Chapter Seventy-Eight: Tea Proverbs Run Through the Ages
Danxia's house is located at the foot of Tianxin Rock Tea Mountain, which can be described as a quiet place.
Whether it is a farmer or Wu Qing, as long as they are free, they will come to sit and sit, and often care about Danxia's life. Once, Wu Qing said to Nonglu that here, the mountains and fields are breezy, surrounded by green trees, and the bamboo forest is elegant, which seems to be more suitable for one person's own product.
Here, although the courtyard is shallow, it is accompanied by stone mills, locust trees, camphor trees, and old wells. Danxia is good at housework, Bai Longjie can do carpentry work, and the family is slowly full of vitality and vitality. If summer is coming, occasionally see cicadas singing and birds singing, watching butterflies frolicking in the courtyard, a chair at the table, a pot of tea, Bai Longjie can't help but be happy, this is also a good remedy for the heat.
Bai Longjie also loves tea, occasionally doing carpentry work, if tired, a cup of tea in hand, slowly tasted, a pleasant and complacent look. Now that the family background is acceptable, Danxia originally drank good tea many years earlier than Bai Longjie.
Bai Longjie said that tea is not good or bad, the key is to look at people's mood and who they are drinking with.
No, this tea is lively and quiet; A large family, a small family, nothing more than a happy drink, the realm of happiness.
The days are settled, and Danxia is getting richer and more charming. Although the tea drinking time is still long, when it comes to the tea set for making tea, Danxia is more particular, she has a family heirloom. The purple clay pot carved with the dragon's body is simple and exquisite. Every time Danxia drinks tea, she always lifts the flower cloth covering it and brings out the teapot and bowl, which must be upside down. When drinking, it is also very particular, always the first cup to pour a little, the so-called respect for heaven and earth, and then you can taste this cup of tea, and then taste the second cup. If it is two people, the first soaking is almost over at this time. Changed to the second soaked water, the color and taste are the most appropriate, the entrance is not bitter, but the aftertaste is sweet and strong. The third soak lacks some vitality and is too bland.
Later, after being ordered by the righteous mother Wu Qing, Danxia's ability to make tea and taste tea is becoming more and more popular.
Danxia has followed her father-in-law for many years and learned a lot of tea proverbs. Before the night had completely fallen, Danxia said to Bai Longjie, "How about I teach you a few proverbs today?" ”
Bai Longjie said, "Okay, please teach the lady!" ”
Danxia smiled and said, "Then I'll start, you listen: tea is grass, and basket is treasure." ”
Under ancient conditions, the collection of tea was moisture-proof, mainly with bamboo hoops, sealed with hoops, and placed in the tea with scissors than buried storage "ashes" or storage roasting cages, etc., which was much more trouble-free.
Danxia is like spitting lotus flowers, "Good steaming is better than fan frying, and good drying is not as good as good baking." ”
The former sentence says that steaming green is not as good as fried green, and the latter sentence refers to the fact that sunning green is not as good as baking green. In fact, this proverb reflects people's admiration and preference for various types of green tea.
After Bai Longjie heard this, he felt that it made sense.
There are also many proverbs about the production technology of tea. Danxia took a sip of tea and said, "You have to listen attentively, and you will use it for tea in the future." ”
Bai Longjie smiled and said, "Okay." ”
Danxia knows a lot and knows it in her heart, "thousands of teas, everything is prosperous", which is a proverb that advocates and persuades tea trees.
"Thousands of pines, a lifetime is not empty, a thousand teas, a lifetime is not poor", this tea proverb is simple and very reasonable.
Bai Longjie leaned over and smelled a familiar fragrance on Danxia's body, as if he was a little absent-minded, and said, "Lady, you are so amazing!" ”
Danxia said, "The awesome is still to come, you wait." So, as if she had pulled a machine gun, the bullet flew out in a shuttle, and she said a series of tea proverbs:
"The Qingming season is approaching, and the tea picking is busy and diligent", "Gu Yu tea, grasping all over the ground";
"The first tea is not picked, and the second tea is not sent";
"Leave a handful of spring tea, and send a handful of summer tea";
"Three days early is a treasure, and three days late is a grass";
"Lixia tea, old at night, tea turns grass after Xiaoman".
Bai Longjie's eyes lit up with golden light when he heard this, he couldn't stop nodding, and then stretched out his thumb and said, "My lady is amazing!" ”
At this time, Danxia said, I still have a sentence, "Spring tea is bitter, summer tea is astringent, it should be delicious, and autumn dew is white."
This is an ancient proverb that has been circulated earlier, which is to promote and encourage people to pick autumn tea, not that the quality of autumn tea is better than spring tea. There are also many varieties of yellow tea, such as Tianlu yellow tea, which is known as "fairy tea" and was later selected as tribute tea. These tea proverbs truly reflect the life of tea people and the skills of tea picking, planting and tea making, and also highly summarize the wisdom of tea people.
Bai Longjie nodded hurriedly, feeling that there was both tea fun and tea theory.
Danxia said seriously, "You have to remember, it will be of great use in the future." The evening breeze was already ruffling her jet-black hair.
Bai Longjie wrote them down one by one, and showed surprise. He didn't expect Danxia to be so much. Then he said, I know a few proverbs, "the sunset is carmine, there is no rain and there is wind", "plant melons and get melons, plant beans and get beans", and he smiled mysteriously, "You let me remember that it is okay, but I have one condition." ”
"On what terms?"
