Section 233 The Way of Tea Spreads to the World [Second Update]
Li Yuanxing said that it was gorgeous, and it was absolutely good to make King Qin of the Tang Dynasty say gorgeous.
King Qin of the Tang Dynasty not only represents the royal family of the Tang Dynasty, but also has the identity of a star monarch, which is naturally exciting.
Just taking out this set of tea sets opened the eyes of the tea merchants. Many people still stay in the way of breaking brick tea and throwing it into a clay pot and boiling it with salt for a long time.
For them, tea is just an object to earn money.
It's just like food, especially for those on the steppe, it's food, food that's as important as salt.
What the King of Qin of the Tang Dynasty showed was another kind of tea, a completely refreshing tea.
"Father, please move your seat!" Li Yuanxing respectfully invited Li Yuan to sit at the table.
Li Yuan nodded: "The way of tea is the way!" Li Yuan also became a lot more serious, and sat opposite Wu Cao after getting up, because Li Yuanxing said that this is the upper seat.
Li Yuanxing invited Cui Xiaoli to sit again, and Cui Xiaoli cared more about the process of taking a seat than Li Yuan. After getting up, first the crown, then the placket, take a small square step, and the size of the first step is the same. When he came to the table, he first bowed to Wu Cao, and then bowed to Li Yuan, and then sat down on Li Yuan's left side.
Wu Cao looked at the nose, nose and mouth, mouth and heart, and sat upright, just this sitting posture and momentum, Cui Xiaoli gave 12 points, it is definitely a person who has received great etiquette to sit in this posture, this charm!
The third person of Li Yuanxing's point is the head of the Yue Tea Chamber of Commerce.
The head of the Yue Tea Chamber of Commerce trembled with excitement, and rushed to Li Yuan to kneel down. When he was ready to sit down at the table. Cui Xiaoli said: "His Royal Highness the King of Qin talks about tea, and you are the head of the Yue Tea Chamber of Commerce. The heart is buoyant and dry, and there is no tea in the heart, so you step aside and silently recite the Taoist meditation mantra, otherwise you can't serve it on the table! ”
The head of the Yue Tea Chamber of Commerce realized that he was rude at this time, and immediately bowed and stepped aside.
The next three people Li Yuanxing ordered were the Chang'an Tea Chamber of Commerce, the Bashu Tea Chamber of Commerce, and the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Tea Chamber of Commerce. These three leaders have learned from the past of the Yue Tea Chamber of Commerce, and naturally they will not lose their etiquette. Look at Wu Cao's body wearing a Han-style dress. The three were also learned people. He saluted Li Yuan and Wu Cao with Han salutes, and then got dressed and sat down.
Cui Xiaoli nodded with satisfaction, but teachable!
The head of the Yue Tea Chamber of Commerce was a little clumsy and sat down like the other three leaders, and Cui Xiaoli commented: "I don't know the etiquette." Asked. What are you asking? Go back and cultivate your mind. Learn the rites. ”
"Thank you for the teachings of Changshi!"
Wu Cao opened his eyes at this time!
Step 1: Fixtures! It is divided into six actions: starting a fire, digging out the fire, fan the stove, cleaning the utensils, waiting for water, and pouring the cup.
Cui Xiaoli's heart was intoxicated, and he couldn't help but rise to a new realm. His heart also slowly calmed down with the movements in Wu Cao's hand, this is the real great etiquette. This is the true Word.
What Li Yuan thought in his mind was that your Seventh Family said that our Li family was a barbarian. Take a look, what is this? This is more ancient than your Seventh Family.
The four representatives of the tea merchants watched without saying a word, they were learning, observing, and experiencing.
A well-known Confucian can praise it, naturally it is extremely haode.
In the back hall, Zheng Xiuyan sighed: "I really want to learn, learning like this will definitely make His Highness happy!" The other six women did not speak, each with their own thoughts. Cui Yingying was thinking, if she learned this, she would not only make His Royal Highness King Qin happy, but also put it in the poetry meeting, which was guaranteed to shock the audience.
The first step was more than ten minutes.
And the second step: take the tea! Place the tea on a white piece of paper for the tea taster to appreciate.
This tea, naturally, has never been seen here, but no one spoke, they don't understand, they will only observe silently.
Next, the process of waiting for soup, washing tea, and brewing tea, Wu Cao kept talking, these are naturally very particular, and Wu Cao is explaining this process in the form of poetry.
Du Yiye was on the side, holding a pen and recording quickly, for fear of writing one less word.
Just when everyone thought they were going to drink tea, they didn't expect that this was just the beginning.
Further down, the sixth, seventh, and eighth steps, scraping, pouring pots, and scalding cups, Wu Cao had another translation, Cui Xiaoli couldn't help but nod, this is the ceremony, there is no mistake, this is the Chinese ceremony. As His Royal Highness the King of Qin said, this is the Tao. The Way of Tea!
"Smell the fragrance! Wu Cao personally handed the cover to Li Yuan, Li Yuan took it and took a deep breath, and couldn't help but praise: "It's so fragrant, it's good tea!" ”
Cui Xiaoli heard it and wrote a poem on the spot, but Li Yuanxing didn't understand a word.
After the ninth step, it is finally time to taste the tea.
"Han Xin's soldiers!" Wu Cao poured six cups of tea, and then made a gesture of please.
Li Yuan drank it and was silent. Cui Xiaoli drank it, and he was also silent. The four tea merchants drank it, and it was the same, silent. The six of them sat there silently, not saying a word.
