Essay on Tea Culture in Lu 'an, Anhui Province

The main producing area of Lu 'an tea is located in Lu 'an area of Anhui Province, among which Lu 'an, Jinzhai and Huoshan counties have the best quality. Lu 'an tea can be divided into Lu 'an melon slices and Sun Yishun Lu 'an; Lu 'an melon slices belong to green tea and are picked every spring. After the tea leaves are soaked, they look like sliced melons, hence the name. Although Lu 'an melon chips belong to green tea, the baking process is more complicated than other green teas, especially in the final baking stage. It is particularly important to master the technology and experience. Because Lu 'an green tea can't be baked for too long, it will have a burnt taste, so it can only be baked for three seconds at most, that is, the tea will turn over immediately, and if it is too short, the fragrance will not be released. Therefore, when baking, two people need to lift the baking cage, walk over the long fire pit and walk back and forth in the baking tea room, so baking a cage of tea often takes 50 to 60 miles to complete.

Lao Lu 'an is not produced in Lu 'an, Anhui, but in Luxi and Rongkou Township, Qimen, Anhui.

Have a cup of tea together and enjoy life when you are free.

Crescent moon, teacups, scrolls, flowers, tea and ink are quiet and beautiful. The noise of the city has melted, leaving the lost people to the Zen world. Tea gives me the feeling of Zen, and the joys and sorrows of life all exist in the moving room. The desert is full of smoke and eyebrows, and the wine is strong, accompanied by the pride of a strong man. Raise a glass and drink the bright moon alone. At this time, wine removes the wildness of the day, and the quietness of tea adds seven sorrows to life. The life accompanied by tea and wine, sometimes strolling in the courtyard and laughing with elegant people, and sometimes riding a horse to gallop the rivers and lakes. Reality is no longer, we can only recall the life of tea and wine between the lines.

In ancient times, frying tea with snow was considered elegant. So this kind of elegant sentence has appeared in some poems since the Tang and Song Dynasties. Bai Juyi's "getting up late" has "melting snow and frying tea, melting crisp and boiling mash"; In another poem, there is "cold singing frost, smelling snow water tea". Lu Guimeng, Pi Rixiu, chanting tea poems, have "sitting in the pine room, watching the fried snow". There are also examples of making tea with snow in A Dream of Red Mansions. On the forty-first occasion, Jia Baoyu was drinking tea in the Qingdian, writing about Miaoyu's conversion to Buddhism, and invited Daiyu Baochai to have tea, and Baoyu followed him at night. The water used for making tea is the snow on plum blossoms collected five years ago, which is stored in jars and buried underground for summer use. Baoyu felt extremely cool after drinking it. Again, the twenty-third time, Jia Baoyu's poem "Winter Night is Things" said: "But I like to wait on my children to taste tea and sweep the snow in time to cook." Jia Fu in A Dream of Red Mansions is a family of poetic rites handed down from generation to generation. Whether drinking tea or drinking, it is luxurious and elegant without losing grace. And Ximen Qing, in Jin Ping Mei, is also an official and a businessman. Although he is extravagant, he is an ordinary thing and inevitably has the vulgarity of the nouveau riche. There are many places to drink tea in Jin Ping Mei: one person drinks alone, two people drink together, and there are tea parties where many people get together. No matter where you are, tourists will worship tea, forming a fashion. When Ximen Qing was drinking tea at home, he only mentioned two tea names: one was "Lu 'an Tea" and the other was "Jiangnan Fengtuanque Tongue Bud Tea". In Chapter 23 and Chapter 21, it is mentioned respectively: Wu Yueniang told Song Huilian to "go to the house to get makeup and have Lu 'an tea, and cook a pot for everyone to eat; "Teach Xiaoyu to take the teapot, sweep the snow personally and cook the tea of Jiangnan Phoenix Group." These two kinds of tea were tributes at that time, showing the luxury of life. One of the characteristics of tea making in Jin Ping Mei is that they seldom drink green tea, but they should be served with dried and fresh flowers as tea material, such as Youren tea, candied kumquat tea, salt bamboo shoots, sesame osmanthus tea, nut tea, hazelnut tea, salty cherry tea, potato tea and ginger tea. Looking at the various situations in which flowers, fruits, bamboo shoots and beans were mixed into tea in Jin Ping Mei, it should be said that this was the social fashion at that time, not a fabrication; However, the novel is slightly exaggerated in some places to describe the wealth of Ximen Qing's family. Tea with fruit is most popular in officialdom upstart and market traders. In the novel Li Cuilian's Story in Qingping Mountain Hall, the Ming Dynasty wrote: "This tea is called Apo Tea ... two boiled yellow chestnuts, half-baked white sesame seeds, Jiangnan olives with belt cores, and Saibei walnuts with shells removed." Today, I can't help but marvel. Tea is cool and precious. It was only at that time that I dug up so many tips for making tea. There is no delicious food for future generations, but there is a hundred flavors of life hidden in a small tea bowl.