Bai Longjie immediately leaned over, "Then you let me kiss me well, okay?" ”
"I'm ashamed." Danxia tilted her face and said shyly, "As long as you do it, you can do whatever you want." ”
Bai Longjie hugged Danxia in his arms, she fell softly on top of him, and said, "I want to do this." The opportunity was an intimate meal, his hand sliding over her delicate skin......
She was afraid of itching, and exclaimed, "Okay, others can't stand it." Even so, she still leaned on him, and she felt electrocuted.
"It's so embarrassing in broad daylight." After all, in fact, her hands were already on his shoulders, kissing him from time to time. She was tickled by him.
"The sun is going down, it's evening." Bai Longjie said as he moved.
"Look at your ......"
"Then you can do it."
"You're necrotic."
By this time, he had already swept over the grass......
She had a lot of experience, so the two of them gradually got better, sweating crystally, after a burst of rolling clouds and rain, her cheeks were red, her head buried in the edge of his neck, and she gasped slightly.
He sniffed her, "The lady is so fragrant!" ”
"Smell you!" Then "giggle".
The sunset has set into the mountains.
Although Danxia is clothed and vegetable, she still lives with interest. She is smart and smart, can find a little fun in the ordinary, knows the way of "happiness", is full of tea love and tea rhyme, and often enjoys poetry and tea. In this regard, she has won the true inheritance of her stepmother Wu Qing.
Those "boudoir memories" and "leisure memories" are also suitable for her
Sweeping the tomb in the spring, she saw that there were moss patterns on the stones on the ground, so she said that it was more ancient to take this stone home and stack bonsai rockeries, so they picked up some stones and went home and built a rockery in front of the courtyard.
Because women could not participate in the temple fair at that time, she disguised herself as a man, changed her hair into braids, put on a men's hat, put on men's clothes, and followed the example of men and strode into the temple fair.
Occasionally, when she lived at her father-in-law's house in the city, she and Bai Longjie's friends came to play at home in an endless stream, so she sold her only hairpin to sell wine without the slightest hesitation.
In the season of cauliflower yellow, she came up with a clever trick again, brought a sand pot, strung the handle of the can with an iron fork, hung it on the stove, and added firewood to make tea, and everyone was impressed.
Bai Longjie likes to drink a little wine and eat some side dishes. She prepared a peach blossom box for him, three white porcelain deep dishes, one in the middle, and two on the side, painted with pink, shaped like peach blossoms. When not in use, it is placed on the desk, like a red heart that opens silently. Putting the dish on a plate as if it were in the petals of a flower is quite elegant.
In summer, the lotus flowers first bloom, bloom during the day, and close at night. She used a small yarn bag to pinch a little tea and put it in the heart of the lotus. The next morning, I took it out and cooked it with rainwater to make tea, which was fragrant......
When Wu Qing saw it, she praised her repeatedly, saying that she was a good worker.
Don't think that such leisure is about money and happiness.
In fact, Danxia's situation at that time was not satisfactory. Since childhood, he has relied on his eldest brother for his life, and after several twists and turns, he and Bai Longjie have a good relationship. The family is often overstretched, and from time to time it is necessary to wait for the rice to be put into the pot. Later, thanks to the help of my father-in-law and mother-in-law, we are in today's situation...... In all this, Danxia's life is not much better than others. But what is commendable is that in such a cold and difficult life, she is still full of love for the world, and lives an idle and elegant life.
Danxia said: Cloth clothes and vegetables, the same Coke for life. A woman like Danxia can also bloom in the rubble.
Over the years, Danxia has adhered to the natural and flexible, everything comes from the nature of the heart, never pretentious, the heart is blue, and the eyes are clear. It's like the style of a cup of tea in this cloudy mountain. No matter how generations change, there are always things that remain the same, like the brightest star in the night sky, shining and charming.
Danxia likes bamboo, and is always happy to find the fun of bamboo. In order to erect a bamboo fence, Bai Longjie was asked to go to the mountains to find bamboo and transplant it, although it was not easy, and finally formed a small bamboo forest around the yard. More and more long bamboos, like white orchids and jasmine, are gradually being replaced by small flowerless plants in many people's homes.
Danxia told Bai Longjie that there was no room for planting flowers indoors, and I thought I could use bamboo instead. Bamboo furniture has another taste. You can also get a small bamboo bookshelf and bamboo tea table. Isn't it better than precious hardwood?
Bai Longjie nodded yes.
Bamboo can also be made into handicrafts, such as bamboo silk paintings, bamboo bottles, bamboo plates, bamboo boxes, bamboo pen holders, and bamboo pots. Danxia said that in my opinion, using bamboo pots to hold tea leaves may be the best way to preserve them. Therefore, there are many shapes of bamboo pots in her home, round, square, and hexagonal. In the Yunwu Mountain, the climate is humid, which is convenient for the bamboo forest to be abundant, and a large area of the mountain land is occupied, which not only makes people think of the Xiaoxiang of the bamboo forest, but also makes people think of the sweetness of the bamboo shoots and bamboo shoots after the rain. The tea cans made of Yunwu camellia and mangosteen really complement each other together.
In the mountains, there is a kind of bamboo product called the turning spring, carving, painting, hot stamping, weaving vases on the bamboo, hanging bottles, looking like ivory, which is the unique feature of the turning spring.
A gentleman is like a bamboo, straight and open-chested, facing the wind and having integrity. The tea tree is like a spiritual bud, absorbing the essence of heaven and earth, and it is all a fairy bone.