Chapter 45: The Birthday Banquet (9)
Water is good water, and tea is certainly good tea.
Ye Jia Reward: Ye Jia is the synonym of tea, which is to invite guests to watch the tea and introduce the shape, color and aroma characteristics of the tea to the guests!
Da Hong Pao, the mother tree Da Hong Pao, is produced in Jiulong, Wuyi Mountain. There are only six mother trees, and it is now 350 years old. There are countless legends about Wuyi Mountain. And the gods and ghosts surrounding these six mother trees, filial piety and shamelessness are too numerous to mention.
Da Hong Pao tea is the best among the Yi rock teas. Tea trees grow in rock crevices. Wuyi rock tea has the fragrance of green tea and the sweetness of black tea!
Mr. Zhang Yansheng, a contemporary calligrapher, once wrote an inscription for the 'Yin' of the big red robe in Wuyi Mountain: "The green leaves are bordered with the red robe and the body is covered with good karma", which should be a 'refined' summary of the quality characteristics of the big red robe's "Zen tea". The shape of the big red robe is tightly knotted, the "color" is green and brown and fresh, the soup is orange and yellow after brewing, the leaves are red and green, and the typical leaves have the beauty of green leaves and red borders. The most outstanding feature of the quality of Da Hong Pao is that the aroma is rich and has the fragrance of orchid 'flowers', the fragrance is high and long-lasting, and the "rock rhyme" is obvious. Da Hong Pao is very resistant to brewing, and it still has a fragrance after brewing seven or eight times. To drink "Da Hong Pao" tea, you must follow the program of "Gongfu Tea" small pot and small cup to taste the slow drink, in order to truly taste the charm of Zen tea on the top of rock tea. Pay attention to live, sweet, clear and fragrant!
Meng Chen Mu Lin: Rinse the horizontal pot with boiling water and raise the temperature of the pot! The front is all preparatory work, and now it is time to start brewing officially! During the introduction of water and tea, the water in the kettle has been boiled, and Xu Yang also moved at the same time.
Xu Yang sat on the chair, stretched out his hand, the kettle was in his hand, and the water in the kettle had begun to be poured into the tea set! This can no longer be said to be making tea, but more like performing kung fu that implies heavenly principles!
After rinsing the tea set, pour the water from the kettle into the white 'jade' pot like a straight line!
Alpine flowing water: that is, warm cup sanitary ware, use the water in the purple clay pot to scald the tea cup, the action is soothing and undulating, and the water flow is not good! With the gesture of oolong entering the palace, dial the big red robe tea leaves into the teapot.
Baizhang Waterfall: Use a tall and thin stream of water to make the tea leaves tumble to achieve the purpose of warming and cleaning the tea leaves! Xu Yang then picked up the kettle. Lift it high. The water flows quickly and rapidly, and it rushes into the teapot with thin and long strokes. Tea leaves tumble in the teapot. Cut without a drop of water splashing outside!
After rinsing the tea leaves, gently 'knead' the tea foam from the teapot mouth with a light breeze. After that, pour the first bubble in the white 'jade' pot into the fair cup, which is called "'jade' liquid transfer pot"! Next, pour the tea soup in the fair cup into the fragrant cup evenly. This is called "Fensheng Gan 'Dew'"!
At this time, the white 'jade' pot was already vacant, and Xu Yang poured boiling water from the new to the point of filling it with boiling water in the method of "three nods of the phoenix" until the water was full! At the same time, it was necessary to rinse the pot table with boiling water, the first was to wash the pot table, and the second was to make the internal and external temperature of the white 'jade' pot consistent!
Xu Yang then poured the tea soup in the fragrant cup on the surface of the pot, which is called "internal and external self-cultivation"! Wiping the water from the bottom of the pot from the purple clay pot on the edge of the tea boat and moving it to the tea towel to absorb the bottom of the pot, this is called "playing in the mountains and waters!"
Now that the tea has been brewed, from Xu Yang's first-class series of actions just now, everyone can see that it is pleasing to the eye, the youngest of these old guys is fifty or sixty years old, and they have seen too many things. Just like the old man Dongfang Rui, who is nearly seventy this year, in addition to loving the 'jade' utensils, he is also good at tea, just with Xu Yang's actions just now, he dared to pat his 'chest' and say that a person with such a technique should never be a child less than twenty.
Xu Yang was completely immersed in his own tea art world, and the blue 'color' electric light in his eyes was 'chaotic' when no one could check it! With the eyeball as the center, a blue-colored electric current flowed towards Xu Yang's body. It's just that it seems that due to the lack of energy, it is now limited to the part of Xu Yang's brain that surrounds it.
