If it takes a year to make a large wooden box of tea, I'm afraid that the farm is still the first one!

We have to start from the beginning. That year, in order to export the original wooden boxes "Yi Black Tea", these black tea wooden boxes traveled thousands of miles of tea road to Russia.

These tea boxes are a record of the packaging form of tea exports, and the paulownia wood tea boxes are lined with kraft paper and aluminum foil, and the size of the wooden boxes is specially customized according to the size of the container. Wooden boxes were the most important form of packaging for tea exports, and were gradually replaced by other materials due to rising costs.

This traditional way of storing tea leaves in wooden boxes is extremely unique, which can't help but arouse the interest of Nong Tianyi, who wants to follow the tradition and return to the essence when modern tea ware becomes more ornate and complex.

A few years ago, when Nong Tianyi was looking for delicious black tea in Hankou, he was lucky to come across a black tea box. There is a wharf in the southeast of Jingshan Mountain, from where most of the exported Jingshan tea was shipped to various places, and it is precisely because of this historical reason that there are many carpenters and craftsmen in the area of Fujiang Wharf, and the traditional craft of making tea wooden boxes is still retained.

For example, the farm is over 50 years old, but it is still friends with wood and tea as a companion, and it is never tired.

Once, Nonglu told Nong Tianyi that the wooden box is different from ordinary objects, the best black tea is sealed in the wooden box, and will follow the owner to live for many years, the wooden box is not only the carrier of tea, but also inextricably linked with tea and people in this process, and finally becomes an object with a "human touch".

For example, before in the market, when Nong Tian saw the white tea peony king, there were many merchants who gave feedback, hoping to produce a large-scale white tea that is easy to collect, white tea is known as "one year tea, three years of medicine, seven years of treasure" reputation, as a storage appreciation of the tea is more suitable, so Nong Tianyi decided to make a wooden box of white tea, between the square inch of the wooden box, so that more people can inherit and experience this tradition, just like the old people, warm and affectionate.

It's just that the production process is more complicated than imagined, Nong Tianyi discussed with his father, and decided to find Tan Carpenter at the beginning, and made a batch of boxes in full accordance with the style exported that year, but the wooden boxes of traditional paulownia planks were too squeamish, and most of them were lost in the reserve stage, and Nong Tianyi never allowed to use flawed boxes to fill the number, so the loss rate was too high. His father was very distressed.

In the days that followed, Nong Tianyi solicited feedback and suggestions from the first batch of buyers, and he went to Jingdezhen non-stop to seek the guidance of a master with porcelain packaging experience, and optimized the structure from the firmness and storage stability, while maintaining the rustic appearance of the export wooden box, so he carried out two more proofings. Of course, the cost of making this wooden box is high. But Nong Tianyi thinks it's worth it.

Maybe they're not alone. From ancient times to the present, people's exploration of tea storage has never stopped, but Nong Tianyi hopes to be a symbol of this era, which can not only inherit the experience of the old tea people, but also add icing on the cake to it from the perspective of contemporary people.

Feng Mengzhen, a tea lover in the Ming Dynasty, wrote in "Kuaixuetang Manlu": "The real tea urn, the bottom is placed on the basket, sealed and upside down, then it is not yellow in summer, and it is not vented with its gas." ”

In the "Export of Ancient Tea in the Qianlong Period", it is recorded that the Swedes once salvaged the "Gothenburg" sea ship, and a batch of tea from the Qianlong period was salvaged from the shipwreck, and the most shocking thing is that these tea leaves have been buried in the mud for 240 years, and they are basically intact, and most of the tea leaves can still be drunk normally. It's a miracle!

Originally, the tea was packed in a wooden box, with a thickness of more than one centimeter, and a layer of lead sheet was laid in the box, and then a layer of mulberry paper coated with tung oil was laid outside. The inside is soft and the outside is hard, and the double layer is spaced, so the tea leaves wrapped inside are extremely difficult to oxidize, so that they are still unharmed after a hundred years, and the tea fragrance is overflowing.

