Taojiang leicha

I talked about tea in the group yesterday, but when I remembered it, why did I forget to smash it? As a Taojiang person who can't drink too many bowls of tea a day, I want to talk about Taojiang tea smashing. I only said Taojiang smashed tea, because Hakka people also smashed tea, which was said by Du Niang. Although they are all smashing tea, it is estimated that the practice is different, so I won't explain it indiscriminately.

In Taojiang County, Yiyang City, it has long been a custom to drink tea. Almost every household has a ceramic bowl, a bowl rack and a tea-smashing stick (about 1.67m long). When making tea, first grind the tea leaves, then grind sesame, ginger and peanuts into paste, and there are various flavors, such as soybean milk and milk, which are cool and delicious to drink, and can be drunk in all seasons, especially in summer.

Here comes the guest, Kazuhiro Mori Bowl. Drink more. The more guests drink, the happier the host will be. This is to receive regular customers. If it is rare to have guests, at the same time of drinking tea, homemade tea leaves will be placed, such as fried sweet potato chips, fried soybeans, fried peels, popcorn, sour beans, peppers, radishes and so on. Since the 1980s, there have been processing plants that produce smashed tea, and there are also business households that specialize in smashed tea along the street.

This is what Du Niang said, but it is also closer to the life of Taojiang people. In this small place of my home, no matter how many guests come and go all year round, a bowl of tea is always disinfected by fire. Sit around at home after dinner, have a cup of tea and chat. Neighbors visit, have a cup of tea and sit down. It's also a bowl of tea when your guests come to your door.

Of course, the tea that VIPs drink is rich in ingredients, patterns and sugar, which ordinary people can't drink in the past. If you come to Taojiang as an ordinary farmer and drink sweet tea, then you are a distinguished guest in her heart.

Some herbs that have been destroyed and disinfected by fire can also be ground into tea. Tea is medicinal tea at this time. When washed with water, there is a fresh fragrance of herbs, but there is no bitter chewing feeling, except that there is a layer of green on the tea surface, and there is a fragrance of grass. This is an ordinary bowl of tea.

Tea makers are all women, because few men can do detailed work. I tried to crush peanuts, sesame seeds and tea in a small bowl from slow to fast with a long tea stick. My grandmother stopped me and said that she was afraid that I would break her bowl. So I can't make tea and I can't get married in my hometown.

One more thing, I don't like packaged tea, and I don't like tea made by tea machine. There is no collision between the tea stick and the bowl, or the fresh fragrance of tea is lost after the material is sealed and packaged, and the taste is not good.

I brought my friend fresh tea, and she liked it very much. Later, she went to the supermarket and bought a pack of taohuajiang tea. She said it tasted terrible. So I don't recommend buying packaged tea, because it has lost its original flavor. The tea brewed by the machine lacks that strong flavor and is as light as a bowl of water.

Finally, some historical knowledge, Du Niang said that the brewing method of bud tea had already begun before the Northern Song Dynasty at the latest. Therefore, tea with ginger, salt and other things is not only ridiculed by the literati class, but also gradually abandoned in the vast areas of the south.

This phenomenon can be seen from Dongpo Zhi Lin: "In the Tang Dynasty, ginger was used to fry strips, so the snow can have a poem saying,' Salt damage adds constant warning, and ginger is more suitable for cooking' ... People who use these two things in modern times should laugh." However, for various reasons, smashing tea is still very popular among people in the north. Su Zhe's poem "Cooking Tea at Hezi Station" can prove: "There is no need to drink tea in the north. I am full of salt, cheese, pepper and ginger. Today, I'm tired of thinking about my hometown and don't learn from the North and the South ... "

I think as a southern province of Hunan, Taojiang still smashed tea, probably because of the great migration of population. After all, our Li family, in retrospect, is also the Li family in Longxi.

A popular science who is not popular, if a Taojiang person comes at this time, it is estimated that he will laugh at me.