The Legend of Tea Emergency The Origin and Legend of Tea

Since the beginning of this year, China Quality Miles has received many consumer complaints, saying that when dining in some restaurants in the city, they generally get a pot of free tea from the restaurant, "these free teas usually taste not very good, some have a strange taste, and sometimes you can see turbid impurities in the tea." After an investigation, China Quality Miles found that most of these free teas were toxic "garbage teas".

According to Luo Shaojun, director of the National Tea Quality Inspection Center, from the current situation, an important part of the "garbage tea" is the scraps sieved during the renovation of the old tea in the tea field, which is actually the "scraps".

We call this kind of money-free difference"Straw hat tea"As the name suggests, the tea leaves taste the same as the water soaked in the dregs on the straw hat.

Tea without money called"Straw hat tea"

Hello! Tea without money called"Straw hat tea"

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Tea has been in China for thousands of years, and in the process, tea culture has incorporated the ideas of Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and other schools.

Shennong tasted herbs and found that tea can detoxify.

The mountainous plateau of southwest China is the origin of tea. (Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan) human beings from the discovery to the use of tea, has a history of four or five thousand years. To the Shennong era, more than 2,000 years BC found that the fresh leaves of the tea tree can detoxify, legend has it that Shennong tasted a hundred herbs to cure diseases, encountered seventy-two poisons a day, and got tea to solve.

In the Warring States Period, hundreds of schools of thought came out, wrote books and lectures, and made similar summary records. The ancient things that have been passed down through the ages, according to their preferences, intensively write a special book - "Shennong Baicao".

Tea can not only detoxify, but also be valued by human beings and developed and cultivated. The larger the planting area, the wider the treatment. It has gradually developed from a curative medicine to a daily drink.

In the Western Han Dynasty, the habit of drinking tea was spread abroad, and the wider it spread, the more it expanded, the more it expanded; The cultivation area has been expanded, which promotes rapid spread. Gradually spread throughout our country and around the world. It has become one of the main daily beverages of people.

The development of tea drinking can be divided into five periods: (1) from the Shennong era to the early Spring and Autumn Period, which was originally used as a sacrifice; (2) From the late Spring and Autumn Period to the early Western Han Dynasty, it was gradually used as a vegetable; (3) From the early Western Han Dynasty to the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, it developed into medicinal use; (4) From the late Western Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms era, it developed into a high-end drink for the court; (5) From the Western Jin Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty, it gradually became an ordinary drink, and then it became a drink that "people can't live without for a day" in the Tang and Song dynasties.

Shennong tasted all the herbs and knew tea, and legend has it that the detoxification thing when Shennong tasted the herbs was tea.

Why is Longjing tea called imperial tea, it turns out that this is how it came from.

The current flattened shape of Longjing tea is said to have originated from Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty. It is rumored that when Qianlong toured Hangzhou, he came to the Hugong Temple under Shifeng Mountain in Longjing Village in disguise, and the old monk presented the treasures in the Longjing tea in the West Lake - Shifeng Longjing and asked Qianlong to drink.

After drinking, Qianlong suddenly felt the fragrance, so he personally picked the tea, and in a hurry put the tea into his pocket and brought it back to the capital. After a long time, the tea buds were flattened, but the queen mother appreciated the legend, it is generally believed that the flat shape of Longjing tea is caused by the influence of the nearby Anhui Dafang tea production in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

1. Legend 1.

Legend has it that during the Song Dynasty, there was a small village called "Longjing", and there lived an old lady who made a living by buying tea. One year, the quality of the tea was not good, it could not be sold, and the old lady almost ran out of cooking. One day, an old man walked in, and he walked around the courtyard, saying that he would buy a broken stone mortar with a wall of earth for five taels of silver.

The old lady was worried about the lack of money, so she readily agreed.

The old man was very happy, and told the old lady not to let the others move, and sent someone to carry it later. The old lady thought that this would easily cost 5 taels of silver, and that she would have to have the mortar carried away cleanly.

So she swept away the dust and rotten leaves from the stone mortar, piled them up, and buried them under the tea trees. After a while, the old man really brought a few young men with big shoulders and round waists, and when he saw the clean stone mortar, he hurriedly asked where the sundries of the stone mortar had gone.

The old lady told the truth, but the old man stomped his foot in annoyance: "I spent five taels of silver, and I bought those garbage!" After saying that, he walked away.

The old lady watched the white silver slip away from her hand, and her heart was really depressed. But within a few days, a miracle happened: the new shoots and buds of the eighteen tea trees gushed out together, the tea leaves were fine and moist, and the tea brewed was fragrant and pleasant.

The news of the rejuvenation of eighteen tea trees spread like wings all over the shores of West Lake, and many villagers came to buy tea seeds. Gradually, Longjing tea was planted on the shore of West Lake, and "West Lake Longjing" was also named.

2. Legend II.

It is said that during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the wind and rain were smooth, the national strength was strong, and the Qianlong Emperor went down to the south of the Yangtze River to watch the villagers pick tea at the foot of the Shifeng Mountain in Longjing, Hangzhou, in order to show their understanding of the people's feelings.

