, Wang Gong raised his head and shook his head: "No, this is from our Jiangzuo place. This tea was first recorded in the Western Han Dynasty, but it was used as medicine at that time. Later, people discovered that this thing is very effective.
It can refresh the mind, relieve sleepiness, and is also good for people with lung disease and excessive phlegm."
"During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, celebrities were popular and the clan system had been formed. Not only the emperors and nobles gathered together, but the general officials and even the scholars were proud of boasting about the rich and fighting for the rich, which had many effects. Under this situation, some knowledgeable people proposed
As a result, Lu Na and others began to use tea instead of wine. In order to reflect the noble aspirations and unique taste of these celebrities, this way of drinking tea became popular in the south."
Huan Xuan had never heard of this. He only knew that in the north, besides wine, the most popular products were various dairy products. Since the Five Hu Dynasty, Hu and Han people had lived together in the north for hundreds of years. The Hu wind was strong, and dairy products
It is very popular, even for ordinary people, it is very normal to drink some yogurt and eat some cheese. On the contrary, this tea is extremely rare. After hearing this, I suddenly realized it and nodded repeatedly.
Wang Gong finally discovered something that Huan Xuan knew almost nothing about. He was secretly delighted and simply said a few more words: "This tea ceremony in Jiangdong is also related to our Qingtan, metaphysics, which is a philosophy in the Wei and Jin Dynasties."
The trend of thought mainly combines the thoughts of Lao and Zhuang with Confucian classics."
"Most metaphysicians are so-called celebrities, who attach great importance to family status, appearance, and manners, and like the simplicity of nothingness and mystery. Since the founding of the Jin Dynasty, the wealth in the south of the Yangtze River has made the scholars temporarily satisfied. They linger among the green mountains and beautiful waters all day long, enjoying the tranquility.
The trend continued to develop, resulting in the emergence of many ordinary families."
"In the beginning, there were many drunkards in the house of chatting. Later, the style of chatting gradually spread to ordinary literati. These people are indifferent to fame and fortune, and are quiet and far-reaching. Boiling a pot of tea and sitting down to talk about Taoism is the most eminent behavior."
"In the past, you only needed to drink heavily and read Li Sao to become a celebrity. But now, the most popular thing in Jiangdong is this kind of sencha discussion. By the way, I heard that there is a Paradise Villa in Jiangling City, Jingzhou, and there are often people there.
Are these young men from Jiangdong going there? Why haven’t you seen this thing before?”
Huan Xuan curled up his lips in disdain: "What kind of celebrities come to my place? They are all hungry gangsters. They drink wine and take Wu Shi Powder, then put on masks and take off their clothes, and follow them in those buildings.
Singing girls and dancers are everywhere - it makes me want to vomit when I see them, how can these people talk like dogs about tea? Secretary Wang, please stop joking, okay?"
Wang Gong frowned: "How could this be? I have also met some famous people in Jiangzuo, such as Yin Zhongkan, Xi Hui, etc. They are all very outstanding scholars. They should never go to your place."
Huan Xuan thought about it carefully, shook his head, and said with a smile: "I really have no impression of these people. Maybe real celebrities will not come to our gold-selling cave in Jingzhou."
As the two of them were talking, Wang Gong broke off a small piece of tea cake and put it into a small flat-bottomed copper vessel at hand. This small bronze vessel was only the size of a palm, with a long handle extending outward, a bit like a
It looked like a frying pan in later generations. Wang Gong took a brazier and roasted the small flat-bottomed copper pot on the fire. He moved his hands from time to time so that the entire bottom of the pot was evenly heated, and the tea cakes in the pot were also heated.
It begins to gradually break down and dry under the action of heat, turning into something slightly powdery.
Huan Xuan saw this so-called tea ceremony for the first time. He opened his eyes and looked carefully. He saw Wang Gong taking a paper bag, pouring the roasted powdered tea powder into the bag, and putting it aside to cool in the shade.
Then Wang Gong took a finely polished small stone mill, which was a bit like the pestle and mortar used in medicine shops to pound medicine. He poured the tea powder into the small stone mill and used a small jade tea pestle.
Start tinkering.
Huan Xuan looked at it for a while. At first, the roasted tea powder looked more like the way he used to smoke Wushi Powder. But now, when he was doing it, he looked more like he was doing it in the medicine pot in the medicine shop.
Herbal medicine or something.
Wang Gong fiddled with it for a while, then took a copper bowl, covered it with a thin layer of gauze, which was obviously used for filtering, and then carefully poured the tea powder in the small stone mill into it. This time Huan
Xuan could smell a faint scent of tea in his nose. He closed his eyes and enjoyed the smell.
When he opened his eyes again, he saw that the water in the tea cauldron on the fire had begun to make some noise. Huan Xuan looked at the tea cauldron carefully and saw that the tea cauldron was made of copper, with a thick and atmospheric color and a medium size.
A small medicine jar is about the same size.
The water surface in the cauldron began to have some fishtail-shaped fine lines, just like the calm river surface was blown by the breeze. At this time, Wang Gong happened to filter the tea powder, took another bowl, and sprinkled some white tea powder into it.
He sprinkled the powder and said, "Mr. Huan, look carefully. This is called the first boil. At this time, you need to add salt to the water."
Huan Xuan asked curiously: "Why do you put salt in the tea soup?"
Wang Gong smiled and said, "I'm not too sure. This is called the tea ceremony. Anyway, the people who taught me the tea ceremony used it this way. I learned it a few times and then tried it."
While talking, Wang Gong took an empty basin, picked up the wooden spoon in the tea cauldron, scooped out some biotite-like things floating on the surface of the tea cauldron, and sprinkled them on the ground on one side.
The sound of the water became louder and began to bubble upward continuously like a spring.
Wang Gong quickly scooped out a few spoons of water, put it into a copper basin on one side, and said with a smile: "That was called the first boil just now, and now it's the second boil."
As Wang Gong spoke, he continued to stir the soup in the pot with a wooden spoon. Then he picked up the small bowl that contained the tea powder and sprinkled the tea powder into the center of the cauldron, while the water in the cauldron also continued to flow below.
Heating, the boiling became more and more intense, and soon it became like rolling waves and boiling.
Wang Gong smiled slightly and added back the spoonful of water that he had just poured back into the copper basin. The warm water was added to the boiling water, which immediately calmed down the almost boiling tea soup. Wang Gong wiped the sweat from his head.
Said: "This is the third boil."
Huan Xuan secretly murmured in his heart: Is it so troublesome to have tea? But now he looked very curious and nodded repeatedly, and he also had some expectations in his heart about the taste of this tea.
Wang Gong picked up the tea cauldron with thick white cloth on both sides, took the tea cauldron away from the brazier, then took out two exquisite celadon tea bowls and poured tea into them. Soon, a bowl of steaming tea soup was placed in Huan
In front of Xuan.
This chapter has been completed!