"The people of the world, inspirational and innocent, actually play for leisure and repair, silently do not break jade and gold, sip English and chew Hua, compare the essence of basket pods, and compete for the difference between appraisals and judgments."

——"The Grand View of Tea. Preface》

Since the beginning of Li Tang, the first to build a tribute tea system, the tea banquet was in full bloom, and poets admired it. In the Song Dynasty, tea banquets prevailed, and Condensation opened the style of tea fighting in the Song Dynasty with the "soup society", and first learned to pay tribute to tea and then to the people. Tea fighting, tea banquet is also delivered.

On the tea party on the second floor of Qianjiangyue, Qiao Shengping told me about the origin of tea fighting, and he said it in a crepe manner, and I understood a sentence: Tea fighting was originally for the emperor to taste the advantages and disadvantages of tribute tea, and then the customs that prevailed among the people evolved from the tea banquet.

It's just a matter of one sentence, and I feel like I'm going to be flooded again.

The Tea Fighting Conference has always been held in Qianjiangyue, which is a two-story water pavilion, taken from "Qianjiang Flowing Water Thousand Jiangyue, Cloudless and Ten Thousand Miles." "There is a moon shining on the river and a thousand appearances, the Buddha enters the hearts of all living beings to realize the meaning, listen to this name, the boss of Qianjiangyue is still a Zen Taoist.

Looking at the water by the railing, the green mountains in the water ripple and the low red around the shore, the tea fight is about to begin, and the second floor of Qianjiangyue has already gathered the characters with heads and faces in Hangzhou.

Mr. Qiao assumed the position of vice president of the Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce, and the directors of the Chamber of Commerce came to Qianjiangyue to watch the tea fight, Qiao Shengping was going to come with the young grandmother, so that Mr. Qiao was coerced in advance in the name of the directors of the Chamber of Commerce.

In the tea hall in the middle of the first floor, the four major tea numbers have arrived, although it is a tea fight, but several family owners maintain a harmonious atmosphere on the surface, talking and laughing and complimenting.

I asked Qiao Shengping who the judge of the Douming Conference was, and he pointed it up to me, there were three people sitting there, and I knew the person with his hand down, it was the master of Wenqu Study, and I shook my head when there were two left.

"In the middle is Liao Changqing, the president of the Hangzhou Chamber of Commerce, a giant in the silk weaving industry, who has been pressing Xinyuan, and is the boss of Qianjiangyue. Look at the Qianjiangyue he opened, don't look at it as a teahouse, those who can come in are either rich or expensive. ”

That is, a teahouse with a bit of a background, other teahouses enter the cloth, Qianjiangyue invites politicians and businessmen, if you sell tribute tea every day, then the people will definitely not be able to enter.

"'Tea. bay leaves, young shoots. Mu Shike, love monks. Today's tea fight, led by the four major tea numbers, each shows its ability, and wins two wins in three buckets. ”

This Mr. Jiang's opening remarks are elegant, I looked down from the second floor, at this time Mr. Jiang stood in the hall, his narrow eyes were full of smiles, and his pair of horizontal waves into the temples were clear and gentle to be practiced by businessmen for a long time, his eyes turned around from the hall, no matter who fell in front of him, he was always the same, this Mr. Jiang who was not confused had a calm and unhurried bearing.

Mr. Jiang gestured downward: "The tea lotus has been placed on the tea table, first review and then taste, the order is the first to win in previous years, and it will be invited by Zhu Ji first." ”

Appreciating tea is dry tea, looking at its shape and judging its color and fluff, which is the first step to taste good tea.

The tea master of Zhu Ji is an elegant young man of about thirty, dressed in an azure robe with white sleeves, a pair of hands that take tea and enjoy the tea lotus calmly, and the little apprentice who followed will hold the tea lotus to Liao Changqing and Liao President Liao, and a porcelain white lotus leaf is a handful of green and delicate fresh buds.