Three teas are a way of drinking tea when the Bai people in Yunnan entertain VIPs, which belongs to the category of tea culture. The well-known Bai three teas at home and abroad, with its unique "head bitter, two sweet, three aftertaste" tea ceremony as early as the Ming Dynasty has become a kind of etiquette for the Bai family to entertain guests and make friends.
The first tea of the Bai three teas is bitter tea. First put the small sand pot on the charcoal fire and roast it into the appropriate amount of Chenshan Yunwu tea or tuo tea, and then shake the sand pot while roasting, and when the tea leaves are yellowish and the caramel is fragrant, immediately flush into the boiling water, and you can pour a small tea cup to entertain guests. This tea is mellow and bitter, and it is refreshing after drinking.
The second course of tea is sweet tea. In a small bowl with tea trays, add slices of ginger, brown sugar, sugar, bee milk, cooked sesame seeds, thin slices of cooked walnut kernels and finely chopped cheese, then rinse into boiling water to make sweet tea. This tea can be spooned with a spoon, or served with olives, pineapple and other refreshments. This tea is complex in production, exquisite in materials, sweet and delicious, and rich in nutrition, which shows the strong affection of the Bai people.
The third course of tea is the aftertaste tea. First, put the cinnamon, peppercorns, and ginger slices into the water of the person, and add the bitter tea and bee milk to the boiled juice to drink it. This tea is fragrant, sweet, bitter and spicy, which is not only evocative, but also has a dehumidifying effect.
The three teas are first bitter and then sweet and then aftertaste, which makes people think of the first bitterness and then sweetness of life, which contains endless philosophies of life and arouses people's deep thinking. Bai sandao tea used to be a ritual held by elders when they went out, and later evolved into an indispensable etiquette for festivals, weddings and hospitality.
In addition to the three teas, there is also a kind of thunder tea. Whenever the family comes to visit, the host puts fresh tea into the sand pot to bake, and after the scorched aroma is poured into the water, the pot will emit a thunderous sound, the Bai people think that this is a symbol of auspiciousness and beauty, and the guests and hosts are relatively laughing. After the sound, the tea can be poured into the tea cup and offered to the guests by the host's hands. Bai Lei Xiang tea tastes bitter and has afterglow, and the aftertaste is endless.