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Chapter 518 The people at this table are not simple

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    Seeing that no one answered, Chu Lihua continued speaking by herself.

    ¡ª¡ª"Before the Tang Dynasty, people used tea in the same way as other plants containing alkaloids.

    The natural distribution of tea trees is near the Himalayas.  Today, people here still maintain some primitive ways of drinking tea.

    For example, the Lamian people in Laos chew fermented tea leaves like chewing betel nuts.  In Myanmar, there is a kind of tea meal called "Le Pitt", which is to eat fermented tea leaves with garlic, dried fish, etc. after being oiled.

    Before the Tang Dynasty, we could hardly find any materials proving that there was a custom of drinking tea in ancient China.  It is said that in the pre-Qin period, there should have been tea in the Sichuan area, because the Ba State at that time used tea as a tribute to the King of Zhou.

    Some people say that after the state of Qin took the land of Shu in the pre-Qin period, tea should have entered the Central Plains.  However, in the next 1000 years or so, tea is almost absent from all important historical documents.

    Therefore, when Lu Yu wrote "The Classic of Tea" in the middle Tang Dynasty, he could only use novels, unofficial histories and even fairy tales to prove the long history of tea.

    However, Lu Yu wrote this obviously to promote tea and elevate the status of tea.  He has a very influential view that tea drinking began with Shennong.

    Looking for endorsements from ancestors or even mythical figures like this is a common method used by the ancients to promote new things.  This statement is groundless, but it is very vital, and it is still the most common statement about the birth of tea today.

    In Lu Yu's time, there was a literati named Yang Ye, whose statement was much more reliable.  Yang Ye believes that during the Six Dynasties period, there may have been a trend of drinking tea in the south, but the scope was very small.

    Before the "Tea Classic" was published, tea did not even have a definite name.  Some people call it "tea", while others call it "ming" or "˜–".

    In the mid-Tang Dynasty, after the "Tea Classic" was published, tea drinking became popular.  There is a very important evidence that the country began to levy tea tax at this time.

    By comparing the situation before and after the appearance of "The Classic of Tea", the popularity of drinking tea after the "Classic of Tea" can be regarded as the real birth of Chinese tea as a beverage category.  "

    "Crack! Crack! Crack!"

    As soon as Chu Lihua finished speaking, the private room applauded.

    ¡ª¡ª "It seems that Xiao Chu is indeed a cultural person! Then can you tell us more about how people in the Tang Dynasty viewed tea at that time?"

    The one who spoke this time should be Mr. Zhang.

    ¡ª¡ª"Before the Tang Dynasty, people drank tea for various purposes, some as medicine and some as food. The way of drinking tea was a bit like drinking traditional Chinese medicine or vegetable soup.

    In the Tang Dynasty, tea drinking became popular. Jay Chou had a song called "The Tea Made by Grandpa", in which he sang: "In the Tang Dynasty, Lu Yu wrote three volumes of "The Classic of Tea", which has been passed down for thousands of years."

    ? In fact, the popularity of drinking tea in the Tang Dynasty was closely related to the prosperity of Buddhism at that time. Zen Buddhism paid attention to the practice of sitting meditation, that is, sitting there cross-legged motionless and thinking for half a day, which was very energy-intensive.

    Therefore, monks rely on drinking tea to replenish their physical strength, which is equivalent to drinking functional drinks today.

    The Tang Dynasty formed a more standardized way of drinking tea, which is very different from today - not drinking tea, but "eating tea".  Nowadays, the word "eating tea" is still reserved in many dialects.  We call it "drinking tea" over there.

    In 1987, a complete set of tea-eating utensils for the court of the Tang Dynasty was unearthed at the Famen Temple in Fufeng, Shaanxi, which can restore the way people in the Tang Dynasty drank tea.

    When people in the Tang Dynasty drank tea, they did not brew tea leaves, but boiled or fried tea.

    Because most of them use "tea cake tea", the raw tea leaves are first steamed, mashed, made into tea cakes and dried, and then stored in tea cages, which are hollowed out around them for ventilation.

    Sometimes it is necessary to heat the tea cage and bake the tea cakes.  When drinking tea, first crush the tea cake with a tea grinder, put the crushed powder into a sieve basket, sift out impurities, and leave the tea powder, and then decoct.

    When frying tea, put tea powder and various condiments together to cook.  What are the ingredients?  Generally, it is green onion, ginger, salt, etc., and some put orange peel, dogwood, mint, cinnamon, etc.

    The boiled tea is sticky, so it is called tea soup.  The best way to use this kind of tea is to eat it, not to drink it.

    The method of drinking tea in the Tang Dynasty restored by the Famen Temple tea set basically agrees with the method of drinking tea described in Lu Yu's "The Classic of Tea".

    It can be briefly summarized as the following six steps: roasting; crushing; sieving; boiling water and adding salt; adding tea powder; tasting tea.

    And the traditional way of tasting tea that we have preserved so far is somewhat similar to this.  It is mainly the "Three Ways of Tea" from Dali, Yunnan.

    The main thing they have is Tuocha, and its purpose is also for the convenience of preservation.

      Moreover, there is another point that I believe that everyone here may not have heard of it by then.

    Tea in the Tang Dynasty was ground into powder and then consumed. This habit of drinking tea powder was later spread to Japan, and gradually evolved into matcha, which is still popular today.

    At present, when it comes to matcha, everyone will think that it comes from Japan. In fact, the origin of matcha is China's Tang Dynasty, but Japan retains the ancient style of Tang Dynasty.  "

    Speaking of this, Chu Lihua actually felt a sense of pride spontaneously, and at the same time couldn't help swallowing.  Because when she thought of the taste of matcha ice cream, she couldn't help it.

    ¡ª¡ª"Haha, it seems that Miss Xiao Chu is a person with taste dominant personality!"

    When Chu Lihua was in embarrassment, Luo Wenhai, who seemed to be engaged in some kind of psychological counseling, made this comment.

    ¡ª¡ª"Gustatory dominant personality?"

    Qing Yunfei, who had been silent all this time, asked curiously.

    ¡ª¡ª"In fact, everyone has a dominant sense. According to statistics, the vast majority of people are visually dominant, accounting for about 70% of the population, and 25% of people are  Tactile-dominant, and another five percent or so are auditory-dominant.

    Taste and smell-dominated people are very rare, and they can usually work in some special industries, such as wine tasters or perfume designers.  "

    ¡ª¡ª "So there is such a saying? Then I would like to ask Mr. Luo, as a psychologist, can you tell which type I belong to?"

    Qing Yunfei's tone, Chu Lihua could not hear the emotion.

    ¡ª¡ª"This still needs to be tested to know. Suppose that in a social situation, someone introduces you to a new friend.

    You have never met or heard of this person before.  After you go home, when you think of this strange friend again, what impresses you most is his appearance, name, or voice?  "

    Qing Yunfei thought about it seriously for a while, and replied: "It should be appearance."

    Luo Wenhai nodded and said, "It's consistent with my judgment, you are visually dominant."

    ¡ª¡ª"Your judgment?"

    Qing Yunfei was slightly surprised, "Could it be that you already knew?"

    Luo Wenhai smiled and said: "It's not too early, it's after I asked the question and before you answered." (Remember the website website: www.hlnovel.com
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