Chapter 173, Snow Needle Yang Ming (I)

Tea ceremony on the sword will be awarded a total of eight famous tea, can be shortlisted for the eight famous tea can become the court tribute tea, a tea can be marked with the label of tribute tea, its business prospects and publicity effect do not need to talk much, for this reason, each session of the tea ceremony sword will be extremely competitive, in addition to the eight old brands of the previous session, at the same time, the tea party will also accept the registration of six new varieties of tea merchants, but the new tea merchants want to get the qualifications to join, in the year before the tea party begins, it is necessary to apply to the relevant institutions for evaluation. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Only through a strict quality evaluation, only to be qualified, as long as you get the qualifications, once your tea can shine at the conference, recognized by all the tasters, it is possible to replace other old brands, become a new favorite of tribute, in one fell swoop into a dragon, such a thing is almost impossible to happen in the past, but in the current dynasty, since the establishment of the tea ceremony sword meeting, the new has happened several times.

For example, there are four major tea products in the eight famous teas that have been shortlisted in the past 20 years, and these four upstarts are Tieguanyin in Fujian, Longjing in Hangzhou, Maojian in Xinyang, and Biluochun in Jiangsu, especially Tieguanyin and Longjing.

Xinyang Maojian was the second session after the opening of the Tea Ceremony Sword Meeting, when the Xinyang Maojian was a newcomer won the championship of the tea party in one fell swoop, and Hangzhou Longjing was the runner-up that year, Lushan Yunwu was in the third session instead of Mengding Yunwu, Tieguanyin and Biluochun were famous in the fourth tea party.

The Tea Ceremony Sword Club has only been open for more than 20 years, there are four kinds of new tea to replace the original old tribute tea, such a fierce competition and elimination of the way, so that those old tea merchants have an unprecedented sense of crisis, a sense of crisis for a lifetime, everyone will naturally try to improve the quality of tea and variety innovation.

Under this fierce and benign competition mechanism, for more than 20 years, the overall tea quality and yield of the country have been greatly improved, the innovation and patterns of varieties are also endless, the development of tea is changing with each passing day, and excellent tea ceremony tasting naturally comes into being, and those who can be invited to the tea ceremony sword meeting to evaluate tea are undoubtedly real tea ceremony masters.

After these tea ceremony masters are invited, the organizers of the conference will be assigned to different varieties of tea according to their areas of expertise, generally can be called tea ceremony masters, there is a certain study of each tea system, but no matter how much research, it is impossible to achieve the ultimate in everything, each tea ceremony master is what he is best at, for example, people who like green tea, naturally the most proficient is the tasting of the green tea series, and the tea ceremony master of the white tea series is the best at evaluating the white tea, and the same is true for yellow tea and oolong tea.

Today's eight famous teas are: Baihao Yinzhen (white tea from northern Fujian), Tieguanyin (from Fujian Oolong tea), Jingting Luxue (Anhui green tea), Lushan Yunwu (Jiangxi Lushan green tea), West Lake Longjing (Hangzhou West Lake green tea), Maojian (Henan Xinyang and Hubei green tea), Junshan Yinzhen (Hunan Yueyang Junshan yellow tea), Biluochun (Jiangsu green tea)

Tea tasting and tea evaluation is a fine and pay attention to the artistic conception of the work, do this work of the people to be stable, to be quiet, can sit in the judge's seat of the person this artistic conception must have, in the evaluation area there are five independent small rooms, each room only has a door, a small window, the room is about ten square meters, there is a table and a chair, plus a can of spring water and an alcohol pot and five small teacups, these rooms are prepared for five evaluators.

In order to ensure the fairness and impartiality of the evaluation, after the appraiser enters, each room will be equipped with a staff member of the tea party organizer, and then randomly select a tea merchant to accompany him, and change it in each round, so that the possibility of cheating can be completely eliminated.

(Note, the quality difference of the same variety of tea that can be admitted will not be too big, if the five appraisers sit together to evaluate the taste, too close to each other, the tea aroma will inevitably channel each other, and the tea aroma will be channeled with each other, and it will be difficult for the tea taster to fairly and objectively evaluate which is higher and which is lower.) )

After the tea samples were collected, the five evaluators went into their respective rooms, and then the staff of the main method randomly delivered tea bowls filled with tea samples from the blue seeds, five bowls at a time, and then assigned a staff member to each room to help boil water, and five people were randomly selected from the eleven tea merchants to enter the room with the staff.

"Auntie, what do you think of their way of appraising?" Xiao Nan was not drawn in the first round, so she sat leisurely in the seat and chatted with Song Qiuyi in a low voice, Song Qiuyi looked in the direction of the judges' table a few times, and asked quietly.

"It looks very good, the organizers have taken into account all the external factors that may cause interference, as long as the tea tasting level of these five tasters is qualified, the tea that can get a high score should be deserved." Xiao Nan replied.

The tea taster tastes the tea, first of all, it is to look at the type, then smell the fragrance, and then boil the water to brew, taste, a round of tea evaluation down, it takes more than half an hour, the second taster Mr. Zhou Lao received the third round of tea bowls handed in by the staff outside, his eyes fell on one of the bowls for a moment, and then he stood up with a bang, and the look on his face was extremely excited.

Mr. Zhou is fifty this year, he likes to drink tea since he was a child, plus his family background is good, after being admitted to the lifting of people at the age of twenty-three, he did not further participate in the scientific examination, nor did he enter the official career, but he devoted himself to the study of the tea ceremony, he likes green tea the most in his life, and the personal favorite in green tea is the hair tip, he has drunk the hair tip for more than 20 years, but has never seen the appearance can be compared with the bowl of hair tip in his hand, the bowl of hair tip in his hand, the color is uniform, the bud body is round and full, and the tip of the bud head is as thin as a needle.

The tea on each bud leaf is delicately exposed, especially on the tip of the bud, the milky mist tea is slightly trembling on the bud tail, it looks like there is life, the tea in the bowl has not yet been brewed, but the fragrance of the secretion has been intoxicating, Maojian tea, since the tea party won a championship twenty years ago, it has never been in the limelight, this time, which tea merchant actually made such a holy product?

Yes, this bowl of tea in front of him is a holy product in the eyes of Mr. Zhou, the best variety in the tip of the hair is called snow buds, and snow buds are also divided into several grades, they are first-class products, fine products and treasures, this one in front of him only by virtue of appearance and fragrance, Mr. Zhou did not hesitate to crown it with the title of holy taste!

The staff and tea merchants in the tea room were also shocked, how could the tea merchants and the staff who helped the tea taster not understand tea, the impact of that bowl of hair tips on their hearts was not much lighter than that of Mr. Zhou.

Hmph, maybe it's just that the appearance is good-looking, maybe it tastes very average! Shang Cha, who sat in the tea room with Mr. Zhou, was an old tea merchant who had been a hairy tip for decades, so that he thought he was inferior to others, he was definitely not convinced, and after returning to his senses, he first comforted himself, and then said to Mr. Zhou: "Mr. Zhou, why don't you brew a cup and try it first?" ”

"Yes, yes, let's make a drink and pay it off." Mr. Zhou, who was completely immersed in the tip of the bowl of hair in his hand, was reminded by a reminder, and finally came back to his senses, he took the cup of tea, carefully scooped a spoonful of tea peony on this bowl and filled it into the cup, after the water boiled, he picked up the kettle and poured water into the bowl, the tea leaves in the cup were soaked in boiling water, and the rich and mellow fragrance immediately enveloped the entire tea room, making people feel comfortable and comfortable. (To be continued.) )