Emperor Qianlong in Hangzhou Longjing Shifeng Mountain these days, saw a few village girls in front of more than a dozen shaded tea tents picking tea, the heart of a joy also learned to pick, just picked not long ago, suddenly the eunuch came to report: "The queen mother is sick, please the emperor hurry back to Beijing." ”

When Emperor Qianlong heard that the Empress Dowager was sick, he casually put the handful of tea leaves he had just picked into the bag and rushed back to the capital day and night.

After returning to Beijing, I found that the Queen Mother had eaten too much delicacies from the mountains and seas, and her liver fire rose for a while, her eyes were red and swollen, and her stomach was uncomfortable, and she was uncomfortable! Emperor Qianlong entered Beijing to see the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother smelled a fragrance and asked what good things she brought. The emperor also felt strange, where did the fragrance come from?

He touched it casually, and it turned out to be a handful of tea leaves from Shifeng Mountain in Hangzhou, because the tea had dried up after a few days of sailing, and the rich aroma was emitted by it.

The Queen Mother wanted to taste the taste of tea, the palace maid brewed the tea, the tea was sent to the Queen Mother, sure enough, the fragrance was fragrant, the Queen Mother took a sip, her eyes were suddenly much more comfortable, after drinking the tea, the redness and swelling disappeared, and the stomach was not distended.

The Queen Mother said happily: "The tea leaves in Hangzhou Longjing are really a panacea. Emperor Qianlong saw that the Queen Mother was so happy, and immediately sent an order to go down and seal the eighteen tea trees in front of the Hugong Temple at the foot of Shifeng Mountain in Longjing, Hangzhou, as imperial tea, and pick new tea every year to pay tribute to the Queen Mother.

West Lake Longjing:

Legend: Legend has it that in the Song Dynasty, there was a small village called "Longjing", and there lived in the village an old lady who made a living by selling tea. One year, the quality of the tea was not good, it could not be sold, and the old lady simply ran out of cooking.

One day, an old man walked in, and he walked around the house, saying that he would buy a broken stone mortar in the corner of the ground wall for five taels of silver. The old lady was worried about running out of money, so she readily allowed it. The old man was very happy, and told the old lady not to let the others move, and sent someone to carry it in an instant.

The old lady thought that this would easily cost 5 taels of silver, and that she would have to have the mortar carried away cleanly. So she swept away the dust and rotting leaves from the stone mortar, piled them up, and buried them under the tea trees. After a while, the old man really brought a few young men with tall cows and horses, and when he saw the clean stone mortar, he hurriedly asked where the sundries of the stone mortar had gone.

The old lady told the truth, but the old man stomped his feet in frustration: "I spent five taels of silver, and I bought those wastes!" After saying that, he brushed his sleeves and left.

The old lady watched the white silver slip away from her hand, and her heart was really depressed.

But within a few days, a spectacle happened: the new shoots and buds of the eighteen tea trees gushed out together, the tea leaves were fine and moist, and the tea brewed was fragrant and pleasant. The news of the eighteen tea trees and the old dragon bell has been spread all over the West Lake, and many fellow villagers have come to buy tea seeds.

Gradually, Longjing tea was cultivated on the shore of West Lake, and "West Lake Longjing" was also named.

Longjing asks tea: Longjing is located on the Fenghuang Ridge, and the Eastern Wu Dynasty came here to ask for rain during the Three Kingdoms, so Longjing got its name. During the Northern Song Dynasty, the high monk argued that he lived here, in order to facilitate the comings and goings of guests, the mountains and forests were renovated, and the mountain road was opened, and the area around Longjing was only flourishing. Argumentative and hospitable, every time a guest comes, he likes to serve a cup of self-planted tea to entertain guests, and Longjing tea has gradually become famous.

After the Ming and Qing dynasties, the reputation of Longjing tea rose, and Yuan Mei's "Suiyuan Food List" praised that "Hangzhou camellia is clear everywhere, but Longjing is the most ear". Later, Longjing asked tea to be selected as the ten views of the new West Lake, the tea and scenery here are more valuable, every year around the Qingming Festival, the valley rain season, the tea farmers pick tea, roast tea, the fragrance of tea is overflowing, attracting more tourists.

Ocha "Anecdote:

Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty went to the south of the Yangtze River six times, and came to the Longjing Tea Area four times to harvest tea and taste tea and write poems. On the way back, the Longjing tea was brought back to the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother drank the liver fire and said that this Longjing tea was like a panacea. Qianlong immediately decreed that the eighteen tea trees in front of the Hugong Temple were sealed as "imperial tea", which were harvested every year and specially for the Queen Mother to drink.

Since then, Longjing has become famous at home and abroad, and there is an endless stream of tea askers.

Shennong's.

Tea is the earliest beverage invented and enjoyed by the Chinese nation, which began in the Shennong era, was heard in the Zhou Dynasty, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, and was honored in the Song Dynasty. The earliest tea appeared as a medicine, legend has it that Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, encountered seventy-two poisons a day, and after detoxifying with tea, he discovered the effect of tea. It is recorded in Lu Yu's "Book of Tea".

Tea is a relatively common drink, which is divided into many varieties such as green tea, black tea, oolong tea, white tea, yellow tea, and dark tea. Tea is rich in vitamins, proteins, amino acids, sugars, minerals, trace elements and other nutrients, and contains tea polyphenols, caffeine, lipopolysaccharide and other pharmaceutical ingredients.

Shennong's, you can check the allusions.