Chapter 37: Tea
Chapter XXXVII
"Oh, I really want to ask about something, I don't know if the people in the tooth shop here know each other? I would like to ask if there are any properties for sale in the capital. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info "Wan Qiyang directly explained what he meant.
"Childe, I won't know about this until our boss comes back, it just so happens that he hasn't been there for the past two days, I'm sorry, I'll help you ask next time you come." Since the other party's owner is not there, Wan Qiyang has to go back first.
Wan Qiyang left the money house, and then went straight to the tea house.
When I came to this tea house, I saw that there was a couplet on the façade of this tea house, "Tea is also intoxicating, why bother with wine;
Books can pilgrims do not need flowers. "Lintel a horizontal plaque" Yue Xiang Ju. It seems that the owner of this tea shop is still a literati, Wan Qiyang walked into this "Yuexiangju" and greeted a group, "Son, please," this guy spoke softly, but he did not lose his masculinity, he should not want to disturb other guests who were drinking tea here.
It turns out that in this "Yuexiangju", there are several tables of guests, not large round tables, each table is also equipped with four round stools, a teapot and four teacups on the tabletop, see that this tea set should be from Jingdezhen's utensils, the color is lubricated, the cup touches the table and there is still a crisp sound, like the gurgling water of the stream.
After Wan Qiyang came in, he was arranged at an empty table, "Childe, please wait a moment." Then the guy left, and after Wan Qiyang sat down, he took a closer look around, and found that there was one person drinking alone, two people drinking together, and three people drinking together.
At this time, the guy just now came over, holding a teacup in his left hand and a copper teapot in his right hand, and then put the teacup away and began to brew the tea leaves that had been placed in the teacup. When brewing, cover and wait for the tea leaves to spread completely, along with dried pulp, walnuts and flowers. When you drink it, you have to eat it together, and there are more than 20 kinds of ingredients.
This is how to eat tea in the Ming Dynasty, Wan Qiyang looked at this gaiwan tea, and thought of his hometown - CD is good, this gaiwan tea is said to have been made by the daughter of Cui Ning in the Tang Dynasty Sichuan Jiedu.
Gaiwan tea is a kind of tea set with a lid and a tray and a bowl in the middle. Also known as the "Sancai Bowl", the cover is the sky, the support is the earth, and the bowl is the people. "Tea saucer", also known as "tea boat", was first made of wooden saucer and later lacquered. Gaiwan tea sets often have landscapes, flowers and birds painted by celebrities.
The bowl is also painted with a fire avoidance map. There are 12 types of tea saucers; Twelve bowls and twelve torays are twenty-four. Prepare for tea parties. The Qing Dynasty tea saucer has a wide variety of patterns, including round, lotus leaf, ingot, and so on.
Gaiwan tea was popular in Jingshi (Beijing) in the Qing Dynasty, and our nobles, palaces, royal families, and elegant teahouses all paid attention to gaiwan tea. Gaiwan tea is suitable for heat preservation, so it was popular in various places later.
"Gaiwan tea", the traditional tea drinking custom of the Hui people. It was the first CD to be created and has its own unique features. The so-called "gaiwan tea" includes three parts: tea cover, tea bowl, and tea boat, so it is called gaiwan or three forts. Tea boats, also known as tea boats, are tea saucers that accept tea bowls. According to legend, it was created in the CD by the daughter of Cui Ning, the envoy of Xichuan Jiedu, during the Jianzhong period of Dezong of the Tang Dynasty (780-783). Since the original teacup had no backing and often burned his fingers, Cui Ning's son ingeniously created a wooden plate to support the teacup. In order to avoid the cup from tipping over when drinking tea, she tried to loop the center of the wooden plate with wax to make it easy to fix the cup. This is the earliest tea boat. Later, the tea boat switched to using lacquer rings instead of wax rings, which everyone said was convenient. In later generations, the ring bottom is made more and more novel, and the shape is varied, like a ring bottom cup. A common tea boat civilization, also known as the Gaiwan tea civilization, was born in the CD area. This unique method of drinking tea gradually developed from Dianbashu to the surrounding areas, and later generations spread throughout the south.
The Sichuan people also have their special regard for using the tea lid: when tasting tea, the tea lid is placed on the table, indicating that the teacup is empty, and the tea doctor will quickly come over to fill the water; The tea guest left temporarily, and the tea lid was buckled on the bamboo chair, indicating that the person had not gone far and would return when he was young, and naturally no one would encroach on the seat, and the tea room would also guard the tea set and snacks. Dr. Tea's tea pouring trick is a common landscape in Sichuan tea room. The water column descends from the sky, pours into the tea bowl, and there is a sound of churning; In the blink of an eye, the tea is just level with the mouth of the bowl, and there is not a drop of water outside the bowl, which is not only a stunt, but also an artistic enjoyment.
The Hui Gaiwan is also known as the Three Forts. Because the gaiwan that holds water is composed of a tray, a flare tea bowl and a tea cover, it is called a gaiwan or three forts. Gaiwan tea has different tea names due to different ingredients, such as brown sugar brick tea, white sugar clear tea, rock sugar wowo tea, etc. Brew with boiling water. Tea should be served to guests before eating. When pouring tea, in front of the guests, lift the lid of the bowl, put in the tea stock, then boil the water and cover, and hold it with both hands to show respect for the guests.
At this time, while the guests had free time waiting for the tea leaves to be brewed, the guy introduced the types and characteristics of the tea leaves in his shop.
"Childe, we have tribute Lu'an tea in our store, Jiangnan Fengtuan sparrow tongue bud tea, as well as all kinds of nut tea, melon kernel tea, of course, green tea, flower tea, black tea, I don't know which one Childe likes, okay now you can almost taste it, the spoon next to it is used to take the nuts in the tea to eat."
Wan Qiyang was already stunned by the man's tea, and he didn't think about what kind of tea he needed for the time being, he tried it first, to be honest, he hadn't tasted this kind of tea yet!
As soon as the tea was entered, a fresh fragrance entered the throat along the water, and at the same time it had a sweet fruity taste, Wan Qiyang liked this feeling at once, and drank two sips in a row, because the water at the beginning of making tea needs a higher temperature, the guy just poured some boiling water in the teapot on the table when he finished making tea, at this time Wan Qiyang just drank the tea in the water cup, and the guy poured the water again. In this way, the temperature is just right and will not be hot anymore, Wan Qiyang decided to buy some of this tea, and then buy some that is not too expensive to drink.
"I decided to buy some of this tea, you can match it well, just match it according to this taste, and buy some green tea, and some flower tea, but I don't know much about this amount, you can match it according to the amount we usually drink for two or three months," When the guy listened to this son to match such a large amount, he was immediately happy, because in this way, his sales volume will be higher than that of other guys, so there will definitely be a reward when the results are settled at the end of the month, and he will be treated special by the owner, because the owner is his father.
"Thank you Childe for your generosity, I'll go and prepare it for you." At this moment, there was a table where a man was drinking alone, and he asked the man to come over and mix it with water.
I only heard this guy muttering in a low voice: "I'm still drinking, I've been drinking all afternoon, saying that I was going to sell the property but I sat here and didn't leave, alas.."
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