Chapter 59: The Four Arts of the Tea Ceremony
After speaking, he gently put down the Mansheng pot, and said with some regret: "It's a pity that the pearl is secretly invested, and it is not well maintained, and the pulp is not very good." ”
"That's why I have to find someone like you who understands pots to reflect the value of Mansheng pots!"
Ling Tiancheng hurriedly patted his ass and said: "You already have three genuine products here, plus this one, exactly four, four seas, four seas, a veritable four seas building!"
"You kid......"
Yan Sihai nodded at Ling Tiancheng with his hand, and scolded with a smile: "Clever tongue, no wonder Brother Ling said that your eyesight is not good, but your mouth is not bad!"
The three of them laughed, the atmosphere became more and more harmonious, Yan Sihai slowly took out five purple clay pots, gently placed them on the sea of tea, opened the lid of the pot, put in different tea leaves, and said with a smile: "But what you said is good, Sihai, Sihai, I have always wanted to get together four Mansheng pots, but I didn't expect that I had the intention to plant flowers and flowers not to bloom, and I didn't intend to plant willows and willows, and I took the initiative to send them to the door today?"
He looked at Wen Yiming and said, "Xiaoyou is really a distinguished guest, please taste Yan's tea banquet and give me more advice!"
After speaking, he picked up the small feather fan and began to fan the charcoal fire, the flames became bigger and bigger, and the iron kettle began to make a soft and low sound.
"You use spotted bamboo charcoal?"
Wen Yiming's nose moved slightly, looked at the coals, and said with a smile: "A thousand tears of the spotted bamboo, and a hundred heavy clothes of red glow." ”
"Good eyesight!"
Yan Sihai was shocked, and said in surprise: "Xiaoyou can actually see the origin of this charcoal?"
Chen Ding's "Bamboo Spectrum" called it Xiaoxiang bamboo or "tear-stained bamboo, with black spots on the rod, which is quite beautiful." "Array Chronicles": "The second daughter of Yao, the second concubine of Shun, said 'Mrs. Xiang', Shun collapsed, the second concubine cried, waved with tears, and the bamboo was spotted. ”
Wen Yiming said with a smile: "According to legend, in ancient times, Concubine Xiang's tears were stained with green bamboo, and the spotted bamboo multiplied for future generations and nourished Kyushu. The root cause of it is because Emperor Shun worked hard for the people, worked tirelessly, and died in Jiuzhi Mountain. Later generations named "Banzhu", which means that the great ambition of Shun is painstaking, and he has worked hard for all the people, and he has died. ”
"Hahaha, not bad, not bad!"
Yan Sihai bowed slightly, and agreed: "It's spotted bamboo charcoal, the four arts of tea ceremony, and charcoal, water, and fire tea." Charcoal is the first element, the old decay has studied all kinds of charcoal, and finally selected the spotted bamboo, its soft nature, the smell is fragrant, and it is most suitable for regulating firepower. ”
Wen Yiming nodded secretly, this is the master, details determine success or failure, the tea ceremony is the same as the incense ceremony, any factor can determine the final result, and it cannot be sloppy.
Yan Sihai became interested in Wen Yiming, pointed to the iron kettle and asked, "It seems that Xiaoyou also has research on tea ceremony, what can be seen in this pot?"
"Kinjudo, old iron kettle, Edo period!"
Wen Yiming had already seen the iron kettle, and said softly: "Jinjudo is one of the important halls of Kyoto's iron kettle, and the Ryubundo and the Kamebun kettle can be called the three major systems of iron kettle inscriptions. ”
"Emphasizing that the body of the pot is beautifully crafted and is known for its consistent quality. Compared with the fancy nature of Long Wentang's works, its production style tends to be elegant and pure. The technique of making iron kettles was unique, and he was good at using different metal materials such as gold, silver, and copper to inlay or emboss on the body or handle, which was extremely precious and gorgeous at that time. ”
"Look at the pulp and treasure light of your iron kettle, it should be the Edo period, and a good kettle can produce good water!"
"Eyesight!"
Yan Sihai clapped his hands lightly and said happily: "Xiaoyou is really a fellow believer, this pot has followed me for more than 30 years, it can be regarded as a small success, and it has cultivated some spirituality, and it can barely enter the room to entertain distinguished guests." ”
Ling Tiancheng secretly said in his heart: "The old iron kettle in the Edo period has been raised for another thirty years, so it can be called reluctantly?
