What are the benefits of drinking salty tea in Guangdong Province?

Salty tea, popular in Shanwei, Jieyang, and parts of Guangxi and Xiangxi, is one of the grand and economical ways to entertain guests in the old days. Whenever a guest comes to the door, the hospitable hostess is very busy: first, put the tea leaves into a tooth bowl (a kind of special pottery with serrated lines on the inner wall), moisten them with hardwood such as pomegranate wood or litchi wood, and make them into a 3-foot-long mallet (wooden pestle), stir and mash them back and forth, then put the cooked peanuts, sesame seeds and mint leaves into the tooth bowl in turn and grind them into paste, add appropriate amount of salt, and pour in boiling water. Then the host put a lot of fried rice into a bowl filled with salty tea and served it to the steaming guests. Everyone sat around the living room, chewing while drinking, and talking about family affairs. From time to time, the host politely added salty tea and fried rice to the guests and advised them to drink it so that they could have a good time.

Hailufeng salty tea is sweet and mellow, with the fragrance of tea and the sweetness of mint, as well as the flavor of crispy fried rice, crispy peanuts and sesame seeds. Therefore, it has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach and prolonging life. The custom of eating salty tea has been passed down from generation to generation for a long time. In the Qing Dynasty, Ru Dunru wrote in "Reading Poems on Yan": "There is a kind of broken tea in Jiangguang, which is the legacy of Qiang salt-fried tea and has ancient meaning." During the light years of the Qing Dynasty, Huang, a juren from Haifeng, also wrote a poem: "In Haifeng, it was salty tea, and the tooth bowl was brought to * * *' s home. Where is the thickness of human feelings? See how many sesame seeds she has. " Write the grand occasion of eating salty tea by Hailufeng in Qing Dynasty and the secular mode of the world.

Today, this ancient custom continues in Shanwei people. In addition to eating salty tea at home instead of breakfast and lunch, neighbors, relatives, friends and colleagues must be invited to hold a "salty tea banquet" at home for marriage, birthday date, new house, returning from other places, recovering from illness and extricating themselves from difficulties. If a man and a woman are engaged, they should invite "engagement tea" and the woman should invite back "engagement tea". If you leave the hospital to thank you for your condolences, please send tea. At the same time, it is also a means of communication to communicate the feelings of colleagues in the neighborhood. Therefore, there is a saying in the folk song: "Haifeng women like salty tea and have noisy teeth." They respect the old and love the young here, not fried rice. "

Since the reform and opening up, more and more women have entered the society. Whenever it's time for tea, they always make do with their tea addiction, just like doing exercises during recess, in order to "eliminate fatigue and cheer up" and then go to work.

In weddings, funerals and weddings, "making tea" (oil hemp tea, fried rice tea or vegetable tea, belonging to group tea culture activities) is also popular.

Every new house caught fire, the marriage ended, children were born, people came back from a long trip, celebrated holidays, treated diseases, avoided risks, avoided disasters, and even rehabilitated modern grievances, and their children and grandchildren were admitted to universities. Someone published an article saying, "Never invite people with salty tea when things are white." No! In fact, there are more salty teas in white matter: women eat salty teas in mourning, salty teas on the first seven days (Sunday), the last seven days (Sunday) and the last seven days (Sunday) of the deceased, "Cishan Tea" after going to the grave, "Ding You Tea" every ten nights for a hundred days, and "Chinese New Year" on the anniversary. Why do you think "Never invite people with salty tea"?

In a word, tea occupies a certain position in Shanwei people's minds, and it is regarded as a top-grade gift, and men and women should send tea when they are engaged; The bride will send tea when she goes through the door for three dynasties; Since the reform and opening up, people have to send tea to visit relatives in Hong Kong and Macao, and so on.

As the main body of the tea ceremony, Mr. Chen said: "salty tea has long been popular in the old district of Hailufeng and has developed into a characteristic culture, and women have contributed a lot."