Chapter 2 Tea rhyme
When he arrived at the house, Yu Feihong thought that the house was too busy, so he moved the tea set outside.
There was a small pavilion behind his house facing the river, and he put a tea set in the pavilion, boiled water, brewed tea, and invited Cai Hongming to drink.
The tea soup is orange and bright, the tea fragrance is elegant, quiet, faint, soft, with a lingering fragrance of orchid cinnamon, drinking in the mouth, the teeth and cheeks are fragrant.
As soon as he drank it, Cai Hongming knew that it was Wuyi rock tea from his hometown of Fujian Province, and except for Wuyi rock tea, no tea would have this taste.
Outside the pavilion, there are pleasure boats carrying men and women playing on the canal, and the sound of frolicking and slapstick is heard from time to time. Tasting this fragrant red robe, enjoying the beautiful scenery on the river, if there is a beautiful woman holding the guqin to play a song of the spring river flower moonlit night next to it, it is really a great enjoyment of life.
"How's it going, the tea is good!" Yu Feihong asked.
"It's really good, I don't know if it's those who came down?" Cai Hongming nodded.
"I don't know, this is someone else's gift, I'm just borrowing flowers to offer Buddha." Yu Feihong smiled and filled Cai Hongming with another lamp.
Wuyi rock tea has a long history, according to historical records, as early as the Tang Dynasty, tea has been cultivated in the Wuyi Mountain area. In the Song Dynasty, it was listed as a royal tribute, and the Yuan Dynasty also set up a "baking bureau" and "imperial tea garden" in Wuyi Mountain, specializing in the collection of tribute tea.
However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, someone created oolong tea with the tea trees planted in Wuyi Mountain.
Since then, there have been more varieties of Wuyi rock tea, including Da Hong Pao, Iron Arhat, White Rooster Comb, and Water Golden Turtle "Four Famous Fir". In addition, there are also those named after the growth environment of tea trees, such as not seeing the sky, golden keys, etc.; Named after the shape of the tea tree, such as drunken begonia, drunken dongbin, fishing golden turtle, anchovy grass, jade unicorn, a branch of incense, etc.; Named after the leaf shape of the tea tree, such as melon seed gold, money, bamboo silk, golden wicker, inverted leaf willow, etc.; Named after the tea tree buds sooner or later, such as Yingchun willow, unknown spring, etc.; It is named after the tea flavor type, such as cinnamon, stone **, white musk, etc.
During the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, tea produced in Wuyi began to be exported to Western Europe, North America and Nanyang countries. At that time, Europeans used to call it Wuyi tea, as a general term for Chinese tea.
Traders who buy and sell tea often call all Wuyi rock tea Da Hong Pao, and according to the regulations, as long as it is rock tea from the place of origin, it can be called Da Hong Pao. But it's like a hot pot, it's a hodgepodge, and as long as it meets the specifications, it can be called that. But in fact, there is still a distinction. If you buy tea from a tea-producing family, if you tell someone to ask for a big red robe, they will give you one casually. But if you ask what are the famous fir and small varieties, they will tell you very clearly: this is Qidan, how much is it; That's how much is Beidou, and that's how much is Qizi.
The so-called Qidan, Beidou, and Qizhong are varieties spliced out of the tea leaves bred by the descendants of the old tea trees in Jiulongyi, Wuyi Mountain, just like bar bartending, mixing several different flavors of wine together to make an unforgettable cocktail.
The spliced tea tastes good, and of course the price is high; The difference in splicing, the price will be low. However, the big red robe has grade regulations, and if it doesn't meet that regulation, it can't be called a big red robe.
After drinking tea, Yu Feihong told Cai Hongming to come and see the samples the day after tomorrow, so he went to get busy.
Cai Hongming also said goodbye and left, seeing that it was still early, he wanted to go to the folk collection market by the Slender West Lake to have a look, and then go to the Slender West Lake in the evening to feel Du Mu's "Twenty-four Bridge Bright Moon Night, where does the jade teach." Wonderful scene.
The collection market has always been a favored place, not to mention that this collection market is next to the food street on the edge of Slender West Lake, and it is even more crowded with people.
Cai Hongming came to the place, looked left and right, and had no intention of buying it at all.
In the past, he had bought sword coins and thumb-sized bronze mirrors from the Qin and Han dynasties, which were only about ten yuan, and no matter how high they were, he would not buy them. He felt that these things could not be eaten or drunk, so what was the use of buying them? Besides, he doesn't understand this thing, what if the price is too high? What should I do if I buy a fake? So he generally buys these things mainly for practicality, feels good, and is not too expensive to buy. In the past, he wanted to buy a beast copper furnace, about eighty yuan, but then he felt that the copper furnace wall was too thin, so he bid the boss for fifty, but he didn't buy it if they didn't sell it.
Now that I think about it, fortunately I didn't buy it, otherwise I don't know if it's imitation copper.
Walking all the way, he came to a corner in the back, and he saw a little girl of five or six years old sitting in front of a stall that looked like antiques selling things, and a woman wearing a mask, coughing from time to time, and pale face sitting against the wall in the back.
"Uncle, do you want to buy something?" Seeing Cai Hongming coming, the little girl asked sweetly.
"I'll take a look." Cai Hongming squatted down and casually picked up something that looked like amber with a scorpion in it and looked at it.
"Uncle, that one costs twenty dollars, that one is not amber, it's plastic, but the scorpion inside is real. Mom said it was a craft. This is also a handicraft, and those are too, that one only costs five yuan, this ten yuan is very expensive, it costs a hundred yuan, this one hundred and five, that one two hundred, these are all antiques. The little girl saw that Cai Hongming seemed to be interested in the things in her stall, so she introduced him hard.
"You also know what an antique is?" Cai Hongming looked at her little adult and asked with a smile.
"Mom said that the things used by the ancients are antiques, and the things we use now are called handicrafts." The little girl said with a serious face.
Hearing this explanation, Cai Hongming didn't feel it, and felt quite reasonable. After looking at it, he put down the imitation amber and took another thing to look at.
The little girl saw that he didn't buy it, so she went about her own thing. She picked up a box with money next to her, picked up the money inside and put it in categories, one hundred to a hundred, ten to ten, and five to five. After putting it away, I picked up the maximum ten dollars and counted them.
"One, two, three, four, five, one ten, five is fifty." The little girl pinched her little finger and counted carefully, and picked up the only one hundred again, "Add one hundred, a total of one hundred and fifty, plus two five pieces, one hundred and fifty plus ten dollars, that is, one hundred and sixty." ”
When the little girl finished counting, she immediately shouted happily to the woman sitting in the corner, "Mother, we sold one hundred and sixty pieces today." ”
"Fan fan is awesome." The woman smiled from behind the mask to encourage her daughter.
The little girl was so happy.
At this time, a middle-aged man with thief eyebrows and mouse eyes came out of the crowd, saw the money in the little girl's hand, flashed brightly, and reached out to grab it. Cai Hongming saw it next to him, stepped forward and grabbed his hand, and shouted: "What are you doing, even robbing children's money, do you want to be shameless?" ”
Tips: The new domain name "biquge.info" has been launched by Biquge, and the original domain name is about to be discontinued. Please tell each other, thank you!