Chapter 14 Yellow Tea Hand Sutra
That night, Nong Wangnian talked with his son about making yellow tea. He told his son that the key to making yellow tea is dull yellow. After dull yellowing, it forms a unique yellow soup and yellow leaves. Its fragrance has its own characteristics depending on the process and raw materials.
Nong Jingtang asked, "Father, what's so special about my yellow tea?" ”
Nong Wangnian replied: "The aroma is fresh and tender, the taste is fresh, and there is a little pine smoke fragrance. This is a special treatment that is done during the production process. ”
Nong Jingtang said "uh-huh" twice, and then asked: "Father, what is the main difference between yellow tea and green tea?" ”
Nong Wangnian replied: "Yellow soup and yellow leaves, the taste is mellow, and what is particular is a kind of charm. ”
In fact, yellow tea is not only from the color and inner quality of the tea, as a unique process yellow tea but evolved from roasted green tea, the time is around 1570 AD. On the surface, two different definitions of yellow tea give two different times of origin of yellow tea, so yellow tea must go through a dull yellow process, and only the tea produced by stuffy yellow processing is the real meaning of yellow tea.
There are many accidental factors in the production of craft yellow tea, which are reflected in many tea works. Huang Ru of the Song Dynasty described the yellowing of tea processing in the "Records of Tea Tasting": "Created in the rain, its color is dim yellow", which shows the influence of rainwater leaves on tea processing, and the rainwater leaves with more water content can cause yellowing due to the lack of timely drying, becoming yellow tea. This is on the surface. In the book, there is another cloud: "The tea buds are steamed, and the gas is the wait, and it is not possible to be careless." When you try it, the color is yellow and the millet is large, and the disease of overripeness is also. However, although it is overripe, the more unripe it is, the sweeter the taste is better. Therefore, when the monarch talks about color, blue and white are better than yellow and white; In terms of taste, yellow and white are better than green and white. Therefore, he believes that even if the tea is overripe and processed into yellow, it tastes better than the green tea. It can be said that yellow tea has its own charm.
Mongolians also call brick tea or green tea yellow tea, mainly according to the color of the tea name, in ancient times due to long-distance transportation, it took a long time, green tea color turned yellow, similar to the color of brick tea, also known as yellow tea. This shows the weight of yellow tea.
For Nong Jingtang, in the aroma of this yellow tea, there is always a simple, warm and sweet smell of the farmer, pine wood, a few fried chestnuts, pots, corn...... These ordinary things, familiar tastes, are filled with warm and sweet memories.
After another two years, Nong Wangnian felt that it was time to open a tea house, and this matter was in his heart for a while.
After the discussion of the father and son, they hit it off and decided to focus on self-produced tea, supplemented by the purchase of tea farmers' tea, and concurrently engaged in tea retail, named "Sanjitang Tea House".
The problem is that the room at home is tight and may not be enough. Such a related matter came out, and a few new houses were needed to solve the urgent need.
Making a house in the countryside can be said to be a big deal, and you can't be sloppy.
The father and son combined again, and simply built a few new houses, and the matter was solved. In this way, the housing is also spacious, killing two birds with one stone.
Nong Wangnian has been brewing a big plan in his heart for a long time, and he is ready to give it a go. Then, the first issue of making a new house is the location problem, which is the most critical. Nong Wangnian thought hard for a few days, and suddenly thought of a peculiar method, he was going to use a special way to complete the site selection.
Before building the house, Nong Wangnian asked his son to sleep in the room of Linhou Mountain every day, and when he came in the morning, he asked his son: "You first heard the birds from that direction?" ”
And when the son said that it was from the east, he threw a black stone into the east;
When the son said that he was from the north, he threw a white stone into the north......
This kind of repetitive mechanical thing was done for about a month.
Nong Jingtang is the second monk who is confused, and he doesn't know what his father is doing. Nong Jingtang asked this and that, Nong Wangnian was just sullen and didn't speak.
Nong Jingtang felt that his father was even more mysterious, so he was embarrassed to ask any further. It can be said that the family is in the dark, and only Nong Wangnian's heart is clear.
A month later, when the time was ripe, Nongwang Nian chose the place with the most white stones to build a house, that is, to build a house in the north. The sketch of the new house has also come out, and the plan is to build a total of nine large houses, and a total of 26 partial houses in the main house, which shows the momentum of the new farmhouse.
The reason why Nongwang Nian chose the side with many white stones to start the house is to take the meaning of "the dragon travels in the clouds and becomes an immortal". This is because there is an ancient legend in Jingshan.
The Yellow Emperor married the daughter of Jingshan Xiling, the ancestor of the ancestors, who invented silkworm breeding and the mother of the world. The Yellow Emperor, who has the blood of a dragon, once patrolled around and observed the people's feelings. He ordered people to mine the copper from Julong Mountain, the highest peak of Jingshan, and then transported it to the bank of the Fu River at the foot of Jingshan to cast a tripod to commemorate his glorious victory in the Great War.
