Chapter 576: The Legend of Longjing

The world's famous tea, rain, fog, clouds, mountains!

The four kinds of tea are the best in the world, taste one and get a blessing, it is not a joke, this kind of tea is rarely heard, even those national leaders have not necessarily heard of it, these legendary teas, only like Xu Yang, these specialized, 'fine', have been inherited by people to get a glimpse of one or two!

In fact, this is the one that people hear the most of the four famous teas, but what everyone knows is by no means ordinary as the one that the old man Meng Run Meng has taken out! The tea that the old man took out is called: Longjing before the rain!

Before the rain, Longjing is a type of West Lake Longjing tea. Refers to the Longjing tea harvested before the rain in the valley. This is actually something that modern tea savvy people know, and there is nothing special about it. The influence of temperature on Longjing is very great, in the 'spring' tea season, the higher the temperature, the lower the quality of the tea, and the lower the temperature, the better the quality. At the same time, according to the annual solar terms, before the Qingming Festival, the general temperature is in the season when the low temperature slowly warms up to the high temperature, and after the Qingming Festival, the temperature often rises sharply. Therefore, Qingming is used as a good distinction for Longjing tea.

Longjing tea is divided into three types: Shifeng Longjing, Meiwu Longjing, and West Lake Longjing due to its different origins. It was born in the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming Dynasty. Longjing tea is called "before the Ming Dynasty" before the Qingming Dynasty, and the one picked before the rain in the valley is called "before the rain". There is a saying that "before the rain is the best grade, before the bright is a treasure". When Longjing tea is brewed, but see the buds and buds stand upright, the soup 'color' is clear, and the fragrance is overflowing, especially a bud and a leaf, commonly known as "a flag and a gun" are the best.

Xu Cishu, a native of Qiantang in the Ming Dynasty who is well versed in the interest of life and loves tea as his life, is the author of the book "Tea Shu", and he and like-minded friends go to the famous Longjing for tea production in his spare time. Once, he stayed in the monk's house for more than ten days, and he didn't do anything, he only loved to make Longjing tea every day and taste it. He couldn't think about it, and when he left, he reluctantly said: "The monk who really wants to fall into Longhong can be accompanied by tea every day." “

Longjing used to be called a dragon hong, located in the south foot of Fenghuangling near Hangzhou, there are many clear springs. The folk chant of "Dragon Well Before the Rain" is very fragrant. "Longjing before the rain" was mined before the solar term "Guyu". Usually before the rain in the valley, it is the time when the tea tree is "one leaf and one bud", commonly known as "one flag and one gun", which is the most mellow to make Longjing tea. Just as Hu Qiao Shiyun: "Before the rain in the morning cooking valley of 'jade' pixida, 'spring' tea is the freshest." “

However, it got worse after the rain. Tea farmers in Longjing have a proverb: "Three days of early harvesting is a treasure, and three days of late harvesting becomes grass." "It's because it's related to the tenderness of the tea. As the saying goes, before the rain in the morning cooking valley of 'jade', 'spring' tea is the freshest. The tea leaves picked before the rain in the valley are relatively tender and green, and the taste is also very fresh.

There is a saying among the people that "before the rain is the best quality, before the Ming is a treasure". There is a proverb that says: "Three days of early picking is a treasure, and three days of late picking becomes grass", which is related to the tenderness of the tea. After the rain, the tea leaves are looser, the tea 'color' is not so green, and the taste is heavier.

This is the pre-rain Longjing tea that is now circulating on the market. But many people don't know that this Longjing tea has a mother tree. There is a legend in this, the legend is that a long time ago, the Queen Mother held a grand peach meeting in the heavenly court, and the gods and goddesses from all over the country were invited to the meeting, and the prodigy fairy 'girl', played and sang, served tea and offered fruits, and went back and forth endlessly.

Just when the local fairy was holding the tea tray to deliver tea, he suddenly heard the good wealth boy shouting: "The fairy sister-in-law is seriously ill, and she is rolling on the ** and shouting 'chaos', go quickly!" The earth immortal was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he walked towards the palace in three steps and two steps.

At this time, Lu 'Dong' Bin counted and understood what was going on, so he hurriedly took over the tea tray of the earth immortals, distributed the only seven cups of tea to the seven 'holes' immortals, and left it empty in front of him, and took out a pill of the divine pill and said to the earth immortals: "Take it and save your lady, go down to the earth to find the teacup, I will take care of it for you for the time being." The earth fairy was very 'excited', thanked him and left. "One day in heaven, several years on earth. "Dixian went down to the mortal world with a somersault, fell to Hangzhou, became a monk, and went to the west mountain to find a teacup.

On this day, he saw a mountain like a lion squatting, with beautiful rocks and green ravines, a thatched house next to the bamboo forest in the mountain, and a lady in her 80s sitting at the entrance of the 'door'.

The earth immortal stepped forward and asked, "Old donor, what is this place?" The old lady replied, "It's called Hui Luowu." According to the ancestors, one night, ten thousand golden rays suddenly fell from the sky, and from then on this place was called Hui Luowu. When the earth fairy heard this, he was surprised and delighted, and hurriedly looked east and west, and suddenly his eyes lit up, isn't that my teacup? It turned out that there was an old stone mortar full of garbage next to the eldest lady's room, which was covered with green grass. There was a sparkling spider silk hanging from the eaves into the stone mortar.