These are the precious wealth left by the ancestors, coupled with the feedback experience of Nong Tianyi when he made the first batch of wooden boxes, and after several discussions with his father, he decided to change the material of the wooden box, using lighter paulownia wood, paulownia wood is soft but not easy to split, not easy to deform, even the phoenix is particularly favored, "non-sycamore, non-practice is not eaten", paulownia can be said to be the best material for making wooden boxes. At this time, Nong Tianyi also signed a more modern manufacturer in Hankou, and the excellent production made the surface of the wooden box smoother, and the traces of time did not pierce the hand, but became warmer with the polish of time.

Nong Tianyi's friend in Hankou suggested that the "sense of ceremony" of the wooden box should be increased, so that the moment of opening the box would become exquisite and romantic. So in the upgraded version of the wooden box, a portable screwdriver is also given with the box, Nong Tianyi prefers to call it a "key", the meaning of which is: May when the key opens this wooden box full of stories, what you smell is the smell of a person back then.

The summer has passed, and the weather is still hot.

When Nong Tianyi's wooden box upgrade sample was placed in front of him, a light of autumn tea in the distance just awakened the distant autumn flavor in the atmosphere of the mountains and wilderness.

Its fragrance is high, its rhyme is far away, and it is very different from spring tea.

As soon as Nong Tianyi put down the cup, he couldn't help but sigh: After all, autumn has arrived.

The colors of autumn are the most colorful, as if they are the paint plates overturned by nature - sassy maple forests, Xiaoxiao distant mountains, and long autumn water......

As the ancients said: "A good year must be remembered, the most orange, yellow, orange and green time".

Outdoor hiking, cool breeze.

Nong Tianyi and Wang Ziwei walked on the fallen leaves of the mountain rocks, wandering on the side of the reedy autumn water, drinking a cup of autumn tea, just like the autumn sun is warm and affectionate.

This autumn dream, in fact, has just begun, and it is already intoxicated......

The word for tea was originally a person among the grass and trees!

Every time I drink autumn tea, Nong Tianyi will always think of: Qiushui Yiren. At this time, there was "Yiren" on the side, and he unconsciously recited the "Book of Songs":

"The leaves are pale, and the white dew is frost. The so-called Iraqi people are on the water side. ”

Wang Ziwei said, smell the tea fragrance first, "Sanjitang" autumn white dew has a kind of herbal fragrance, Jingshan autumn tea has a fruit-like sweetness, are so rich and long, and dry fragrance and hot smell, warm smell, hanging cup fragrance, cold fragrance...... It's not the same.

What a beautiful woman on the water side.

The fog on the frustrated river was thick, and she couldn't see her face clearly, and the closer she wanted to go, the more distant she became. She seems to have many different appearances, mysterious, tactful, and rich......

Across the river of autumn water, the reeds ripple, just like the heart of a person.

Wang Ziwei said: "Tracing back to it, the road is long and obstructive. Swim back from it, as if in the middle of the water".

At this time, Wang Ziwei poured water into the soup, the tea leaves stretched at the bottom of the cup, and the taste of the soup became thicker.

Nong Tian took a sip and said, "The fragrance is high!" With a slight astringency, like the astringent feeling that lingers on the lips and teeth after eating fruit.

Just like a good cup of yellow tea soup, it will also condense into gelatin, with golden and bright color and high foam resistance.

brewed down one by one, making them forgetful, as if they could drive a bamboo raft boat, trace it in the autumn water, and go upstream......

As Lu You's "Autumn Xing" says:

"The neighbor's father built a field to harvest early crops, and Aunt Xi sold autumn tea in a cage.

After a day of leisure, he leaned on the firewood to count the crows. ”

Nong Tian thought that the taste of the years after many years could be reflected in this tea wooden box, and suddenly felt that this was not a movable time capsule?

In the face of time, all things are equal, things are good or bad, and time has its own public opinion, which seems to be more vividly reflected in the tea wooden box. Over the past year, Nong Tianyi and his father have spent all the energy on a box that has turned it into the most precious thing and the most unforgettable memory!

I almost forgot to say that this is not the end, and then Nong Tianyi will upgrade the third wooden box, as for what kind of surprises and thoughts there will be, and wait for time to verify!

Tea is water, water is wealth, and drinking tea gathers both popularity and wealth. It's a joy for all!