Tea and tea utensils are very delicate, in order to appreciate the best wet tea, leaf bottom and soup color, tea utensils need to be selected according to the characteristics of tea. In the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties, with the different types and forms of tea in each dynasty, the tea utensils also changed accordingly. 7EE Tea Network
Tang Dynasty, people drink cake tea, tea shall be roasted and crushed, and then by decoction, this tea tea soup was “light red” color. Once the tea poured into the porcelain tea set, the color of the soup will be due to the different color of the porcelain and change. Lu Yu from the perspective of tea appreciation, put forward the “green is good tea”, that the green Yue porcelain tea set for the best. Yue porcelain is green, pouring into the “light red” color of the tea soup, green. 7EE Tea Net
Song Dynasty, tea drinking habits gradually changed from boiling to “point of note”, tea research and crushing by “point of note”, the color of tea soup has been close to the “white”. Cai Xiang in the Song Dynasty especially respected “blue black” Jian’an rabbit hair marigold. 7EE Tea Net
Ming Dynasty, people have changed from the Song Dynasty tea group to drink loose tea. In the early Ming Dynasty, drinking bud tea, tea soup has changed from the Song Dynasty’s “white” to “yellow-white”, so that the requirements of the tealight is no longer black, but fashion “white”. Ming dynasty Zhang Yuan’s “tea record” also wrote: “tea ou to white magnetism for the top, blue second.” After the middle of the Ming dynasty, porcelain teapot and the rise of purple sand tea set, so that the tea soup and tea color and lustre no longer have a direct contrast and set off the relationship. People drinking tea attention shifted to the flavor of tea, mainly focusing on the “aroma” and “taste”, the pursuit of pots of “elegance”. Emphasize that the tea utensils are properly matched, in order to taste the straight tea flavor. 7EE Tea Network
After the Qing Dynasty, more varieties of tea sets, changing shapes, colorful, with poetry, calligraphy, painting, carving and other arts, thus pushing the production of tea sets to a new height. Generally speaking, heavy aroma of tea to choose the hardness of the pot, such as porcelain pots, glass pots. Green tea category, light fermentation of the packet type of tea is more heavy aroma; drinking Biluochun, Junshan silver needle, Huangshan Maofeng, Longjing and other delicate tea, it is ideal to use a glass cup to brew directly. Heavy flavor tea to choose a lower hardness of the pot, such as ceramic pots, purple sand pot. Oolong tea is more heavy flavor tea, such as Iron Goddess of Mercy, rock tea, single fir, etc. 7EE Tea Net
As the saying goes, “old teapot bubble, young tea cup punch”. This is because the coarse old old leaves, with the pot brewing, one can keep the heat, conducive to the tea in the water leachate dissolved in the tea broth, to improve the tea broth in the available part of the tea broth; the coarse old tea lack of ornamental value, used to honor the guests, not very elegant. In this way, can also avoid the suspicion of rudeness. The tender tea leaves, with a cup brewing, at a glance, at the same time can receive material enjoyment and spiritual appreciation of the beauty of the 7EE tea network.