Yu Jian talks about drinking tea: three kinds of tea and four kinds of water

Put the tea in the cup and pour boiling water. After a while, the color of the water turned into the color of late autumn, brownish yellow and heavy. Some tea leaves have sunk to the bottom, while lighter ones are floating on the water. They open piece by piece slowly like a parachute, and then spin down. Tea is refreshing. Tea, no matter how you brew it, it is still water. No matter how strong the color looks, it is still water. But it’s no longer just about quenching thirst. When you reach a pure heart, you enter the realm. Tea is slow and water is fast. Water quenches thirst and meets physiological needs, such as for athletes running marathons. To replenish water for him, he can drink it while running. Giving him tea at this time is a complete waste, and he has no intention to taste it.

The most vulgar tea is adding wolfberry, rock sugar, and jujube to the tea, which is said to be aphrodisiac. Too tacky. Pu'er tea has been popular in Yunnan recently, and it is said that it can lower blood lipids and so on. Too vulgar. For tea, put some leaves in it and drink nothing. It is still water, but it has something, and these things are related to the heart. The heart is invisible, can be felt, cannot be expressed, and is nothing. Nowadays, people think of drinking tea as drinking coffee. Strictly speaking, coffee is medicine, and it takes effect immediately and helps to be "faster, higher, and stronger."

When I was in Xi'an that summer, the weather was hot and I was sweating profusely. When I arrived at the Small Wild Goose Pagoda Park, I suddenly saw towering ancient trees, covered trees, and ancient pagodas. Someone rang the bell, and the bell sounded. Came leisurely. My whole body feels cold and I want to drink tea. Find a water sales place, sit down on a nearby stone, and ask for tea. The waiter was stunned and asked if he could have a drink. I said no and wanted tea. Okay, okay, go boil the water right away. It sounds like tea is not often sold here, but he doesn't want to give up this 20 yuan business. I found it a bit strange that there was no tea. This was in Xi'an and not in Paris.

When the tea was served, my mood broke when I saw it. The tea was soaked in a white paper cup. That was the first time I saw tea made in this kind of paper cup. I am used to the fact that tea is either in a porcelain cup or a purple sand pottery pot, whichever is worse must be a glass cup. The guy said, "If you don't like paper cups, I'll change them to plastic ones." He was talking about the kind of plastic monsters that are as soft as paper. They fall apart as soon as water is poured on them.

In fact, no wonder, man, the world is getting cheaper and cheaper. How long did it take to build a house in the past? Painting buildings and carving beams, there was a great carpenter named Gao Yingmei from Yunnan, who spent twelve years building a set of eight lattice doors. His salary was to exchange the weight of wood shavings for gold, which was expensive.

McDonald’s, that one is called cheap and ugly. Buy one and open it to see. It’s mushy, red, green and hard, mixed with raw and cooked ingredients. The purpose is just to ask you to quickly replenish your nutrition and then continue on your way. McDonald's will not tell you what you are busy doing.

To drink tea, you need to use a teacup and tea set, you need to simmer the water, you need to select tea leaves, you need to brew them, you need to wait for the tea leaves to slowly loosen up, like autumn leaves falling one by one, and you need to wait for the water to cool down When you get down, the fragrance swims out like a goldfish hiding under the water. A cup of tea, from the time the tea leaves are dropped to the time the tea cools down, is the four seasons. Adding water to the tea leaves is like spring planting, the tea leaves are opening one after another, like the summer solstice, and the aroma is overflowing, like the autumn harvest. Cool tea, a cup of rest. A long life is actually just a cup of tea. What's behind the paper cup is, well, a trash can, and it's plastic.

Originally, Pu'er and West Lake Longjing just taste different, just like the varieties of orchids. What medicinal value do you think orchids have? Longjing is top grade, the highest level of tea. When the leaves are shaken in, the color of the water remains unchanged, but it has a flavor. Pu'er is like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden. Strong taste, strong color, strong body. Longjing, after tasting it for thousands of years, has become as breathtaking as a gossamer. Longjing is the white rice paper of Ben Xiangqiong, and Pu'er is the beauty advertisement painted on the rice paper. If you drink Longjing for a year, it becomes Pu'er. If you drink Pu'er for a hundred years, it becomes Longjing.