Chapter 103 Quanyun High Mountain Tea
Tea making is a hard skill, and tea tasting is also a skill, each with its own exquisiteness.
Nonglu likes to drink tea the most, so Nongtian's family has many teapots and teacups. Among the many teapots, Nong Tianyi likes a delicate and elegant purple clay pot the most.
The purple clay pot, as the name suggests, is, of course, made of purple sand. Purple sand is a kind of soil in Yixing. It's expensive and feels great to the touch.
The spout is made of red clay. A dragon coiled on the spout of the pot looks like it is 5 cm long.
The body of the pot is round, and the seven dragons are coiled from top to bottom. The dragon is carved vividly, as if it were close at hand. There are also many small triangular pieces on the body of the pot, and there are many silver powders on the blocks, which make the body of the pot shiny. Especially in a sunny place, turn the body of the pot slowly, and the light will make people unable to open their eyes.
The bottom of the pot is made of hard black ore. There are many small square pieces at the bottom of the pot, divide a round bottom into multiple parts, so that the weight on the top is evenly distributed to each point, so that a small bottom holds the whole pot firmly. The whole pot is 13 cm long and weighs 235 grams.
If you want to talk about its uses, there are many more. Nonglu said the pot was given by a friend of his father's before he was born. This pot is made of purple sand. I heard that purple sand is rare, it can make the tea stay in it for a long time without spoiling, open the lid is still color, fragrance, taste.
As soon as Nong Tian found out, he served this pot as a treasure.
There is also a small thin net inside the pot to block the tea leaves, so that when drinking tea, it will not flow into the mouth. There is also a fragrance bag on the body of the pot, which makes the tea more cool and delicious, and makes people have an endless aftertaste.
At first, Nong Tianyi didn't like to drink tea, but his father said that drinking tea can be diuretic, nourishing the spirit, making people refreshed, ruddy, and energetic every day. Later, Nong Tianyi slowly fell in love with tea.
I remember one time, Nong Tian didn't sleep well all night. When I woke up the next morning, I was still sleepy and dazed. He thought, what can I do? How do you study in a while? In this case, it will affect the class. The more he thought about it, the more sad he became. Fortunately, his father came over and specially made a cup of tea for him in a purple clay pot. As soon as he smelled the lightly fragrant tea, he suddenly felt more energetic. During class,
Mr. Qi Yu naturally wrote down what he said.
Therefore, Nong Tianyi cherishes this purple clay pot very much, likes its simplicity and elegance, likes its antique atmosphere, and the deep and simple love that melts into the purple clay pot......
Every spring and autumn, the tea trees pull out tender green shoots, and the tea farmers look at the harvest scene with smiles on their faces. The experienced tea maker carefully processes the freshly picked tea to make tea leaves with bright color and sweet taste. Drinking tea can not only keep you fit and nourish your skin, but also refresh your mind.
Tea is just tea, and of course there is no Tai Chi on the pancakes.
When he was about twelve or thirteen years old, Nong Tianyi accompanied his father to tea. In the summer, it was very hot in the country house, and his father was cool in the courtyard. At this time, his mother would boil water, make a few cups of tea and put them on a stool. He sat in the courtyard with his father and drank tea, shaking a pu fan in his hand, until he drank a sweat, and felt very comfortable.
Drinking tea outside, one is to quench thirst; It's a feeling to take your time at home with your own tea set; Going to the teahouse to invite three or five friends is a kind of artistic conception. But to be honest, now Nong Tianyi feels that he has not yet reached the realm of what people call "Tao".
His father used to say that for many things, tea was just an introduction. Drunkards, smokers, and tea ghosts all have their own realms, and as long as they reach this realm, there is no distinction between good and bad.
The tea has just been brewed, and before it has been drunk, people are already drunk. I didn't expect that there would be such a scene in an ordinary cup of tea. It's like a person who has traveled all over the famous mountains and rivers, is accustomed to seeing the flowers, and suddenly finds himself in a small village in the countryside. Nong Tianyi always believes that this beauty is not publicized or dressed up, but it really touches people's hearts. Tea is so ubiquitous that it will even inadvertently hide in the tea, patiently waiting to be discovered.
Many people don't like tea, perhaps because they haven't discovered this beauty yet. Or, is it because the tea is bitter?
Nong Tianyi also has such a personal experience: at the beginning of the tea, there is indeed a light bitter taste, but it is a cool bitter taste, which makes the impetuous stuffiness in people's hearts disappear by half at once; After the bitterness, only the sweet flavor remains, which naturally remains between the lips and teeth. After three times of a cup of tea, it is already very light, but the refreshing aftertaste does not go away for a long time.
Immersed in the refreshing aftertaste of tea, I felt that the taste of tea was the true taste of life.
Isn't it? A bite of life is bitter; Take another bite, and people's hearts have been calm; When I took the third sip, I really tasted the sweetness of the tea. Sometimes I can't help but think that life is the same as tea, and it is best not to "drop the fragrance pure", otherwise it will be tasteless. Whoever swallows the bitterness of the first taste will be able to taste the final sweetness.
It seems that the ancients said that "tea is the clearest taste in water", which is really appropriate. It is precisely because of the "clear" taste of tea that there is a unique mood when tasting tea. It's wonderful to be able to have tea with friends after hard work. You can sit on your knees, talk about poetry, life, life, and yourself without defense, and watch the heat of tea rise among friends...... If you don't make friends, just a cup of tea is enough.
This is everyone's favorite tea, ordinary, everyone is used to it. And its beauty is so subtle and meaningful. Compared with the delicacies of the mountains and seas, wine and delicacies, tea is too poor, but, Nong Tianyi said, how can I not love its kind of poor but not cheap, bitter but not astringent mind?
It is no wonder that for thousands of years, there has always been such a folk sentiment for tea. Holding a cup of hot tea is like gently holding the warm and enduring pulse of this nation......
Nongtian is happy to be quiet. At this time, he was holding a cup of high mountain tea.
He had climbed the mountain and sat alone on a rock by the spring in the mountain. Quietly, he drank tea while listening intently, and sure enough, the scenery was in the spring.
Stone near the spring, crawling with green velvet moss, he listened attentively, the drifting water flows slowly forward at the bottom of the stone, the mountain is still and the wind stops, the sound of birdsong floats into the spring, sometimes rapid, sometimes crisp, sometimes gathered, full of interest.
A small spring gushed out, striking his ear drums, and the water swelled slowly, and when it encountered an obstacle, a shallow whirlpool appeared, and it circled a few times, and then pushed forward in waves.
The half-hidden spring body is like a beauty who has just come out of the bath, surrounded by green trees, and a bottomless spring pool is like a dark and deep eye, exploring the world.
It is not impatient, nor is it too peaceful, it always takes the steps of life like that, surging persistently and firmly, moving forward......
The constant frequency of the spring water, the notes like the sound of his heartstrings, the crisp and melodious sound, tinkling all the way. So, Nong Tianyi's mind was filled with the whispers of Quanlan, and he walked through the jungle and rocks, walked out of the territory of the mountain, and ran to the embrace of the sea.
As the saying goes: drink water and think of the source. Ancient poems: White clouds are pleasant, and clear springs wash the heart.
Quanyun has a cup of high mountain tea, and Nongtianyi is more and more rich in landscape aura!