My friend gave me a piece of bamboo leaf with the word "Jing" printed on it, and there was a small line next to it: "Jing wins impatience, cold wins heat." Cleanliness is the world. " This is a sentence in Laozi's Tao Te Ching, which is intended to express the quality of bamboo leaf green, probably also the quality of tea! Sichuan Emei fairyland, foggy, inhaling the essence of the sun and the moon, in which the artistic conception is vividly interpreted by Laozi's inaction, so you can concentrate on it and enjoy it quietly. Jin Yong, a master of martial arts, is knowledgeable and versatile, and tea is introduced into China in his works. Peach Blossom Island, a hermit, with some evil spirits. Huang is not only proficient in martial arts, but also familiar with five lines of gossip, temperament, chess and tea ceremony. Tea is a good companion for hermits. At the end of the forest and bamboo sea, a small house is a lifetime, and it has been overhauled a lot. But this realm is beyond our reach, just like tasting tea. Only after experiencing the ups and downs of life can we feel something.

"Du Kang is the only solution" and "Du Kang" is a kind of wine, but it is not clear why wine can relieve anxiety, whether it is the feeling of longing for longevity after drinking or the deep sleep after drinking. Throughout the ages, people who love wine have their own feelings about wine, and they can't finish talking about it. Taibai is good at writing poems with wine, and wine is a part of him. Only when you are so drunk that "Lux takes off his boots, and the imperial concubine holds ink" is the real Li Bai. "From a pot of wine among the flowers, I drank it alone. No one is with me. Until I raised my cup, I asked the bright moon to bring me my shadow and let the three of us. " Arrogant, lofty, wild and unruly. "A gust of wind came and brought catkins, which made the shop more fragrant. Wu Ji pressed the wine to persuade the guests to taste it" and bid farewell with wine. "I advise you to drink one more glass of wine and go out of Yangguan for no reason." "What are bells and drums, delicacies and treasures? Let me get drunk forever and never be rational! , "wine paralyzes the sad people, but they can't let it go after waking up.

As the king of drinks, according to the production process, there are mainly three kinds of fermented wine, distilled wine and mixed wine. There are three kinds of wines described in A Dream of Red Mansions. Fermented wine has written yellow wine, Shaoxing wine, yellow soup, Huiquan wine and foreign wine. Distilled liquor is written as "shochu". The mixed wine includes "Albizia Albizia Flower Wine" and "Tu Su Wine". It can be seen that in the aristocratic families like Jia, Shi, Wang and Xue, whether it is a large-scale official and private banquet or a small-scale routine, the wine in the table is indispensable. Of course, these descriptions are vivid portrayal of the rich life of Cao, Li, Sun, Ma and other aristocratic families. Cao Xueqin himself is a person who "drinks Yan's family". He enjoys poetry and wine. He joked: "If anyone wants to read my book quickly, it is not difficult to appreciate me as long as they cook ducks in southern Japan, so I will make a book for it." It is an undeniable fact that there is a life story and the shadow of Cao Jiashi in A Dream of Red Mansions. The description of "Robinia pseudoacacia flower wine" in the book is the best example. At the crab feast under the Lotus Champs, Daiyu picked up the black plum blossom and poured it herself. She picked up a small glass of frozen banana leaves of begonia and poured half of them. When she saw it, it was yellow rice wine. She said, "I ate a little crab and my heart ached slightly." I need a hot drink of soju. " Baoyu quickly said, "There is soju." Then someone would iron a pot of wine soaked in acacia flowers, and Daiyu only took a sip and put it down. In this small detail of life, Cao Xueqin wrote three different types of beverage wine in one breath: fermented wine, distilled wine and mixed wine. The names, alcoholicity, utility and preparation methods of the three wines were written in a few strokes.

