Gongcheng is a Yao Autonomous County, simple folk customs, Yao people hospitality, the most famous here should be considered oil tea. Oil tea is a must-have breakfast for every person in Gongcheng. As the day dawns, people start a new day. No matter how busy they are, people in Gongcheng will never spare time to prepare a pot of oil tea. If you don't drink oil tea in the morning, you will have no energy, yawns and bad taste in the day. The oil tea is the best gift for Gongcheng people to welcome the new day.
In the 80's, Lotus Township was still my grandmother's mud walled tiled house, the morning sun opens, the mist gently shrouds the quiet countryside, waiting for the sun to lift the sleeping veil, waking up the earth. The green tiles on the house one after another on the green smoke, each family came out of the familiar "duh, duh, duh" knocking oil tea sound, then, the aroma of oil tea in the whole countryside diffuse.
The tools used to beat the oil tea are three sets: the oil tea pot, the oil tea hammer, and the oil tea separator (strainer). The pot is very special, made of pig iron and 2 times thicker than normal pots. The wok is only about 25 centimeters large and round, weighs about 5 pounds, and the bottom is also round, with a duckbill shaped strainer on the left edge of the wok, which is convenient for pouring the oil tea. The pot has a long handle, the first half of the handle is built with the iron pot as a whole, and the second half is embedded in the wooden handle, so that the pot has a better load-bearing capacity and does not burn your hands. The oil tea hammer is a 7-shaped wooden hammer, usually made of old tea tree branches. The oil tea spacer is a thin filtered spoon made of bamboo, with the spoon in the shape of a teardrop and the small end of the teardrop extending out to form the handle of the spoon.
The main ingredients of oil tea are tea leaves, garlic and ginger. Tea leaves must be green tea picked at the beginning of the rainy season. There is no need for special production, picked down the new leaves with an iron pot fried, and then dried in the sun is made. Tea pot on the stove, put a little oil, the cleaned tea, ginger, garlic, white onion into the, you can also add a few raw peanuts to increase the thickness of the white soup, and then slow fire with the oil tea hammer constantly whacking, wait until the bottom of the pot slightly burnt, these ingredients are also basically hammered rotten, high heat and add boiling water, and so the water continues to tumble for a minute, add salt, the first pot of oil tea on the ready. Bowls lined up on the table, the person playing oil tea with one hand to pick up the boiling hot tea pot, one hand holding the oil tea compartment, the oil tea through the oil tea compartment filtered into each bowl. The tea leaves and other crumbs are slightly squeezed out with a hammer and put into the pot for the second pot. People who beat the oil tea can usually control the rhythm very well, and when everyone's bowl of oil tea is almost finished, the next pot is basically hammered. Everyone brings the bowls together again, and then one by one to catch the full. Drinking oil tea are generally repeated 4 pots, 5 pots, "a pot of bitter, two pots of astringent, three pots of four pots of good oil tea", generally to the third pot is the most delicious, the first pot of tea is still strong bitter taste, the second pot of astringent taste is relatively heavy, the third and fourth pots of the best flavor, the taste of the fifth pot after the light. Oil tea color earthy yellow and translucent, with a strong tea aroma, slightly spicy in the mouth, is the spicy taste of garlic and ginger, each pot with a different level of tea flavor, from bitter to astringent, and finally to sweet, warm cup, refreshing and cold, so that people refreshed. The tea saint Lu Yu mentioned in the "Tea Classic" that ginger is compatible with any tea, and the oil tea is a combination of two ingredients, tea and ginger, which is sublimated on the taste buds. In ancient times, the Lingnan region was a land of southern barbarians. In order to withstand the hot and humid climate, the ancestors of the Yaoxiang people expressed the refreshing tea and the stomach-warming and cold-repelling ginger with the delicious flavor of oil tea, which is wisdom and a positive and optimistic attitude towards life.
Light a cup of oil tea is not enough to eat, oil tea is the main tea, with oil tea to eat a variety of forms of staple food. The time is not enough to go to work, playing on the oil tea, to the oil tea into an egg, and then with a bowl of rice, or hot bowl of rice noodles, add some vegetables, this is the most simple and delicious breakfast. When you have more time, prepare fried rice, crunchy nuts, fried peanuts, which are soaked into the oil tea and drunk together. And then fried on a plate of rice noodles, water-soaked poi, fried on a variety of rice cakes, or a variety of pastries and snacks, tea can be relieved of fatigue, these staple foods with oil tea, adding a few more flavors. On New Year's Day, you can go to a pork stall early in the morning and cut a few pairs of lean pork and pig liver, then come back and make a pot of oil tea, and then use the oil tea to shabu-shabu the pig liver and lean pork hot pot, which is even more delicious.
Time has changed, and the hometown is changing rapidly in the wheel of time, but the custom of drinking oil tea has been passed down from generation to generation, and the sound of this Duk Duk Duk's pounding, day after day, comes in the early morning, like traveling through a hundred years of history, and it has never stopped, and it has never been changed. It is also like a harmonious note that strikes in the heart of every traveler. Yao family people seriously prepare this pot of oil tea every morning, at that moment, the feeling of the world outside the flurry of disturbances have nothing to do with them, life is only between this tea and a product.
Not messed up in the heart, not trapped in love, not afraid of the future, do not miss the past, so, good!