In the past two years, the trend of "cooking tea around the hearth" is really hot! Attracting three or five friends to sit together, make tea and chat, as if bringing people's lives back to ancient times. Actually, this "cooking tea around the hearth" is nothing new, you know? Tea, a drink with a history of more than 2,000 years, has been boiled and drunk for many years.
The ancients were particular about making tea, and choosing water is a university question! Just like the sentence "fine tea contains fragrance, borrowed from water, no water can not be compared with tea", that is, without good water, the charm of tea can not be brought into play. There is also the "Tea Saint" Lu Yu, he also emphasized the importance of water source in the "Book of Tea", how important do you say this water is? Moreover, the taste of tea is different from different waters, which is really confusing.
The water for boiling tea is exquisite! To be clear, quiet, and alive, people have put a lot of effort into this water. Tian Yiyun mentioned in "Boiling Spring Sketch" that putting white stones in the water jar can purify the water quality, which is really ingenious. And boiling tea with snow water and rainwater tastes even more unique, which is the consensus of many literati and artists.
The great poet Lu You especially likes to cook tea with snow water, and also left the poem "The snow liquid is clear and sweet and rises in the well spring, and you can cook and fry it with your own tea stove". Imagine, after the heavy snowfall, he is holding a tea stove and boiling snow water, that picture is full of poetry!
In addition to choosing water, the heat is also very important for making tea. If you want to live fire, the charcoal with the flame is the best choice. People who are more particular about it will choose pine and bamboo as fuel, and the tea brewed in this way has a sense of atmosphere that has simply traveled to ancient times! Imagine the smoke of pine and the fragrance of tea, does it feel as if you are among the literati and artists of ancient times?
Brewing tea, hey, it's not just a technique, it's more like an artistic dialogue with the ancients! The temperature of the water, the heat, every detail has been carefully polished by the ancients. Do you know Lu Yu's "Three Boiling Theory"? The sound of the water is like a fish's eyes, the sound is a boil, the edge is like a spring, and the beads are two boiling, and the waves are the legendary three boils! It's so professional that it gives people a thumbs up.
Moreover, the ancients drank tea with a full set of services, from fire-making utensils to tea-drinking utensils. Lu Yu mentioned 24 kinds of tea utensils in the "Book of Tea". With the development of the times, the tea set is also constantly improving, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the purple clay pot has become the favorite of literati because of its simplicity and elegance.
Do you know? Tea drinking is not just a thirst quenching or medicinal use, it also carries the emotions and pursuits of the literati. Slowly, people began to pay attention to the environment and atmosphere of drinking tea. Just like the Tang Dynasty poet Lu Wen said: "Fangquan is sweet and lily, and the lonely moon leaves an empty pot." "It's a vision of being one with nature. Xu Wei, a literati of the Ming Dynasty, believed that tea drinking should be carried out in the environment of the veranda quiet room and the bright window, so as to truly appreciate the fun of tea tasting.
Drinking tea also pays attention to the state of mind. Tranquility is key, either alone or with a confidant. Zhang Yuan of the Ming Dynasty wrote in the "Tea Record": "Drinking tea is expensive to have few customers, and the crowd is noisy." It means that drinking tea with a confidant is fun, and there are many people but it is noisy and boring.
Tea is boiled around the hearth"Trendy and retro, in this rapidly changing era, it has become a breath of fresh air that allows us to calm down. It's not so much fashion as it is a return and tribute to traditional culture. When the fire crackles and the tea boils, we seem to travel through time and space to enjoy tea and talk with the ancients. This is not only a way of life, but also a cultivation of a state of mind. So ah,"Tea is boiled around the hearth", not only to taste that cup of tea, but also to find that lost good time.