In Jianghu, wine is a business card. The scene of Ling Huchong, the hero of Jin Yong's novels, tasting wine in the legendary swordsman left a deep impression on me. Different wine vessels, even the same wine, will have different tastes. Wine blended with scorpions, poisonous insects, poisonous weeds and other poisons has become a good way to fight poison with poison in rivers and lakes. This kind of scene is very common in martial arts works. Wine, like medicine, cures diseases for others and tests people's courage. In Eight Dragons, at the foot of Shaoshi Mountain, three brothers, Xiao Feng, Xu Zhu and Duan Yu, are surrounded by the eighteen warriors of Qidan, enjoying themselves. Wine has witnessed brotherhood, courage and unstoppable momentum here. Yu wrote an article called "Wine Cemetery" in "Cultural Journey", describing a down-and-out scholar and a depressed scholar. Mr. Zhang is a descendant of the top scholar. He was depressed when he came back from studying abroad. He loves wine and is nicknamed "Jiugong". According to the author, before his death, Jiugong asked the author to write the following inscription on his behalf:

"Mr. Zhang is an alcoholic. He doesn't know his native place, his name or the genealogy of his ancestors. All he knows is that he is childless and alone. ..... learn less western learning, get old and abandon, drift from place to place, and have no place to return. A weak body, or wandering in the collection of literati, or trembling in the hands of a strong man, or frightened by the new world, or embarrassed by the laughter of young people, lives in the air and has no decision ... Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism have no deep relationship, and truth, goodness and beauty are lost. Finally, the old land was woven by tombstones with muddy wine and rotten ink. There is no virtue or evil in my life. Looking back on the next year, every time I lamented that I threw so many millet, wheat and vegetables, I spent a lot of time studying hard and moaning ... alas! In my hometown of China, many students are willing to be so down and out. Teacher Zhang is the only one. ……"

After reading it, I felt something and wrote a line of fine print: a pot of turbid wine, walking on earth; It's sad to leave a seven-character inscription on the tomb of Mr. Zhang, the god of wine, all his life! This pot of wine makes people cry.

The essay on tea was diluted by Xiao San, revealing a lot of life breath; Exquisite and subtle, it contains such a cultural essence. Take off your armor, shake off the dust, make a pot of tea, have three friends and experience eternity in an instant. This is the art of living. The smell of wine is fascinating. Or drinking alone with the moon, or having a shallow drink with a wine friend, there is no amount of whales sucking hundreds of rivers, but seeking a leisurely and comfortable taste will show the true meaning of wine tasting. Tea and wine life, Paul, a thousand miles, talk about tea and wine, so far, still enjoy it; Have a tea and wine trip and be as happy as a fairy.

I don't know how to drink, but I like to talk about wine. Collecting brand labels of famous wines from all over the world is my great hobby. A person's life is the process of wine cellar. One more point and one less point are not appropriate. It took 9999 days to make good wine. Just like life, three points are sweet and seven points are bitter. For me who can't drink, tea is the best drink. In the dead of night, holding a cup of fragrant tea in my hand and facing the moonlight, that is the life I pursue, but it seems not easy to achieve. Modern fast-paced life makes people impetuous, and their hearts are not so peaceful, especially when they walk alone in the city. But I still try to calm myself down. I will look at the cup and the bamboo leaves stand upright one by one. I will look at it tirelessly; Tea is fragrant, and people are also floating and detached from the world. Tea gives the mind a harbor of temporary peace. I like wine, but I love tea, tea and wine. I have tasted all kinds of life.