Chapter 130: Wu Qing Passes on the Art of Tea
One tea, one world, one art and one life.
Taste a cup of fragrant tea, look refreshed, relaxed, grind a good tea art, increase knowledge, and multiply spirit; It also requires busyness, dedication, and even a lifetime of accumulation.
Tea art is an important part of tea science and is indispensable.
From cultivation to manufacturing, from review to health preservation, from brewing to tasting, it flexibly demonstrates the "six beauties" of tea art, and vividly reproduces the deep integration of tea art and literature.
Tea art is conducive to self-cultivation. Therefore, since ancient times, there has been a refined tea art to achieve the cultivation of heart and morality.
The most important thing in Chinese tea art is the Tao of nature, simplicity as virtue, calm as water, and return to simplicity. Tea art has led people's daily tea drinking to art, improved the realm of tasting, and endowed tea people with a stronger sense of spirituality and beauty.
Wu Qing said that tea art is colorful, full of interest, and enhances taste. From pleasure to health, from meditation to cultivation, they all give people enlightenment. Especially to be a tea man, it is more important to cultivate self-cultivation and morality.
Tea art is also a special skill of tea people's feelings. Tea art is often the tea person's own life experience into it. There are poems:
A river of spring waves rolls up, and the lonely boat berths at the end of the world,
The idlers sat on the Dragon King Pavilion, and the frustrated river water tried the Tianxin tea.
The ancient wood is fragrant, and the years are fragrant. In the Yunwu Mountain, there is a green jade, looking at it from afar, like a horizontal dai, looking up like a green snail, looking down at the sky and looking down like a Taiji diagram of yin and yang. The climatic conditions here are unique, foggy in winter and spring, cloudy in summer and autumn, the sun and stars are shining, and the mountains are hidden; The ecological conditions here are superior, with 32 mountain peaks, lying horizontally in the clouds and mist and smoke waves, full of lush forests and bamboos, lush and green; Exotic flowers and plants everywhere, fragrant in all seasons; The birds in the forest are singing and full of life. This is the Tianxin Rock in the depths of Jing Mountain.
Tianxin rock produces tea, among them, the picking of Tianxin silver needle is generally about 5 days before and after Qingming, picking a single bud head, which lasts 22 hours through eight processes. It is famous for "the bud body is yellow like gold, and the hair is white like jade", and is known as "gold inlaid jade".
At this time, Danxia, Wang Ziwei and Nong Tianqin sat around Wu Qing, who was preparing to teach them Tianxin Silver Needle to perform tea art skills and steps.
Previously, in order to cooperate with the business of Yunwu Mountain Tea Workshop, Wu Qing created the Tianxin Silver Needle Brewing Method and its tea art performance after repeated polishing, and the whole process is divided into eight steps:
The first step is to appreciate the dry tea.
Among the many items of tea, there is a special type of tea, picking a single bud before the Qingming Festival, in the green tea processing technology, and added the process of "stuffy yellow" to form a unique yellow leaf yellow soup, this is Tianxin Silver Needle, which belongs to the yellow bud tea in the yellow tea, and is the best in the yellow bud tea.
Tianxin silver needle is made of a single bud head, the appearance is stout, solid and straight, the bud body is golden, and the silver quill is full of cloth, which is not only excellent in quality, but also very unique in appearance. This tea is a masterpiece of the farm!
The second step is to boil the mountain spring.
Tianxin silver needle essence tea is fragrant, borrowed from water. The brewing of silver needles is most suitable for spring water, stream water, and well water. Just as Wang Xiucai wrote a couplet, "There is a spring in Longjing that is good for drinking; Jingshan is nowhere not suitable for tea", organically linking the local Longjing water and Jingshan famous tea, indicating that Tianxin Rock is the most suitable for growing tea, and Longjing water is the most suitable for brewing Tianxin tea.
The third step is to clean the cup.
China's tea utensils, with a long history, a wide range of types, beautiful shapes, in addition to practical value, also have a high appreciation value, favored by generations of tea lovers.
As early as the Tang Dynasty more than 1,000 years ago, Lu Yu's "Book of Tea" recorded celadon tea bowls. With the development of tea cooking utensils, it is now a complete variety, many items, or a dazzling and colorful, but the first recommended quartz pot suitable for boiling water.
