Interesting Talk on Reading Tea Culture in China
-In rose language
Tea culture has a long history in China, especially in modern Chaoshan area.
When it comes to kungfu tea, the teapot is inevitable.
Nowadays, teapots are well known and widely used.
First talk about the source, advantages and selection methods of teapot.
source
In the Northern Song Dynasty, people began to use purple sand tea sets, as evidenced by Mei's poem "Little Stone Cold Spring Leaves Taste First, New Purple Mud Pan Chunhua".
However, at this time, the real teapot is not needed.
The first person to make a teapot with purple sand was a monk in Jinsha Temple in Zhengde period of Ming Dynasty.
There is a boy named Gong Chun in the class. He has nothing to do on weekdays, so he secretly imitates the old monk to make clay blanks and learns to make teapots.
His pot is novel and elegant in shape, thin and hard in texture, and is known as "the pot is better than the stone in spring". Therefore, it has become an outstanding representative of teapots for spring.
Later, a Potter in Yixing transformed it into a small pot and spread it. The small pot has become an exquisite tea set that everyone loves.
Advantages:
① Purple sand is a material with fine pores and good air permeability. Make tea in a teapot, and the tea soup will not go bad easily.
(2) can absorb tea soup, long-term use of tea rust on the wall of the pot, empty pot filled with boiling water, but also tea fragrance, lasting.
(3) The sandy material has slow heat transfer, so it is not hot in your hand after making tea.
(4) After being used for a long time, it becomes shiny due to the touch of the palm and the penetration of tea oil.
(5) hand-made, so the shapes are diverse and can be made at will.
system of selection
① ? The shape of the pot is beautiful, which can meet your own appreciation level and aesthetic requirements.
② ? Pay attention to the texture of the pot and carefully check whether the fetal bone is hard and how oily the color is.
The teapot has purple black or purple brown (made of purple mud or light purple mud), light gray or light yellow (made of gray-green mud) and gray black (made of brown-red mud).
When choosing a new pot, open the lid and tap the pot body gently. The sound is sonorous and crisp, indicating that the fetal bone is hard. If the surface of the pot is smooth and polished, it is a good choice. Suitable for making tea with strong aroma, such as green tea.
If the sound of the pot is slightly lower, it is suitable for tea with strong taste, such as oolong tea and Tieguanyin.
③ ? Smell the smell in the pot. The new pot is the best one, slightly earthy. Some injection-molded pots usually smell like fire or engine oil.
④ ? Check the accuracy of the pan. There is no phenomenon that the lid falls off when pouring tea, which means that the height of the lid and teapot is the same. In this way, the fragrance of tea is not easy to spread, and the taste of tea can be maintained for a long time.
In addition, try again whether the handle of the pot is comfortable and labor-saving. It is best to pour about three-quarters of the water into the pot, and then pour water into the pot when it is full.
⑤ ? Pay attention to the cultural connotation of teapot. Mainly in modeling, clay sculpture, inscriptions, calligraphy, painting, sculpture, seal cutting. In terms of writing, regular script was used in the Ming Dynasty, regular script and seal script were used in the early Qing Dynasty, and seal script was mainly used in the later period.
A guest's heart is always hot, but a person's tea is not cold. I hope the above words will have a certain effect on people who love tea!