Returning to Mu Yueze's ward with Jiang Yawen, Meng Zitao and the others did not tell the truth, but only said things at work, and then they took their leave.

got into the car, Yu Weigang said: "Why is this guy Yue Ze so lucky, such a good girl has been met by him, and he is desperate to follow him." ”

"What, you're envious?" Meng Zitao asked with a smile.

Yu Weigang laughed: "I...... How can you be envious, my wife is even more perfect than her, okay!"

"Don't pretend, I don't know you yet?"

"Hey, hey, don't talk nonsense, be careful that I sue you for slander......"

After a few jokes on each other, they went to eat nearby.

"Zitao, where are you going in the afternoon?"

"I'm going to a senior in the Antique City. ”

"Can I go?"

"Of course, no problem, wait until I'll call him first and ask where he is. ”

Jiang Weiwen happened to be about to go back to the store after eating with his friends, so Meng Zitao and the others took a car to the antique city.

went straight to Jiang Weiwen's antique shop, and Meng Zitao saw that in addition to Jiang Weiwen and Yuan Lin, who he met for the first time, there was also an old man in his fifties, wearing Chinese clothes and an elegant temperament.

Seeing Meng Zitao and them coming in, Jiang Weiwen smiled and said: "Come on, come on, let me introduce you to you, this is the closed disciple of Zheng Lao I said Meng Zitao, don't look at his young age, but he has a pair of fiery eyes." ”

"Old Jiang, you praised it falsely. Meng Zitao hurriedly humbled himself.

Jiang Weiwen then introduced: "This is my good friend, Luo Yuening, a master of tea ceremony. ”

Luo Yuening said with a smile: "What kind of tea ceremony master, I just like tea, but I can't call it 'master'." ”

"Just be humble......"

After introducing Yu Wei and greeting everyone, Meng Zitao noticed some utensils on the table, the most eye-catching of which was a green jade tea mill.

In the Tang Dynasty, people mainly drank cake tea, and before drinking tea, they needed to grind the cake tea into fine powder before they could make a sencha, otherwise it would be difficult to fry the tea juice. The function of tea milling is to grind cake and tea into fine powder, which is a kind of utensil used for sencha.

Lu Yu called it "falling" in the "Book of Tea", which is wheel-shaped, thick in the middle and thin at the edges. There is a round hole in the middle of the grinding wheel, which can be worn through wood. Unfortunately, the shaft wood is gone. The Tang Dynasty poet Yuan Zhen's poem "Tea" said: "Tea." Fragrance, young shoots. Mu Shike, love monks. Grinding white jade, weaving red yarn. Cho fried astragalus, bowl twisted dust flowers. After the night, he was invited to accompany the bright moon, and he was ordered to the morning glow before the morning. Wash away the tirelessness of ancient and modern people, and it is not possible to boast when you are drunk. ”

When talking about sencha in the poem, the cake and tea are crushed into the powder with white jade carving, sifted with red gauze tea, and then put in the tea Cho sencha, poured into the tea bowl, and the tea soup is covered with yellow flowers, and finally becomes a fragrant and beautiful tea.

And the tea mill in front of me is the texture of green jade, which is divided into two parts. The lower part is a ship-shaped grinding groove, with two flat feet, which should be used for stabilizing dìng. The upper is a jade grinding shaft, although the jade quality of the tea mill is not particularly outstanding, but in terms of volume, it is not bad, and the carving is also quite fine, which is a tea ceremony utensil that can be appreciated.

Noticing this tea mill, coupled with the red clay stove and some other tea ceremony tools, Meng Zitao understood: "Are you preparing to make tea?"

Jiang Weiwen nodded and said, "Yes, Xiao Meng, do you have any research on the tea ceremony?"

Meng Zitao smiled a little embarrassedly: "I really don't have much research on the tea ceremony. ”

Jiang Weiwen asked, "Are you not interested in the tea ceremony?"

Meng Zitao said: "I can't say that I am not interested, I couldn't afford to buy good tea before, and now I still have a lot of knowledge to learn, and I don't care about studying the tea ceremony at all." ”

Yuan Lin next to him smiled: "Also, Teacher Meng is still young, and with his current achievements, he must always give up." ”

"That's right. ”

Jiang Weiwen nodded and said yes, Meng Zitao is only in his twenties, so he can have the same vision as he is now, and he must have a focus on learning things.

"It doesn't matter, Lao Luo happens to be here today, so that you can also experience the charm of the tea ceremony, not only for the eyes, but also for the mouth. Lao Luo, let's get started. ”

"Okay. ”

Luo Yuening opened a box in front of him and took out a flat and round thing wrapped in paper from inside.

This thing is shaped like a chess piece, smaller than chess, bigger than Go, and when I opened the white paper wrapped on the outside, I saw that it was a small tea cake inside.

Luo Yuening introduced: "This is my Song Dynasty tribute tea restored according to the ancient recipe, a piece of tea cake is one or two heavy, you can smell it first." ”

The tribute tea and tea culture of the Song Dynasty are famous in Chinese history, which not only promotes the development of famous tea and the popularization of tea drinking, but also makes the style of tea fighting prevail, and there are countless tea culture works such as tea books, tea poems, tea calligraphy and paintings, which make the tea and horse trade and tea foreign trade rise outside the Saiwai.

Hearing that it is the restored Song Dynasty tribute tea, Meng Zitao is very curious, when it is his turn, take it in his hand and observe it carefully, only to see that the tea cake is black, the black is blue, the green is translucent, in addition, the tea cake is also printed with wave patterns.

