This morning, Wuwei Taoist went down the mountain, he came to the Yunwu Mountain Tea Workshop, and was sitting in a corner of the tea shop to taste tea, but he did not come by fate, only for one thing, which is to teach the Taoist tea scriptures.

Nong Lu saw it and said: "Wuwei Taoist is good, welcome to come and taste tea!" ”

Wuwei Daoist took a sip of tea, took out a bag of tea from his bag, and said, "This is the Daoxian tea I brought here, I hope it can help you!" ”

The farm opened it, smelled it again, and said repeatedly: "It's so fragrant, this is good tea!" ”

According to historical records, in ancient China, tea planting, tea making, and tea drinking were mostly popular in Taoist temples. Its history can be traced back to Lao Tzu, the originator of Taoism more than 2,500 years ago.

"The Book of Taoism: The Emperor to the Taoist Taiqing Jade Book" records: "Lao Tzu sent a letter to Guguan, so that Yin Xi welcomed him to the first place in the family to offer tea, the beginning of this tea. Lao Tzu said: Food is tea, and all of you are disciples. ”

Lao Tzu was the first to take tea as a Taoist gift, and included it in the category of Taoism and the norms of etiquette, and Taoist tea was born.

Wuwei Taoist said: This immortal tea has the inner quality of beauty, high fragrance and mellow taste, and is very nourishing, nourishing the heart and nourishing nature, and the Taoist calls it "longevity tea".

Nonglu nodded in praise.

"The Tao is the way, the very way; Tea can be tea, very tea". Dao tea has been around since ancient times and has a long history.

According to legend, Xuantian God's true martial ancestor Wudang cultivated, and the Jade Emperor gave tea to cultivate sex and health, and became an immortal. Every year on the third day of March and the ninth day of September in the lunar calendar, the Wudang Taoist people will hold a grand ritual activity to worship the true martial ancestor with the best tea, and this ritual has been passed down to this day.

Wuwei Taoist narrated: at the beginning, the Taoist directly chewed the fresh leaves of the tea tree, drew tea juice from it, felt the fragrance of tea in repeated chewing, cleared the heart and eyes, and over time, the chewing of tea became a hobby. Later, the habit of chewing tea changed to boiling and serving, and over time, the habit of making tea with boiling water gradually formed.

Nonglu listened with fascination.

Wuwei Taoist is sitting in danger, saying, we Taoist people often drink this tea, the heart is relaxed, the heart is clear, the heart is calm, the life is to the realm, peace to the extreme, it is called Taihe, and the tea drunk is also called "Taihe tea", and the Taoist tea also comes from this. Our Fengshan and Wudang Mountain Taoism are in the same line.

Nonglu listened intently, interjecting from time to time. He asked, "What is the use of this immortal tea?" ”

Wuwei Taoist answers: one is to drink tea to eliminate diseases, the second is to drink tea for health and fitness, and the third is for self-cultivation.

Nonglu said "uh-huh" and asked, "How to make it?" ”

Wuwei Taoist said the secret of tea picking:

The fresh leaves of Daoxian tea are delicate and delicate, and the fresh leaves in spring are of the best quality. The essentials of fresh leaf picking, picking in stages and batches, grading processing. Do not pick substandard fresh leaves, do not pick pest leaves, rain leaves, dew leaves, dirty leaves, purple leaves, etc., picking methods for pulling or picking, not allowed to pinch picking, not to damage fresh leaves.

The processing of Daoxian tea pays attention to the spread of fresh leaves, otherwise the quality will be affected. Fresh leaves should be spread indoors naturally on the mats, soft plaques, etc., and the site should be clean and hygienic, air flowing, and cool, and avoid sun and rain. Generally, the leaf color changes from fresh (emerald) green to light dark green, the luster on the surface of the leaf basically disappears, the leaf quality is not hard and brittle, and the fragrance or floral fragrance and fruit fragrance can be smelled.

Finishing is the most critical process for the formation of Daoxian tea quality, which requires high-temperature short-term passivation to obtain the "three green" qualities that green tea should have. Killing can emit a green odor, develop tea fragrance, evaporate part of the water, make the leaves soft, enhance toughness, and facilitate kneading and shaping.

