Today, Wang Xiucai made a special trip to the Yunwu Mountain Tea Workshop, and Nong Tianyi stepped forward to greet him and called out, "Hello, sir!" Then he introduced the tea room seat.

After sitting down, Wang Xiucai said: "Tianyi, I will talk to you about the style of the tea man today." ”

Nong Tianyi said, "Okay." ”

The guy brought a pot of tea. Nong Tianyi hurriedly set up a cup, poured tea, and respectfully handed it to Mr. Wang with both hands. took the teacup, took a sip of tea, and in the fragrance of tea, Wang Xiucai reasoned his thoughts and spoke: moderation, harmony and tea ceremony are all related to tea people. Some people say that the Chinese personality is like tea. There is a lot of truth in that.

Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism each have their own schools of tea ceremony. Buddhism is accompanied by green lanterns and loneliness in the tea banquet, and it is necessary to see nature in the clear heart; Taoist tea drinks seek ethereal silence and escape from the world; Confucianism uses tea to inspire people, communicate interpersonal relationships, and actively join the WTO. However, the spirit of tea culture has one thing in common, that is, harmony and calm, which is actually supported by the Confucian moderation.

Wang Xiucai said with a smile: During the New Year's holiday, some guests came to present a cup of fragrant tea to express friendship and respect. It is common to have drunken fights, but I don't see tea people drinking tea and fighting, even if they drink all day long, they will not pick up the teacup and turn their faces. This spirit of harmony and friendship originates from the idea of moderation in the tea ceremony.

Hearing this, Nong Tianyi smiled and said: That's true.

Wang Xiucai let go of his thinking: for example, Su Hanchen of the Song Dynasty has "Hundred Sons", a large group of dolls, while tuning the piano, appreciating flowers, laughing and playing, while taking a small teapot and teacup to taste tea, just like a big family, although there are many big children, they do not fight, but can live in harmony.

The vulgar drinking picture of "Yuan Compatriots One Gas", marked as "Compatriots One Gas", as the name suggests, is not a simple realistic infant play picture. In the painting, teapots and teacups may be referred to as "tea girls" and "tea children", indicating an affinity attitude.

Chen Mingyuan, a tea man in the Qing Dynasty, made a unique teapot called "Shuchai Sanyou Pot". Three old tree roots, with a waist knot as a whole, the left branch out of the spout, the right branch for the handle, three roots together, with a pot of water, with a cover, not only the idea is clear, take "everyone holds firewood flame high" "drink a river water" and other ancient meanings, its shape is natural, elegant, simple and clumsy.

In the history of tea drinking, whether it is the method of boiling tea, ordering tea, or brewing tea, it pays attention to the "equal distribution of essence". This is to say that good things should be shared with others. The tea art techniques such as procedures and techniques for drinking tea need to be in harmony with the natural environment, communicate with personnel, and conform to the personality of the tea person.

In the green lantern ancient temple, the bitterness of picking up tea; In the Qintai study, the elegant rhyme of tea; Under the moon among the flowers, taste the tranquility of tea; In the folk drink, feel the affinity of tea.

With a cup of tea, you can be at peace with what you encounter.

The man brought another pot of tea. Nong Tianyi poured tea for Mr. Wang. Immediately, Wang Xiucai told a story: Buddhist disciples grow tea and make tea. Buddhism pays attention to the "taste of tea Zen", which is nothing more than the integration of tea drinking kung fu and meditation enlightenment, so as to facilitate the cultivation of the jungle.

Legend has it that a disciple once asked a Zen master, "What is Buddhism?" ”

The Zen master said, "Drink tea." ”

Another disciple came and asked, "What is the Dharma?" ”

The Zen master said, "Drink tea." ”

Finally, the little disciple came and asked, "What is the Dharma?" ”

The Zen master still said, "Drink tea." ”

The little disciple didn't understand and asked, "Why did you tell the three of them to drink tea?" ”

The Zen master pointed to his heart, and the little disciple suddenly became enlightened. Because drinking tea is to let people see their own light and pure nature, which is the Buddha and the Dharma.

Tea drinking elegance emphasizes that people should "be thrifty and virtuous" and pursue a state of tranquility and comfort, pure heart and mind.

Wang Xiucai took a sip of tea, moistened his throat, and accentuated his tone: So, what is a tea man? Tea people, originally referred to those who were directly engaged in the production of tea, and then the scope was expanded. The word "tea man" was first seen in the poems "Miscellaneous Songs in Tea" by the Tang Dynasty poets Pi Rixiu and Tortoise Meng.

