1. tea.
Lu Yu's Tea Classic records that his characters come from grass, wood or vegetation. Its name is tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea. In ancient historical materials, there are many names of tea, but "tea" is the correct name, and the word "tea" was generally written as "tea" before the middle Tang Dynasty. The word "tea" has the property of polysemy, that is to say, tea is only one of them. Later, in order to express the meaning of tea more clearly, folk writers subtracted a stroke from the word "tea" and it became the word "tea" we see now.
2. tea
Many poems after the Tang Dynasty mentioned tea. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, Su Shi had a poem: "Good tea is always like a beauty." Jiao Ran, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in "The Banquet between the Water Hall and the Judge of the Land": "Love your noble spirit, and brew tea fishes."
3. Clear friends.
In the Song Dynasty, Su Yijian's Four Books contained "Ye Jia, whose name is quiet, was Mr. Yuchuan. Friends, that is, tea ",and so on. In the Tang Dynasty, Yao He tasted tea and said, "Keep friends in the bamboo and sit in the sunset in the wind." Drinking tea in bamboo, intoxicated by the beautiful nature, was considered elegant by the ancients.
4. Stay up all night.
Another name for tea is the personification of tea. Because tea can refresh me, I can't sleep at night after drinking it. Hu Jiao's "Drinking Tea": "The old name of Zhan Ya is Yu Gan, and I can't wait to sleep."
5. the breeze makes.
According to the records of Louis in Qing Dynasty, during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, some people called tea the messenger of the cool breeze. After drinking seven bowls of tea, Lutong's tea song also said, "I feel a breeze blowing under my arm. Where are Penglai Mountain and Yuchuanzi? I want to take this breeze home."
6. Bean sprouts.
Besides picking, steaming, pounding, patting, baking, wearing and sealing, it is the boiling of tea soup. In Song Dynasty, Janice's "Curbing Jinmen and He Yun to Give Tea" has a saying: "Soup is afraid of old age, and long buds and phoenix grass cook slowly." Cooking a cup of fragrant teas requires many links, especially cooking soup, which requires meticulousness.
Discrimination between new tea and old tea;
1. According to the color of tea, old tea and new tea can be distinguished. Generally speaking, the color of green tea is green, and the color of soup is yellow-green and bright; Black tea is a symbol of new tea. It is dark in color and bright red and orange in soup.
2. New tea and old tea can be distinguished by aroma. With the extension of time, the aroma of tea will change from high to low, and the aroma type will also change from new tea aroma to low stuffy aroma.
3. You can also distinguish new tea from old tea by its taste. No matter what kind of tea it is, the taste of new tea is mellow and fresh, while that of old Chaze is faint and unpleasant.