Chapter 382: Knowledgeable
"Little friend, it looks like you have something on your mind!" Seeing Shi Ji's thoughtful look, Liu Lao couldn't help but ask, he was still a little uncomfortable with this cheerful boy suddenly playing deeply!
"Hehe, I'm a little homesick, old man, will you still meet each other? Why don't you calculate the marriage for me? Let's see if I have peach blossom luck or something recently, the eldest lady has ignored me for a long time, calculate when I can get her, and..."
Shi Ji's deep feeling to Liu Lao disappeared without a trace in less than twenty seconds, but such a Shi Ji Liu Lao is comfortable to look at, but he can't answer the questions that Shi Ji asked, after all, he is not face-to-face...
Fortunately, Xiao Li's snacks and tea were timely, interrupting the stumbling Shi Ji. . .
"Come, little friend, try my treasured big red robe!" Liu Lao smiled and brought Shi Ji a cup of tea and said.
"Old man, I don't read much, don't you lie to me? Will there be a big red robe? Fooling people, right? Shi Jian said in disbelief.
It's no wonder that Shi Jian said this, the so-called big red robes on the market are all fakes, and the real big red robes are definitely priceless.
Da Hong Pao, produced in Wuyi Mountain, Fujian, is an oolong tea with excellent quality. It belongs to the special famous tea of China. Its shape is tightly knotted, the color is greenish-brown and fresh, the soup color is orange and yellow after brewing, and the leaves are red and green. The most outstanding quality is that the aroma is rich and orchid-like, the fragrance is high and long-lasting, and the "rock rhyme" is obvious.
In addition to the general tea has the health care functions of refreshing and thinking, eliminating fatigue, diuretic, antipyretic and heatstroke, sterilization and anti-inflammatory, detoxification and disease prevention, eliminating food and greasy, losing weight and bodybuilding, etc., it also has special effects such as anti-cancer, hypolipidemic, anti-aging, etc. Da Hong Pao is very resistant to brewing, and it still has a fragrance after brewing seven or eight times. To drink "Da Hong Pao" tea, you must follow the program of "Gongfu Tea" small pot and small cup to taste the slow drink, in order to truly taste the charm of Zen tea on the top of rock tea.
There are few big red robes in history, and the recognized big red robes are only the few trees on the rock wall of Jiulong. In the best years, the yield of tea is only a few hundred grams.
During the Republic of China, one catty was worth 64 silver dollars, which was 4,000 catties of rice at that time. In the early years, there was a Jiulongyi Dahongpao tea to the market auction, 20 grams were auctioned at a sky-high price of 156,800 yuan, creating the highest record of tea unit price.
It is said that in 1972, when Nixon visited China, the Chinese leader at that time presented him with four taels of tea leaves from the mother plant of Dahongpao. Because Nixon did not know that the mother plant of Da Hong Pao was extremely precious due to its small yield, he privately complained about his stinginess. Premier Zhou later explained this to Nixon, saying: "The chairman has already given away 'half of the country'. He told him the origin of the big red robe, and Nixon was in awe when he heard it.
It can be seen that the Da Hong Pao is precious, Shi Ji doesn't believe that he can drink the Da Hong Pao here, this is not something that can be bought with money, so he naturally thinks that this is also a fake.
"Little friends just try it!" Liu Lao looked at Shi Ji with a smile and said.
Seeing the old man's confident appearance, Shi Ji couldn't help but wonder, could it be that this was really a big red robe, and he was not in a hurry to drink the teacup, but looked at it carefully, but saw that the tea leaves in the cup were small and long, the leaf surface was smooth, the leaf teeth were shallow, and the leaf edges were flat, Shi Ji's eyes lit up.
took a sip, of course, this time he drank tea not like when he drank tea with Zhang Zhentian, which made Liu Lao look at him again.
The entrance of the tea, the aroma is strong, the taste is not light, Shi Ji couldn't help but say: "Good tea, authentic Da Hong Pao, it should be the No. 3 and No. 4 trees!" ”
Even Liu Lao was a little shocked when he heard Shi Ji's words, because what he said was not bad at all, it was from the No. 3 and No. 4 trees, which was given to him by one of his old buddies, and he had been bragging to him for a long time at that time! Now that Shi Ji tasted it and said it, he wasn't surprised that it was weird!
"Xiaoyou is still a good tea person, it seems that you have met a confidant? Xiaoyou seems to know the origin of this tea! ”
"Hehe, I've heard of some! It is rumored that in the eighteenth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Ding Xian went to Beijing to take the exam, suddenly got sick when passing through Wuyi Mountain, the abdominal pain was unbearable, and he happened to meet a monk in Tianxin Yongle Zen Temple, and the monk took the tea leaves he had to drink with him, and the pain stopped.
After winning the examination, he came to thank the monk and asked about the origin of the tea, and after learning about it, he took off his big red robe and circled the tea bush three times, and draped it on the tea tree, so he got the name of "big red robe". The champion took the big red robe in a tin can and brought it back to the capital.
After the champion returned to the court, the queen was sick, and the hundred doctors were ineffective, so he took out the can of tea and offered, the queen gradually recovered after drinking, the emperor was overjoyed, and gave a red robe, and ordered the champion to go to the Nine Dragons in person to drape on the tea tree to show the dragon's grace, and at the same time send someone to take care of it, and all the tea was collected to pay tribute, and it was not allowed to be hidden.
Since then, Wuyi Rock Tea Da Hong Pao has become a tribute tea exclusively for the royal family, and the reputation of Da Hong Pao has also spread to the world. Legend has it that every year the officials sent by the imperial court wore a big red robe, and the robe was untied and hung on the tree of tribute tea, so it was called the big red robe.
There are 6 tea trees on the stone wall of Tianxin Rock Jiulongji, counting from the first tree on the upper layer next to the stone carving of "Da Hong Pao", numbered in order, 4 trees on the upper layer (called the original in history), numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 1 tree in the middle layer is 5, and 1 tree in the bottom layer is 6.
According to the survey and observation, although these six tea trees belong to the same type, they are roughly divided into three different strains due to the evolution of the sexual group varieties from Wuyi rock tea through long-term natural hybridization.
No. 3 and No. 4 mature early, the internodes are short, the leaves are small and long, the leaf surface is smooth, the leaf teeth are shallow, the leaf edges are flat, and the oolong tea is made, the rock rhyme is obvious (there is a brown leaf fragrance), the aroma is stronger, the taste is not light, and the bottom of the leaves is yellow and bright and slightly dark.
No. 2 and No. 6 are mature and centered, the internodes are short, the leaflet type is oval, the leaf quality is delicate, the leaf teeth are thin and inconspicuous, the leaf edge is flat, the aroma of oolong tea is high, the taste is slightly thinner, the leaf bottom is yellow and bright, and the green leaves are moderately red.
No. 1 and No. 5 are the latest to mature, the leaf teeth are thick and deep, the leaf edges are wavy, and the aroma of dry tea is stronger than that of No. 3 and No. 4, but not as good as No. 2 and No. 6, and the taste is like No. 2 and No. 6, and the bottom of the leaves is yellow and bright.
That's why I judged that Liu Lao's tea should be from the No. 3 and No. 4 trees! ”
Shi Jian talked eloquently, he said that Liu Lao naturally knew something, but he would definitely not know so much detail, today Shi Ji can be said to have opened his eyes, a young man actually has such knowledge, so that he is indeed impressed.
"Xiaoyou said well, admire and admire, as the so-called famous horse with a good saddle, I am embarrassed to drink what you said, Xiao Li, take the remaining big red robes away to Xiaoyou for a while!" Liu Lao instructed the waiter.