The metaphor of tea is derived from the style of tea trees and the character of tea. Tea trees, whether they grow in high mountains, slopes, or deep valleys, never care about the thickness of the soil, nor are they afraid of the scorching heat and cold, they always insist on taking root in the earth and are evergreen all year round. When the tea tree returns to the earth in spring, it sprouts to the fullest, and it is used by others, and it is often picked undefeated, and the cycle begins again and again until the end of life.

Nong Tian nodded incessantly.

Wang Xiucai said solemnly: Tea is the most representative. The most famous is the tea couplet on the thatched house of Kong Ming in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "indifferent to Mingzhi, quiet and far-reaching." Wang Yuyan's "Twelve Rhymes of the Tea Garden" "Fertile heart with direct advice, bitter words like praise", borrowing the meaning of tea, persuading with straightforward words, and admonishing with kindness. Pi Rixiu's "Tea Man" "The tone is tea tea, and the fragrance of clothes is smoke", talking about people engaged in tea production, speaking with the smell of tea, and dressing with the freshness of the wilderness.

Wang Xiucai gave an example: for example, Su Shi set up "The Biography of Ye Jia" for tea, which is wonderful and interesting, and depicts the great personality of tea "upright, strong qualifications, indifferent flavor, innocent and lovely", which shows that tea "raises a high level" and is indifferent to fame and fortune, so it is said that tea strives to make a country and not a living.

At this time, Nong Tianyi continued: Then with tea as a metaphor, you can go straight to the hearts of the people.

The famous Bai three-way tea, "one bitter, two sweet and three aftertaste", is a metaphor for the truth that people should first bitter and then sweet and then aftertaste.

Wang Xiucai said: "Exactly." ”

Tea Zen taste, tea has Zen flavor, Zen flavor in Zen. Heartless tea, tasteless to taste.

Speaking of this, Wang Xiucai said in a relaxed tone: Take tea as the edge, and harmony as the precious. Tea is needed for health, tea for making friends, tea for business, and tea for governing the country. The same is true of a pinch of tea in life.

At this time, Wang Xiucai thought for thousands of years, focusing on explaining "tea Zen taste", and he still explained it with stories or examples: one year, a young man who was repeatedly frustrated came all the way to Puji Temple, and found the old monk Shi Yuan, and said to him in frustration: "Life is always unsatisfactory, and life is also unsatisfactory, what is the meaning?" ”

Shi Yuan quietly listened to the young man's sighs and chatter, and finally instructed the little monk to say, "The donor came from afar, boil a pot of warm water and send it over." ”

After a while, the little monk brought a pot of warm water, Shi Yuan grabbed the tea leaves and put them in the cup, then brewed them with warm water, put them on the coffee table, and smiled and invited the young man to drink tea. The cup emitted a slight vapor, and the tea leaves floated quietly. The young man asked puzzledly: "How do you use warm tea in Baosha?" ”

Shi Yuan smiled and said nothing. The young man took a sip and shook his head: "There is no tea fragrance at all." ”

Shi Yuan said: "This is a famous tea." ”

The young man took the cup and tasted it again, and then said with certainty: "There really is no trace of tea." ”

Shi Yuan instructed the little monk again: "Go and boil a pot of boiling water again and send it over." ”

Later, the little monk came in with a pot of boiling water steaming with thick white steam.

Shi Yuan got up, took another cup, put the tea leaves, poured boiling water, and put it on the coffee table. The young man looked down, and the tea leaves were floating up and down in the cup, and the fragrance was endless.

The young man wanted to serve the cup, but Shi Yuan blocked it, and then lifted the kettle and poured a line of boiling water. The tea leaves churned even more, and a wisp of more mellow and intoxicating tea fragrance rose and spread in the meditation room. Shi Yuan poured water a total of five times, and the cup was finally full, and the fragrance in his hand was refreshing.

Shi Yuan smiled and asked: "Does the donor know that it is the same tea, why is the taste of tea so different?" ”

The young man pondered and said, "One cup with warm water and one cup with boiling water, the water is different. ”

Shi Yuan nodded: "With different water, the ups and downs of tea are different." Warm water to make tea, tea leaves floating on the water, how can it exude fragrance? Boiling water to make tea, repeat it several times, the tea leaves rise and fall, in order to release the fragrance of tea. ”

This is exactly what all living beings in the world are, so why not the ups and downs of tea? Those who do not survive the wind and rain are like tea leaves brewed in warm water, only floating on the surface of life, and cannot soak the fragrance of life at all; And those who are in the wind and rain, like tea brewed by boiling water, have risen and fallen several times in the vicissitudes of life, so that there is that refreshing fragrance.

Nong Tian seems to have realized: if the floating life is like tea, how can fate not be a pot of warm water or blazing boiling water?

Tea releases its own fragrance because of its ups and downs, and life can only inspire the wisps of fragrance of life when it encounters setbacks and ups and downs.