Lead: In ancient Chinese literature, there are long records about eating tea, and different places of origin have different names. As early as the Western Han Dynasty, China's tea spread abroad. When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent messengers to zhina Peninsula, he brought tea with him, in addition to gold, brocade and silk. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, China tea was exported to Turkey together with silk and porcelain. In Yongzhen Garden, Tang Shunzong, the most sincere Zen master in Japan returned to China and brought China's tea seeds back to Japan. Since then, tea has spread from China to all parts of the world, making many countries begin to grow tea and have the habit of drinking tea.
It's time to pick spring tea again, and the tea trees all over the mountain are like little stars, appearing and disappearing in the misty mountains. Even if you don't drink tea, it seems that people have tasted the sweetness and fragrance of new tea.
Tea is full of fragrance, and countries come to ask for it.
At the foot of Huangshan Mountain, there is a beautiful legend.
During the Apocalypse of the Ming Dynasty, Xiong Kaiyuan, the new county magistrate of yi county in the south of the Yangtze River, traveled to Huangshan Mountain in the spring and got lost in the evening. He met an old monk with a bamboo basket at his waist and stayed in the temple. When the elders were making tea to entertain guests, the magistrate of a county carefully looked at the tea, which was yellowish in color and shaped like a sparrow's tongue, covered with white hair. After boiling the water, he saw the hot air around the bowl, rising and circling, turning into a Bai Lianhua, and then dispersing into plumes of hot air, which was full of fragrance. The magistrate of a county was surprised and asked the rear to know the name of this tea. Huang Shanyun? , thus forming a tea relationship with the elders. Time has passed. Later, can this magistrate of a county repeat itself in front of the emperor? Bai Lianhua? Wondering, the emperor was so happy that he upgraded the magistrate of a county to several products and stayed in the imperial city. However, does this magistrate care? Cloud? I didn't want to leave Huangshan Mountain, and finally abandoned my official position as a monk, which became a much-told story.
Although the legend can't be tested, this famous place contains rich tea culture. Ding Yishou, deputy director of China Tea Culture Research Institute of Anhui Agricultural University, told a lot about the history of Hui tea. According to him, the earliest written records of Hui tea can be found in Lu Tongjun, which has been nearly two thousand years. Youyang, Wuchang, Lujiang and Jinling all produce good tea. ? Lujiang County in Han and Jin Dynasties governs Anqing, Lu 'an and Hefei. Since then, the two major tea areas in southern Anhui and western Anhui have taken shape, laying the foundation for the pattern of Anhui tea areas in later generations. In the Eastern Jin and Yuan Dynasties, Xuancheng tea was recorded as tribute tea, which shows the high quality of Huizhou tea at that time. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, tea in Zhangzhou (now Huangshan City, Jixi County and Wuyuan County) was deeply loved by the people because of its large quantity and high quality. According to records, the quality of tea produced in Zhangzhou is excellent, and it is in northern areas such as Hebei and Shanxi. Is everyone still there? . Every new tea season, thousands of miles to and from Zhangzhou, tea merchants are in an endless stream. Floating beam and Zhangzhou, all countries come to ask for it? ,? Rub your shoulders and follow the trail? . Qimen grows tea all over the mountain, taking tea as its industry, and relying on tea for food and clothing services. At the same time, Xuanzhou Duck Camellia is juxtaposed with Zhou Shu Tianzhu Tea, which is famous for a while and is popular in the south of the Yangtze River and spread far and wide in Luo Jing. What did people call it at that time? Famous teas come forth in large numbers, and countries come to ask for them; A famous spring, a big tea ceremony? .
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Huizhou merchants rose. Huizhou tea was swept across the country by Huizhou merchants and spread overseas. At that time, Huizhou Xiuning pineapple tea, Changxing camel tea and Suzhou Huqiu tea were the tea circles at that time. Top three? Was praised by Zheng Banqiao. Favorite evening guest, a pot of new tea made of pineapple? . In A Dream of Red Mansions, there is a description of Jia Mu drinking tea. At this time, Miaoyu brought tea to Grandmother Jia. Grandmother Jia said? I don't eat Lu 'an tea? . This description shows from one side that in the Qing Dynasty, Lu 'an tea had entered the royal family and became a famous product at that time.
