丨This article was originally written by Xiao Chen Tea
丨First published in Baijiahao: Xiao Chen Tea Affair
丨Author: Village Gu Chen
Among the literati and writers of ancient times, there were many military generals who were ambitious and wanted to make achievements.
The most familiar is Xin Qiji: "Drunk to pick up the lamp to look at the sword, dream back to blow the horn company camp." ”
Wang Changling: "In the Qin period, the bright moon and the Han period, the Long March has not yet been returned." ”
Su Dongpo once wrote: "The left leads the yellow, the right Qingcang, the brocade hat mink Qiu, and the thousand horses roll Pinggang." ”
Of course, among the generals who fought for the people, there were also many outstanding humanities.
If you want to talk about popularity, it has to be Yue Fei, a song "Man Jianghong", which makes people indignant when they read it.
It's a pity that most of the time the ambition is not rewarded, and it backfires.
It's not uncommon for life to have many moments in life that you envision, but in the end, it doesn't work out.
Take the right approach at the right time so that your plan works.
Sometimes, however, if the method is not correct, the results are unsatisfactory and sometimes even counterproductive.
It's like in life, you rush to do something, but because you don't know everything.
With a half-understanding, start to prepare.
In terms of results, not meeting expectations is a small matter, and if it causes irreparable damage, it is a major thing that needs attention.
When drinking white tea, you can always encounter various types and specifications of tea cakes on the market.
Some tea lovers come across a tea cake and don't know how to pry it.
There are three methods that should not be taken when prying.
First of all, you should not break the tea cake in half with your bare hands.
There are some tea lovers, when they get a tea cake, they will not wash their hands, and they will break them directly, which is not advisable.
First, at all times, whenever you need to come into contact with tea, make sure that your hands are clean.
Because the tea has strong adsorption, if there is a stain or odor on the hands, it will be absorbed by the tea when you touch the tea.
In this way, it is easy to cause the tea to be polluted, absorb peculiar smells, and destroy the original tea flavor.
Also, after washing your hands, make sure that there are no water droplets on your hands.
Because the water droplets are in contact with the tea leaves, the tea leaves absorb water vapor, and then the tea leaves are damp and easy to deteriorate during subsequent storage.
Therefore, when touching the tea leaves, make sure that your hands are clean and tidy.
Second, breaking the tea cake in half with bare hands is not advisable for the tea cake itself.
Breaking it in half and creating a huge pressure will inevitably produce a lot of broken tea.
Such a violent way of opening tea cakes is not only laborious, but also not beneficial for tea cakes.
Because of the uneven force of the tea cake, not only the middle part has a lot of broken tea, but also the part held by the hands on both sides is also prone to broken tea.
Too much broken tea is a waste in many cases.
In the process of drinking tea, it is inevitable that broken tea will be produced, but I always don't know how to deal with it in the face of broken tea, and finally the broken tea is thrown away.
In the process of prying tea cakes, it is also necessary to produce as little broken tea as possible, so try not to break the tea cakes with your bare hands.
Secondly, do not use tools such as scissors and kitchen knives to pry tea.
When you get a tea cake and want to open it, you will naturally use tools.
Scissors and kitchen knives are the most common tools you can see at home, but these tools are not standard tools that can be used to pry tea.
There are special tools for prying tea, tea knives and tea needles.
When it comes to prying tea, it's very convenient and fast.
In addition, tools such as scissors and kitchen knives that are needed in daily life are always available at home.
However, it is inevitable that their surface will be stained with different degrees of stains, which will have a serious impact on the tea.
Kitchen knives, for example, belong to kitchen supplies.
Even if you clean it every day, it will inevitably be contaminated with the smell of various fruits and vegetables.
Moreover, don't mention that the tea is not clean for the time being, and it is easy to hurt yourself.
Use scissors to cut tea cakes, scissors are very sharp, on the one hand, it is easy to cut tea cakes.
Sharp scissors, when cutting the tea cake, will not pry out the leaves and tea stems together like a tea cake.
Many of the tea pieces cut out by scissors, the leaves and tea stems are separated, and the faster the substance is released when making tea, the taste of the tea soup is very bitter.
Moreover, there are too many broken teas, and you may need to use a tea strainer.
Finally, if the tea cake is a little tight, it should not be soaked in water.
Some people feel that the tea cake they buy is too tight and want to soak it with water.
After all, in life, foods such as kelp and fungus can be soaked in water, and then it is convenient to cook and eat.
So I thought that the tea leaves should be soaked with water first, and then put them in a cloth bag and dried in the sun.
In this way, you can get a loose tea that does not need to be pryed, which is very convenient.
In reality, however, this approach is not advisable.
On the one hand, soaking tea leaves in water is equivalent to making tea.
This process is equivalent to making tea with raw water and releasing the substances in the tea leaves.
The nutrients in the white tea are released in the water, and the white tea is also shed.
On the other hand, tea also absorbs a lot of water vapor in this process, and it is impossible to dry it in the sun alone.
Even in the process of making white tea, it is not only withering, but also drying.
Because the water content of white tea cannot be reached by sun exposure alone, there is excess water in the body of white tea.
In the same way, even if all the white tea is dried, the water content in the body is not up to standard, and it cannot be stored.
This method, compared to producing broken tea, is much more serious, and it is simply a waste of a good tea.
In fact, prying tea cakes is far less difficult than imagined, as long as you master the skills, it will be very simple.
Place the tea cake on the tabletop, clean up the clutter around it, prepare the tea knife, and wash your hands.
Normally, the use of a tea knife is enough to pry the tea cake open, and it is rare to use a tea needle.
Pry from the back of the cake, that is, the side with the pit.
Follow the direction of the leaf and the tea stem, start from the side of the tea cake, and insert the tea knife parallel into the gap between the tea cake.
Then slowly lift the knife and repeat a few more times, so that you can easily pry the tea cake open.
The tea cubes that are pried out are very thin, and it is also very easy to brew when making tea.
Prying tea cakes is the same as using a gaiwan to make tea, it requires experience.
The more times you pry and brew tea, the more experienced you are, and you won't be afraid of prying out broken tea and being burned.
Practice makes perfect, it's all such a process.
It's important to choose the right method to get twice the result with half the effort.
In the same way, if you choose the wrong method, you may backfire.
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Xiao Chen Tea Village Gu Chen, column writer, the original innovation of the tea industry ** "Xiao Chen Tea Affairs" chief writer, has published a white tea monograph "White Tea Tasting Notes", and has written more than 4,000 original articles from 2016 to 2020.