The heart will become gentle, sensitive, and pure in a quiet and sacred place. At this time, you will stay away from impetuousness and restlessness, and discover your true self and the life you yearn for.

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