People who pay attention to drinking tea mostly use Yixing teapot, the volume is generally 800CC-200CC. When making tea, first of all, how to identify and appreciate famous tea. Observe the shape of dry tea and smell its fragrance. After selecting the tea leaves, pick up the tightly rolled tea leaves such as pearls and pour them into the teapot. The teapot made a crisp beep, and then it was filled with boiling water. The tea foam flowing from the spout is lightly sealed by the lid. Cover it for about one or two minutes, and pour the tea soup from the teapot into the milk cup filled with tea ware (this kind of cup is called the male cup in the tea ceremony). It's called washing tea. Then pour the tea in the milk cup into the fragrant cup and the mouth cup respectively, and then pour the tea soup on the teapot, which is called the "tea soup pot". Then we began to make tea, drinking one cup after another as we walked, so that everyone could truly appreciate the fragrant tea and wonderful sweetness of Taiwan Bay tea. Taiwan Bay compatriots like to brew Taiwan Bay tea in teapots, and all agree that Taiwan Bay tea can only be brewed in Yixing teapots. The pot for making tea is full of heat, and the tea soup poured on the pot body is easily evaporated by the pot heat and absorbed by the surface of the pot body. In addition, it is inevitable that the new pot will be a little rustic when used for the first time. Because of the double pore structure of the teapot wall, the teapot body is breathable and airtight, which is easy to absorb tea juice, remove the earthy smell and leave a strong tea fragrance. There are often traces of tea leaves on the surface of the pot, so it is necessary to brush the surface of the pot frequently with a pot brush or a soft toothbrush to keep it clean. This is called "tea soup pot". This daily rubbing makes the surface of the pot dull and brighter with use. Some people call it "patina" (patina preservation), which can't be washed off by high temperature and high pressure, showing elegant taste. In order to make the casserole glow faster, someone wiped it on the pot with an oiler's hand and an oilcloth. This kind of light is called "monk's light". If you wash it with detergent, the light will fade, revealing pieces of scale scars, which is very ugly. "Yang Xianming Lu Tao" said: "I cherish the scales and dye my sleeves for fear of erasing the old colors. I don't know how to write.
Another way to raise a pot is to wet the pot body with tea residue when cleaning the teapot and tea set every morning. On the one hand, it can wipe off the traces of tea dirt and tea residue on the pot body, and on the other hand, it can polish the pot body with wet tea leaves.
There is also a method of raising pots: grinding tiles (black soil tiles in the south of the Yangtze River) into very fine powder and wrapping them with six layers of gauze into a cloth ball the size of loquat. When the tea soup is poured on the pot body, soak the gauze ball in the tea soup and gently rub it to make the pot body clean and smooth. In today's scientific development, fine abrasive powder can be used instead of ceramic tile powder to make yarn balls, which can also achieve ideal results.
Some people simply boil pots in tea, and some people have successfully developed a pot-raising machine to raise pots. Although these have other functions, they always feel less soft and beautiful than the accumulated tea juice.
Yixing teapot, cultivated for a long time, has developed round and moist, square and thick, hidden beads, full body, delicate fog and jade-like, as if unveiling the mysterious veil and seeing the true meaning of perfect texture. Some people think that "making tea in clay pots is easy to get dirty, and there are few fans". Today, I saw people in Taiwan Bay making tea in Taiwan Bay, and the pottery pots cultivated were like the color of copper and the light of jade, and they were sonorous. Hu Yujinhu has a unique spirit, simple and lovely.
The "four-sided bamboo pot" decorated with carvings adopts the "tea-soup pot-raising method", which can not only cultivate the lovely texture of purple mud, but also gain unexpected results: the color change of mud and the color of sunlight at first glance set off the thin bamboo leaves attached to the pot surface, such as the dynamic feeling of breeze blowing; The surface of the square pot is convex like a mirror, which is really a stunt and a pleasing instrument. Another is a black teapot made in reducing flame, which uses "tea soup to raise the pot". The pot body is bluish-black, black without ink, and the juice is bright. It is a kiln change, such as Chen Mingting in Zhong Ding, which is dignified and generous. Red clay pots are as fat as southern red beans, floating with elites. Some ancient teapots were unkempt, while others were slightly flawed. After cleaning up, sorting out and cultivating, the rule of "tea soup carries teapot" was restored to the Spring Festival, which was truly called "respecting the ancient and pushing forward the new" and created a miracle. If you want to continue to use old pots and ancient pots, you must not put them on the shelf and lose their luster. Moreover, after people use and support tea, even if there are some small cracks and defects on the pot, they can heal themselves and will not seep tea. Old pots and ancient pots decorated with paintings and pottery carvings have been cultivated, and the brushwork and knife method on them have strengthened the three-dimensional sense, making them more bookish and more lovely. Some old pots and ancient pots, although not made by everyone, are very cute, which reminds me of Man Gong Yun: "You don't have to be the home of poetry and painting, but you can see the beauty of nature." This is the artistic view of truly appreciating art, which gives you all kinds of memorable flavors from the classics and makes you fondle it. This is also the case. If you are too rigid in statutes, you will inevitably feel stubborn, mechanical and dull, and lack the interest in handicrafts. Pottery is not only a rigorous production and modeling process, but also an art of earth curtain and fire. If there is a slight contrast between soil and fire, there are bound to be some defects. As long as it is not obvious, the defect should not exceed a certain standard. Although compared with more perfect works, it is slightly inferior in value, but this kind of rare, special and extraordinary has its unique value in artistic appreciation. Yaobian is a treasure, so we don't have to pay too much attention to these nuances and think it is insufficient. Tao, a famous scholar in Yang Xian, said: "Wu Shuo' a trickling man can buy a handsome bone, and Sun Bin can do enough to show that a broken jar is good'. Gao Bo is a true connoisseur. Needless to say, he is elegant. " . I'm afraid it's true.
Because pots are suitable for making tea, it is reasonable to choose pots for making tea and raise pots with pots. The older the teapot, the more famous it will be. The more famous, the easier it is to cultivate spirit; The harder it is for others to raise, the easier it is to raise. If it is a famous teapot or a pot with poor mud, it can still be identified by raising it. Tea lovers cultivate teapot with applicable, practical, contemporary and scientific tea-making methods, master the quantity, volume, water quantity, water temperature, duration and time of tea, form the optimal structure, and compile standardized tea-making methods. Raising pots is interesting, as precious as pearls and jade. According to my own practice, I have explored the scientific truth that the teapot is indeed the first tea set in the world. The beauty of texture can be compared with Sui Zhu and Zhao Bi. If you don't cut the jade, you can't raise it.