Ningxia eight-treasure tea is made of eight ingredients: tea, red dates, medlar, walnut kernel, longan, sesame, raisins and apple slices.
Eight-treasure tea is also called "Three Fortresses". Eight-treasure bowl tea is a kind of tea commonly consumed by Hui people in Ningxia. The so-called Three Fortresses is the tea set used to drink eight-treasure tea. Folk called a cup, with a cover on the top and a tray on the bottom, the flower bowl for holding water has a big mouth and a small bottom, which is exquisite and beautiful.
Ningxia eight-treasure tea is made from eight ingredients: tea leaves, red dates, medlar, walnut kernels, longan, sesame seeds, raisins and apple slices. The tea set for drinking eight-treasure tea consists of a tea bowl, a tea tray and a tea cover. This kind of tea set for making tea can not only keep warm, but also avoid burning your hands. Tea material's choice of Babao tea is very particular. Hui people in Ningxia like to drink Shaanxi green tea, Maojian tea and jasmine tea, while Hui people in Gansu and Qinghai like Yunnan Chunjian tea.
brewing of eight-treasure tea
boiling water needs to be added to the brewing of eight-treasure tea, so that the taste of each sip of tea will change slightly when drinking, because each ingredient releases its unique taste at different times.
when it comes to the brewing of eight-treasure tea, the most noteworthy thing is the brewing method in Sichuan teahouse. Tea makers in Sichuan are very particular about making tea. They hold a special copper pot with a long mouth of more than one meter, and there are two trembling red balls. When the pointed spout reaches less than 4 cm away from the tea bowl, the boiling water is directed at the bowl, which is fast and accurate, and there are artistic movements such as "Su Qin carrying a sword" and "rebounding the pipa", which can be called the "unique skill" of the door.
The water is turned up along the bottom of the bowl. After the ingredients are wetted evenly, cover the tea cover and soak for five minutes before drinking.