Winter passes and spring comes, tea warms for a long time

The sixth day of the Lunar New Year

Although the beginning of spring has passed, it is still freezing cold.

During the holidays, the most elegant thing is to cook tea around the stove.

Invite friends and have a tea party to watch the snow and plum blossoms;

Go to a tea garden to feel the ice and snow The world is full of vitality;

Enjoy a cup of winter slices that condense the "snow flavor" of the whole winter...

Everything is silent, tea warms the heart,

The fragrance of a cup of tea exudes the hope of prosperity.

The ice and snow tea garden is picturesque

Auspicious snow heralds a good year, and tea is also a joy. Freezing snowfall will help tea gardens achieve better dormancy, and also significantly reduce the number of overwintering pests, giving them more peace of mind and expectations for a high-quality and bumper spring tea harvest in the coming year.

>>>>Meiwu Snow

The Meijiawu Tea Garden deep in the mountains of the West Lake Scenic Area in Hangzhou is a shooting place not to be missed in winter, especially on snowy days.

The blooming Longjing camellias were covered with a thick layer of snow, which made me feel a little distressed, but it was really beautiful. Auspicious snow heralds a good year, and with such a good snow, I can’t help but look forward to the bright green and delicious fragrance of spring tea next year.

Meijiawu Tea Garden Snow Scenery

With mountains and scenery, docks and water, tea and culture, Meijiawu, with a history of more than 600 years, is the most natural place with the characteristics of a tea town. Village. Meijiawu stretches for more than ten miles along both sides of Meiling Road, and is known as "Ten Miles of Meiwu".

Tea gardens are still blooming with green vitality in this snow-white world; tea trees are still holding their heads high, standing proudly in the cold winter wind and snow; tea leaves are still shining through the The cold snow and ice clothes show an extremely enchanting and heroic appearance.

>>>>Snow Bud Chanson

If Emei Mountain covered in white snow is a magnificent picture, then the Emei Snow Bud Tea Garden is the highlight of this picture. Pen.

Sun Simiao, the king of medicine, is familiar with this snowy scene. He has been searching for immortals and medicine here for decades. He is as happy as a wild crane in the clouds, making Emei Mountain tea famous all over the world. Lu You is very concerned about this snow scene. "The snow buds come from Emei, and they are as red as spring in Zhuzhou." Emei snow buds are named after him.

Snow scene in the tea garden of Mount Emei

Su Dongpo liked this snow scene, "Mount Emei is thousands of miles west of snow, and looking north to Chengdu is like the bottom of a well." Even when he arrived in Suzhou and Hangzhou, thousands of miles away, he still could not forget this place. The snow and the tea here.

For a thousand years, every year during the severe cold weather, fresh snow buds emerge through the snow. The mountain monk recited Amitabha and picked with pure mind. Recite verses devoutly and offer them before the Buddha. Zen tea has been praised for thousands of years.

>>>>Wuyi Wonderland

For southerners, winter in Wuyi Mountain is the "ice and snow paradise".

It is rare to see a tea garden covered with snow, but the frost adds a touch of unearthly poetry to the cold mountain water.

The crystal clear frost, like the pure spirit of nature, gently flutters the raincoat and passes through the mountains and forests, covering the tea gardens in the mountains with a layer of pure white gauze. The rime is so dense that it feels like a fairy tale world. . The sky and clouds, the mountains and the water are all white and glowing with light.

The snow scene of Tongmuguanding Tea Garden

The fragrant and sweet water lies in the "winter tea"

Winter tea is also called "winter tea". It is not picked in winter, but People are accustomed to calling the last harvest of the year winter tea. Tea picked in winter has a small yield, rich aroma, and a unique refreshing taste, which is very charming.

>>>>Dancong Snowflake

Snowflake is a name given to winter tea by Fenghuang Dancong. It is the last harvest of Fenghuang Dancong in a year. At this time, the tea tree will enter Sleeping period, waiting for next year’s spring tea season.

Fenghuang Dancong is famous for its fragrance, and Xue Piao has the highest fragrance in the season of the year. The floral fragrance of snow flakes is extremely high, and refreshing is the best way to describe it. Anyone who likes high fragrance will fall in love with it at first smell.

The unique "snow flavor" of snow flakes is as smooth as water and as refreshing as snow. This characteristic is only found in snow flakes in winter. It is a unique taste that you will never forget once you try it. You will never expect why it is so refreshing even though it is hot tea.

The fragrance of Dancong flowers is cool, the soup is overpowering, and the taste is fresh. Snow flakes, like cherry blossoms, are stunning to the world but fleeting and fleeting. We can only meet at the right season and at the right time. If you miss it, it will be a year.

>>>> Baodao Dong Pian

Dong Pian Tea is also called "Dong Pian Tsai" because the tea trees are deceived by the climate to grow, so it is also nicknamed "Winter Tea". Taiwan's rural tea farmers sometimes call it "Liu Shui or Qi Shui Tsai Tea". The main production areas are in the middle and low altitude areas. Because of its specialness, it is extremely rare and sought-after. Generally, tea connoisseurs who know tea will wait for it every winter, hoping that Can have a taste.

