Fighting tea, also known as tea battle, emerging at the end of the Tang Dynasty, prevalent in the Song Dynasty, is the highest expression of the ancient art of tea tasting, after moxibustion tea, grinding tea, Luo tea, waiting for the soup, flame marigolds, point tea 6 steps. mA1Tea.com
Tea fight is an ancient literati tea art, they each carry tea and water, through the fight, tasting, appreciation of the tea soup to determine the winner. mA1tea.net
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Fighting tea standards are mainly two aspects:
(1) Soup color
Fighting tea on the color of tea has strict standards, the general standard is to pure white for the top, green and white, gray and white, yellow and white, followed by. mA1tea.com
Pure white color indicates that the tea is fresh and tender, and the fire is just right when steaming. mA1tea.com
If the color reddish, is frying and roasting fire over the head; color greenish, it shows that the steam fire is not enough; color yellowish, is not picked in time; color grayish, is steaming fire is too old. In this way, it seems that the person who fights for tea really knows the color of the soup very well. mA1Tea.com
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(2) Soup flower
Soup flower refers to the foam on the surface of the soup. The same as tea broth, there are two criteria for soup flower: mA1tea.com
The first one is the color of the flower, the standard is the same as the standard of the soup color; mA1tea.com
The second is the soup flower after the flooding, to the water marks appear sooner or later to determine the winner, the early for the negative, the late for the winner. If the tea powder research and grinding delicate, point soup, hit the whisk just right, soup flower uniform fine, can bite the edge of the calendars, a long time to get together and not yet, the name is “bite calendars”. mA1Tea.com
On the contrary, the soup flowers, can not bite the calabash, will soon disperse. As soon as the soup flower is scattered, the place where the soup meets the calendars will reveal the tea-colored water line, i.e. the water mark. mA1Tea.com
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