Soon, the tripod was finally cast, and the Yellow Emperor held a celebration meeting for the casting of a giant tripod in Jingshan.
Invited to attend the ceremony were not only gods from all walks of life, but also people from all over the world, and everyone wanted to see what the Yellow Emperor's tripod looked like.
As soon as the hour comes, the emperor personally unveiled, only to see a copper tripod that is more than three zhang high, the mouth is as big as a cylinder flashing golden light in front of the gods and people, everyone is envious, come forward to take a closer look, the body of the tripod is engraved with a vigorous swimming dragon shuttling in an auspicious cloud, surrounded by ghosts and gods from all directions and all kinds of rare birds and beasts, it can be described as a thousand postures, vivid.
Just as the gods were admiring the giant tripod and the patterns on it with reverence, suddenly the sky was covered with thick clouds, blocking the sunlight, and the sky soon became dark......
Everyone thought it was going to rain, but a golden light pierced through the clouds, and a dragon wearing golden armor broke through the clouds, its tail and lower body were supported in the clouds, its head was resting on the treasure tripod, and the long dragon whiskers hung down to the ground along the feet.
The Yellow Emperor understood: This was his mission to complete the earth, and God sent a divine dragon to pick him up to heaven, so he jumped into the dragon's back, and flew back to heaven.
The people in the world were reluctant to go back to a virtuous and wise monarch like the Yellow Emperor, so everyone pulled the dragon whiskers and refused to let them go, and as a result, a lot of dragon whiskers were torn off, but despite this, the Yellow Emperor and the dragon still flew away.
It is said that when this dragon's whiskers fall to the ground, they will give birth to many small and slender grasses, which are all over the barren mountains and mountains, and the ancestors of Jingshan called this grass "dragon's whisker grass".
It's time for the farmer to get up. Nongwang Nian is very particular, and confidently held a grand groundbreaking ceremony:
First of all, he invited the monks of Tianlu Temple to chant scriptures, praying for peace and harmony, complete construction, comfortable residences, and protection of farmers. It's about the consummation of merit.
Secondly, Nong Wangnian took his family to burn incense and kowtow, put fruits and vegetables, toast grain wine, worship heaven and earth, circle the ground three times, and then set off firecrackers, looking pious......
Nong Wangnian kept chanting in his mouth: "Lord of the land, bless our family with peace and security!" ”
Finally, it is the people who came to congratulate them, including relatives and friends, and businessmen from afar, who gathered in a wasteland to look forward to the early completion of the new house!
During the construction of the house, Nongwangnian invited carpenters, carvers, stonemasons, masons, handymen, etc., which can be described as a large number of people and a huge project. The main craftsmen are all well-known figures in the local area. In this way, you can ensure the quality and level of the construction of the house, and at the same time ensure the construction period, complete on time, and leave no regrets.
In order to make the construction of the house smoothly, he specially invited a few cooks to cook for the craftsmen wholeheartedly, and do a good job of logistics, and these helpers all ate and lived in the farmhouse, the purpose of which was to let them work with peace of mind and ensure the progress of the construction of the new house. It can be described as a painstaking effort.
Due to the proper arrangement of the construction period, the reasonable division of labor, and the sufficient preparation of materials, it only took more than a year for a brand-new and imposing farm compound to be completed!
From the whole process of starting a house, building a new house to completion, it can be seen that the planning, implementation and overall planning ability of the agricultural year are outstanding.
The completion of the new house is a great event! In the year of Nongwang, a banquet was held to entertain relatives, friends and villagers, and the farmer was festive and peaceful.
After the new house was built, the nearby villagers came to see the majestic appearance, and everyone gave a burst of admiration. Since then, the tea industry of the farmer has also flourished.
To build a new house and make a tea house, Xu Caiyun also made a lot of contributions. He said to Nong Wangnian that the hard work of these years has not been in vain, and good things have been done.
This just confirms the old saying: as long as you do good deeds wholeheartedly, you will always achieve success.
Nong Wangnian has also made great efforts to operate the "Sanjitang Tea House".
At this time, the farmhouse has two adjacent courtyards, there are more than ten rooms for the tea house, because the yard is spacious, there are many tea boxes and tea bags, they need to be piled up, so they are separated into small houses, the appearance looks like a tea pile, in fact, it can be used as a small room.
There are wooden beds, quilts, and mosquito nets in the tea house, and you can live in it if you tidy it up, and you can buy it in the kitchen of the tea house at any time for dinner, which is very convenient. With the passage of time, the number of tea merchants, tea makers, and handymen increased, which also led to the development of other side businesses.
Soon, Sanjitang Tea House became the only large tea merchant at that time that integrated tea gardens, tea processing workshops, and tea shops. Sanjitang Tea House mainly deals in Maojian, yellow tea, fairy tea and other varieties, among which, Sanjitang Maojian and yellow tea are the most famous. In addition, the farmhouse tea is of excellent quality and good reputation, and the business is getting bigger and bigger.
At this time, the Sanjitang Tea House was smooth sailing, and its business was thriving. More than two years passed.