Tea-making method, which has been popular from Han Dynasty to Tang Dynasty, has been demoted to tribute since Tang Dynasty, but there is no sign of extinction. Its practice is to mix tea leaves in water and cook them on the fire. In this process, you can also add some spices you like, such as orange peel and cinnamon. This method is simple and has no special requirements for tea and tea sets, so it is widely spread. To this day, many tea lovers still like to drink tea in this way.
Making tea directly in a kettle was the most common method of drinking tea in China before the Tang Dynasty. Lu Yu's craft has been introduced in detail in Tea Classic.
First grind the cakes and tea leaves for use, and then start boiling water. Put the selected water into the kettle and boil it with charcoal fire. But it can't be boiled completely. Add tea powder. Tea and water are integrated, and foam appears when boiling, which is a small camellia and a cake is a big flower, both of which are the essence of tea. At this time, scoop out the foam cake and put it in a cooked jar for later use. Continue to cook, the tea and water further merge, and the waves roll and surge, which is called three boiling. At this time, the water and tea in the tea will be poured together with the second boiled foam cake, and the amount will be strictly measured according to the number of people. After the tea soup is cooked, it is evenly poured into everyone's bowl, which means both rain and dew and sharing joys and sorrows.
The history of tea can be traced back thousands of years. In this long course, its production and drinking methods have undergone complex changes. In the history of China, there used to be two categories and four subcategories of tea drinking methods. You got it?
One of these two categories is the tea-making method that we are still using, and the historical predecessor of tea-making method is the tea-ordering method. The other is the method of boiling tea, on the basis of which the method of frying tea has been developed. These four methods of drinking tea have experienced historical waves, but in modern times, only the method of making tea is still used by us and has become the only way to drink tea every day.