Chapter 134: Tea Culture (I)

After lunch, everyone sat in the living room and chatted for a while, Cheng Ziying accompanied Yue Haohan to Yunfeng Business Hotel to rest, slept until more than three o'clock, Yue Haohan woke up, look at the side, Cheng Ziying is still sleeping sweetly, Yue Haohan gently pushed Cheng Ziying, Cheng Ziying broke open her hazy sleepy eyes, looked at Yue Haohan gently, and asked, what time is it?

Yue Haohan replied, saying, It's more than three o'clock.

Cheng Ziying hurriedly sat up and said, let's get up, clean up quickly, I'll take you to the Jiangtan Hotel, go and see where I work, I'll call my mother later, and say that we won't go back at night, just stay at the Jiangtan Hotel, tomorrow is Sunday, Sister Wang will definitely go home, we can live in my dormitory.

After the two got up, they washed up briefly, Cheng Ziying called home, the call was answered by her sister-in-law Tang Ruotong, Cheng Ziying told her sister-in-law Tang Ruotong and asked her to tell her mother that she and Haohan went to the Jiangtan Hotel, took Haohan to visit the Donghai Stock Exchange in the afternoon, and if she didn't go home at night, she would come back tomorrow.

Cheng Ziying and Yue Haohan took a car to the Jiangtan Hotel, Cheng Ziying took Yue Haohan to visit the trading hall of the Donghai Stock Exchange, because it was a Sunday, not a trading day, in addition to a few staff members in the maintenance of computers and other trading equipment, it seemed very deserted, Cheng Ziying, who was walking in front, turned her head and told Yue Haohan, saying, Haohan, don't look at the cold and deserted here today on Sunday, it is particularly lively here during working hours. The red vests and yellow vests are constantly shouting and shuttling here.

Yue Haohan smiled and said, I can feel the excitement of securities trading here tomorrow morning.

Cheng Ziying stood still, looked at Yue Haohan with a smile, and said, Haohan, do you know how much our stock is earning now? It's going to scare you when you say it, and it's only been a little over a month.

Yue Haohan said, I don't care about money, I believe in your ability, what I care about is that as long as you are happy.

Cheng Ziying said that our stocks have earned 100 percent, 100 percent! Vast, you know what the concept is, that is, I now return all the money of my mothers to them, and I still have so much money in my account.

Yue Haohan's eyes widened, he looked at Cheng Ziying, opened his mouth, and paused for a long time, saying, What? Doubling in a month? It's too easy to make money with this stock.

Cheng Ziying said, vast, you don't know, our securities market has just started, and many places are not very perfect, and the companies that have begun to be listed are all companies with good performance, so it is no wonder that stocks do not rise. However, it will be difficult to say in a few years, after the stock market is gradually regulated, the risk will become greater and greater, and it will be more and more difficult to make money.

The two of them were chatting while walking on the trading floor, Cheng Ziying's pager rang, Cheng Ziying took out the pager, looked at the number of the call, walked to a busy staff member, picked up the phone on the table and went back.

After talking on the phone, Cheng Ziying returned to Yue Haohan's side and said, Haohan, just now my father's secretary Guan Zhixin called the pager, he said that he had made an appointment with Ye Yunqing Ye Zong, and at about nine o'clock tomorrow morning, he would take us to the headquarters of the "Yunqing Tea Society" to let you meet Ye Yunqing and get acquainted with it.

After visiting the securities trading hall, it was getting dark, Cheng Ziying took Yue Haohan to enjoy the night view of the riverside, after watching the night view of the East China Sea riverside, it was already more than eight o'clock, the two of them found a small restaurant nearby, ordered two dishes casually, and after dinner, they returned to Cheng Ziying's dormitory in the Jiangtan Hotel to rest.

After breakfast the next morning, and when it was time to go to work, Cheng Ziying went to Meng Wenzhi to ask for two days off, and then stopped a taxi on the side of the road with Yue Haohan, and when he returned home, it was nearly nine o'clock.

Cheng Ziying went to the bedroom to change her clothes and came out, the doorbell rang, Yue Haohan stepped forward to open the door, and Cheng Xiangdong's secretary Guan Zhixin stood outside the door.

Yue Haohan and Cheng Ziying followed Guan Zhixin downstairs, got into a red flag car parked there, and drove towards the "Yunqing Tea Society", the car was driving on the road, Guan Zhixin, who was sitting in the passenger seat, turned his head and said, Haohan, I heard Secretary Cheng say that you are a history major, this is great, you should be able to chat with Ye Yunqing, Ye Yunqing is a person who has studied the ideas of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, and ordinary people can't get into his eyes.

Yue Haohan smiled and said, Director Guan, I happen to be very interested in Taoist culture and Confucian culture, and I have some understanding.

Seeing Yue Haohan's humble appearance, Guan Zhixin smiled and said, Very good! I feel that the two of you should have a fate, Mr. Ye has a deep study of Chinese tea culture.

