First of all, treat guests with tea to show the etiquette of the country.
From ancient times to the present, if a guest visits, even if it is only a neighbor's visit, the host's family must bring a bowl of hot tea to their mouth to show their welcome. The chatterboxes between the host and the guest are also slowly opened in the fragrant tea. "The tea ceremony is never seven points full, leaving three points is human." The shortage of pouring tea is also very special among people. As the saying goes, "wine is full of respect, tea is full of deceit." If a full cup of tea is served to the guest, the guest is an uninvited guest, and then the guest will know it's time to leave.
In the northwest of China, the Yellow River washed out a "south of the Yangtze River", and the Hui people lived in this desert oasis, taking root and sprouting, and prospering. The Hui people are hospitable, and guests will certainly offer a bowl of eight-treasure tea to prolong their life. As a traditional tea drink of the Hui nationality, Babao tea has thousands of years of historical and cultural heritage. The kindness, sincerity and hospitality of the Hui people are precipitated in the eight-treasure tea, emitting a lasting fragrance.
On the vast prairie in the north, yurts are scattered all over, quietly guarding the descendants of nomadic people. Nomads live on aquatic plants, and their three meals are inseparable from milk and meat. As early as the Tang Dynasty, tea was introduced into the hinterland of Mongolia. Since then, milk tea has accompanied the Mongolian people through historical ups and downs and has become an indispensable part of their daily diet. Whenever guests come to visit, housewives in pastoral areas will turn on the stove fire, lift the pot to boil water, break off the tea bricks, put them in a cloth bag, put them in the pot when the water boils, mix the creamer with a spoon, sprinkle salt and stir them into the boiling tea. When the whole pot boils, milk tea can be served. With milk tea in their hands, the guests felt the heroism and enthusiasm of the Mongolian nation in a warm yurt.
Second, take tea as a friend and talk and laugh.
Ancient literati, gentry and poets liked to invite each other for tea, get together with two or three friends, talk about the world, talk about the past and the present, or be happy or stumble, all of which were pinned on the ups and downs of drinking tea in boiling water. From Song Huizong's Wenhui Map to Wen Zhiming's Huishan Tea Party Map in Ming Dynasty, and then to Qi Baishi's Cold Night Tea, there are examples of literati tasting tea. Gu Qingsheng, a contemporary writer in China, wrote in his collection of essays on food culture that his colleague Huang Zhenghua invited several literati to taste Tieguanyin together. The water he brought was mountain spring water. Before drinking, he brushed his teeth and sipped collectively. After drinking six bubbles, he was a little drunk. "Tea smells three thousand miles, and old drinks and new sips are distinct", which is really elegant!
It is a blessing for friends to exchange tea and get together for tea. If we are thousands of miles apart, I will drink tea alone. I naturally hope to have tea friends to share it with, so I will send a tea gift thousands of miles away to comfort my heart. As early as the Tang Dynasty, when Bai Juyi received the new Shu tea from Li Liulang, he said with emotion, "Don't send it to others, send it to me first, because I am a different tea man."
The third is to fight tea, promote communication and lead the fashion.
Doucha was called "Doucha" in the Tang Dynasty and "Doucha" in the Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, especially at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, due to Song Huizong's admiration and participation, fighting tea became popular all over the country and became a social fashion that everyone competed to participate in. Fan Zhongyan, a writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, left a well-known Song of Fighting Tea, which occupied a place in the ancient tea culture of China.
Fighting tea is an important activity that people perform regularly every year, and the rules of the competition vary from tea area to tea area. Yi Wudou Tea Party in Mengla, Yunnan Province is also a local activity. Tea farmers from Yi Wu's "Seven Villages and Eight Villages" and other six ancient tea mountains have come up with their own good teas to fight for tea, and their influence in the tea industry is growing. Tea men are carrying samples of white tea, oolong tea and black tea at the cross-strait folk tea contest held in Wuyishan. And drink tea and learn tea art on the same stage. In the folk, many tea lovers will also take out their own good tea to taste and communicate with each other, which is also a pleasure for them.