Here is a brief introduction:
How many nicknames does tea have?
Tea has many nicknames. According to Lu Yu's Tea Classic, there are other names besides tea, such as Yi, Yi, Ming and Yi. In addition, according to other ancient records, there are also names such as tea, melon dew, fruit, wuluo, Xuan, heng, Jia tea, tea and mammy. Tea also has many nicknames, such as "not waiting at night". Jin Zhanghua's "Natural History" said that "drinking real tea makes people sleep less, so tea has the name of not waiting at night and is also beautiful." A "friend", according to Su Song Jianyi's Four Books, "Ye Jiazi's friend is Mr. Yuchuan. A good friend is tea. " A "Yugan's", according to Li Yong's "Wei Wen Suo Yu", "The world called olive Yugan, also known as tea Yugan, and changed the name of tea to Yugan's because of the change of characters". There are also those nicknamed "Sembo" and "Detergent". With the appearance of famous teas, they are often named as famous teas, such as Longjing, Oolong Tea, Mao Feng, Dahongpao, Cinnamon, Tieren, Shuijinggui, Baijiguan and Yuqian. There are so many appellations that it is beautiful.
2. Reading tea: Tea is one of China's important contributions to human beings and world civilization. China is the origin of tea trees and the first country to discover and utilize tea. Tea industry and tea culture began with drinking tea. For thousands of years, tea culture has been enriched and developed in China's long history of national culture, and has become a treasure of oriental traditional culture. Modern tea culture has enriched the world culture with its unique style. .
Today, tea, as a worldwide beverage, maintains the deep feelings of people in China and other countries.
Tea originated in China, and was discovered and utilized in ancient times. Up to now, towering wild tea trees can still be seen in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan.
Tea is a dicotyledonous plant. According to textual research, tea trees were formed between Late Tertiary and Quaternary Pleistocene. 198 1 year, Professor Liu Qizhi of Guizhou Tea Science Research Institute discovered plant seed fossils related to Qiu Si tea at the junction of Pu 'an County and Longqing County in Guizhou Province.
"Shennong tasted a hundred herbs and encountered 72 poisons every day, so he solved it with tea." Shen Nong's Classic of Materia Medica written in Han Dynasty records the origin of tea and Shen Nong. The story of Shennong tasting a hundred herbs is a widely spread and far-reaching legend in ancient China. Shennong, also known as "Shennong", is a representative figure of prehistoric ancestors in China. According to legend, Shennong is a "bull's head", which may be the imagination of the ancestors who had begun to master agricultural technology in Niu Geng at that time.
Shennong, as the god of agriculture, is also the inventor of China medicine. When he discovered grain, he also discovered all kinds of herbs that can treat human diseases. According to legend, in order to master the characteristics of herbs, Shennong once tasted all kinds of herbs and was poisoned 72 times in one day. Finally, he accidentally tasted the leaves of a tea tree, and the poison was relieved.
3. Know tea
The discovery and utilization of tea are inseparable. In the development of tea, it has gone through a long process from medicinal use, eating, sacrifice to drinking.
Tea originated in Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in southwest China, and flowed into Sichuan, Sichuan and Cuba with river traffic, which developed rapidly. This is the earliest tea-producing area in China, and Bashu area can be said to be the cradle of China tea. In China's earliest local chronicles, Huayang County Records, it is recorded that "about 3,000 years ago, Shu people in Cuba began to grow tea and presented it as a local product to the emperor at that time".
In the Han Dynasty, tea drinking was very common in Bashu area, and tea began to become a commodity in circulation. Bao Wang, a native of Sichuan in the Western Han Dynasty, recorded in his document Yue Yue that he "cooked all kinds of tea" and went to Wuyang to buy tea. Yue Yue was a tool for buying and selling slaves at that time, but it was an extremely important document in the history of Chinese tea.
According to the history of Wu Lizhen in the Western Han Dynasty, eight tea trees were planted on Mount Mengshan. Later generations have the saying that "Eight Immortals tea becomes immortal, and it can be served at four o'clock, that is, the ground becomes immortal". The remains of Wu Lizhen in Mengshan are still there today.
Tea soon went down the Yangtze River, took root and sprouted in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the focus of tea culture began to shift. In ancient literature dialects, there is a story that someone went to Yangxian (now Jiangsu) to buy tea in Han Dynasty. Tea has been unearthed as funerary objects in Jiangling, Hubei Province and Mawangdui, Changsha, Hunan Province. A complete celadon urn was unearthed in a tomb in the late Eastern Han Dynasty in Huzhou, a tea town. It is worth noting that the shoulder of celadon urn is engraved with the word "tea", so it was identified as an article used by Han people to store tea. Huzhou, located on the bank of Taihu Lake in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, is the origin of the ancient famous tea "Yangxian Tea".
It is recorded in the ancient book Guangya that in the area of ancient Jingzhou, people make cakes from picked tea leaves. If the leaves are old, they are mixed with rice porridge to make tea cakes. Before cooking and drinking, the tea cake is baked to dark red, then pounded into tea powder, supplemented by onion, ginger, orange peel and other things, and boiled together, which is a form of soup.
Although people's requirements and practices for drinking tea are still in an extensive stage at this time, the processing of tea has begun. The processing method and cooking method of this kind of cake tea have been followed up to the Tang and Song Dynasties, but the processing method is more elaborate and the cooking method is more exquisite.
According to historical records, there were many celebrities among the first batch of ancient tea people, such as Yang Xiong and Sima Xiangru in the Han Dynasty. During the Western Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, people used tea to keep clean and resist the extravagant wind at that time. The most famous story here is the story of the Moon God in the Eastern Jin Dynasty entertaining guests with tea.
Around the 5th century AD, Xiao Yi (479-502), Emperor Wu of the Southern Dynasties, said in his legacy: After my death, don't sacrifice livestock to me, just offer cakes, fruits, tea wine and rice. Some people think that this story of offering tea as a sacrifice can be traced back to the earlier Zhou Dynasty. It can be seen that at a very early age, people had an understanding of the spiritual character of tea.