History of the Big Dipper Tea

Editor's Note: "fighting tea" in ancient China's tea is an interesting event, set an atmosphere of culture and competition in one rhyme, are men of letters, Tea lovers love the spirit of the feast. November 1 this year, the first truly national civil struggle tea event - "Menghai of tea" will soon called "Puer Holy Land" of the tea factory MENGHAI held the test of the distinguished participants of the tea, tasting and brewing capacity. Thus, this issue is special has collected the history of the "tea fight" information to satisfy the majority of tea enthusiasts.

Bucket of tea began in the Tang Dynasty, according to test and create the famous tea produced in Fujian tribute tea-statehood. Every spring is made of the new tea, the tea farmers, tea, tea drinkers are good times worse than the new ranking order of a game event. Than skills, winning or losing the characteristics of struggle, full of interesting and challenging. Victory or defeat in a bucket of tea competition, winners and losers in a match like today, for many people, the villagers are concerned. Tang called "tea war," Song said, "tea fight" with the outcome of a strong color is a kind of tea appraisal forms and social activities.

In the Song Dynasty, Su would have been "subject to preferential customs Hei Ling fight outside the tea," the account. The Popular Republic of years until the city is still prevalent in the benefits. Tea is tea bucket basis to develop. Tea tea, also known by the owner invited Sanwuzhiji, the tea, served in small glasses, teapots in the same size, such as drinking as a bite. Tea is different with this fight. Bucket, Huizhou, then the meaning of a struggle, but also try to be brave in the struggle to win was intended. Higher educational level was a private school teacher once said that "a thorough than the basket of sperm competition Kam-cut distinction" to summarize the meaning of fighting tea.

Tea person to participate in fighting, gave up the possession to their tea, taste turns to showdown. Competition includes tea hue and aromaticity, degree of aromatic tea, tea pros and cons, Hot water heat of the priorities and so on. Tea tasting to go through a collective struggle to have the superior winner.

Bucket tea place, the general election in more and more large scale tea shop. Most of these shops before and after 2 minutes into the entrance hall a large wide, is store; after the narrow hall, both small kitchen - easy to tea. Some have both the room, the boss his family lived in the inside. Of course, some residents, workers were friendly and the Road, a few people gathering of about tea ceremony, also said that fighting on the bucket. Some people have a more elegant flowers and trees within the room or the old garden, or home Riverside, near West Lake, it is a good place tea bucket.

Fight over the election of tea during the Ching Ming Festival, so the beginning of a new tea time, the most suitable parameter fight. Participants are fighting tea tea lovers free combination, more than a dozen people, less five or six people, fighting tea, there are many neighbors to watch the neighborhood. Such as tea shops struggle, the owner of the nearby shops or folks will turn Qucourenao, especially when the presence of customers wishing to purchase tea, it is as fast glimpse.

Song is a very high age of the tea ceremony, from the emperor on down to the scholar, not bad for this, and wrote books, to be theoretical. If Elegant Emperor Song Hui Zong Zhao Ji Piece "Treatise on Tea", Essays on Writing "The Record of Tea", Huang Ru Piece "tea to record" ... ... the community of scholars is also popular in some kind of "tea fight" delight of life. According to Song, Ming notes written account, the Big Dipper tea is basically the following three areas: fighting tea, line of tea to make tea per game.

Determine the outcome of the standard bucket of tea, there are two main aspects:

First, liquor color. That is the color of tea. As the general standard is white, and plainer, gray, yellow and white, then declining. Color white, that the quality of tea fresh, steamed just right when the level of attainment, color hair blue, that when the heat of steam enough; Color Grey, is when the heat of steam too old; color yellow, the pick is not timely; color was red, is the speculation baking heat of too far.

Second, Tom Flowers. I.e. noodles thrown up by the foam. Tom spent the merits of the decision depends on two criteria: first, the color of the flower soup. For soup and tea soup color flowers are closely related, therefore, Tom spent liquor color color standards and the standards are the same; second surge of post-flower soup, water marks appear sooner or later, those early negative and late by the wins. If the fine tea powder grinders, soup, whisk hit just right, Tom spent evenly thin, light can be biting along, long poly ghost. That the best results, it is called "light bite." Instead, Tom spent lot of attention, can not bite light, will quickly spread. Tom took a powder, soup and light phase where he showed "water mark" (brown waterline). Thus, water marks appear sooner or later, Tom took on the merits as the basis for the decision.

Sometimes the quality was slightly inferior to the other side of tea, but the water properly, can win. Sometimes, the same water, brewing tea, the best quality tea pros and cons of testing. This bucket of tea, you must understand the tea, water, and after the effect of frying, the line can not be blind.