The teacup of brewing Tianxin silver needle is the first choice of transparent glass, the glass is white and flawless, cheap and good, giving people a feeling of beauty and purity, because the glass can see through the landscape in the cup, so that the cup and tea are organically combined, complement each other, and complement each other.
The fourth step is to throw tea and brew.
When Wu Qing put the 3 grams of Tianxin silver needles in the glass, it reminded people of a true and poignant love story of Tianxin Rock. Legend has it that more than 4,000 years ago, the Yellow Emperor toured the south, and his concubine came with him, traveled to Jingshan, sowed the tea seeds he brought with him in Jingshan, and after cultivation, grew out of three strong tea seedlings, which is the legend that Tianxin rock tea had only three roots at the earliest. Later, when the concubine heard that the Yellow Emperor was dead, she was grief-stricken, and she cried bitterly, "The Yellow Emperor's southern tour did not return, and the concubine resented the water and clouds." How much do you know about the tears at that time? Until now, the tea tastes fresh".
Brewing Tianxin silver needle has a special exquisiteness, Wu Qing uses the technique of hanging pot high punching, with skillful and fast operation, so that the cup immediately has mist rising, to achieve the artistic conception of "steaming cloud Mengze". Rinse the cup with boiling water two-thirds of the way and close the lid.
The fifth step is to cover a cup of steamed tea.
"Tianxin Rock on the Maojian Tribute, with Jingshan Longnu Spring, the entrance is mellow and fragrant, and the white crane in the cup is in the blue sky", this is the poet's Tianxin tea.
The sixth step is to take the lid and enjoy the tea.
Tianxin silver needle wonder, a scene in the cup, quiet tea, tea people happy. The shadow in the cup of Tianxin silver needle is a story in mythology, and it is the most memorable moment when tea guests appreciate silver needles. Wu Qing said, please see, the tea buds are erected on the surface of the water, like ten thousand pen books, some of the tea buds slowly sink, some up and down, this is the "three ups and three downs", the tea reflects each other, it is a wonder, this is not a mythical story, this is the reality to witness!
In a moment, all the tea buds will stand at the bottom of the cup, like a group of bamboo shoots unearthed, and like a forest of knives and guns, no wonder some people say that the tea room is a palace of art, tea tasting is the purification of the soul, the enjoyment of beauty, it makes people enter a higher realm. As the saying goes, "a cup of silver needles is a temporary guest, and the two armpits are breezy and immortal".
The seventh step is to taste the tea and smell the fragrance.
Wu Qing Dao, the tea ceremony has four virtues "honesty, beauty, harmony and respect", to the guests to offer tea, is to regard the guests as God, respect for the guests, through the tea tasting, communicate emotions, reflect modesty.
When the guests taste the fragrance and rhyme, they can first appreciate the tea soup, watch its color, smell its fragrance, and appreciate its shape. Then sip the tea soup while it's hot. When tasting, it is advisable to take small sips and taste the elegant and mellow aroma of Tianxin Silver Needle Tea.
Famous tea and celebrities have an innate fate, and many famous teas are produced by literati, which is not unreasonable.
Wu Qing said that your tea tasting here is not only an appreciation of the "color, fragrance and taste" of Tianxin Silver Needle, but also the beginning of the relationship with Tianxin Tea.
Step 8: Accept a cup of tea.
"The water in the dragon girl's well, the tea on the Tianxin rock."
At this time, the Tianxin Silver Needle Tea Art Show is about to end.
Finally, Wu Qing concluded, she said emotionally: Some people say that drinking alcohol can stimulate the poet's emotions, so it can be said that tasting Tianxin Silver Needle Tea can inject vitality into you, inspire you, enhance your confidence, and improve your health.
She concluded in an emphatic tone, full of emotion:
Your friends may be in our café;
Your inspiration may appear in this moment of tea tasting;
Your great success may be in the process of tasting tea, in the love of tea.
This is the end of the whole set of Tianxin silver needle tea art performance pioneered by Wu Qing!
Danxia, Wang Ziwei and Nong Tianqin listened carefully and learned energetically, they nodded again and again, praising their mother for her "exquisite tea art and endless aftertaste"!