Xuanzhongzi is fond of tea, and his protégés often make sencha for his master, and they are also proficient in tea ceremony.

At that time, the tea was slightly similar to the soup, and it was completely different from the later generations of the Song and Ming dynasties.

There is a stone table in the Xuanneutron room, and there is a stone tripod next to it, which is specially used for sencha, and Pharmacist Li built a charcoal fire under the stone tripod.

Lu Yu's "Book of Tea" in the Tang Dynasty said: "Its fire uses charcoal, and the second uses hard work." ”

The so-called "living water still needs to be fried alive" is the experience accumulated by sencha for hundreds of years since the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

In addition to charcoal fire, the second can be used mulberry, acacia, tung, tung and other solid and fine wood to make fire, never pine, cedar, cypress, cypress and other wood containing oil.

Otherwise, the grease burns, and smoke rises and is mixed into the tea, which greatly damages its taste.

At this time, Xuan Zhongzi was taking the school room Xuan Ling's homework.

Fang Xuanling has only been in the school for a few years, and although he has entered the country at a great speed, the questions he asks are still not within the scope of books.

Xuanzhongzi is the most enlightened, and although the questions raised by Fang Xuanling are simple and easy, he does not tire of answering them in detail.

The time that Xuan Zhongzi spent on these junior disciples was actually several times that of the older disciples.

While making a fire, Pharmacist Li listened quietly to the Master's teachings.

The so-called "review the old and learn the new", although the master answered Fang Xuanling's question, Pharmacist Li also benefited a lot.

After he had lit the coals, he looked for tea cakes.

Since the Western Jin Dynasty, the production areas of the best tea are Xiyang in Yuzhou, Wuchang in Jingzhou, and Lujiang and Biling in Yangzhou, which were not within the territory of the Sui Empire at that time.

However, Xuan Zhongzi was born in the Langya Wang clan, and one of his clans who crossed south with the Jin dynasty was the most powerful family in the south.

Wang Dao, a famous minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Wang Xizhi, a great calligrapher, are all overbearing figures in his clan; And the queens of the two Jin Dynasty and the four generations of the Southern Dynasties, there are more than ten from the Langya Wang family.

Therefore, some of the tea eaten by Xuan Zhongzi is a treasure obtained from the south because of the return of relatives.

Pharmacist Li opened the cage where the master was storing tea, and the fragrance of tea overflowed the room.

He took a deep breath and let the scent of tea fill his lungs.

He knew that Master liked Piling tea the most, and when he looked into the cage, there were indeed several pieces of Piling tea cakes, one of which had been used up by half.

Biling has a history of tea production for hundreds of years at that time, and the best Guzhu purple bamboo shoots of the Tang Dynasty in later generations, the tribute Ruilong Rizhu of the Song Dynasty, the immortal Yangxian Luojie of the Ming Dynasty, and the Yipin Shifeng Longjing of the Qing Dynasty are all produced in this area.

At that time, after the young leaves were plucked from the tea tree, they were steamed and pounded, and then dried into flakes to become tea cakes.

Pharmacist Li took the half of the green buds of Piling, roasted them on a charcoal fire, and then ground them into fine powder with stones.

When the dry tea is milled, it makes a very slight crushing sound when grinding, and it becomes a Hunan yellow powder after grinding.

The poets of the Tang Dynasty described the tea in the grinding, and its sound was "the sound of refusing to grind dry", "the sound of chaotic springs in the mill", and its color was "grinding into gold powder, light and tender like pine flowers".

Although Pharmacist Li had never read the poems of his descendants, he had already understood the audio-visual entertainment when making tea.

At that time, tea ceremonies were often mixed with spices and fruits.

Pharmacist Li knew that when the master ate tea, he often added dogwood and Su Gui, added dry ginger when the weather was cold, or added mint when it was hot, sometimes orange peel in spring, and pine nuts in autumn.

He saw that there were still some dried orange peels on the stone table, so he put the orange peels, dogwood, and Su Gui into a small dish and prepared to stop.

He also took the stone kettle of Master's sencha, first washed it through a mountain spring, and then poured it into the clear spring water, and placed it on top of the charcoal flint stone tripod.

Then he went back to the futon and knelt down to let Master know that the water had been placed on the fire.

