Tasting tea
I always thought that I had nothing to do with tea, but this year I started drinking tea, and it gradually became a habit. Because in tea, I taste a unique beauty.
Since the beginning of summer, the weather has been hot and humid, and everyone sitting in the classroom is feeling groggy. At this time, the class suddenly started drinking tea. Black tea, green tea, scented tea, etc. are all available. Most of them put a cup on the corner of the table, which actually adds a bit of fun to the classroom. There are often students who calmly walk into the classroom with tea in hand. His demeanor was extremely leisurely and comfortable, making everyone envious. Firstly, it is to relieve the heat and fatigue, and secondly, it is also "arty". I also started drinking tea.
It is said that drinking tea is very particular, and there are "Tea Classics" and "Tea Ceremony". When to pick the tea leaves, when to bake them, what kind of water to brew them in, what kind of tea sets to use, what kind of environment and mood to have... these are all particular. In my impression, when "elegant" people taste tea, they must have new tea picked by smart and beautiful women from the south of the Yangtze River, brew it with spring water from ancient temples in famous mountains, pour it into elegant purple sand tea sets, and then taste it carefully. The ultimate in tea!
Of course, for me, these are all extravagant wishes. I just drank ordinary scented tea, and I also used a big stupid glass. The tea lovers in the class always take the time to go to the boiler room to turn on the water to make tea, and then sit in the noisy classroom and take a sip or two. This may not be enough to "taste" tea, but it does not affect it at all. My preference for tea. Because people who don’t drink tea really don’t know the beauty of tea.
As soon as the scalding water poured into the cup, the dry tea leaves suddenly started to dance up and down in the water like frightened butterflies. The curled leaves gradually unfolded, and they turned out to be the tenderest buds and leaves. Through the water, their dark veins can be seen. The foam on the water surface dissipated, and the floating tea leaves stretched and stretched, and then slowly settled one by one, just like the leaves falling in various postures in autumn, but they seemed more leisurely and calm. After the tea leaves fall to the bottom of the cup, some will remain standing, swaying gently with the fluctuation of the water. The color of smoke gradually appeared at the bottom of the cup. The smoky yellow color became thicker and thicker, spreading out and dyeing the entire glass of water. My tea has just been brewed and I am already intoxicated before I drink it.
I didn’t expect that there would be such a scene in an ordinary cup of tea. It's as if a person has traveled all over famous mountains and rivers, and is used to seeing blooming flowers. Suddenly he is in a small village in the countryside, and then he realizes that the most beautiful things are the thatched huts with tiled basins and the smoke from the cooking stoves. This beauty is neither publicized nor dressed up, yet it truly touches people's hearts. She is really everywhere, she will even be hidden in the brown color inadvertently, waiting patiently for you to discover her.
Many people don’t like drinking tea, maybe because they haven’t discovered this beauty yet. Or is it because the tea is bitter? When the tea is first introduced into the mouth, it does have a slightly bitter taste, but it is a refreshing bitterness that makes people's impatience and sullenness disappear in half at once. After the bitter taste is gone, only the sweet fragrance - which is naturally light - remains between the lips and teeth. After brewing a cup of tea three times, it is already very weak, but the refreshing aftertaste lingers for a long time.
Immersed in the refreshing aftertaste of tea, I suddenly felt that the taste of tea is the true flavor of life. Isn't it? The taste of our life is bitter after one sip; after another sip, one's heart becomes calm; only after the third sip, one can truly appreciate its sweetness. Sometimes I can’t help but think that life is like tea, it’s best not to be “pure and fragrant”, otherwise it will be tasteless. Whoever swallows the bitterness of the first taste will be able to taste the final sweetness.
It seems that the ancients said that "tea is the purest flavor in water", which is really appropriate. It is precisely because of the "pure" taste of tea that there is a unique mood when tasting tea. After hard work, it is wonderful to have tea with friends. We can sit on our knees and talk about poetry, life, and ourselves without any defense, and watch the heat of tea rising between us... Friends who don't make friends by profit only need a cup of tea - a cup of tea is enough. .
This is my favorite tea. It is ordinary and everyone is used to it. But its beauty is so subtle and meaningful. Compared with delicacies from the mountains and seas, fine wines and delicacies, tea is too poor. However, how can I not love its kind of poverty but not cheap, bitter but not astringent?
No wonder our nation has always had such a love for tea for thousands of years. Holding a cup of hot tea is like gently holding the warm and beating pulse of this nation.
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Tea tasting
Although my family is not a tea-loving family, we do have a lot of tea. The flat and smooth West Lake Longjing; the spiral-shaped Biluochun with fine leaves; the petite Wuyi rock tea; green with yellow, yellow with tender yellow bud leaves... Today my sister and I tasted tea again.
I carefully grabbed a handful of yellow buds and leaves, and a faint fragrance of leaves filled the air. My heart became less impetuous and calmed down. I gently put the tea leaves into the transparent and clean cup. The yellow bud leaves lay quietly in the cup without moving. The sister on the side saw it and smiled slightly and said: "Hey, they really look like obedient and quiet children!" I nodded. He also said: "Look, they are so leisurely and comfortable."
Only the sound of water was heard, and my sister slowly poured boiling water into the cup. The tea leaves are like small yellow and green fish swimming up to the water gently wagging their tails. They are so lively and cute, even my heart beats. After a while, these little elves slowly sank again.
The tea leaves stretched out their small bodies, like a sleepy baby stretching its petite and lovely body.
After a while, the tea leaves at the bottom of the cup became more and more fluffy. Some are like soft willows; some are like soft water snakes; some are like seaweed; some are like long tongues.
