How to drink tea in the teahouse?

There are about three kinds of teahouses in old Beijing, namely Qing teahouse, book teahouse and tea restaurant. Teahouses only drink tea; In the book teahouse, there are artists telling books, and guests have to pay for books besides tea money; Tea restaurants can eat besides drinking tea, but the food they provide is very simple, unlike restaurants, where there are many kinds. Yutai Teahouse in Mr. Lao She's famous drama Teahouse is a tea restaurant, which seems to eat only carrion noodles. The guys in the teahouse are all young and strong, and there are no waitresses. Because of the use of waitresses, if the guests don't obey the rules, it will make the host and guest unhappy. This is a kind of guild regulations. When Wang Lifa failed to run a teahouse, he said that he would hire a waitress and slap his mouth. The reason is that he broke the rules. This rule seems to be not limited to teahouses, but also restaurants. The movie "Old Shop" and the drama "The First Floor in the World" are all about restaurants in old Beijing, and the waiters are all men. Teahouse guys pay special attention to the posture of holding the kettle, palms up and thumbs back. Most of us hold the handle with our palms down when lifting the pot, which is considered as carrying the urinal in the teahouse and is extremely rude to the guests. Tea is written on a special folding fan. After the guests are seated, unfold the folding fan and invite the guests to order tea. People who drink tea bring their own tea, and the teahouse only accepts the water they make tea. After the well-paid tea drinker takes a seat, he should take out a special cloth and spread it on the edge of the table, sit sideways with one arm, and then take out a handkerchief and put it on the table. This is a style. There is no idol in the teahouse, but a jar of water is put in front of the counter, which means that water is beneficial. The teahouse only uses square tables and benches, not chairs. Sichuan teahouses are mostly short bamboo chairs, half sitting and half lying, which is lazy. The fun of sitting in a teahouse lies not only in drinking tea, but also in its excitement. You can blend in, talk unnecessary gossip, or sit alone in the hustle and bustle, savor the leisure of life, and make leisure more abundant and prominent. This is the real taste of sitting in a teahouse. As for talking about business and things in the teahouse, those who regard the teahouse as a unique office, such as Liu in Teahouse, can only be regarded as inferior among tea drinkers, although without such tea drinkers, the teahouse is not a teahouse. There are many teahouses in old Beijing, which have two conditions: first, there are many people who love tea, and second, there are many people who have leisure. The atmosphere of drinking tea in Beijing is very prosperous. From dignitaries to ordinary people, there is a habit of drinking tea every day. As poor as a rickshaw puller, he had to buy a bag of tea to take home at dusk. High-broken or high-broken tea is unique to Beijing in the old days. In fact, it is the tea powder screened by the tea shop, which is useless in other places. Poor people in Beijing can't afford good tea, so tea shops also sell it, which is high-grade tea powder. Tea shops in Beijing hold tea, and one or two teas can hold five bags, because poor people rarely buy tea at a time. Many Beijingers make tea first thing in the morning. The special tool for boiling water is called pot, which is made of iron sheet, with a diameter of about one and a half inches, slender cylindrical shape and a long handle at the mouth. After adding water, it can be directly inserted into the fire to make the water boil quickly. Drink enough tea before breakfast. So old Beijingers should say hello when they meet in the morning: Have you had a drink? If you ask if you have eaten, it is impolite to say that the other party can't afford tea. Beijingers attach great importance to scented tea, and famous tea shops such as Zhang Yiyuan and Wu Yutai all make scented tea by scenting, with fine craftsmanship and genuine products. Southerners often look down on Beijingers' love of scented tea. Wang Zengqi said that he doesn't drink scented tea, except for good scented tea, such as the scented tea at Mr. Lao She's house. Mr. Lao She is an authentic old Beijinger, and the scented tea he drinks must be of high quality. There are different opinions about the reasons why people in Beijing drink scented tea. One is that the underground water quality in Beijing is not good, and the scented tea has a strong aroma, which can cover up the bitterness of water; There is also a saying that traffic was inconvenient in the past. It took a month for the new tea in the south to reach Beijing. It's windy and rainy on the road, and tea often goes bad. After flowering, you can't drink bad tea. Neither of these statements is necessarily reliable. There is no problem with the water quality in Shandong. Sichuan local tea, Chengdu, Shandong people love to drink scented tea. I guess it has something to do with taste. There are many people who like to drink scented tea, and the taste of green tea is too weak for them. It is not clear whether there are other reasons.