Hakka tea culture Lei Zhi tea

Hakka culture is the fusion of orthodox Han culture and local culture. Hakka preserves many ancient Chinese cultures and is a living fossil of ancient Chinese cultures. Hakka people are all over Southeast Asia, and smashing tea is a very important part of Hakka tea culture. If you want to know more about tea smashing, then the tea drinking culture in this period is popular for you.

Hakka smashing tea culture is one of the traditional diet cultures of Han nationality. According to historical records, tea was smashed in the Song Dynasty. In the daily life of Hakkas, smashing tea is one of their staple foods, and it is also delicious to entertain guests. In the rich and colorful Hakka food culture, smashing tea is the most representative delicacy. Moreover, its production method is simple and elegant, which fully shows the Hakka people's inheritance of China Han traditional culture. Hakka tea, with pure taste and rich aroma, can not only promote fluid production to quench thirst, cool and relieve summer heat, but also have the functions of invigorating spleen and stomach, nourishing and prolonging life.

Today, Hakka villages in Jiangle County, Ninghua County and Taining County of Fujian Province, Lufeng City, Luhe County and Jiexi County of Guangdong Province, Jiangxi Province, Hunan Province and Hsinchu, Taoyuan, Taipei, Hualien, Dongshi and Meinong of Kaohsiung still retain this delicious culture.

Hakka people from Hsinchu County, Hukou, Zhudong and Beipu, who moved to Taiwan Province from the mainland with the government during the period of Taiwan's recovery, are even more original. Although they came to Taiwan Province from the mainland with war and poverty, they still didn't forget their daily eating tools "rolling bowls", and some people of the older generation still cherish his eating tools.

This is the traditional drink of Jiangle. The method is to take white sesame and tea stems as the main materials, put them into a ceramic rolling bowl engraved with straight lines, grind them with tea sticks, add boiling water to brew and dilute them, filter out the residues with a colander, then roll them and rinse them clean. Tea sticks are made of tea trees or snake vines with flowers. Worn wood is edible when dissolved in tea, which is both a tool and a raw material. When grinding tea leaves, Chinese herbal medicines such as Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, Radix Glycyrrhizae, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Radix Puerariae, Paederia, Flos Lonicerae, etc. It can be added according to the changes of four seasons and the different needs of human body, and made into ground tea with different functions such as heatstroke prevention and cooling, dispelling cold and clearing heat, detoxifying and promoting digestion, and accumulating food.