Chaoshan gongfu tea is generally used, what is the history of Chaoshan gongfu tea?

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Chaozhou Gongfu tea has a long history, Chinese tea culture prevailed in the Tang Dynasty, and Chaozhou Gongfu tea was popular in the Song Dynasty, and the noble tea is derived from Chaozhou Gongfu tea, which has a history of thousands of years.

Tea tasting has long become an indispensable part of Chaoshan people's lives. Chaoshan's gongfu tea is the most prestigious, well-known all over the world, and is respectfully known as the "Chinese tea ceremony". The great Teochew writer Qin Mu called Dou Ming "Chaozhou Gongfu Tea, which can be called the representative of the Chinese tea ceremony".

Chaozhou Gongfu tea is a symbol of "Chaozhou people's habits are elegant and the measures are superb".

Characteristics of Kung Fu Tea

Chaozhou infiltrates Gongfu tea, which is very common in the local area, regardless of elegance and vulgarity, and all meet friends with tea. In eastern Guangdong, tea is regarded as the best etiquette for hospitality, and it is perfected, not only because tea has a health effect in many aspects, but also because since ancient times, tea has the artistic conception of "treating gentlemen, purifying the mind and body". Whether it is in public or in people's homes, whether it is a roadside village or a factory or shop, people are everywhere to drink for a long time.

Tea tasting is not only to achieve the purpose of quenching thirst, but also in the tea tasting or contact feelings, or exchange information, or chatting and pastime, or negotiating**, Chaozhou Gongfu tea contains rich cultural content.

Elegant and empty shouting people's work tea is particularly exquisite, there are tea boys (jokingly called "wind furnace county magistrate") special service, carrying burdens, entering the mountain, floating water, cooking tea near the clear stream, watching the landscape and talking about the Tao, giving poetry and lyricism, there is a special taste. Gongfu tea is an indispensable thing in the life of literati, so it is mentioned in many poems.

One cup is dedicated to making tea (equivalent to the role of a wine dispenser), and the other cup is used for drinking tea.

Knowledge expansion: Traditional Chaoshan gongfu tea generally has only three cups, no matter how many guests only use three cups. The first cup of tea must be given to the first guest on the left, regardless of their status, age, or gender.

After each cup of tea, wash the cup with piping hot tea and then give the cup with heat to the next one. This custom is said to be a sign of solidarity, fraternity and mutual humility.

Chaoshan people invite people to drink tea in accordance with the rules of gongfu tea, the host must make the tea himself, the tea should be like soy sauce, in order to show respect for the guests, so the tea room, if there is a distinguished guest again, you have to remove the tea and re-brew the tea to welcome, otherwise it is considered "slow guest", and it is disrespectful. The first cup of tea, please ask the elders or people with high prestige to drink first, that is, "first respect and then humble, first old and then young", in addition, there is "first guest and then master, the stoker last", in addition to the seniority of the seniority, step by step, but also to the guests and guests, and then to the family, after all the people present have drunk tea, the common name of the stoker is "cabinet chief" (the tide language "cabinet" and "county" homonym, the tea maker, it is nicknamed "wind furnace county magistrate") can drink, otherwise it is disrespectful to the guests, called" The barbarian deceives" or "treats people disrespectfully". If there are many people, when using a large jar with multiple cups, the tea drinker should take the cup in front of him.

The last person can serve the middle, if indiscriminately, before the teacup next to it is not served, take the middle cup, not only will be considered disrespectful to the host, but also disrespectful to the guests present, which is unruly. If there are many people and few cups, then after you drink one cup, you must humbly let everyone in the seat drink before you can drink the second cup, which can really be described as "the style of a humble gentleman and a drinker". When the guest drinks tea, he can not wipe the tea pool with the feet of the cup, and after drinking the tea, the teacup should be put out lightly and silently, otherwise it will be regarded as disrespecting the host, and it is a deliberate provocation by "forcing the guest to suppress the host".

Chaoshan Gongfu tea is deeply loved by people in the Chaoshan area, many people get up in the morning to make a pot of tea, tiredness is swept away, only feel refreshed. Chaoshan people like to meet friends with tea, and in the process of drinking and chatting and laughing, people exchange information and deepen their feelings. Tea tasting has long gone beyond the simple purpose of quenching thirst, it also contains rich cultural content.

Chaoshan people call tea "tea rice", tea is like rice in the minds of Chaoshan people, it is enough to see that Chaoshan people love tea as life, tea and rice are inseparable.