Hui tea inherited and innovated in the late Qing Dynasty, and accumulated a lot. The soaring Huangshan Mao Feng, the Taiping Monkey Kui who won the gold medal at the Panama World Expo, the Qimen black tea popular in Europe, and the unique Luan melon chips were all created during this period. 1955 China tea company selected the top ten famous teas in China. These four kinds of tea are famous on the list, and Hui tea accounts for nearly half. At the same time, there are many famous teas in Anhui, such as Shexian Laozhu Dafang, Shitai Wuqiqing and Cuilan Yuexi. These famous teas shine like stars in the bright sky of China tea culture. Nowadays, the production techniques of Huangshan Mao Feng and other green teas have been selected into the national intangible cultural heritage list, expecting to get better development in the new historical period.
Taste tranquility and cultivate sentiment.
Two thousand years have passed, and today's tea has been deeply rooted in our lives. Seven things? Rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea? ; At the same time, tea has become an important element of people's self-cultivation? Piano, chess, painting, sword, tea, wine, poetry and fireworks? .
Folk expert Song Guoqiang said, What is the earliest expression of tea? Check? Drink a bowl of tea soup after a meal to reduce greasy, digest food and eliminate toxins. After the Han Dynasty? Tea? Until the Tang Dynasty, tea became people's daily drink and was used more and more frequently. Tea? Subtract a horizontal character to become today's? Tea? Yes Song Guoqiang believes that the prosperity of tea is related to the spread of Buddhism and the rise of Taoism in the Han and Jin Dynasties. In the eyes of Buddhists, tea is a necessary thing for meditation and peace of mind; In Taoist view, tea helps to refine? Neidan? At the same time, it is also a good material for ascending the clear and descending the turbidity, turning bones and cultivating immortals. These views and practices on tea have been divorced from the physical form as a beverage, and tea culture has just begun to take shape. In the past, tea trees could not be transplanted due to conditions, so tea was available? Stop moving? This nickname was later given the meaning of loyalty and loyalty. Today, in many ethnic groups in our country, tea is still a major ceremony of engagement and marriage, and the origin of this ceremony is mostly due to tea trees. Stop moving? The characteristics of.
For the famous tea produced in Anhui, Ding Yishou, deputy director of the Tea Research Institute of Annong University, summed it up like this: Huangshan Mao Feng, the bud tip is mellow and sweet, and the aroma is like blue; Lu' an melon slices, with stems and buds removed, have a clear soup color and a long aftertaste; Taiping monkey chief, two leaves and one bud, flat and straight, flying while flying? In Ding's view, China people's tea culture is a comprehensive cultural system integrating tea with nature, society, humanities and art, including material culture, institutional culture, behavioral culture, spiritual culture and other levels, with the spirit of dedication, benefiting the people, benefiting the country, frugality and seeking truth.
Nowadays, people have unconsciously entered the fast-paced era, and many people have begun to think about it, seeking a slow life that will calm their hearts and make people calm down. Holding a cup of fragrant tea makes people taste quiet and peaceful in drinking tea, relaxes their nervous heartstrings and balances their inclined psychology. In Ding's view, this is not only a kind of spiritual enjoyment, but also an effective way of self-cultivation.
Healthy way of drinking tea scientifically
Every new tea-picking season, many books that guide people to drink tea healthily come out at the right time, among which, "Healthy tea, healthy tea, healthy tea?" This new concept is gradually entering people's field of vision, calling on more people to understand the health value of tea while enjoying it, so as to improve health in scientific tea drinking.
Tea contains many beneficial components, such as tea polyphenols, tea pigments, theanine and tea polysaccharides. These components have certain functions in reducing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, preventing cancer, lowering blood lipid and enhancing memory, and have many health care functions.
Pay attention to the healthy and scientific method of drinking tea. There are many kinds of tea, including green tea, scented tea, black tea and oolong tea, each with its own characteristics and advantages. According to your own preferences, you don't need to pay special attention to the distinction of seasons. From the point of view of nutrition and health care, there are many stresses on making tea: unless the new tea with tender leaves is brewed with water of about 85 degrees, it is generally brewed with boiling water, so that more tea polyphenols can be dissolved in water. In the usual tea drinking, if we are used to adding lemon slices or kumquat, vitamin C can improve the absorption rate of tea polyphenols many times.
How many cups of tea a day is appropriate? Someone once joked that one cup is a product, two cups are drinks, and three cups and four cups are stupid things to drink cattle and horses. In fact, people who are used to drinking tea can drink two or three cups in the morning and three cups in the afternoon. Not only can you drink tea water, but also the brewed tea can be eaten, which is rich in vitamin E, dietary fiber and other substances that are beneficial to health. Now, as people are interested in? Pure natural? With people's attention to food, natural tea is gradually loved by people. In this regard, many experts have called for: What is the cost of drinking tea? Huh? Business, operators should be people-oriented, produce pollution-free tea, so that the rich tea fragrance has been floating down.
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