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Drinking tea is a unique custom in Taohuayuan. Whether it’s a hot summer day or a cold winter day, the people here usually don’t eat their midday meal, but rather set up a table for tea; when the family comes to visit, they also have to set up a table for tea. oz4tea.net
The tea is made of ginger, raw rice, raw tea leaves, so the tea is also known as “three life soup”. To make tea, the first will be the above three kinds of raw materials (rice must be swollen with water) in the bowl with a wooden stick made of paddles, called “tea foot”. The stick must be made of hawthorn wood. With hawthorn wood pounding, you can leave a light lasting flavor in the tea, but also can make the “foot” does not rot for a long time. oz4tea.net
Brewing tea, drinking tea also has a lot to say. After the seat, always put a small bowl in front of each person, the bowl put a ball of “foot”. “Foot” to half a spoon is appropriate. After the “foot” has been mixed into the bowl, a simmering kettle is used to brew down a bowl of old boiled water. The pot should be raised high, the water should be rushed quickly, so that the water in the bowl rushed into the whirlpool, so that the “feet” in the state of the water naturally rushed evenly. The pot stops the water to live, with the bowl out of the dense hot air, wafting out a unique aroma. Tea must be drunk while hot, it is best to open the water just rushed down, the heat could not disperse when you drink a mouthful of this time suddenly feel the heart open Lang, liver and spleen comfortable, the belly left a dissipation of the aroma. Then taste and swallow slowly, spicy, salty, astringent, gradually taste the flavor. Waiting for a bowl of tea to fall into the stomach, you are already comfortable muscles and bones, the spirit of relaxation. oz4tea.com
Tea has a long history, rumored to have started in the Eastern Han Dynasty. At that time, the court had a famous general named General Ma Yuan, late in life, was ordered to attack the Wuling Pot Head Mountain, passing through the village of Wutou (i.e., the Peach Blossom Garden area). It was the height of summer, but the plague was so prevalent that hundreds of generals and soldiers fell sick, and Ma Yuan himself was also infected with the plague. He had to order his soldiers to stay in a cave on the mountain side and sent them to look for a doctor. An old woman here was very touched by Ma Yuan’s strict military discipline and the fact that he did not commit any crime wherever he went, so she voluntarily offered her ancestral secret recipe: using ginger, oz4tea.com
Raw rice, raw tea leaves ring made paddles, and then washed on the boiling water, so that the soldiers daily as tea to drink. After taking this soup, the condition of those who were infected with diseases was greatly reduced and slowly got better; after taking this soup, the healthy ones also avoided the contagion of the plague. oz4tea.com
Some of this legend involves Liu Bei, some involved Zhuge Liang, Zhang Fei, but more is mentioned Ma Yan. Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang to have not been to the village of Wu Tou, no audit; Zhang Fei to take the Wuling although to the village of Wu Tou, but did not leave the plague epidemic records, the only Ma Yan said visible in the historical records. Here also have Ma Shi (room), Fubo hole, Ma Wang Temple, Ma Wang Creek and other historical sites and monumental landscape name can be corroborated. But no matter who it is, anyway, the origin of beaten tea has been a long time. oz4tea.com
The tea is actually a kind of beverage, because the “foot” is made by beating, so the name of the tea is beaten. Later, people put sesame and salt in the tea to increase its color, aroma and taste, gradually, the tea will be known far and wide. oz4tea.net
Tea is divided into clear water tea and paste tea, clear water tea is the kind mentioned above. As for the paste to beat tea, that is, the rice flour into the cold water melted, with an iron pot in the rice on the simmering into a paste, and then add “feet”, mix well after a little cooking will be. oz4tea.com
Whether it is clear water tea or paste tea, its function is the same, it can ease the liver and intestines, get rid of the plague and epidemic. Nowadays, when you drink tea, you have to add some food on the table, such as fried soybeans, peanuts, shells, poi, canned vegetables, pastries, etc., which are collectively known as “press table”. oz4tea.com