Antique Dealer

Chapter 37 Tea Art
Jiang Mingrui laughed and said: "This is called complementarity. If you don't have my rudeness, how can you bring out your gentleness!"

Di Siqi scolded with a smile: "Heretical theory!"

Jiang Mingrui took another sip of tea: "To be honest, I'm really not used to drinking your green tea. Do you have something stronger?"

"You are really disappointing." Di Siqi looked at Fang Hao: "Are you used to drinking or not?"

Fang Hao smiled and nodded: "I can do it, each tea has its own characteristics."

Di Siqi said: "Look, Fang Hao's words are reasonable. Every kind of tea has its own flavor. We must know how to taste it. I can't figure it out. You can taste good or bad food. How come you taste tea? , like asking you to take drugs?"

Jiang Mingrui said with a smile: "You, don't worry about this, I was born like this."

Di Siqi shook his head with a smile, and went to bring tea and tea sets.

Jiang Mingrui curled his lips: "How many tea sets do you need to make a cup of tea?"

Fang Hao said with a smile: "Fenghuang Dancong is semi-fermented oolong tea, you still need to wash it before drinking it, and it is more convenient to use a tea set."

"Look, Fang Hao knows a lot more than you do." Di Siqi arranged the tea utensils one by one without haste, and went to get the pot to pick up the mineral water and put it on the induction cooker.

Jiang Mingrui turned his head to look at Fang Hao: "I said, brother, do you usually like to drink tea like this?"

Fang Hao said: "No, I just know a thing or two about tea ceremony."

Jiang Mingrui laughed and said: "You must be modest when you say that, why don't you show him something."

Fang Hao waved his hands again and again, isn't this anti-client?
Di Siqi said with a smile: "Although we met for the first time, we are also destined, so how about a tea ceremony between friends?"

Jiang Mingrui booed from the side again: "That's right, why are you being polite between friends!"

"You guy."

Fang Hao smiled and agreed. It is very necessary to show oneself properly when getting along with friends. People have a certain purpose in social activities. No one will do some useless work for no reason or reason. This is also a The value embodiment of human social activities.How many people are willing to make friends with people who have no specialties but only shortcomings?

After the water was boiled, Fang Hao picked up the kettle and poured it directly on the tea set to be used, so as to wash and warm the cups.Then take 9 grams of Dancong tea and gently put it into the tureen, which is about half of the tureen.

Fang Hao then poured the boiled water into the tureen by high-altitude injection, covered the tea leaves, waited for a while, and poured out the tea.

This step is to wash the tea, the purpose is to make the tea evenly heated, which can help to clean up the substances in the single-cluster tea leaves, and can also serve the purpose of moistening the tea.

Afterwards, it entered the stage of making tea. I saw Fang Hao lift the kettle high, let the water pour down, and then use the strength of his wrist to pull up and down to fill the water. Repeated three times, let the tea leaves turn in the water. This brewing technique is called Phoenix. Three nods.

"Phoenix three nods" is an anthropomorphic saying, meaning to "bow three times" to the guests to show the host's respect and welcome to the guests.Of course, now this is a kind of tea ceremony etiquette, mainly to express politeness.

This technique was first used in the brewing performance of green tea tea art.When the performer is pouring water for brewing, he continuously raises and lowers the pot body three times from low to high, so that when the spout of the pot goes to the water cup, it also falls together. The movement is like a phoenix nodding, vivid and graceful.

The essence of water injection requires "eight, three and eight sameness". The so-called three sounds of water and three soft sounds, three thick and three thin water lines, three high and three low water flows, and three ups and downs of the pot flow are all done by soft wrists.As for the softness of the wrist, there needs to be control, so that it can achieve the same sound and lightness, the same thickness and the same thickness, the same height and the same low, the same rise and fall, and show the precision of the technique.The final result will see that each bowl of tea soup is completely consistent.

