▲ Maojian Tea Mountain, Xinyang River Port. Figure/Figureworm Creative
-Fengwujun Language-
Hairy tip
A letter from a Yang people to the people of the whole country
In the embrace of Dabie Mountain, there is a small city that is not very well-known, but it has the reputation of "Jiangnan North Country, Northern Country Jiangnan". Here, the rivers and canals are crisscrossed, the ponds and weirs are dense, and the loess soil of the Central Plains is clearly under the feet, but the water town in the dream of Wen Wan is interpreted in front of the eyes. It is the junction of Eyu and Anhui provinces; it has been passed down for thousands of years and created a unique Yufeng Chu rhyme; it is beautiful and comfortable, and has been selected as one of the top ten livable cities in China for many years.
This city is called "Xinyang".
▲ Xinyang River. Figure/Figureworm Creative
As the saying goes: "One side of the water and soil, one side of the people". The beautiful mountains and rivers, the babbling water, and the unique geographical location have achieved the unique temperament of the sons and daughters of Xinyang: more cheerful than the southerners, and more delicate than the northerners. Talk to Xinyang people about Xinyang, he may talk to you about history, culture, food, and even Hubei, but if you let him recommend some specialties, he will definitely be slightly shy but extremely firm to tell you: "Xinyang Maojian".
Last year, in the article "Why Xinyang Doesn't Have a "Henan Fan"", a reader left a message saying that "with all due respect, Xinyang Maojian is the first in the world in green tea", and the attachment of Xinyang people to Maojian has aroused great interest from Fengwujun. Today, let's follow the Wind and Creature Jun to explore the pride and affection hidden in the "Xinyang Maojian"
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Maojian is the pride in the bones of Xinyang people</h1>
The tea in Xinyang is good, thanks to the gifts of nature. Youdao is "relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to draft water", and the landscape of Xinyang provides an excellent habitat for tea. Alpine clouds produce good tea, as a transition zone from subtropical to warm temperate zone, rain and heat in the same season create cloud atomization between winding hills, like a fairyland. With this time and place, since ancient times, Xinyang has been the main tea producing area.
▲ Xinyang Mao tip. Photography / Yan Rongrong
As early as the Tang Dynasty, when tea was the first to drink, in order to complete the first tea monograph in his history, "Tea Classic", Lu Yu personally went to Shuzhou, huangzhou in the south, and Shouzhou in the north to investigate in detail, and finally took Huainan tea Gwangju (in ancient times Guangzhou was the counties of Huangchuan, Gushi, Guangshan, shangcheng and other counties in present-day Xinyang City) as a concise product. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Su Dongpo, who was quite accomplished in tasting tea, was surrounded by clouds and mist in Xinyang Tea Mountain, and sincerely sighed: Huainan tea, Xinyang first!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Maojian is a warm daily routine of Xinyang people</h1>
The love of the Xinyang people for Mao Jian is engraved in the bones.
If women are made of water, then Xinyang people must be made of Maojian tea soup. In Xinyang, you can see the traces of tea anytime and anywhere. It is difficult for Xinyang people to say the elegance and romance of tea, because for them, tea is a necessity like rice and water.
▲ A cup of clear tea, hiding the fresh daily life of Xinyang people. Photography / Wu Xuewen
In the early morning, take a dip in the tip of the hair, watch the tender green in the cup slowly stretched to bloom, from lazy to leisurely, as if the beauty of the landscape jumped in front of you, and the whole person also woke up from the chaos. When the tea is warm, take a sip, and in an instant the tea aroma floods between the mouths, but its rhyme is mellow and fragrant. The tea soup falls on the stomach, accompanied by the moisture of the bottom of the throat, and the bottom of the tongue is also flooded with bursts of sweetness, swirling in the mouth, refreshing the spleen. Ordinary days, with this cup of tea, brighter and more vivid.
▲The birth of the hair tip. Graph/Network
During the day, a touch of fragrance accompanied by the ups and downs of new shoots, washed away impetuous, but also precipitated Enron, tasting tea, but found the perch of the heart, let people feel clear and transparent; a sip of tea soup, although the first drink has a faint bitterness, but after a long time, it is sweet and emerging, lingering for a long time, falling and looming. Want to come to the floating like tea, it is already bitter, rolling red dust, with this leisurely tea fragrance, people are quiet, the heart will be clear. Drink a cup of tea and understand the taste of life.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the tip of the Xinyang people's hair, which can be elegant or vulgar</h1>
Xinyang people can't eat without tea. It is said that Henan people love to go to Xinyang to find food, and Xinyang people love their own food in their hearts (mouth). Xinyang people are fond of themselves, earthen pot stew, Gushi goose nuggets, Huangchuan peppery soup, mall tube fresh fish... Not to mention that above the wine table banquet, it is the family that eats, and they like to stir-fry a few small dishes.
▲ The stewed pot meat taken from the crock pot and simmered with radish is the most common lunch of the Xinyang people. Figures/MarketMap
It can be said that in terms of eating and drinking, Xinyang people will never settle down. But although the food is good, the salty and spicy meat and meat always feel less ironing, at this time, Mao Jian will shine out: a cup of degreasing grease, two cups of throat kissing, three cups ... , at this time, I am afraid that only the tea fairy Lu Tong can best understand the mood of the people of Xinyang:
One bowl of throat kissing, two bowls of broken and lonely,
Three bowls of dry intestines, but five thousand scrolls of writing,
Four bowls of light sweat, ordinary life, scattered to the pores,
Five bowls of muscle and bone clarity, six bowls of fairy spirits,
Seven bowls can not eat also, only to feel the two armpits to practice the breeze.
The life of Xinyang people is leisurely, but the most comfortable is the old uncle sitting around the street. Playing chess or cards, personally going down or chatting and watching, everyone's hand is indispensable to a glass, and the glass is soaked with the most flavorful hair tip of Xinyang.
▲ Human fireworks in a glass. Photography/Imager Photo/Figureworm Creative
Before leaving the house, a handful of tea is put into the cup, flushed with water and covered with lid, and as soon as you walk, the hot air rushes straight up, slowly condensing into water droplets on the wall of the cup. Chatting and laughing with old friends, when the chess and cards are rushing to kill, occasionally remembering, they slowly open the lid, and the aroma of tea suddenly rises. Slowly blowing hot air, slowly drinking a sip, bitterness and sweetness intertwined between the mouth and tongue, afterglow and aftertaste spread between the teeth and throat, the whole person suddenly felt calm and relaxed, and then looked at the chess and cards, it seemed that he could fight five hundred times. When the tea is light, the tea is cold, and the hour to go home is also coming.
Old friends also have a time to compete, such as the "fighting tea" of the Song Dynasty doctors. Can you say that my chess skills are not good, that my tea is not good? No way! A cheerful shouting companion shows off his new sprouts, but the other party deliberately does not understand the style of letting himself sniff the tea carefully. Originally a piece of peace, in the blink of an eye, it became red-faced, and my tea was the best tea! On the way home, a dark thought, should I also go to the tea mountain? The other was indignant: Why don't my children bring me a good tea?