Chapter 144: Holding Flowers and Entering the Rivers and Lakes (Part II)
Nong Lu told Nong Tianyi about his experience: in the past, in order to pursue profits, tea merchants often used green tea in the following year, some of which had even been slightly mildewed, and used jasmine fragrance to "calm the taste".
However, Nong Tianyi's homemade flower tea is very willing to pay for it, and he uses the newly picked Ming Qian tea before the Qingming Festival, such as Tianxinyan green tea, as the base, which makes the tea soup of jasmine tea have a qualitative guarantee in taste.
Nong Tianyi and his wife Wang Ziwei used the jasmine produced in Jingshan Mountain to select the budding "barrel flowers" to be released.
Wang Ziwei has received a good education since childhood, especially ingenious, jasmine is a double-petaled flower, in order to give full play to the fragrance of each petal of jasmine, she will pick the flowers to their green pedicles, and then disassemble layer by layer, each layer to get a complete flower type, and the fragrance can also be fully released without any cover, and the flowers can be kept to the greatest extent when brewing.
After seeing it for the first time, Nong Tian was amazed again and again.
This is an extremely patient and skillful work, so the farmer's family of all ages went into battle, Danxia and Nong Tianqin are both good hands, and often join forces to laugh at Nong Tianyi's "clumsiness".
The tea-making process is not learned all at once, and Nong Tianyi has also gone through repeated explorations, and even many failures, and finally mastered the proportion.
Nong Tianyi said with deep understanding that the key to picking jasmine is to "grab the fragrance", the best time for jasmine to be fragrant is from 8 o'clock to 10 o'clock in the evening on the dog days, and the most moving time is only this short two hours, to rush the jasmine "snatch" home at this juncture.
Wang Ziwei selected the jasmine flowers, wrapped the first layer with absorbent paper in batches, wrapped the second layer in a clean towel, and then put it in the urn together with the selected green tea.
After 10 to 12 hours, the jasmine is mixed with alpine cloud tea and stir-fried, a pot of good tea can only fry the amount of 2 catties, every year Nong Tianyi and his family are busy with the heat of the summer heat, and the yield is only about ten catties. It is very precious to treat guests, and friends who have drunk it have applauded it one after another, and it has even become a habit.
At first, when the jasmine was in full bloom, everyone was worried about the flower tea produced by "Sanjitang", and made a special trip to ask for a good tea. This is the norm when Nongtian first makes jasmine tea together.
Nong Tianyi still remembers a pear blossom a few years ago, and the flowers fell like snow.
Good tea and wine exist for sharing, and because of tea friends, farmhouses are often full of friends. "Longtan Drifting Snow", a fragrant tea created a few years ago, can maintain its long-term influence, and it completely depends on the reputation of friends. They wrote poems, wrote poems, wrote inscriptions, and painted...... Because of the appreciation of these literati, for a time, Longtan Piaoxue won a wide reputation.
Therefore, Nong Tianyi believes that "tea culture" is not a paper word, and the so-called "tea can communicate with the gods" is exactly so. The charm of tea lies in the fact that it can become an introduction and communication medium of culture, and an opportunity for cultural people to taste life, communicate spiritually and trigger inspiration from each other.
That year, a group of literati and scholars gathered at the Nongtian family, and they proposed that such a good tea should be given a name that matches it, so as to distinguish it from the vulgar "one flower" and "two flowers" on the market.
Nong Tianyi is based on "water in the Dragon Girl Cave, tea on Tianxin Rock", named "Longtan Drifting Snow", which means that the dried flowers in the tea are slightly yellow, once brewed, they return to the pure beauty of snow white, the fragrance is light and elegant, such as the subtle snow floating in the wonderful artistic conception of Longtan.
As soon as this name came out, everyone was in an uproar!
Nong Tianyi clapped: Okay! "Longtan Drifting Snow", all four beauties.
Nong Tianyi is known as a brilliant talent, and he gave a poem on the spot:
Longyan picks up the tip of the hair, and draws the clear spring in the pool;
What is the like, snow buds fragrant in the world.