After about half an hour, the car stopped in front of a quaint shop on the Corniche. Yue Haohan, who got out of the car, stood in front of the car, looked towards the façade, only to see, the façade was six rooms, the decoration was very simple and luxurious, the decoration materials were all high-quality mahogany, above the façade, there was a big plaque, which was inlaid with four gilded willow characters "Yunqing Tea Society", the handwriting dot painting was crisp and beautiful, the bone strength was strong, and the knot was tight.

Standing and admiring for a while, Guan Zhixin said, vast, this is the headquarters of Yunqing Tea Society, Yunqing Tea Society is strong, there are eighteen shops in Donghai alone, and there are shops in overseas and other big cities Yunqing Tea Society.

As he spoke, when he arrived at the gate of the tea house, two tall girls wearing red cheongsams and about twenty-three or four-year-old who were standing in the foyer saw Yue Haohan and several people coming in, bowed at the same time, and said with a smile, Welcome!

Entering the hall of the tea house, it is even more to Yue Haohan's eyes shine, on the purple-red shelves in the hall, the left side is full of various colors of tea sets, and the right side is full of different varieties of tea, in the middle of the hall is a very large fuchsia solid wood antique tea table, on the tea table, there are tea leaves, tea sets, and eight purple and red solid wood antique chairs are placed around the tea table. Yue Haohan looked around the hall, then approached the left shelf and stood still, admiring the tea set placed on it.

A shopping guide, who was also wearing a cheongsam, walked to the place where Yue Haohan and several people were standing, smiled, and asked, a few gentlemen, what kind of tea set do you like?

Guan Zhixin glanced at the shopping guide and said, are you Mr. Ye here? Take us to his office.

The shopping guide glanced at Guan Zhixin and said with a smile, Okay, sir, please follow me.

With the shopping guide, through the front hall, from the back staircase to the second floor, to the innermost office door, the shopping guide knocked lightly on the door, and heard a loud voice from inside, saying, please come in!

The shopping guide pushed open the door of the office and said with a smile, Mr. Ye, there are guests visiting. After speaking, the shopping guide stood by the door and politely let Guan Zhixin, Yue Haohan, and Cheng Ziying into the office, and then gently closed the door and went downstairs.

Ye Yunqing's office is very large, with three suites, a wide light walnut boss desk against the wall, and a "Yan Ti" plaque hangs above the rotating boss chair behind the desk, with four big characters on it: "Tea Tasting and Enlightenment", the handwriting strokes are horizontal and vertical, the pen is strong and round, and the momentum is solemn and majestic. In front of the desk is a tea table that is also splashed walnut color, and there are tea sets and tea leaves on the tea table, and six light walnut antique chairs are placed around the tea table.

Seeing that it was Guan Zhixin who came in, Ye Yun stood up with a refreshing smile, walked forward from the desk position, shook hands with Guan Zhixin, and said, Welcome to Director Guan, come quickly, please take a seat!

Sitting down in front of the tea table, Yue Haohan carefully looked at Ye Yunqing, Ye Yunqing looked like he was in his fifties, medium height, very thin, but full of spirit, with a pair of glasses on the bridge of his straight nose, and a pair of eyes behind the lenses were very bright and wise, as if he could penetrate some, Ye Yunqing's appearance, if he walked on the street, people would definitely think that he was a senior professor at a certain university, or a learned scholar.

After letting Zheng Zhixin and the others sit around the tea table, Ye Yunqing turned back to the desk and pressed the pager button on the desk, and then he also went to the tea table and sat down to talk to Zheng Zhixin and others.

After a while, a young girl wearing a purple cheongsam entered Ye Yunqing's office with a smile and nodded to everyone.

The girl answered, and hurriedly began to mix mineral water in a teapot on the tea table, and began to boil the water, Yue Haohan took out the tea leaves brought from Cheng Ziying's Kun bag, looked at Ye Yunqing, and asked, Mr. Ye, can you first appreciate the tea I brought from the barren mountains and mountains in Jiangyang County, Central South Province?

Ye Yunqing looked at Yue Haohan and said, Okay, when the water boils, let's make a pot of tea you brought first; Give me the tea leaves, and I'll see what the quality is.

Yue Haohan hurriedly handed the tea leaves he brought to Ye Yunqing, Ye Yunqing opened the tea bag, put it in front of his nostrils and sniffed it again, and then poured out a part of the tea leaves in a saucer next to him, picked up the tea clip on the tea table and slowly plucked the poured out tea leaves, looked at it carefully, and then picked up the tea saucer and smelled it, saying, it tastes good! But the processing technology is too poor.

Putting down the tea clip in his hand, Ye Yunqing looked at Yue Haohan and asked, young man, is this tea processed by hand in a small rural workshop? The quality of the raw materials of this tea is very good, but the tea-making technology is too poor.

Yue Haohan replied and said, Mr. Ye, you are right, this tea is indeed handmade. We have a large area of barren tea plantations, no one wants to contract, this tea is still a tea farmer friend of mine, he contracted more than 200 acres of tea plantations, every year by hand fried and processed at a low price.

