Where is the specialty of Leicha?
As the name implies, you have to "beat" the tea with an instrument.
Its main musical instruments are rolling hands and bowls.
The basic raw materials for making tea are tea leaves, rice, sesame seeds, soybeans, peanuts, salt, orange peel, and sometimes some herbs are added.
In fact, tea is not all tea, there are many varieties that can be used as tea. In addition to using old tea leaves, many of them are young leaves of wild plants, such as Yamanashi leaves and Isatis indigotica leaves, and there are more than a dozen.
After washing, stewing, fermenting and drying in the sun, it can be used all year round.
Tea-smashing is distributed in six provinces in South China, and the ancient customs of tea-smashing are preserved in Taoyuan, Linli, Anhua, Taojiang, Yiyang, Fenghuang and Changde in Hunan. Jiexi, Qingyuan, Yingde, Liuhe, Huilai, Wuhua and other places in Guangdong Province; Jiangxi Ganxian, Shicheng, Xingguo, Du Yu, Ruijin and other places; Jiangle, Taining, Ninghua and other places in Fujian Province; Huangyao, Guild and Babu in Hezhou, Guangxi; Hsinchu, Miaosu and other places in Taiwan Province Province.
Lei tea is a famous regional specialty.
1, Taojiang tea
Taojiang Leicha is mainly sesame and peanut, with a small amount of green tea. Put it into a grinding bowl and crush it, then brew it with boiling water and add a little sugar.
After the tea leaves are soaked, they are thick and sticky, light brown in color, fragrant, smooth, soft and sweet.
2. Anhua smashed tea
Leicha with unique flavor is a famous product in Anhua mountain area, which can be called a local must.
Anhua's tea-making materials are very particular. When farmers make tea, they always choose their own excellent tea leaves, add Chinese herbal medicines such as rice, beans, peanuts, sesame seeds, licorice, chrysanthemum and mugwort leaves, put them into a clay pot (also called a rolling pin) according to a certain proportion, make round-headed wooden sticks (also called rolling pins) from tea branches, add a little water, finely grind them, and pour them into a tea bowl for later use.
3. Huile Leicha
Jiangle tea is water tea.
Drinking tea is a Hakka custom, which has a history of more than 1 100 years.
In Jiangle, every household has a rolling bowl and a rolling pin.
Lelei tea is made of tea, ginger and rice, and it is beautifully made. First, put the three raw materials into a pottery bowl, and then grind them repeatedly with a rolling pin. Then add leek, dried tangerine peel, sweet potato vermicelli, dried japonica rice and appropriate amount of salt, add water and cook in a large pot to make porridge.
Sprinkle some spices when eating, such as fried peanuts, fried soybeans and fried sesame seeds.