Grain Rain's Tea Prose

In the Grain Rain, Shan Lan mist floated from the peak, gushed out from the deep valley, and fell lightly into the tea garden. The tea leaves seemed to be soaked in sweet milk. The breeze is blowing, and the fragrance of spring tea is floating in the countryside.

Hakka ancestors settled in Gannan in the early years. Here, the mountains are high and the clouds are sweet, and it is convenient to grow tea. Tea culture has a long history. In the Qing Dynasty, tea was a tribute of the imperial court, which was continuously exported to merchants every year, so there were full-time tea farmers who lived on tea.

Tea farmers pick tea and sing tea songs. The earliest song was Tea Picking in December. With the spread of tea songs, tea basket lamps with singing and dancing are derived, which are very popular every New Year holiday or when Chashan is open. Subsequently, on the basis of the tea basket lamp, the original chorus was changed to the play "Sisters Picking Tea", in which the sisters sang in pairs and the tea boy shook the paper fan and gagged; According to the life interest of Hakka children, the drama Bench Dragon was created by the elder sister, the second sister and Saburo. In this regard, the triangle drama of "two Dan and one ugly" stands out in the mother embryo of tea basket lamp in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and is collectively called tea-picking drama.

Hakka people have extracted a unique performing art of small steps, fan flowers and single sleeves from the work of picking tea on the mountain. Composing and weaving into jingle singing: playing yo-yo in into the pit, going out on the road, hehe embroidered shoes, and pulling flowers for men and women; The main instrument is "Gouguan" (native erhu), with positive and negative chords, and the singing and dancing performance begins in Hakka dialect and Ganzhou Mandarin. It is rich in life and labor, humorous and full of local flavor. It is popular in Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Taiwan Province and other provinces, and is a favorite music of Hakka people.

In the early 1970s, the "five-year plan" prevailed. Seven "road. I attended Xia Long Tungsten Mine High School in Jiangxi Province, which is located in Pingnaocha Tea Farm at the junction of Chongyi and Nankang counties in southern Jiangxi. The temperature difference between day and night is small, and the humidity is suitable, which is beneficial to the growth of tea. There are many clouds, high humidity, good lighting conditions, stable tea buds, and many natural substances accumulated in the buds and leaves. The produced tea has a unique flavor of "high fragrance, mellow taste, green color, green soup and beautiful shape". When people under the ridge make tea, they will tell their guests quite ostentatiously that this is Pingnaogreen tea. The implication is that only distinguished guests will serve you.

We call making tea "making tea", which is pure manual hard work. Yes, the school tea house is in a hill. Entering the factory gate, I saw 10 firewood stoves lined up, each with a big cast iron pot for making tea. During the tea-picking season, students pick buds in the morning fog and make tea that day. Because the green leaves of tea contain tannins, they will turn red and sometimes sour when exposed to air. Too long time after harvest has a great influence on the quality of tea.

The production of green tea needs to go through many processes, such as air drying, enzyme fixation, rolling and drying, among which enzyme fixation is the most important process. By pressing tea polyphenols in fresh leaves at high temperature, some water in tea leaves can be evaporated, which is convenient for kneading and molding and can improve tea fragrance. In that year's diary, I wrote a jingle "Killing Green": "The stove is full of fire, the big iron pot is red, the tea has rhythm, and the buds fall."

The freshly fried green tea is very hot and needs to be poured into a bamboo basket to dry. Then, squeeze out the green juice of the tea by hand. Rubbing tea should be strong and black like kneading noodles. After a season of tea rubbing, the tawny tea was dyed black by both hands.

The most tiring thing is to touch the tea (dry it), stick the palm of your hand on the bottom of the pot and twist it clockwise for more than an hour. The tender green buds, with dexterous hands, turned into fragrant tea. Although hard, but full of sense of gain, there is a kind of happiness brought by labor.

I graduated from 1974 high school, and then I was assigned to the educated youth point in Niu Ling, Dayu County, Jiangxi Province. Here, with beautiful scenery and yellow land, it is a unique and good tea garden. Educated youths get up early as soon as it gets dark, reclaim abandoned tea gardens, and re-apply the tea-making skills of the old school, thus forming the characteristics of Niu Ling green tea, which is "the soup is clear and the leaves are green, and the taste is strong and convergent". Especially the five-grain rain tea, affected by temperature, is fully developed, with rich leaves and rich juice, thick soup and teeth stirring. Far more durable than Qianming tea, it smells good every year. A small number of educated youth secretly intercept themselves to drink or entertain guests. When the incident happens, punish the soul for "fighting for private practice." Based on this, Yu created and starred in the short play "A Jin of Tea" and participated in the farmers' cultural performance in the Spring Festival in this county.

Life is like tea and Zen. My father loves to drink tea, making three rounds a day, slowly tasting a cup of tea, clearing up fatigue, being as flat as a mirror and prolonging life. Hong Zhongpei commented on tea in his book "Cooking Tea with Pine Wind: Tea Affairs in Wuyuan": "A leaf is a kind of dried Kun. Only tea is worthy of Gankun's leaves. Tea, injected with boiled water, can be cultivated in a cup of tea for a lifetime. "