Dongpian tea is one of the most local specialty teas in Taiwan. It has an elegant and high aroma, a sweet and soft taste, and a smooth mouthfeel. It is like a quiet and quiet piano music, and it is also like an elegant and soft low-key palace noble. Women have always been loved by tea drinkers. The amount of winter tea harvested is not large, about 30% or even less than that of winter tea. Once the season is over, you may have to wait for the next year.

>>>>Wild Winter Pian

Compared with Silver Needle, White Peony and Shoumei, this is a rare and niche tea.

First, because the distribution of tea trees in the wilderness is not concentrated and there is no artificial restraint, the tea tree seeds go with the wind and birds and animals. Wherever they fall, they take root.

It is picked on the tea trees in early winter when other teas have gone dormant. Wilderness tea trees are naturally cultivated and scattered in the deep mountains. Because of this, wilderness tea trees have strong wildness.

Although the appearance of Wilderness Winter Pian is inconspicuous, its tea taste is not inferior at all. It has a wild charm and unique flavor, and has a distinct mint flavor when drinking it.

Winter films in the wilderness are like a beauty hidden in a boudoir that no one knows, admiring herself alone and in a quiet state of mind. Beauty doesn't fight for spring either. Only for tea lovers, the queen is smiling in the bush.

Warm tea adds warmth in winter

>>>>Cooking tea around the stove

Song Qingzhi, a poet in the Song Dynasty, wrote a poem "Fu on the Opening of the Stove": "...The paper is covered with new wadding, and the tea pot boils the fine spring. Although the clouds are not visible, the spring is full of joy."

It can be seen that in this season, if you can cook a pot of tea at home, no matter how small or simple it is, The house also felt warm. Oolong tea made by traditional methods, aged Pu'er and white tea, warm black tea, and tea properties have changed, all of which are suitable for drinking in this season, either stirred or boiled.

Watching the still water begin to boil, the clear water color gradually turns into a warm color, the tea leaves also begin to rise and fall, and the air is filled with the comfortable fragrance of tea and the smell of being warmed by the sun.

Making tea is a matter of patience. The room is filled with the fragrance of tea, which is nothing more than boiling tea. It lingers around and makes people feel happy.

Since the fragrance of tea fills the room, it is no different from burning incense. Make the tea hot and drink it slowly. It will warm your body to your heart. Your skin will sweat gently and the unpleasant things in your heart will disappear.

>>>>Cook snow and make tea

The combination of snow and tea makes people feel fresh and refined as soon as they hear it.

The most elegant winter tea ceremony is boiling snow and frying tea, such as "In the cold window, boiling tea and sweeping snow, a bowl of reading lamp" by Zheng Banqiao, or "But I like the waiter" in "A Dream of Red Mansions" by Jia Baoyu Try the new tea and sweep the new snow to cook it in time."

Zhenjun of the Qing Dynasty once said: "Snow water has a clear taste, but has a rustic flavor. Store it in a clean vat and it will be drinkable after many years."

Lu You also said this I wrote a poem "Fried Tea after Snow": "The sweetness of the snow liquid rises from the well spring, and I bring my own tea stove to cook it. Living on earth for a hundred years is not a waste if I don't care about anything anymore."

Imagine , a heavy snow fell on a winter night. When I opened the window in the early morning, a piece of fresh and cold snow air rushed into my face. The sky and the earth were covered with silver, and the sky was white.

Take the opportunity to collect some snow water, set up a heater, and watch the water in the teapot gurgling, the smoke curling up, and the fragrance of tea overflowing. It is so comfortable!

>>>>Winter Tea Banquet

When everything begins to fall silent, the red color disappears and the fragrance fades, when you stand up and see the heavy snow falling outside the window, leaving only a blank space between the sky and the earth. , it may be a good choice to lay out a winter tea banquet that suits the occasion.

The tea banquet is small but large. It uses limited utensils to carry the aesthetic "space" of tea drinkers' infinite reverie. Only when the tea banquet is well arranged can people feel warm in winter and cool in summer.

Winter tea banquets should also change with the changing seasons. On the premise of conveniently placing water boiling utensils, the tea banquet is decorated in warm colors such as rice, brown, yellow, and red to make the tea life in winter less cold and bring a touch of warmth to yourself and the tea drinkers.

The most important thing on the tea banquet is the tea utensils. A simple charcoal stove and an exquisite water boiler are both warm and stylish.

Everything is silent in winter, but there are many choices for tea mat flowers. You can choose wintersweet, southern bamboo, silver willow, ivory red, cyclamen, calla lily, winter coral, narcissus, etc. The seasonal range also includes morning light, rising sun, Zhengyang, afternoon, sunset, moonlit night, etc...

Choose some red leaves, fruits and other flowers to create a winter atmosphere. Decorate the tea banquet according to your mood, and any flowers or trees can be included in the tea banquet.

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Author: Er Dong

Text/Arrangement: Chu Kong

Picture: "Tea Ceremony" Picture Library