Baolu Tianxing

When it comes to tea, many people know that our country is the birthplace of tea culture. The history of Chinese tea drinking can be traced back to the late matrilineal society, that is, the Shennong era, which has a history of 6000-[-] years. Not that long ago.

This custom began in the Tang Dynasty and was called "Ming Zhan" at that time, and later became popular in the Song Dynasty and was called fighting tea.

Because in the Song Dynasty, the imperial court established a tribute tea system in the local area. In order to select tributes, the local government needed a method to evaluate the quality of tea.According to the characteristics of the tea ordering method, the custom of fighting tea has arisen among the people.

In tea fights, two people usually fight against each other, and two wins in three fights.

"The reason why there is a tea fight is not only the influence of the tribute tea system, but also a fundamental reason." After Tian Lao finished speaking, he sold the tea, took a sip of tea, and deliberately closed his eyes, tasted it, and watched Kong Sizhi rolled his eyes.

Before the Song Dynasty, the tea ceremony in our country was still based on the tea ceremony, but in the Song Dynasty, there was a change, and the way of ordering tea became fashionable.

Different from the method of decocting tea in the Tang Dynasty, the method of ordering tea in the Song Dynasty is to put the tea powder in a tea bowl, pour a small amount of boiling water to make a paste, and then pour boiling water, or directly pour boiling water into the tea bowl, and stir with a tea whisk at the same time, so that the tea powder floats , forming porridge noodles.

"Wait! Is this still tea? Isn't it the same as sesame paste?" Wu Chen frowned. He is a person who is used to drinking Chaoshan Kung Fu tea, and he pays attention to the clear color of tea. Making it like this is really like southern black sesame paste. up.

"Hehe, it's so rare and so strange! Nowadays, the 'tea' in many places is still this kind of mushy!" Mr. Tian laughed, without further explanation, and continued to popularize the custom of fighting tea for them.

In those days, all those who participated in the tea fight had to offer their own famous tea and tasted it in turn to decide the winner.

The content of the competition includes the hue and aroma of the tea leaves, the mellowness of the tea soup, the quality of the tea sets, the priority of boiling water and so on.

The criteria for deciding whether to win or lose, one is soup color, and the other is soup flower.Soup color refers to the color of tea water, the standard is pure white, and the ones of blue, gray, yellow and white are slightly inferior.Tanghua refers to the foam that rises from the noodle soup.It is determined that the color of the soup flower is closely related to the soup color, so the color of the soup flower is also bright white; the second is that after the soup flower rises, sooner or later the water mark appears.The earlier loses, the later wins.

The Song Dynasty was an era that paid great attention to the tea ceremony. From the emperor to the scholar-bureaucrats, everyone did this.For example, Emperor Song Huizong Zhao Ji wrote "Grand View Tea Theory", Cai Xiang wrote "Tea Record", Huang Ru wrote "Tea Tasting Essentials"...

Some literati and scholars in the society also have a popular life interest of "fighting tea". Su Shi said in "Seven Bowls of Tea Poems": "...One bowl moistens the throat, and the second bowl breaks the loneliness. Three bowls search dry Intestine, only [-] volumes of writing. Four bowls of light sweat, all the uneven things in life, all scattered to the pores. Five bowls of muscle and bone clearing, six bowls of Tongxianling. Seven bowls can't be eaten, but the two armpits feel the breeze. Penglai Where is the mountain? Yu Chuanzi took advantage of the breeze to go back..."

Xu Shaodong can also be regarded as a person who has formally worshiped as a teacher, so the basic things are naturally out of the question, and he knows a lot of these things. Now that he has reviewed it, he doesn't feel any special.

Wu Chen and Kong Si listened very carefully, but they had different thoughts. Wu Chen was infinitely fascinated by the world of scholars in the Song Dynasty. This is the leisurely life!Kong Si thought in his heart, those guys are really full, no wonder the two Songs combined for more than 300 years, they were bullied by turns!

Wang Yourong also felt that those people were boring, he stared at Bai He's breasts for a while, and swept her bare thighs for a while, changing positions in his mind to toss her.

"Hehe, don't be sour, Tian Tuhao!" Seeing that Tian Lao was still immersed in poetry, Huang Lao laughed, interrupting his thoughts, went straight to the desk, and lifted a piece of yellow cloth, which turned out to be a picture scroll .

"This is a picture of "The Picture of Fighting Tea" that the little old man got by chance some time ago. How about it, let's have a look." drawn.

There are not many pictures of fighting tea, because fighting tea is a very important part of the life of Song people. There were some painters in Yuan and Ming Dynasties, who left paintings about fighting tea. Even the painting of Qingming Riverside has scenes of fighting tea. .

The "Tea Fighting Picture" that Huang Lao took out is full of life at first glance. There are five figures in the whole picture, and several tea poles containing tea sets are placed beside the figures.The person on the front left is wearing straw sandals, holding a cup in one hand and a tea bucket in the other, with his chest bare and his arms exposed, as if boasting of the quality of his tea, showing a complacent look.Behind him is a man with his sleeves rolled up, holding a cup in one hand and a pot in the other, pouring the tea in the pot into his bosom.

The whole picture has a compact structure and vivid dynamics, giving people an immersive feeling.The characters in the painting seem to know that they are not high-ranking officials and dignitaries, but folk tea people, which also reflects the popularity of tea fighting in the Song Dynasty from one aspect.

Wu Chen didn't study calligraphy and painting the most, and he didn't dare to speak lightly. When he turned around and saw Kong Si's carefree look, he couldn't tell whether he understood or didn't understand, but Xu Shaodong frowned and lowered his head in disbelief. With a hesitant look on his face.

"What's the matter?" Wu Chen lightly touched Xu Shaodong. In terms of real talent and learning, he, a fresh newcomer, and Kong Si, a second-hand businessman, are not Xu Er's opponents. He is a serious teacher from a famous school!

"Strange, this painting seems to be Zhao Mengfu's. I saw it in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Why is there another picture here? It can't be copied by later generations, right?"

Xu Shaodong was in a trance, remembering the details of the painting, when he was touched by Wu Chen, he explained to him, the voice was not high, but the hall was very quiet, but everyone heard it.

Wu Chen's heart tightened when he heard that!He had also heard of Zhao Mengfu, a master who appeared in middle school history books, but this was not the reason for his shock.What shocked him was that Xu Shaodong was actually questioning the authenticity of this painting by saying this!You must know that if the original painting exists in the Forbidden City Museum no matter where it is, and there is an identical copy outside, the result is self-evident!After all, calligraphy and painting are not porcelain and jade, and there can be multiple copies.

"You mean...?" Sure enough, Mr. Li frowned after listening to it. He was familiar with some people in the Song Dynasty. If Fan Zhongyan, Su Shi and others used poems to express the real situation of tea fighting, then Painters use painting to "portrait" the tea fight.

Liu Songnian was the earliest painter to represent tea fighting, and the most famous one is Zhao Mengfu's "Tea Fighting Picture". This work depicts a tea fighting scene "in progress".

This Zhao Mengfu originally belonged to the clan of the Song Dynasty, and after the death of the Song Dynasty, he became an official in the Yuan Dynasty. Although he held a high position, he could never forget his homeland.Some of his paintings depict things that were prosperous in the Song Dynasty, and they can be regarded as expressing his feelings for those people, events and scenes that have gone forever. This "Tea Fighting Picture" is also a work under such a background.

But Zhao Mengfu's "Tea Fighting Picture" is now hidden in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, and it can be regarded as an orderly inheritance. Unless it is stolen, it cannot appear here.