Take back the empty teacup and brew it a second time again.
Tea seven brews. Wu Cao showed a variety of ways to pour tea, Guan Gong patrolled the city, Zhaojun went out of the fortress, and heaven and man were one!
After seven bubbles, Wu Cao washed the pot and began to clean up the utensils, his movements were still so slow and elegant.
But the six tea drinkers were exactly the same, they all sat there motionless, sitting silently.
The people watching from the periphery were really anxious, what was the taste of tea, and what was the feeling of drinking this tea. Because these people can't get close, they're really in a hurry.
The seven women in the back hall quieted down, because they were the future princesses of Qin, and they could drink such tea often in the future.
After Wu Cao cleaned up, he bowed and sat down!
Li Yuanxing said softly at this time: "Tea has seven meanings and one heart, and the seven meanings are: tea art, tea virtue, tea ceremony, tea theory, tea love, tea theory, and tea guidance; And Yixin, since it is 'harmony' enlightenment, can it be called a tea ceremony. That's it for today, and the king of tomorrow is waiting here! ”
After speaking, Li Yuanxing picked up Wu Cao: "I'm tired!" ”
Wu Cao nodded slightly, his head was already covered with beads of sweat.
Li Yuan stretched out his hand and stood up on the table: "Get up and go back to the palace, and I will come back tomorrow!" After speaking, Li Yuan and Li Yuanxing didn't even say hello, turned around and left. What he was thinking in his heart, Li Yuanxing couldn't guess. It's just that it can be felt that Li Yuan has definitely been impacted.
Cui Xiaoli also stood up and saluted Li Yuanxing: "The ministers are sure that His Royal Highness can send an invitation tomorrow, Wang Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites should be invited, and Cui Shangshu of the Household Department should be invited." Inside and outside the court, well-educated people should come to see the way of tea. ”
"You go and arrange it, you can make the list. Don't touch everything here, don't touch the tea on my table. ”
Li Yuanxing said, hugged Wu Cao and walked to the back hall. Seeing the seventh daughter, Li Yuanxing said with a smile: "Go to the king's small living room." After speaking, he said to the seven stewards: "Tea is the way, this is also a business opportunity, you seven think about it, go back and tell your own masters, how much they understand!" ”
"Yes, Your Highness!" The seven stewards bowed deeply.
Li Yuanxing took the seven future princesses of Qin to the small living room, and a luncheon was naturally prepared here.
In the hall, the head of the Yue Tea Chamber of Commerce was the first to stand up, took a few steps back, knelt down and kowtowed heavily to the place where Wu Cao was sitting, and slammed his head on the floor.
"So-and-so, I only found out today, so-and-so has lost tea!"
The head of the Chang'an Tea Chamber of Commerce got up and helped him up: "What Brother Tai said is that everyone present has insulted the tea. I have a profound Chinese culture, and today we can only see what tea is. This is His Highness preaching, talking about some philistines, and it is also a business opportunity given to us by His Highness. ”
After speaking, the head of the Chang'an Tea Chamber of Commerce picked up the tea that was shown to them just now, put a dry tea page in his mouth, and said with a smile after tasting: "Go back and prepare well, tomorrow is the real wonderful, a certain self-admitted, today is abrupt, since you should go back to bathe and fast, tomorrow you will come to understand the way of tea!" ”
The tea merchants said yes.
At this time, a merchant with a firm name took advantage of the fact that everyone was walking out, stretched out his hand and secretly put a few pieces of tea in the palm of his hand in the small plate of Longjing tea on display.
A businessman next to him saw it and whispered, "Do you want to change careers?" ”
The merchant was stunned for a moment, but immediately reacted and quickly put the few pieces of tea back.
Du Yiye quickly wrote down the name of the merchant on the paper, and just now, there were already guards asking with eyes. Du Yiye didn't think it was necessary to take it for this little thing, although His Royal Highness said that no one was allowed to touch his tea.
It is the nature of businessmen to seek profits.
Although he was not punished, Du Yiye still wrote down the businessman so that he could report it to Li Yuanxing at the right time.
On the other side, Li Yuanxing invited the seven daughters to lunch together.
"Your Highness, can you teach me the way of tea?"
"Okay, I'll teach you one of my king's favorite ways right now." Li Yuan got up, went to the shelf and took a large glass, and then turned out a tube of tea: "This is Longjing's sparrow's tongue level, this king likes it." ”
Li Yuanxing reached out and grabbed a handful of tea leaves and poured them into the cup, completely lacking Wu Cao's elegance.
Then, lift a thermos from the ground and fill the glass in one fell swoop. A large cup, a lot of tea, and then a lot of water was poured. Li Yuanxing smiled and put the cup on the table: "It will be cool for a while, and drink it in a big gulp." This is the king's, how to drink cow chewing peony! ”
The seven girls were stunned for a moment, and then all smiled.
They just thought that His Royal Highness the King of Qin was amused, but they didn't know that Li Yuanxing really drank this way.
In the words of the cabinet master, Li Yuanxing just drank the ten yuan and one tael is enough, and it is a waste to give Li Yuanxing more expensive tea to drink.
Wu Cao understands everything, but he just doesn't say anything. Motioned to Yuanchun to divide the big cup into small cups, poured them to the women, and then gave Li Yuanxing a look. Li Yuanxing had no choice but to say: "The tea ceremony will soon become a kind of art learned by the scholars." If you don't know the tea ceremony, you will be inferior when you go out. But what this king wants to do, but it is business. (To be continued......)
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