The boiled water slowly turned from white to light green and then to deep yellow. Smelling the alluring fragrance, I couldn't help but take a sip, and suddenly the fragrance was refreshing. A faint sweet fragrance comes out of the throat and lingers for a long time. It really leaves a fragrance on the teeth and cheeks!
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Tea tasting (1)
When relatives and friends come to the house, the first thing they do is always make tea. One day I talked about drinking tea with a friend. The friend said that drinking tea and tasting tea feel different, and said that spring is bitter, summer is astringent, autumn is light and winter is mellow, and the taste of tea is . As you can imagine, drinking and tasting are of course different.
I don’t understand the tea ceremony, but it is well known that drinking is done casually, while tasting requires conscious chewing and aftertaste. People who know tea can tell which season the tea is from the taste. Yinhao Maozhen is very light. To brew this kind of green tea, you need to heat the cup, fast-slow-quick, that is to say, first brew one-third of it with rushing water and then brew it three-thirds slowly. One-third and then brew quickly, so that the lower part of the silver needle leaves can absorb enough water to stand upright, and the tea will be flavorful and slow, and the more you taste it, the more flavorful it will be. In fact, I feel that when I’m thirsty, I’ll drink tea in one sip. To enjoy tea, you need time and mood. When you’re in a good mood, everything is fine, but when you’re in a bad mood, tributes become mediocre. As the saying goes, water with good intentions is also sweet. Drinking tea lies in taste, only with intention can you taste tea. Taste is originally a word with a vivid image of enjoyment. Miaoyu once said in Dream of Red Mansions that the first cup is a taste, the second cup is a drink, and the third cup is a cow's drink. How many people in this world know how to taste tea? Tasting tea is about taste, heart, emotion and meaning. The first is the taste, the second is the mood, the third is the friendship between the drinkers, and the fourth is the artistic conception in the tea tasting room. Drinking alone is very pleasant, but a bit desolate and lonely. Generally speaking, it is not recommended to drink alone, because if drinking has the artistic conception of friends, it will be endless fun. Pinweizhuang is plural, so if there are more than two people, one person is not called Pin but Si.
Drinking tea reminds me of making friends. Making good tea is fast or slow, and making friends should be fast or slow, because it is easy to get to know someone, difficult to know someone, and even harder to know each other. , as for the friendship when they reach mutual agreement, it is even more rare. Making friends is like drinking tea, and a good friend is like a cup of good tea, and it is a great joy in life. Think about it, out of all living beings, why can he become your best friend? Some people say that becoming a couple is not due to destiny, but because the magnetic fields of affection between the two people happened to collide and attract each other, so they became husband and wife. Just because the souls collided at that moment, a marriage was created. And this Is friendship, especially friendship between opposite sexes, also a kind of magnetic field attraction? "A thousand-year chance meeting is better than a good friend with a good book; a lifetime of happiness can only be found in a bowl of tea and stove smoke." In modern society, the family unit is gradually shrinking, people's group consciousness is getting weaker, and the alienation, fear, and pallor of interpersonal relationships have made the industrial and commercial society overflowing with selfish desires. There is an extra layer of caution, the feeling of closeness between hearts becomes unfamiliar, and the desire to seek spiritual comfort naturally becomes stronger.
Drinking tea to the end will tell you the quality of the tea, and the same goes for making friends. After years of washing, gold will be panned out from countless sands. What kind of people, what kind of worldview, what kind of qualities, over time To understand. I think the gold mining technique is very appropriate when used in real life and online dating, and it is true sometimes. However, often very beautiful things cannot withstand the erosion of time. When we lament the greatness of the Creator, we can't help but be pessimistic about the fragility of human nature. People with a heart as strong as a rock and tough as a stick are the helmsmen of their own destiny, and those with a heart as strong as a reed on the wall. , changes with the wind and has no center of gravity, what can I do?
Tasting tea (2)
The friendship between men and women has made people doubt its purity since ancient times, because the feeling of spiritual connection is beautiful, it looks like a couple but not a couple, and it looks like friendship but not a friendship The two people are entangled in their feelings. It doesn't involve love, but it still has such a sweet taste, a kind of aftertaste that is never found in same-sex friendship. Only by closing the coffin can we conclude. Is it true that most pure friendships are the expression of noble feelings between men and women? Or is it more important to turn love into appreciation and cherishment? Because good tea is easy to come by, good taste is rare, good friends are easy to find, and long-term friendship is hard to maintain. A loving couple desires to last forever, and a friendship that can comfort each other also hopes to be deep and long-lasting. Because friendship is so rare. What is the long-term significance? The long-term is the selfless expectation and longing for each other, as well as the understanding, trust and respect without any regrets. Love requires painstaking care, management and preservation, but why not cherish friendship as well? Some people say that since sand and gold are both friends, why are they so clearly distinguished? Don’t you need to divide it? Maybe I'm too picky, but I will never have a taste for sand. I will let the sand slip through my fingers, hold the golden treasure in my hands and care for it, just like holding a cup of delicious tea, I can't bear to drink it all, I just want to taste it carefully and slowly, the meaning is far away Long-lasting love makes life full of interest and makes ordinary things shine, but it will never exceed the boundaries of friendship.
Bad tea and good tea are like sand and gold. The former needs to be tasted and the latter requires appreciation in addition to appreciation. In fact, no matter what, as long as you put your heart into it, you can taste something other than material things, that is spirit, which is the precipitation and sublimation of the essence of taste. "The article should be perfect, there is nothing special about it, it is just right; the character should be perfect, there is nothing strange about it, it is just the way it is." Make friends to the best, there is nothing difficult about it, it is just good character.