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It is said that Empress Dowager Cixi likes drinking tea very much. She pays attention to drinking different kinds of tea all year round, including Longjing in summer, black tea in winter, Pu 'er tea and Guanyin tea at the turn of winter and spring, and jasmine tea is the most popular one on weekdays. Jasmine tea is also called fragrant tablets in the north. Scented tea belongs to reprocessed tea, so it is not used as tribute tea. You should go to the market to buy this tea.
Cixi, on the other hand, is especially fond of jasmine. She thinks that her skin is like coagulated fat, and stipulates that no one else can burn jasmine. Later, due to the improvement of scented tea technology, Fuzhou jasmine tea became a tribute.
According to legend, Empress Dowager Cixi loves to use the Ming and Huang official kiln with "endless life" to cover a bowl and drink jasmine double smoke. This double smoking of jasmine refers to smoking Fuzhou jasmine tea with fresh jasmine again before drinking.
Later, the people in Beijing began to follow suit, and gradually, people in Beijing began to drink jasmine tea.
Geographical location?
In fact, Beijing does not produce tea. Green tea is mostly produced in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. In ancient times, the traffic between the north and the south was inconvenient, and it took a lot of time on the road. The disadvantage of green tea is that it is not easy to last for a long time. After a long time, not only the aroma is exhausted, but it is also prone to mildew.
Fermented tea like black tea is easy to preserve, but it is too bitter. In addition, fermented tea helps to promote human metabolism and is prone to hunger after drinking. Fermented tea is obviously more suitable for meat-based nomads, and it is difficult for ordinary people in Beijing to accept it.
At this time, the appearance of scented tea made up for these two defects. Jasmine flower not only weakened the bitter taste of tea, but also made the tea taste more mellow. Slowly, Beijingers like to drink scented tea. Nowadays, this thick jasmine tea has already become a local feature of Beijing, and the time-honored jasmine tea in Zhang Yiyuan is called "the best fragrance in the world".
Is the water quality hard in Beijing?
Some people say that Beijing people love to drink scented tea because the water quality is too hard. No matter how good the tea is, it will become waste tea when it is soaked in this kind of water. Therefore, in order to harmonize the water quality, tea houses in Beijing have mixed with scented tea to make the tea fragrant and fragrant, which can make the original bitter tea soup as beautiful as nectar. Gradually, Beijingers drank well and naturally identified scented tea.
Beijing has a heavy population?
Others say that southerners have a fine and light diet, while northerners have a more bold taste. The same is true for drinking tea. Southerners pay attention to tasting tea slowly, such as green tea, black tea, white tea, black tea, etc., and pay more attention to tea ceremony in the process of drinking tea; Northerners, on the other hand, do not pay attention to these forms, preferring rich scented tea, which is full of fragrance and brewed directly with boiling water, which is simple, time-saving and trouble-free.
No matter what the reason, the old Beijingers' love for this fragrant scented tea has long been a habit that cannot be changed.
(Editor: Li Zhaonian)
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