Tea was first used as a soup drink. Until the Tang Dynasty, cooking tea was the main drinking method used by people. "Cooking tea" is more time-consuming, cumbersome and more demanding than making tea. In ancient times, "cooking tea" was divided into: palace tea, Zen tea, elegant tea and common people's tea. Especially the elegant tea is the most popular one. There are many good sentences.

The tea sage Lu Yu summarized a very detailed method of cooking tea.

(1) Roast tea before making tea: Roasting tea should pay attention to the distance, brown color and length of time to ensure the tea cake has a high aroma and taste.

(2) The ground tea should be made in moderation: After the dry tea cake is cooled, break it into small pieces, pour it into a grinding bowl and crush it, use a basket to sift out tea particles of moderate thickness, and cook it in this way The tea soup is clear, the tea taste is pure, and there is no bitterness or astringency.

(3) When making tea, master the heat and coordinate the proportions of tea, water, and salt: The most important thing is to master the heat when making tea and coordinate the proportions of tea, water, and salt. .

Extended information

Before the Tang Dynasty, there were no more standardized and established tea-making techniques and methods, so tea still appeared as fresh leaves as a vegetable-like food, and from the Tang Dynasty Since the 19th century, tea-making technology has developed to a greater extent, and the tea-making technology has become more and more complex and sophisticated, and dry tea has appeared.

The in-depth and refined development of tea-making technology has naturally led to the refinement of tea-making methods. Tea has changed from vegetable soup to beverage,

or even more To be more precise, from this period onwards, tea was transformed from a dish used in cooking to a beverage that was cooked and drunk. In the Tang Dynasty, tea-making methods gradually became more refined, and people began to pay attention to tea-drinking techniques and tea-drinking pleasure. Lu Yu even proposed that tea, water, fire, and utensils should be "perfectly combined" in order to taste the true flavor of tea.

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