Xu Yang and the people present didn't know what was happening, and continued to look at Xu Yang's tea art.
The tea soup has been brewed, and then I did it all over again, pouring the tea soup in the white porcelain pot into the fair cup, which is called "self-justice!", put down the teapot, Xu Yang then poured the tea soup in the fair cup into the smelling cup! This time it is different from the beginning, and this time the technique is much more exquisite!
There are now a total of twelve people at this table, including Xu Yang and Liu Jianing. And Xu Yang quickly circulated the tea soup in the fair cup and evenly divided it into twelve smelling cups until it was seven points full! The technique used was the authentic "Guan Gong Patrol City" of tea art!
At this time, there was still a little bit of tea soup in the fair cup, and Xu Yang used the technique of "Han Xin's soldiers" to evenly divide the final tea soup into the smelling cup with a little pouring!
After turning the tea cup upside down to the smelling cup with one hand, and then turning the tea cup and the smelling cup upside down with the technique of turning the river and the sea upside down, the tea soup in the smelling cup is poured into the tea cup and placed on the saucer! After these are done, the tea art has been completed, and the next step is to "worship the fragrant tea"! Pick up the saucer with both hands, offer it to the guest with eyebrows, and pay attention to the guest. Then repeat the procedure of Ruochen listening to the spring to worship the fragrant tea, and keep the last cup for yourself!
Everyone respectfully took the tea, and now whether they are old or not, this is to show their respect for a tea master with high morality!
Xu Yang picked up the last cup of tea for himself. Rotate with your left hand and take out the fragrant cup to smell the tea, and rub your hands to smell the bottom of the cup. The fragrance is like an orchid in the hollow valley!
Everyone was intoxicated with the fragrance of tea, and after smelling the incense, the next thing was to "taste"! Xu Yang held the cup with his thumb and index finger, and held the cup at the bottom of the cup with his middle finger. This is called "Three Dragons Protecting the Ding"! This is not something that everyone understands.
If you change to people who don't understand, you will drink it in your stomach immediately, it is a violent thing, and the following is to appreciate the "color" of the soup! In the cup of white porcelain such as "jade", the "color" of the big red robe is unique. Xu Yang can only be described in eight words: golden and noble, clear and bright!
Put the white porcelain cup under your nose and smell the tea fragrance deeply, put it on the side of your mouth and the entrance is smooth and smooth!
"The green leaves are trimmed with red robes and cover the body, and the good fate is connected to the good heart!" Mr. Zhang Yansheng, a contemporary calligrapher, immediately appeared in Xu Yang's mind.
After drinking a cup, Xu Yang sat there motionless like an old monk, and his ears didn't hear anything earthly! Liu Jianing saw that Xu Yang was like sleeping, and wanted to wake him up, it was too rude to sleep here, but fortunately, Dongfang Rui knew about Xu Yang's situation, stopped Liu Jianing, and shook his head! These continued to taste tea.
Liu Jianing never thought that his grandfather's cherished tea could make such delicious tea, and he had always thought that tea was bitter and astringent. Now I know that I am lonely. looked at Xu Yang who was sitting there. Liu Jianing was stunned, obviously Xu Yang was sitting there, why didn't he seem to see him, if he didn't look carefully, he wouldn't have found Xu Yang sitting there at all.
The rest of the old people began to slowly taste the tea, chatting quietly, a small pot of tea is only one cup per person, and after drinking, add water for two brews. This is called Ertan Lan Zhi! This kind of superb red robe is seven bubbles and eight bubbles, and it is also mellow and sweet!
After the sixth brew of tea, everyone had forgotten all the earthly things, and everyone showed a satisfied smile on their faces. Xu Yang also woke up from his meditation. Xu Yang, who woke up this time, had a more dusty temperament. There are very ascending immortal wind bones!
Xu Yang smiled at everyone, poured himself a cup of tea soup, and gently flipped the tea. Appreciating the bottom of the leaves, put the brewed tea leaves into a white porcelain bowl, and let the guests enjoy the quality characteristics of oolong tea "green leaves and red borders"!
Xu Yang didn't say a word, but sat there and tasted the tea carefully, when the eighth brew of tea was exhausted, only the tea in the cup remained, Liu Lao stood up and said: "Thank you for the old man's birthday today, I will thank you with tea instead of wine, and I will have time to go to my place to sit in the future." And thank you Xiao Xu for the surprise that brought me today. Someday, I will have time for Jianing to take you home and make a cup of tea for the old man!"
A cup of thanksgiving tea: The guests and hosts stand up, toast the cup of tea, bless each other and say goodbye!
This is the last course of the tea art, there is a beginning and an end!