At this time, Xuan Zhongzi solved the confusion for Fang Xuanling and Wei Xuancheng, and it was also coming to an end, and the four masters and apprentices moved to sit next to the stone table.

Pharmacist Li invited the master to sit up, and he sat in the main seat, while Fang Xuanling and Wei Xuancheng sat on the side.

At this time, the water in the kettle was boiling like a fish, and Pharmacist Li took four green glazed brown spot tea bowls and took the water temperature bowl.

At that time, the brown color was still yellow, and it was contained in the green glaze brown spot bowl, and the jade was green and yellow, which complemented each other.

At this time, the water in the kettle gushed out one after another, and Pharmacist Li put out a scoop.

When he saw that the master did not remove the orange peel, he threw the orange peel into the soup along with the dogwood and Su Gui.

At the same time, stir with bamboo rings to stir the hot soup out of the whirlpool, that is, measure the tea powder and put it into the whirlpool.

Later generations called the Tang tea ceremony the "tea throwing method", which refers to the step of throwing tea into the soup.

Soon after the end of the tea was put into the soup, the soup was boiling like a rushing wave, and Pharmacist Li poured a scoop of warm water back into the kettle to stop the boiling of the waves, and layers of foam instantly floated.

At that time, the tea ceremony was the most particular about the foam soup flower of this tea noodle.

The Western Jin Dynasty Du pre-"Xun Fu" has a saying: "But the beginning of the form, the foam sinks and floats, the glow is like snow, and Ye Ruochun." ”

Pharmacist Li decocted the tea, and the tea noodle soup was really foamy, like snow, like spring flowers, just like Du Pre's words.

At this time, Xuan Zhongzi saw the soup flowers floating on the tea noodles, so he said: "Xuan Ling, Xuan Cheng, this tea noodle soup flowers, the thin ones are called foam, and the thick ones are called gluttony." If the sencha heat is accurate, you can have such a froth. ”

When Xuan Zhongzi said this, he was secretly shocked in his heart.

He also thought that Pharmacist Li was arrogant, so he rarely spoke up to praise him.

Who knew that in the middle of the conversation, he inadvertently praised him for the accurate handling of the sencha, and Xuan Zhongzi couldn't help but secretly laugh at himself in his heart.

Although Pharmacist Li can't understand Master's feelings clearly, how can he not know that Master loves him?

He put the fried tea into four warm tea bowls, divided the tea noodle soup evenly, and then gave one bowl to the master, and then divided the two bowls between Fang Xuanling and Wei Xuancheng.

He first offered tea to his master, and Fang Xuanling and Wei Xuancheng also followed suit.

Xuan Zhongzi obviously admired the tea fried by Pharmacist Li, and he lowered his eyes and savored it, but he no longer praised it.

He ate half a bowl of tea and said, "Medicine Master, the first ancestor of Zen Buddhism, Bodhidharma, is also a person who eats tea!" ”

Knowing that Master was about to talk about the topic, Pharmacist Li only replied "yes."

Xuan Zhongzi continued: "After the death of Zen Master Bodhidharma, his disciple Master Hui Ke inherited the mantle of Zen Buddhism. During the period when Master Hui Ke was in charge of Shaolin, he encountered Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty who forbade the Buddha and Taoism, so many people today do not know his reputation. However, Master Hui Ke's cultivation can be said to be a direct pursuit of the master, and he is by no means under the Bodhidharma Zen Master. ”

Xuan Zhongzi took a sip of tea and continued: "Master Hui Ke was not originally a child of Shaolin, he is a native of Luoyang. When Zen Master Bodhidharma was stationed in Shaolin, Master Hui Ke went to Shaolin to seek Dharma from Zen Master Bodhidharma. Bodhidharma Zen Master saw that what he had learned was mixed, and his preconceived views were very deep, and he was confident that he was clever and difficult to understand Zen principles, so he refused to accept it at the moment. At that time, the Bodhidharma Zen Master was sitting in meditation in the pavilion in front of the Shaolin Thousand Buddha Palace, and Master Hui Ke braved the heavy snow to stand outside the pavilion, and the heavy snow did not kneel, and he still did not move. I begged so hard, but I still didn't get in. Master Hui Ke immediately lifted his sword and cut off his left arm. ”