These characteristics are in line with the characteristics of Song Dynasty tribute tea.

Then, Meng Zitao sniffed lightly at the tea cake, and immediately there was a glutinous rice fragrance coming to his face, which smelled very good.

In the end, Yu Weigang took the tea cake in his hand and looked at it, and asked with some curiosity: "Is this what the tribute tea of the Song Dynasty looks like?"

"Yes, according to the literature, that's what it looks like. Meng Zitao said.

"No printing on it?"

"Song Dynasty tribute tea only prints, never printed. ”

Meng Zitao explained: "For example, the 'Great Dragon' Gongcha is printed with a dragon surrounded by a circle of clouds, the 'Xiaofeng' Gongcha is printed with a Luan phoenix, and the Luan Phoenix is also surrounded by a circle of clouds, the 'Xingguo Rock Picks Buds' is printed with only a flying dragon and no clouds, and the 'Taiping Jiarui' has a dragon and a cloud, and the clouds are under the dragon's claws. Only printed patterns, not printed words, this is a major feature of the Song Dynasty tribute tea, and these are also written records. ”

Luo Yuening said with a smile: "Xiao Meng, you are very familiar with the tribute tea of the Song Dynasty." ”

Meng Zitao waved his hand: "I'm just familiar with the things in the books, and nothing else is good." No way, these are all related to identification, and you can't remember it. ”

Jiang Weiwen smiled: "I see that you are an encyclopedia, you have everything in your head, and I don't know how you put these into your brain." ”

Meng Zitao smiled: "I just do rote memorization." ”

Yuan Lin sighed with emotion: "Teacher Meng, your talent is so good, like me, you hate rote memorization the most, and you have a headache when you read a book." ”

"Don't think I don't know, you're clearly lazy. ”

Jiang Weiwen then said: "Okay, let's do the right thing first." ”

Luo Yuening said: "Then I'll start grinding tea." ”

Watching Luo Yuening wrap the tea cake in the paper just now, then crush the mallet and put it into the green jade tea mill, Yu Weigang asked curiously, "What are you doing?"

Meng Zitao said: "This is the way of boiling tea in the Song Dynasty, in fact, before that, there is another step to burn the tea, first the tea cake is 'soaked in boiling soup', scraped off the anointing oil, and then dried with a slight fire. However, this is new tea and is generally not scorched. Then there is this step, grinding tea, however, the milled tea cannot be left overnight, otherwise the color is wrong. ”

Yu Weigang said: "It's so troublesome to drink tea?"

Luo Yuening said with a smile: "This is called fun, in the eyes of those who like it, these steps are full of fun." In addition, if you want to feel the charm of the process, you must calm your mind. ”

Yu Weigang scratched his head: "Maybe I'm more impatient." ”

Luo Yuening said: "If you experience it carefully, you will gradually like the tea ceremony." ”

At this time, Luo Yuening grinded almost, and then sifted the ground fine tea, and then poured the coarse powder on the sieve into the tea mill and then grinded, and repeated several times to complete, it was called Luo tea in one step.

When Luo tea was finished, Luo Yuening picked up the tea cup and baked it above the tea stove.

"What does this mean?" asked Yu Weigang curiously.

Meng Zitao said: "It is called baking, it is to prepare for tea, because if the tea cup is cold, the tea will not float." ”

"Oh. Yu Weigang nodded a little uncertainly.

"Alright, let's start ordering tea. ”

I saw Luo Yuening put the tea powder into the tea bowl, then poured boiling water, adjusted it into a paste, and then poured boiling water into the bottle to make the tea powder into a thick paste.

Immediately afterwards, Luo Yuening began to pour water along the wall, holding a tea whisk in his hand to stir the tea paste, and gradually whisked it harder.

"What are you doing?" asked Yu Weigang softly.

Meng Zitao also explained in a whisper: "This is ordering tea, if you want to order good tea, the main actions are 'pointing' and 'blowing'." The point is to pour the water that has been fried in the urgent mustache into the tea cup, and in the process, hold the pot and point the water into the tea cup, which must be controlled, and the water point must be accurate, and the tea surface can not be broken. ”

"As for the 'whisk' equivalent to the 'stirring' in the sencha of the Tang Dynasty, it is not like the Tang Dynasty using chopsticks and other things to stir in the tea kettle, but using a special small broom-like tool tea whisk, rotating and blowing the tea soup in the tea cup to make the soup bloom. Holding a tea whisk to blow the tea soup, called 'Yun Whisk', going back and forth to transport the whisk, or hitting the tea soup, or whisking the soup flowers. Cooperate with each other to achieve the best results. ”

Yu Weigang sighed: "I didn't expect that the ancients would be so troublesome in order to drink a cup of tea. ”

Meng Zitao said with a smile: "Actually, the Song people used this method to fight tea. ”

Yu Weigang was surprised and said: "Tea fighting? ”

Meng Zitao said with a smile: "Of course, the quality of the tea, as well as the level of tea, can't you all fight." ”

Yu Weigang asked, "Then what kind of tea is the best in the end?"

Meng Zitao explained: "There are two criteria for the quality of tea, one is the color of the soup, that is, the color of the tea noodle soup. The general standard is pure white, and blue and white, gray and white, yellow and white, and so on. The color is pure white, indicating that the tea quality is fresh and tender, the heat is just right when steaming, and the color is blue, indicating that the heat is insufficient when steaming; the color is gray, the heat is too old when steaming; the color is yellow, then the picking is not timely; the color is red, it is the frying and roasting is too much. (To be continued.) )