“Seven bowls of love to taste, one pot is really interesting.” It is better to eat tea than to hold a thousand gaths in emptiness.” Zhao Puchu’s song “Eat tea to go” shows the charm of tea. Euphemism and simplicity of the guzheng sound, beautiful elegant tea set, see a small package of dry tea boiled in the mist of boiling water into cups of yellow tea soup, instantly let the heart and the outside noise and summer goodbye. On the afternoon of the 8th, the second phase of our “Learn tea art” began, and 6 lucky readers learned tea sets, learned to make tea, and tasted tea with professional beautiful male tea artists, enjoying peace and elegance in the blazing summer.
The tools used to make tea are exquisite
At 15:00, readers started arriving. Learn to make tea the next preliminary, the teaching is beautiful male tea art teacher Sun Lili, don’t look at the teacher is young, has been a tea art trainer for four years.
Each reader in front of the table has a set of tea props, Sun Lili one by one to the master teaching, “wooden tray called tea tray, this is the teapot of tea, these small cups are sample tea cup, can abide by the number of guests increase or decrease, this is the good tea into each sample tea cup.” A fair cup. , also called ‘ Tea sea ’ …”
There is a wooden tube on the top right of the tea tray, which contains five kinds of props: tea needle, tea clip, tea, tea bucket, teaspoon, five kinds of props and the utensils placed all the way, there is a very “literary” name: six gentlemen of the tea ceremony, they are either used to block the spout of the purple sand pot, or used to clip the sample tea cup to wash, each doing his job.
The tea is made in a delicate and colorful manner
The first step in making tea is to wash purple sand pot, fair cup, sample tea cup and so on. “Pick up the tea holder in the right hand, clamp the inside of the sample tea cup, gently sway, and then pour water into other cups one by one, wash one by one, this is called. Lion roll hydrangea. ” Looking at the master did exactly make the action, Sun Lili added, “Girls remember to raise the blue flower fingers, more elegant.”
Then put the tea bucket in the mouth of the Zisha pot, pour Tieguanyin into the pot, pour boiling water, of course, the first flush is “washing tea”, the water is directly poured out, “water temperature comply with the tea decision, individual green tea water temperature at 80° To 85° For good, black tea, Tie Guanyin and other non-green tea is best to 100° The water brews.”
After the film, the scene was full of Tieguanyin light tea. Readers are anxious to reveal their own efficacy, but there are also exquisite tea pouring. “The index finger holds the lid of the teapot, but don’t cover the holes above, the other fingers hold the pot, use the strength of the means to pour the good tea into the fair cup with a filter, and then pick up the fair cup to pour the tea into the sample tea cup one by one.”
Next is “serve tea”, will pour the tea lightly handed to the guest, five fingers slightly bent, thumb retraction, to the guest “please!” The guest makes the same gesture to suggest the host.
Some of the little details are testing. For example, the spout of all kinds of POTS should be side to the host, pointing at the guests to suggest that people are not polite, the whole process of men and women should be polite sitting, tea, tea are all by means of strength, the difference is that boys can open their feet with shoulder width, girls should have their feet together, holding the pot, holding the cup should be raised elegant and charming blue fingers.
The instructor taught several tricks
The tea master also reserved a special “questions and answers between teachers and students” interactive session, readers have put forward their own confusion and puzzlement.
“How many, many, many tea leaves do you need to put in each time you make tea?” Reader Shi girl first asked, “Individual 7 to 8 grams can be, like this Tie Guanyin bubble four to five times is complete without problems.” The tea master replied. “How to store tea without spoiling?” Several readers are concerned about this question. “There are three kinds of system, one is put in the refrigerator, storage for one to two years no problem, the second is placed in an empty hot water bottle, the third is placed in a ventilated place, but this type of tea storage does not need any conditions, and the longer the storage time, the more valuable.”
The tea artisan also told the master a “little trick” : don’t rush to dump the finished tea, you can leave it in the pot for a few hours and then pour it out, and then clean the pot, “this step is called ‘ Raise a pot. The exception is the purple sand pot, after too long time. Raise a pot. The purple sand pot will become more and more rounded and transparent.”
