Liuhe Leicha is the crystallization of the inheritance and development of Hakka Leicha, and it is a diet discovered by Liuhe Hakka ancestors in adapting to the natural environment. Liuhe tea-making tools include tea bowls and tea sticks. Tea-smashing materials include green tea, sesame seeds and roasted peanuts. When making, put the tea leaves and sesame seeds into a bowl, grind them with a tea grinder, then add peanut kernels and inject a little cold boiled water to grind them until they are ground into a paste of tea cream, then pour them into boiling water and stir them evenly, and you can drink them. When drinking with popcorn, beans, vegetables, etc.

Another kind of tea made of wild vegetables and herbs is called "Camellia oleifera", also called "raw tea". The main ingredients are fresh Artemisia argyi leaves, mint leaves, raw tea leaves, maple leaves, perilla leaves, fragrant incense, perilla frutescens, chicken feet, rose buds, coriander and so on. Leicha has the effects of promoting fluid production to quench thirst, expelling wind and cold, stimulating appetite and strengthening spleen, clearing away heat and toxic materials and prolonging life. 20 1 1 was selected into the list of intangible cultural heritage protection in Guangdong province.

Hakka is also very particular about making tea, but Hakka women are skilled in making tea. Every Hakka family has a set of tea-making tools-bowls and sticks. Grinding bowls are ceramic round tooth bowls with a diameter of about 1.5 square feet, and there are also small grinding bowls with a diameter of 1 square foot. The interior is surrounded by scattered ribs, and the appearance is clumsy and compatible. Tea sticks are about 2-3 feet long, mostly made of camphor tree, Cang Shu Mountain or camellia oleifera, and other miscellaneous trees cannot be used as tea sticks. If used, the tea produced contains peculiar smell and is not suitable for drinking. When smashing tea, first put the best tea leaves and fried sesame seeds into a bowl and slowly grind them into powder. Then, pour the boiled peanuts into a little water, slowly and rhythmically rotate them into a paste with a rolling pin, and add a proper amount of salt. Then, pour boiling water into the tea, and add a few pieces of mint into the tea to make a bowl of fragrant tea. Smell the fragrance, take a sip, the saliva, teeth and cheeks are fragrant, and you feel refreshed and refreshed. Taste it slowly, its taste is endless.

Lei tea can be served not only with green tea but also with fried rice. During the Spring Festival, Hakkas entertain guests with rice tea. What is unique is that the rice tea that Hakka people eat for lunch every day is rice cooked in a pot, and then the soup and rice are poured into the pre-ground tea slurry, stirred evenly, and then fried with kale, shrimp, squid, mushrooms and so on. This is the best Hakka rice tea.

Tea has many uses, such as adding a little pepper to tea, which can warm the middle and dispel cold, and has a miraculous effect on people with cold stomach and frequent urination at night.

Today, entertaining guests with tea is still the most solemn etiquette of Liuhe people, and it is also a traditional custom from ancient times to the present. Smashing tea has become an essential drink in Hakka social activities.

(Photo shoot-Peng Guixiong)