Wen Yiming nodded, smelled the water vapor constantly coming out of the mouth of the pot, and said softly: "Mingren Zhang Dafu said in "Plum Blossom Cottage Writings": "Tea must come from water, eighths of tea, when you meet ten points of water, tea is also very good; ”
"The Book of Tea: Five Boils" wrote: Its water is used in the mountains and rivers, in the rivers, and under the wells. ”
"According to the experience of the ancients, water should be clear, lively, light, sweet and cold. Clear is colorless, transparent, no precipitation; living is flowing water, flowing water does not rot, household hub does not beetle, living water is cleaner than stagnant water; light refers to the specific gravity, the light specific gravity is generally soft water suitable for tea; sweet refers to the light taste of the water; cold refers to the water temperature, cold, ice water, snow water is the best. ”
After speaking, his nose moved, and two different smells came, and he said with a smile: "The water comes from the spring water in the deep mountains?"
"Awesome!"
Yan Sihai was taken aback, and became more and more surprised by Wen Yiming, it is not too difficult to see the origin of the old iron kettle, after all, Jin Shoutang is famous, and senior players can be like a treasure. You can see the waterway at a glance, and it's amazing!
"Not only that, but you also added some dew to the water, and the water quality is even softer and sweeter, which is rare!"
Since you pretend to be forced, then pretend to the end! Wen Yiming directly broke through the mystery, and when he heard it, he knew that the water was a spring water transported from the deep mountains thousands of miles away, and the smell was indeed extraordinary.
"You ......"
Yan Sihai was shocked by one sentence, stared at Wen Yiming, and said shockingly: "High, really high!"
Ling Tiancheng smiled and said nothing, he was no longer surprised by Wen Yiming's magic, it was the same last time he was with Hu Jianmin, the scared billionaire was stunned, this time it was the same again, he couldn't accept it!
Yan Sihai Zhengse said: "Tang dynasty Zhang Youxin disclosed in his "Sencha Water Record" that the tea god Lu Yu ranked the water of the world, "Lushan Kangwanggu Water Curtain Water" ranked first, and the "Tea on the top of Mengshan Mountain, the heart of the Yangtze River" in the past, among which the "Yangtze Jiangnan Zero Water" ranked sixth, and the twentieth place was "Snow Water". ”
He also listed the ranking record of the late Liu Boshu, a waiter of the Criminal Department, and listed "Yangtze Jiangnan Zero Water" as the top of the list. Zhang himself also proposed that the first non-"Tonglu River Yanzi Beach Water" is none other than it. After that, Ouyang Xiu, Song Huizong, Zhu Quan, Zhang Qiande, Xu Cixu and others joined the controversy. ”
Emperor Qianlong, who was proficient in the tea ceremony, personally investigated, and named BJ jade spring water as "the first spring in the world", and wrote the text of "Yuquan Mountain The First Spring in the World" said: Compared with the silver bucket, the water of the jade spring of the Beijing division weighs one or two; the water of Yixun is also weighed by one or two; the pearl spring of Jinan, the bucket weighs one or two two centimeters; the Jinshan Spring of the Yangtze River, the bucket weighs one or two or three centimeters; it is two cents or three centimeters heavier than the jade spring. To Huishan and Tiger Run, each weighs four centimeters of jade springs, Pingshan weighs six centimeters, Qingliang Mountain, Baisha, Tiger Hill and Biyun Temple of Xishan, each weighs one point of jade springs. ”
"Taste the collection of vegetarian cooking, three centimeters lighter than the Yuquan bucket. The snow water cannot be obtained forever, then those who come out of the mountain and have cold, there is no jade spring of the Beijing master, so it is designated as the first spring in the world!"
Wen Yiming said softly: "The silver bottle stores spring water, and the sound of pine rain comes to the ripening of milky flowers." ”
Ling Tiancheng also sighed: "Sit and drink the water, and watch the frying dust." There is no reason to hold a bowl and send it to tea lovers. ”
Yan Sihai was just about to speak, when suddenly there was a soft sound from the iron kettle, like a breeze blowing through the leaves, crisp and pleasant.
Wen Yiming smiled and said: "The bottom of the pot is ringing, it should be a boil, but the heat has not yet arrived, wait a while!"
"Three points of technology and seven points of fire!" Yan Sihai became more pleasing to the eye the more he saw and smelled it, he was so proficient in the tea ceremony at a young age!
Put down the feather fan, gently open the lid of the iron kettle, and demonstrate: "There are nine difficulties in living fire tea, and fire is the fourth." It is meaningless to look at the flame to cook tea, and the main basis is to look at the soup, that is, to observe the whole process of boiling water. ”