Later, Nong Tianyi explained "Longtan Drifting Snow" like this: the color of the tea soup is green and bright, and the base of the flower tea is clear green tea. The pond, like a tea bowl, hints at the good water for cooking tea. Floating, it is dynamic, the petals float on the water, and the fragrance is overflowing. Snow is white jasmine, flowers like snow falling from the sky, pleasing to the eye, and the beauty of the spirit is about to come out.
After listening to it, everyone was full of praise.
Because of this, Nong Tianyi established the "Sanjitang" Tea Science Workshop to devote himself to the study of tea culture.
Nong Lu told Nong Tianyi, and Nong Tianyi's grandmother mentioned that Nong's ancestors had done flower tea experiments.
The deeper he delved into tea, the deeper Nong Tianyi found his connection with tea, so much so that he forgot to sleep and eat.
In the past, the life of the ancient literati doctor was very exquisite, and he was often the leader and experimenter of the atmosphere. When Nong Tianyi studied the writings of Xu Wei in the Ming Dynasty, he found that as early as the Ming Dynasty, Xu Wei had tried to make tea with flowers, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was the founder of flower boiled tea.
Xu Wei once said: "Taste the precious petals such as plum, orchid, cinnamon, chrysanthemum, lotus, jasmine, rose, rose, etc., mix them into the tea leaves, put them into a tin bottle, cook them in water, take out the water when the water boils, and make tea after the camellia water in the bottle is dry." ”
Not only that, Xu Wei also wrote down his tea tasting experience: "Tea is suitable for the house, Yunlin bamboo stove, secluded people, cold night sitting, Songyue people, flowers and birds, green and white stones, green moss and moss, bare hands to draw springs, red makeup to sweep the snow, the bow of the boat to blow fire, bamboo smoke." ”
Therefore, Nong Tianyi said that this is really the fun of wild tea in ancient times. It can be seen that the joy of drinking tea has been the same since ancient times, and the highest level is the same.
The British appreciate the strong oriental Zen. The British love tea, but also understand tea, especially like flower tea, English tea blended with a wide variety of flower tea, fruit tea, and foreigners come to China, generally use flower tea to entertain them. Therefore, flower tea has become a leader in tea for a while.
These internal and external factors are the driving force that pushes Nong Tianyi to boldly try jasmine tea. From the initial self-production of the family workshop to the mass production of the brand, it not only needs to be carefully understood and taught, but also needs to be further integrated and improved. This is a huge challenge for Nong Tianyi.
For example, as far as the selection of jasmine is concerned, Nong Tianyi made Longtan Drifting Snow, and in order to "grab the fragrance", he chose the jasmine produced by the "Sanjitang Jasmine Garden", and used the Longtan Drifting Snow produced by Tianxin Rock as the base, so that there is a reference standard, and the best jasmine raw materials can be selected in other regions.
In the end, after careful and careful comparison, he chose the best flower buds at 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the summer solstice, there can be no rain before picking, the rain will make the fragrance of the flowers disperse, and it is necessary to choose a dry, sunny and bright summer solstice afternoon, the buds with buds are about to reach the peak of aroma after the blessing of the noon sun.
Nong Tianyi said with a smile that by using this time to "grab the fragrance", the most perfect moment of the flower can be preserved.
After hearing this, Wang Ziwei praised and said, you are really a god!
In order to obtain a fresh and strong floral fragrance, the flower/tea ratio of the high amount of flowers in Longtan Drifting Snow is: 1 kg of tea blank needs to consume 5 kg of jasmine flowers, and the kiln process has also been improved from 3-4 times of Xu Gong's self-made kiln to 6 times.
Nonglu also greatly appreciated: there is also a significant advantage in the choice of tea base, green tea is originally the home of Sanjitang tea, produced in Tianxin Rock, the selected fresh buds and leaves are Ming Qian spring tea, there is it as the tea base of Longtan drifting snow, so that the quality of tea soup has a strong guarantee.
Wu Qing also praised it: Tianyi, after the improvement of Longtan Drifting Snow, has swept away the inherent impression of homely and affordable flower tea, and has become a leader in high-end flower tea. It's not easy!
Nong Tian nodded and said with a smile: "You still need to work hard!" ”
The ancient Jing Mountain, the good words about tea are endless, and now a new legend has been added, called "Longtan Drifting Snow".