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China’s famous modern writer Mr. Liang Shiqiu is often not good at tea, do not understand the tea ceremony, more do not understand the tea ceremony, but those who know him know, Mr. Liang for tea is actually very insightful and pay attention to.DOx Tea Net
Liang Shiqiu usually drink more tea or Longjing tea, this point in his own essay “drinking tea” has been mentioned. When he was still in Beiping, he often went to the tea store to buy tea himself, and he regarded buying tea as a kind of enjoyment like tasting tea. One stop in front of the counter, the apprentice hastened to move the stool to sit, so quietly sitting there to watch the guys weighing tea, and then weigh the tea into a number of small packets, each small packet is wrapped up to see the corners of the edge, the technology jing ripe, craftsmanship is superb. If the tea is cured with jasmine, the buyer will grab a handful of fresh jasmine and put it on the surface when he takes it away, which is called “double curing”. Sitting in the store, it is often the aroma of tea and flowers, double celling. The process of buying tea, in Liang Shiqiu’s writing, really adds a lot of fun and flavor. DOxTea.com
At the same time, Mr. Liang Shiqiu also introduced his own private secret – Yu Gui in his writings. According to his account, his father’s generation had a flag person friend named Yu Gui, who was quite proficient in drinking food. This person often will be half of the incense and Longjing tea mixed together with a mixture of steep, tea not only has a thick fragrance of the incense, and both the bitter and mellow Longjing tea. So the Liang family also began to follow the Yu Gui’s method of drinking tea, people who drink this tea are very happy. Later, the Liang family named this special blend of tea “Yu Gui” and included it in their secret tradition. doxtea.net
Liang Shiqiu had accompanied his father to the West Lake many times, and each time he must not forget to taste the local Longjing tea. A lake and mountains, while slowly sipping a pot of Longjing tea, while idly chanting the Pavilion couplet “through the lattice and come, summer breeze winter day; roll curtains to see, the front of the mountain after the moon mountain mountain,” in Liang Shiqiu view, the meaning of the extraordinarily elegant to. Similarly, Liang Shiqiu every Dongting Lake, must not forget to buy Junshan tea, view its appearance, taste its tea.DOx Tea Net
In addition, Tianjin’s big leaf tea, Liu’an melon. In addition, Tianjin’s big-leaf tea, Liu’an’s melon. slices, Sichuan’s Tuocha, Yunnan’s Pu’er tea, Wuyi Mountain’s rock tea, and many other good tea Liang Shiqiu had tasted. But to say really make Liang Shiqiu understanding of tea drinking sublimated to a new realm, will have to talk about his first to Taiwan in the process of buying tea experienced a thing. DOx Tea Net
Liang Shiqiu to Taiwan soon, one day, suddenly want to pour all the bag to buy some good Longjing tea. When he walked into a tea store, store Feng were out of eight yuan a catty, twelve yuan a catty of Longjing tea to greet him, Liang Shiqiu but always feel that the price he is too low and not satisfied. Tea store owner burst into color, said seriously: “buy east two, look at the goods, can not be set exclusively by the price of up and down. Just keep raising the price, self-deceiving ear! Mr. Why do not you notice?” DOxTea.com
The words of the shopkeeper are like a stick in the mouth, the purest of all, so that Liang Shiqiu benefited greatly. Since then, whenever he drank tea just focus on the taste of tea, never simply to the price of determining the advantages and disadvantages. The pursuit of the true beauty of tea, the importance of the essence of tea and the inner meaning, is not precisely the sublimation of the realm of drinking tea? DOx Tea Net