Ye Yunqing said, it's a loss! It's a loss! After such tea to improve the process and grade in frying, it is not worse than the first-class West Lake Longjing, it seems that the place you mentioned is very suitable for the development of high-quality green tea.

While chatting, the water on the tea table was boiling, and the purple-red cheongsam girl who had just come in took the purple clay pot and soaked it with boiling water, then took the teaspoon and asked, Mr. Ye, what kind of tea is brewed?

Ye Yunqing said, let me come.

As he spoke, Ye Yunqing took the purple clay pot and put it in front of him, took the teaspoon in the girl's hand, picked a few spoonfuls of the tea leaves brought by Yue Haohan from the saucer just now, and put them into the purple clay pot, and then poured the boiling water that had just been boiled into the purple clay pot, and quickly poured out the water skillfully, saying, I call it "washing tea". For those who can drink tea, they should pay attention to the tea ceremony.

Yue Haohan asked, Mr. Ye, the tea ceremony is easy to summarize, what does it refer to?

Ye Yunqing glanced at Yue Haohan and said, the tea ceremony, simply put, is the way to appreciate the beauty of tea. The tea ceremony is also regarded as an art of life for cooking and drinking tea, a life etiquette with tea as a medium, and a way of life with tea for self-cultivation. It is through making tea, appreciating tea, smelling tea, drinking tea, and enhancing the friendship between people, so that tea drinkers can cultivate virtues, learn etiquette, and appreciate traditional Chinese virtues, which is a very beneficial and beautiful ceremony. Drinking tea can calm the mind and calm the mind, help to cultivate sentiment and remove distracting thoughts. The spirit of the tea ceremony can be said to be the core of tea culture.

After speaking, Ye Yunqing poured the boiling water into the purple clay pot again, and Ye Yunqing made the spout "nod" three times during the pouring process, that is, the so-called "Phoenix Three Nods", indicating his respect to the guests. Ye Yunqing said while doing it, this is called "making tea".

Pouring boiling water higher than the mouth of the pot, Ye Yunqing used the lid of the purple clay pot to brush off the tea powder floating on it, saying, this is called "spring breeze blowing on the face". Then, use the tea clip to group the smelling cups and tea cups, put them on the saucer, and say, this is called "dividing the cup".

Then, Ye Yunqing poured the tea soup in the pot into the fair cup, saying that this is called "jade liquid back to the pot", the purpose is to enable everyone to taste the same color, fragrance and taste of tea.

Next, Ye Yunqing was very focused on pouring the tea soup into the Wenxiang Cup respectively, pouring seven points full of the Wenxiang Cup, and said, this is called "dividing the pot". As he spoke, he picked up the fragrant cup with both hands, and served a cup to each person, saying, this is called "serving tea", several of you will pour the tea soup into the teacup in front of you, and smell the lingering fragrance in the fragrant cup, which is called "smelling the fragrance", and then you use your thumb, index finger, middle finger, and three fingers to take the teacup, and take three sips to drink slowly, which is called "tasting tea".

Looking at Ye Yunqing while making tea, while explaining, after a set of actions, Yue Haohan was simply fascinated, took a sip of the tea in the teacup in his hand, and said, Mr. Ye, I didn't expect that drinking tea was so exquisite.

Ye Yunqing said with a smile, this is tasting green tea, drinking different teas, with different exquisiteness, since ancient times, the tea ceremony must follow certain rules. In the Tang Dynasty, in order to overcome the nine difficulties, namely, making, parting, utensils, fire, water, burning, ending, boiling, and drinking. In the Song Dynasty, three o'clock and three no-order tea tasting, "three o'clock" for new tea, sweet springs, and cleaning utensils for one, good weather for one, elegant and elegant, like-minded customers for one; On the contrary, it is for the "three nos". In the Ming Dynasty, it was thirteen and seven taboos. "Thirteen Yi" is one for nothing, two good guests, three sitting alone, four poems, five waving, six wandering, seven sleeping, eight awakening, nine Qing offerings, ten fine houses, eleven hearts, twelve appreciation, thirteen scholars; The "seven taboos" are one that is not as good as the law, two evil tools, three hosts and guests do not rhyme, four crowns are harsh, five meat dishes are miscellaneous, six are busy and redundant, and the desk between the seven walls is more evil.

Ye Yunqing took a sip of tea, and then said that since the Qing Dynasty, gongfu tea has been popular, and gongfu tea pays attention to drinking time. Drinking gongfu tea, there are two kinds of self-decoction and hospitality, especially hospitality, which is more exquisite.

Ye Yunqing took three sips and took a sip, tasted the tea in his teacup, put down the cup, and said, Your tea is of good quality, rich in fragrance, with a wild nature, and the taste can be regarded as the top grade in green tea. If you go to a higher level in the frying process, it is a rare boutique in green tea.