What is the contribution of the style of tea fighting in the Song Dynasty to tea culture

The prevalence of tea banquets and the increasing innovation of folk tea making and tea drinking methods have promoted the development of the art of tea tasting, so tea fighting came into being and promoted the development of tea culture.

The content of tea fighting includes: tea fighting, tea fighting, and tea opera.

1. Tea fighting

Tea buckets are expensive to tea "new", and tea buckets are water-based to "live". One bucket of soup color, two buckets of water marks. First of all, look at whether the color of the tea soup is bright white, pure white is the winner, green and white, gray and white, yellow and white are negative.

The color of the soup can reflect the harvesting skills of the tea, and the tea soup is pure and white, indicating that the tea is tender and the production is just right; The color is greenish, indicating that the steaming tea is not enough; The color is gray, indicating that the steaming tea has passed; The color is yellow, indicating that the harvest is not timely; The color is red, indicating that the roast has been overheated. Secondly, look at the duration of the soup flower. In the Song Dynasty, the tea cake was mainly drunk, and the tea cake was first roasted and crushed finely, and then boiled in water to decoction.

If the grinding is delicate, the tea, soup, and whisk are just right, the soup flowers will be even, and you can bite the edge of the cup tightly, and gather for a long time, and this best effect is called "biting the cup". Ordering tea and soup refers to the preparation of tea and soup, that is, the technique of decoction and brewing of tea soup. At the same time as ordering the soup, the tea whisk is rotated to hit and whisk the tea soup in the tea cup to make it bloom with soup, which is called whisking.

On the contrary, if the soup flower cannot bite the pot, but spreads out quickly, the place where the soup meets the pot immediately reveals the "water mark", which is lost. The morning and evening of the appearance of water marks is the basis for the quality of tea soup. Fighting tea wins with water marks and goes out early.

Second, the tea fight order

Tea fighting order, that is, the ancients carried out tea orders during tea fights. The stories and poems cited in the Tea Order are all related to tea. The tea order is like the wine order, which is used to increase the fun.

3. Tea Hundred Opera

Tea Baixi, also known as soup opera or tea sharing, was a popular tea ceremony in the Song Dynasty. The tea that is about to be brewed is poured into the tea bowl with a trick. In the Song Dynasty, tea opera is not an ordinary tea tasting and drinking tea, some people put tea opera and piano, chess, books side by side, is a kind of cultural activity that scholars and doctors love and advocate.

Song Dynasty Yang Wanli Yongcha Baiju said: "How is it better to divide tea than sencha, and sencha is not as ......clever as dividing tea."”

Tea, also known as "Dou Ming", or "Tea Fight". Tea fighting began in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. The core of tea fighting is to compete for the quality of tea, the level of tea ordering skills, and the comparison of tea varieties, manufacturing, provenance, allusions and insights on tea.

The main content of the Song Dynasty tea fight is to look at the soup color and soup flowers.

There are two main criteria for determining the victory or defeat of tea fights:

One is the color of the soup. i.e. the color of the tea. The general standard is pure white, and blue and white, gray and white, yellow and white, and so on.

The color is pure white, indicating that the tea quality is fresh and tender, and the heat is just right when steaming, and the color is blue, indicating that the heat is insufficient when steaming; The hands are sleepy and gray, and the heat is too old when steaming; If the color is yellow, the picking is not timely; The color is reddish with the beam finch, which is too much for the fried roasting.

The second is soup flowers. This refers to the foam that rises from the noodle soup. To determine the quality of the soup flower, it depends on two standard slag upgrades: the first is the color of the soup flower. Because the color of the soup flower is closely related to the color of the soup, the color standard of the soup flower is the same as the standard of the soup color;

The second is that after the soup flowers are flooded, the water marks appear early and late, the early one is negative, and the late one wins. If the tea powder is ground delicately, the soup is ordered and whisked just right, and the soup flowers are evenly fine, like "cold porridge noodles", you can bite the edge of the cup tightly and gather for a long time.

This best effect is called "biting the cup". On the contrary, the soup flowers are overflowing, and they cannot be bitten, and they will spread out quickly. As soon as the soup flowers disperse, the place where the soup and the pot meet and the reeds are early to reveal "water marks" (brown waterlines). Therefore, the sooner or later the appearance of water marks becomes the basis for determining the quality of soup flowers.

Introduction:

The Song Dynasty was very particular about the tea ceremony, from the emperor to the scholars, all of which were bad. Zhao Ji of Song Huizong wrote "Daguan Tea Theory", Cai Xiang wrote "Tea Record", Huang Ru wrote "Tea Tasting Record", some literati and scholars were more popular in the life of tea fighting, and the style of tea fighting in the Song Dynasty was extremely prosperous. Wisdom.

During the Qingming Festival every year, new tea is first released, which is the most suitable for participating in the fight. The ancients fought tea, or a dozen people, or five or six people, most of them were some celebrities and gentlemen, as well as shop owners, and the neighbors also vied to watch, as lively as watching a ball game in modern times. Bi Binian.

The place of tea fighting, mostly in the large-scale tea shop, the front hall is large, for the storefront, the back hall is narrow, and there is a small kitchen, which is convenient for making tea. Some people's homes, with a more elegant and clean inner room, or a courtyard with flowers and trees, or near the water, or quiet, are all good places for tea fighting.

Tea fighters take the good tea they have hidden, take turns to cook it, and evaluate each other to score the best. In ancient times, tea leaves were mostly made into tea cakes, and then crushed into powder, and when drinking, even tea powder was drunk with tea. Tea fighting, or many people fighting, or two people catching the right one"Fight", three fights and two wins.

The main content of tea fighting in the Song Dynasty is tea fighting, tea fighting, tea opera, tea fighting products are new tea products, and tea fighting water is based on life. The so-called tea fight, also known as the tea war, is a competition carried out by tea producers, tea makers, and tea art lovers in order to test the color of tea and the quality of tea cooking. First of all, look at whether the color of the tea soup is bright white, pure white is the winner, green and white, gray and white, yellow and white are negative.

The color of the soup can reflect the harvesting skills of the tea, and the tea soup is pure and white, indicating that the tea is tender and the production is just right;

The color is greenish, indicating that the steaming tea is not enough;

The color is gray, indicating that the steaming tea has passed;

The color is yellow, indicating that the harvest is not timely;

If the color is red, it means that the roast has been overheated.

Secondly, look at the duration of the soup flower.

In the Song Dynasty, the tea cake tea was mainly drunk, and the tea cake was first roasted and crushed finely, and then boiled in water to decoction, and the tea powder was drunk with the tea water when drinking.

If the grinding is delicate, the tea, soup, and whisk are just right, the soup flowers will be even, and you can bite the edge of the cup tightly, and gather for a long time, and this best effect is called "biting the cup".

At the same time as ordering the soup, the tea whisk is rotated to hit and whisk the tea soup in the tea cup to make it bloom with soup, which is called whisking.

Tea fighting is the competition of the advantages and disadvantages of tea, flourishing in the Song Dynasty, is a kind of elegant play of rich and idle people in ancient times, tea fighters take the good tea they have hidden, take turns to cook, and the quality is high.