A tea friend said: To drink tea, you have to pay tuition.
Lao Yang said calmly: To make tea, you also have to pay tuition.
Tea friends are very puzzled: do you have to pay tuition fees for making tea?
Lao Yang replied with a little bitternessThe tea-making process is pitted every year, and it will be pitted in the coming year, and a lot of tuition fees have been paid.
Rooted in rainwater fine-tuning process
The production process of Pu'er raw tea is picking, spreading, killing, rolling, and drying.
Theoretically, there are only these six steps. In fact, to what extent and to what extent the greening should be slightly adjusted according to the annual rain.
For example, the tea in 2022 will have more rain. Tea in 2023 will have very little rain. If you use the process of 2022 to make tea in 2023. I'm afraid that when the tea is fried, the fresh leaves are poured into the pot and it will be paste.
The tea-making process will be slightly adjusted every year according to the rain of the yearStrive for good tea.
In the spring tea season, the fresh leaves are concentrated
Tea, seasonal, more time-sensitive. For example, the fresh leaves of the Icelandic dam are usually mined on April 5 every year, and the ancient trees are mined around April 11.
300 kg to 600 kg of fresh leaves a day, mined during the day and made at night. If made by hand, a pot of 4 kg of fresh leaves. 75-150 pots a day. Half an hour to fry a pot, if one person does it, it takes more than 30 hours to finish.
However,Tea doesn't give people that much time. In 30 hours, the fresh leaves have turned into white tea.
Tea making pays attention to timeliness, and it is usually a master with a few small workers to do it together.
Handmade tea, spelling experience
The master takes a small worker to make tea by hand, which tests the stability of a team's craftsmanship.
In the team, the master has good craftsmanship, and when he passes it on to the **, he usually gives one less trick, so as not to starve the apprentice to death of the master.
In this way, the master's tea is done well, the apprentice has fried dozens of pots, and the experience is still insufficient, and the spring tea needs manpower, and he can only catch the ducks on the shelves.
The master's tea is good, and the apprentice's tea is very ordinary, and they fry the same batch of fresh leaves. So, this is a magical scene: the same batch of tea can make several flavors.
Some process differences have been reached: after the homogeneous pile, the same batch of tea is still a few flavors.
This is the most magical place of handmade tea, the same batch of tea, different tastes, how to explain to tea friends?
Whose craftsmanship is the best in the world?
In recent years, tea merchants have seen the shortcomings of handmade tea.
However, tea makers always feel that their craftsmanship is the best in the world.
That year, a tea lover made Icelandic tea and brought it to the town's first factory to watch it fried. When roasting tea, tea friends said: The pot temperature is not enough, and you can't put fresh leaves.
The tea farmer who fried the tea ignored it, poured it decisively, and when it was about to come out of the pot, the tea friend said: The older tea stalk has not been fried yet, so fry it again.
The tea farmer said very politelyAm I a professional, or are you professional. You have to come and direct me, my craft was learned with a lot of money, how can there be a problem.
The tea guest looked confused, but this tea guest was a customer of the tea merchant, and he almost lost a big customer.
On the tea mountain, most of the people who roast tea have a minefield.
If someone dares to say that his craftsmanship is flawed, he will immediately be angry: your craftsmanship is good, you will fry it.
Everyone feels that their craftsmanship is the best in the world, but the quality depends on the tea maker's control of the heat.
And the fresh leaves are collected by the tea merchant Hua Zhenjin**. When you encounter a partner with poor craftsmanship, you lose yourself.
Sign an agreement and lose money? Tea farmers are shy in their pockets, so what can they do. Moreover, if you say it's bad, and he says it's not bad, isn't it.
A few years ago, when I fried a single tree of the crooked ancient tree in Iceland, I said to the person who fried the tea:
There are 30 yuan a pot on the tea mountain, and you will be given 100 yuan a pot, and you can make the tea well.
However, the ideal is very plump, the reality is very cruel, and the fried waste tea is still pot after pot.
Abandon the manual and choose the machine
I have paid enough tuition fees and lost confidence in making tea by hand.
Therefore, from the original handmade tea, to a combination of machine and handmade.
A well-experienced tea maker who continues to roast tea by hand. For the rest, the tea is made by machine.
Some people say: machine fried tea has no soul.
Behind the handiwork, there is ingenuity and humanistic feelings, and it is the natural yearning of tea customers for the original flavor of tea.
This inner yearning is empty. And the tea that the tea guests drink is real.
Tea drinkers drink the flavor of the tea leaves, not the soul of the tea leaves. In the face of a good taste, the feelings of handmade tea were immediately ignored.
And, if handmade tea can guarantee a stable taste of the same batch of tea, who wants to use a machine?
It is really a chaotic process, and I feel that my craft is the first in the world, and the tea that can be made is difficult to describe.
After paying enough tuition, the tea merchant was forced to give up the manual work and choose the machine.