Perhaps many people think that "three nods of the phoenix" is just a fancy movement, but in fact this movement is very useful.Injecting water three times to impact the tea soup is actually to make the tea well and stimulate the tea quality better.At the same time, "eight, three and eight are the same", which can not only stimulate the nature of tea, but also bring the enjoyment of beauty.

In fact, Fang Hao didn't think too much about using this method of making tea. He just followed the knowledge passed on to him by the system step by step, but he didn't expect that in the eyes of Jiang Mingrui and the others, his actions were like Flowing clouds and flowing water are pleasing to the eye.

When the tea soup reached about 8% of the gaiwan, Fang Hao lifted the kettle, and then poured tea.

It's etiquette to pour tea for seven points. The so-called seven points of tea and three points of love, as the saying goes, "tea is full of bullying", actually makes sense. If the tea is too hot, it is not convenient to take a cup of sip. , even if it is not hot, the pour is so full, when the customer picks it up, the tea soup will slosh out, what is it if it is not intentional to make others feel uncomfortable?
The last is to offer tea. When offering tea, you must first offer the elders, then the guests, and finally yourself.

Fang Hao distributed the tea to Di Siqi and Jiang Mingrui. The two took the teacups and kowtowed respectively. Although Jiang Mingrui seemed careless when he said it, he still acted in the same way. , etiquette will definitely not be lost.

Then Fang Hao also picked up the teacup and tasted the tea. The so-called three sips of tea, the first sip of tea should not be rushed, the key point is to test the temperature of the tea, so take a small sip; drink.For a cup of tea, the best compliment is the one after drinking it.

"Good tea, good technique!"

Jiang Mingrui only felt that the tea swallowed into his belly could still leave a fragrance on his lips and teeth. The feeling of comfort that permeated the heart and lungs was released one by one, and his mood was also stretched and relaxed in the fragrance of the tea. Voice.

After hearing this, Di Siqi couldn't help laughing: "Your elm head is actually enlightened!"

Jiang Mingrui said: "Didn't you hear me say that only brother Fang's good technique can brew such good tea, what do you think of you?"

Di Siqi also showed Fang Hao's admiration in his eyes: "I admit that Fang Hao is indeed superior to me in terms of tea ceremony."

Fang Hao quickly smiled and said a few words modestly.

Jiang Mingrui asked curiously: "Speaking of which, who did you learn from, so natural?"

Fang Hao could only make up another reason: "It's self-taught. When I was in high school, I loved the tea ceremony of the Ming Dynasty very much. I studied it for a while and learned some simple tea ceremony techniques."

This is not just what Fang Hao said. Many people praised the tea ceremony of the Song Dynasty, thinking that it was the golden age of tea ceremony in our country, but Fang Hao believed that the tea ceremony of the Ming Dynasty was not inferior to that of the Song Dynasty.

Ming people were very particular about tea tasting, from tea selection and water selection to tea utensils and number of people.Generally speaking, people in the Ming Dynasty valued Yuqian tea, that is, tea produced before the Grain Rain, and regarded it as top grade.Ming people paid attention to tea tasting, which can be seen from the tea utensils.Gao Lian, a scholar in the late Ming Dynasty, wrote "Drinking Food and Serving Notes", which listed sixteen tea sets.Water is the mother of tea, and spring water is the best choice for tea tasting.

In the Ming Dynasty, few people were the most valuable tea tasting, and many people made it noisy, so it is not suitable for tasting.Therefore, people in the Ming Dynasty advocate drinking tea alone, and different people have different tea-tasting conditions: drinking alone is called god, two guests are called winning, three or four are called fun, five or six are called pan, and seven or eight are called giving.The ideal state of tea tasting for the Ming people is drinking alone, followed by the state of two people.

In this regard, from Tang Yin's "Tea Tasting Picture", to Shen Zhou's "Boiling Tea Picture", and Li Shangda's "Sit and Listen to the Wind in the Pine Trees", we can see that drinking alone is the highest artistic conception of Ming people's tea tasting.

(End of this chapter)