What does it mean to make tea in a spouted pot? What kind of spout is good when making tea?

The long-spouted pot tea ceremony performance is one of the more daring forms of interpretation in the Chinese tea ceremony. In the performance, the tea master will combine the tea blending movements with traditional tea ceremony, martial arts, dance, Zen science, Yili, etc., making it full of mysteries and mysteries. The process of blending tea is exquisite, integrating traditional arts, and making tea customers pleasing to the eye in the process of blending tea.

2. Historical Origin: The art of long-spout pot tea was once popular in various regions of China. Sichuan, Guizhou, Shaanxi, Gansu, Yunnan, Hunan, Chongqing and other central and western regions of the interpretation style is similar to each other, with the left hand holding the bowl, the cloth dragon gate array, the right hand "mixed tea", the move is simple, but the waterline is far away, some people misunderstand that it is only unique to Sichuan, it is wrong.

The art of Jiangnan long-spout pot is known for its varied moves, leaving and right to open the bow to make tea, the waterline is closer, and the ornamental is stronger. However, Sichuan's kung fu tea takes the advantages of the north and the south, and is quite careful in the posture of pouring tea. A long-spouted copper kettle with a thin spout of nearly 70 centimeters long is freely swayed in the hands of the tea master, and the performance is like a flowing water, when the tea is brewed, the tea spout is a large distance from the mouth of the cup, but the tea master can easily pour the boiling water in the pot into the tea guest cup without splashing a drop of water.

Although the long-spouted pot has existed in Chengdu since the Tang Dynasty, there is a gap of 20 years in the circulation, and the long-spouted pot tea art has disappeared in Chengdu, Sichuan Province for 20 years [1] . Nowadays, Chengdu is known as a treasure land of leisure, and the people's lives are gradually stable. As a result, we can often watch tea masters perform this traditional art of resurrection.

Throughout the history of the long-spouted pot, it arose under the prosperity of the era, declined due to the weakness of the dynasty, and finally returned to the traditional art palace, which can be described as the phoenix nirvana and the rebirth of purgatory.

To make tea, there are special tea sets, special tea trays, and special tea mats, why can't there be a special kettle? Of course there is. If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools. Today, tell tea lovers how to choose the right kettle suitable for making tea?

The long-spout kettle, also known as the long-flowing kettle, was commonly used in the teahouse in the early days to mix boiling water with tea kettle, from the pot cavity to the water outlet is generally only a few inches, and the slightly older ones are not more than a surplus foot, generally known as the short-spout pot. Later, for the sake of convenience and practicality, the spout was gradually lengthened, and one foot (33 cm) and two feet (66 cm) appeared. Until the extraordinary long-spout pot, the spout is about three feet (1 meter), which is commonly known as the "one-meter-long pot".

Now some pots are specially used for tea art performances, the spout is three feet six long, and the whole body is made of pure copper.