Dragon and phoenix tea, the most famous tea of the Song Dynasty!

There is a saying that "it begins with Ding Wei and becomes in Cai Xiang".

Even in the world where Lu Yu was originally located, the exquisite production process of dragon and phoenix tea can make modern people jaw-dropping.

It doesn't even have to be complicated from the general procedures of picking, sorting, steaming, and pressing to researching, manufacturing, baking, and storing. The faint is the delicate and delicate decoration of the dragon and phoenix on the group tea, which is breathtaking.

In the description of the ancients, it is "the dragon soars and the phoenix soars, lifelike"!

Moreover, the output of this tea is also very small, and Cai Xiang, a tea man in the Song Dynasty who brought Longfeng tea to its peak, is the creator of the famous "Little Dragon Group".

The "Little Dragon Troupe" he made was not only ingenious in production, but also produced very little, and even only made ten catties in the first year of production.

At that time, officials and elites in the government and opposition all said, "Gold is easy to obtain, but tea is not available." ”

So much so that at that time, Emperor Zhao Zhen of Song Renzong cherished the Xiaolong Tuan very much, and even the prime minister of the dynasty never rewarded it easily.

It was only during the daily sacrifice to heaven that an exception was made to give a piece of bread to the ministers of the province and the Privy Council.

There were four ministers in each of these two provinces, but the emperor only rewarded one cake, so the eight ministers had to divide the cake and tea into eight, one for each person.

After these eight people brought this small piece of tea home, they naturally regarded it as a treasure, let alone tasting it, ordinary people could not see it even if they wanted to, and only when there were distinguished guests in the house, they would take it out and appreciate it, even more precious than family heirlooms.

According to the historical materials that Lu Yu once obtained, at that time, only the great writer Ouyang Xiu was fortunate to get a complete cake of Xiaolongtuan tea.

Even Ouyang Xiu, a generation of famous ministers who have been in the dynasty for more than 20 years, can only get a reward of a cake of tea, which shows the difficulty of getting this kind of tea.

Therefore, it is not surprising that such a small dragon group was found in the ancient tomb, and as for Li Yanyi's problems, once he reads these complete historical materials, he can easily solve them.

And these things are not made up by Lu Yu out of thin air.

When Ouyang Xiu inscribed the "Afterword" for Cai Xiang's tea book "Dragon Tea Record", he clearly wrote the situation of Longtuan Tea at that time.

Even later, the two Song Dynasty perished, and the barbarians destroyed China.

The tea of the dragon and phoenix gradually lost its appreciators, and gradually disappeared.

During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor who restored China, made the tea cumbersome and difficult to copy, and because he liked the strip loose tea, he issued an edict to stop the dragon group.

Since then, dragon and phoenix tea has been extinct in the long river of history.

Lu Yu knew better than anyone present that it would be hundreds of times more difficult to reproduce and manufacture this kind of dragon group tea than to find its true historical basis!

Even in the original world, the manufacturing process of dragon and phoenix tea has been lost, and it can only be slowly restored through continuous exploration through historical records. Not to mention this world that doesn't even have a historical record?!

In this way, the title of the Huaxia Tea Association this time does not seem to confuse the difficulty.

Compared to finding and arguing white tea, arguing and making dragon and phoenix tea is obviously much more difficult.

Even Lu Yu himself is not sure that he will remake the dragon and phoenix tea...... At least for a short time, this is simply not possible!

However, as the so-called "ignorant are fearless", many of the new tea people present have begun to prepare to choose this topic.

Even Bian Liangji was eager to try his hand and muttered, "This is a good question, it's challenging!

Lu Yu looked at him in surprise and said with a smile: "Are you going to choose this question?"

Bian Liangji nodded and said: "Why not? I have the belief that I will win this promotion match, since I must choose, of course it will be difficult to choose! But I am also content, I don't want to jump directly to the second-level tea people, but the third-level tea people must fight." ”

Lu Yu nodded noncommittally when he heard this, and said, "I suggest that you choose the first question, at least that one still has a chance to be completed." ”

Bian Liangji was stunned: "You mean I can't do this third-level tea man topic?!"

At this time, Yu Yang had already walked in front of everyone again, and Lu Yu made a silent gesture with his hand on his lips, and said, "Wait a while, let's listen to what the third question is first." ”

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Wait until the meeting room is quiet.

Yu Yang smiled and said, "After Master Li's introduction just now, everyone must have understood the conditions for becoming a third-level tea person...... I would like to say one more thing here, the promotion evaluation of this tea person is not limited to these two questions. ”

"These two questions are just a choice provided by our Huaxia Tea People Federation, if you have other ways to accurately demonstrate the history of Huaxia tea, and after the unanimous evaluation and approval of the expert group of the organizing committee, you can also get the qualification for promotion!"

As he spoke, his gaze seemed to be intentionally glanced at Yi Lan, who was sitting in the back row.

And Yi Lan also smiled politely at him, and the eyes of the two staggered.

Lu Yu, who noticed this, suddenly understood that among all the new tea people this time, I am afraid that the only one who can have the opportunity to come up with evidence of the existence of Huaxia tea in history is Yi Lan, the inheritor of Laoshan Dao tea!

It is precisely because of this that the Huaxia Tea People Association will expand the scope of exam questions, as long as it can come up with evidence to prove the existence of Huaxia tea in history, then you can be promoted!

It can be said that this is a rule specially prepared for Yilan.

But Lu Yu and Bian Liangji have analyzed this matter before, whether the Huaxia Tea Federation can get what they want still depends on the attitude of Laoshan Qingyi Daochang. This promotion evaluation is probably just wishful thinking on the part of the Huaxia Tea Federation.

Yu Yang, deputy secretary general of the Tea Federation, didn't say anything more about this matter, but turned around and pointed to the big screen and said: "Next, I will show you the last question of this promotion evaluation, which is also a topic that can be directly promoted to become a second-level tea person." ”

Directly promoted to become a second-level tea person!

Including Lu Yu, the breathing of all the new tea people in the conference room suddenly became short!

You must know that in the strict sense, only tea people above the second level can be called "masters"!

The second-level tea people are also the watershed between the high-level tea people and the low-level tea people, and both the prestige and status will be completely different!

Don't say that it is Huaxia, even in the history of the world's tea industry, it is extremely rare to be able to jump directly from a new tea person to a second-level tea person.

Even if they know that there is little hope, everyone wants to see what this topic can make people soar!

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Brush!

On the big screen, the light and shadow turned, and a page of old page photos that had long been old and broken, and obviously been restored, was presented on the projection!

"Today...... Those who compare tea must say...... Xing porcelain, the beginning of Wanli, the great ...... The monks of the mountain temple passed on the spring offerings, and the Wu family officials also. ”

After Yu Yang appeared in this photo, he also said lightly: "This is a page in a broken book, in fact, only this page is left in the whole book." The author of this book is unknown, but since there are other books where it was found, it is likely that the author of this book is ...... Zhou Rong. ”