The method of kneading and twisting is used to make the tea roll tightly into strips, which is conducive to shaping the shape, and can also appropriately destroy the leaf cells and facilitate the leaching of the contents, so as to enhance the concentration and persistence of the taste of the tea soup. However, the tea that has not been kneaded at all has slow leaching of the contents, the taste of the tea soup is relatively light, and the volume of dry tea is relatively coarse.

Daoxian tea pays attention to shape, and adopts different methods to shape and shape a variety of artistic shapes, such as flat, curly, needle, etc.

Daoxian tea needs to be stored for a long time, so it is required to keep the moisture content in the low range. Drying can evaporate water, reduce the water content of tea, facilitate storage and quality preservation, and further form the color, aroma and taste of tea. Therefore, the drying and shaping of Daoxian tea are often integrated, that is, drying in the shape and forming in the drying.

After hearing this, Nonglu praised it greatly.

With the philosophical idea of "Heaven and Humanity", Daoxian Tea has established the soul of the tea ceremony, expressed the idea of advocating nature, advocating simplicity, advocating rebirth, noble life and health preservation, thoroughly understanding the tea ceremony, heaven and humanity, showing the return to nature, and longing for the concept of "Taoism and Nature".

To taste the way of tea, cultivate health, and pursue the way of longevity. In ancient times, Taoists regarded tea ceremony kung fu as one of the three major kung fu necessary for Taoists: "litigation lessons, meditation, and tea ceremony".

In the end, Wuwei Taoist recited a song that has been passed down for a long time in Taoist tea:

Cultivating the true bitter and faint taste of the fairy,

Self-planted clouds and jade ying.

Ancient with the cheeks of the sweet teeth of the man,

The spring breeze is worth hundreds of billions.

Taoism is still served, and tea is the fairy bone of plants and trees, so there are many tea lovers, and there is a saying that the tea ceremony is one.

At this time, Wuwei Taoist got up and left the table, and the two exchanged greetings and said goodbye to each other.

Nonglu stood outside the store, watching the figure of Wuwei Taoist in the distance, the fluttering Taoist seemed to be rippling in the wind, and Nonglu unconsciously felt a layer of warm ripples in his heart.

Wuwei Taoist is to teach the true scriptures of Taoist tea to Nonglu, and Nonglu has already understood it.

Wuwei Taoist said that Fengshan Dao tea does have the product essence of "beautiful shape, high fragrance and mellow taste" and the characteristics of "nourishing the body, nourishing the heart, nourishing nature, and longevity tea", with high product quality and profound cultural heritage.

If summed up, there are three wonderful uses of Taoist tea:

The first is to drink tea to eliminate diseases. Tea, called "tea" in the medicine book, as the saying goes, ten ways and nine doctors, Taoist people pay great attention to the medicinal value of tea, in Xianshan Fengshan, throughout the ages, there are many Taoist people drink tea to eliminate diseases.

The second is to drink tea for health and fitness. Drinking tea can clear the heart and refresh the mind, clear the liver and eyes, and quench thirst. It can be said that it is a multi-functional drink in terms of health and fitness.

The third is the use of self-cultivation. Taoist meditation, pay attention to "harmony and tranquility", especially in the night meditation, in the meditation and meditation, it is inevitable to be tired and sleepy, at this time drinking tea, can refresh the mind, overcome drowsiness, and Taoist self-cultivation. Then, drinking Dao tea is conducive to tasting life, breaking through the "truth of suffering", making a cup of good Dao tea, and watching the fragrance and color, which is a kind of spiritual enjoyment and a wonderful use of self-cultivation.

According to historical records, the tea culture of the Tang Dynasty did not forget its origin while it was prosperous. Tang Fengyan's "Feng's Hearing and Seeing Notes: Drinking Tea" records that the wind of drinking tea "starts in the middle of the ground and flows outside the plug". The "middle land" here refers to the Central Plains and the central region.

As Lu Yu said in "The Book of Tea": "The tea man, the Jiamu of the south, one foot two feet or even dozens of feet, its Bashan Gorge, there are two people hugging it, and they will be cut down." ”

Jingshan belongs to the "Bashan Gorge" area mentioned by Lu Yu, which is not only the birthplace of tea culture in the world and China, but also the birthplace of Taoist tea culture.