Huzhou three teas

Huzhou was the starting point of the ancient Silk Road in history, and the current Hucheng Camel Bridge is the starting point for merchants to transport goods with camels. Because of its good geographical environment, Huzhou is the only prefecture-level city in Zhejiang around Taihu Lake, which has always been drought and flood to ensure harvest, the water system is developed vertically and horizontally, and the people are diligent and thrifty. Along the banks of the water system planted a large number of mulberry trees, so that every household has silkworm farming operations, the obtained silkworm cocoons are deeply processed into silk cotton, self-use of brushed quilts, but also made warm silk cotton jackets, high-quality silk cotton spinning silk woven into silk satin, children marrying, going to the house to celebrate birthday celebrations, there are silk quilts as gift customs, it is estimated that there is a Huzhou silk A world. Silk is the most popular commodity for lake merchants to integrate into world trade, it is a stepping stone to open up international trade, and the accumulation of wealth has created lake merchants to be the strongest financial backing of the Xinhai Revolution. In addition to being famous for silk, Huzhou is also full of interesting tea customs.

The distinguished guests who come to Huzhou as guests are also called rare guests, and the rare guests who enter the door of course have the most solemn etiquette, that is, three teas, and enjoying this ceremony must be a rare guest.

First send the first popcorn brown sugar tea, metaphorical sweet and sweet, first put brown sugar in the teacup, plus popcorn, flush with boiling water, stir well with a chopstick, suddenly the aroma of rice flowers mixed with sweetness comes to the nose, really fragrant! A mouthful full of sweet rice flowers, can drink will be able to drink sweet for more than a year. Drinking is also exquisite, in order not to lose elegance, you need to shake gently and then you can have the skill not to leave the sinking object to drink, outsiders certainly can't do it, can do the drink must be familiar with this skill of the locals.

After the first tea, the next is the second baked green bean tea, baked green bean tea in addition to the main local folk specialty baked green beans, in addition to each family's practices have their own advantages, simple pure baked green beans, there are also added special dried carrots, as well as the addition of special orange peel silk, fried sesame seeds, but also added cooked perilla seeds (locally known as hundred seeds), in general, the second course of tea belongs to salty tea. First of all, talk about the method of special dry skin silk, wash the orange peel, and then remove the skin underwear, leaving only the outer skin, shredded with an appropriate amount of salt after a few days of cool sun dry preservation, add baked green beans to become orange peel coaxing green bean tea. The most exclusive is roasted green bean tea with crushed ripe perilla seeds and cooked sesame seeds and special orange peel silk, which may also be rare for locals. I drank it once, and I still salivate and smell the aftertaste, and I can't touch it again if I want to drink it.

After the first sweet tea, the second salty tea, the third is clear tea, clear tea is not clear water tea, Huzhou ancient tea saint Lu Yu, brewed tea from Guzhu, Anji, Si'an and other mountainous mountains, and now there are Guzhu purple bamboo shoot tribute tea, Anji white tea is famous. After making tea, the green tea tip is presented as a piece of green, mellow and fragrant, fragrant and simple nose, no wonder Lu Yu's "Tea Classic" comes from the land of Huzhou, one side of the water and soil to raise one person.

After drinking three teas in Huzhou, I felt that I had tasted the whole life, from sweet, salty, and finally to Qing. Sweetness is an ideal that needs to be desired and needs to be fought for. The process of pursuing sweetness will inevitably have a salty grinding process. After a sweet and salty journey, the last thing to enjoy is a rich conversation.