The earth fairy understood, this spider 'essence' was stealing the fairy tea, and hurriedly said: "Old donor, can I exchange a golden ribbon for your stone mortar?" The eldest lady said: "Do you want this stone mortar?" Anyway, it's useless for me to keep it, you can take it!" The earth fairy thought, I have to go to the verbena and weave a nine-foot rope to tie it up so that I can take it away. As soon as the earth fairy left, the eldest lady thought to herself, this stone mortar is dirty, how can you get your hands dirty! So she found a spoon, took out all the garbage, and poured it into the ground with eighteen tea trees in front of the house, and found a rag to clean it. I didn't want to alarm the spider 'spirit', and the spider 'spirit' also said that someone came to rob him of his tea! As soon as he cast the magic, there was a loud "clicker" and the stone mortar was knocked deep into the ground. The earth immortal turned around with a rope and saw that the stone mortar was gone, so he had to return to heaven empty-handed.

Later, the "teacup" of the heavenly palace that was driven into the ground became a well, and a dragon came to suck the fairy tea, and the dragon went, leaving a well of water. This is the legendary Dragon Well.

The vicissitudes of life, historical changes, the original thatched house where the eldest lady lived was rebuilt into the old Longjing Temple, and later renamed the Hugong Temple of Longjing Village, which is still preserved now. The eighteen tea trees in front of the temple have grown more and more luxuriant after being moistened by the fairy dew, and the quality is outstanding.

When Emperor Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River, Weifu came to the foot of Shifeng Mountain in Longjing Village, Hangzhou, and when the old monk of Hugong Temple accompanied Emperor Qianlong to visit the mountain and view the scenery, he suddenly saw several village 'women' happily picking new sprouts from the eighteen tea trees in front of the temple. After picking for a while, suddenly the eunuch came to report: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother is sick, please return to Beijing quickly." When Qianlong heard that the Queen Mother was sick, he didn't feel anxious, so he immediately put the tea buds in his hand into the bag, returned to Beijing day and night, and returned to the palace to ask the Queen Mother for peace.

In fact, the Queen Mother was not seriously ill, but her liver fire rose for a while, her eyes were red and swollen, and her stomach was uncomfortable. Suddenly, when the emperor arrived, his mood improved, and he felt a fragrance coming to his face, and hurriedly asked: "The emperor came back from Hangzhou, what good things did he bring, such a fragrance?" Emperor Qianlong also felt strange, I returned in a hurry, without anything, where did the fragrance come from? Smell carefully, there is indeed a fragrant fragrance, and it comes from the bag. He 'touched' it casually, and it turned out to be a handful of tea leaves in front of Hugong Temple in Longjing Village, Hangzhou, which had dried out a few days later and emitted a rich aroma. The queen mother wants to taste the taste of this kind of tea, the palace 'girl' brews the tea and serves, it is really fragrant, the mouth is full of relish, the aftertaste is sweet and mellow, and the mind is refreshing.

After 3 cups, the eye swelling dissipates and the stomach is comfortable. At that time, the Queen Mother was cola, saying that Hangzhou Longjing tea was a panacea 'medicine'. Emperor Qianlong saw that the Queen Mother was so happy, and he was also happy to laugh, and hurriedly passed the decree to the eighteen tea trees that he had personally picked in front of the Hugong Temple at the foot of Shifeng Mountain in Longjing, Hangzhou, as imperial tea, and made them every year in a special 'door' to pay tribute to the Queen Mother. Since then, the fame of Longjing tea has become more and more famous. Although the eighteen imperial tea trees have been replanted many times, this "imperial tea garden" has been preserved to this day and has become a tourist attraction.

These eighteen tea trees are the mother trees of Longjing tea, of course. Now I don't know when, the tea tree has disappeared, thousands of years of war, these eighteen tea trees have dissipated, but there are legends, in the war 'chaos' years, the tea tree was moved to a mysterious place by a high person, these eighteen mother trees, to survive, I don't know what the reason is, every year there will be nine taels of dragon well outflow, no one knows who flows out, no one knows where it flows from, but this nine taels of dragon well is indeed the world's tea lovers yearn for something. It's not that you can get it if you have money and power.

To put it simply, this tea will suddenly appear next to you. Everyone knows that there is such a good thing who will come out to show off, it is said that there is a rich and powerful man, who loves Longjing before the rain, and can make a price, 100 million for one or two but can't. Xu Yang looked at the small 'jade' box in front of him, which was not tea, it was money! money that could smash people to death.

Although it is a little cheesy, Xu Yang doesn't know how to express it, Xu Yang has tasted the best Wuyi Mountain Da Hong Pao, and tasted the world's best 'Yan' tea. But the four famous teas, he only heard their names and saw their shapes. Definitely something legendary.

The old man took out this kind of tea today, Xu Yang felt 'excited' in his heart, it is not difficult to explain that the old man has the intention of teaching himself, but taking such a good tea to test himself, Xu Yang knows that to a certain extent, the old man is giving his master's face, and if he folds here today, it is not his own person who will be lost, but the master's person @!

For the tea ceremony, another identity in Xu Yang's body, Grandmaster Xu Yang does not allow others to blaspheme, of course, if there is a saint sitting in front of him, Xu Yang will not be like this, but the person in front of him is just a half-grandmaster who has entered the 'door' with one foot.

Tea sets, tea leaves, are the best in the mouth, the world's rare famous products. Now who is making tea is waiting for everyone to test, Xu Yang is not stupid, and he is not two hundred and five! The temperament of his body has changed, and he doesn't know when the aura of the grandmaster has been emanated.

The current Xu Yang and the Xu Yang when he came in just now can be said to be no longer the same person! When the momentum on Xu Yang's body changed, Meng Run had already felt it!