Why do Mid-Autumn tea and moon cakes match better?

The Mid-Autumn Festival began in the early years of the Tang Dynasty and prevailed in the Song Dynasty. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it has become one of the traditional festivals in China. The relationship between Mid-Autumn Festival, moon cakes and tea stems from the combination of romantic thoughts and emotions of China people. Listen to Bian Xiao from the beginning.

Tea is a national drink, which was originally used as both medicine and food to relieve diarrhea and abdominal pain caused by eating raw meat and drinking raw water.

It was from the Three Kingdoms period that tea was made into a certain shape, which showed people's love for tea and even promoted it to the level of artistic aesthetics.

The change of tea shape will naturally lead to the change of praise content of tea lovers, and the association about tea will gradually spread and connect with people's emotions. For example, the "group tea" in the Tang Dynasty, called "moon group", has always been associated with the custom of celebrating the full moon, which means "expecting reunion".

After the Han Dynasty, enjoying the moon became an elegant custom, and there were many poems about it, but it was not until the Tang Dynasty that the custom of enjoying the moon on the fifteenth night of August was formed.

Of course, when it comes to the Song Dynasty, we have to talk about Su Dongpo and tea. There is a poem about tea in the poem "Huishan Qian Daoshi cooks Xiaolong Group and looks at Taihu Lake"-"Take the moon in the sky alone and taste the second spring in the world". The "little moon group" in the poem also refers to cake and tea. He brewed the "little moon group" with "the second spring in the world", which not only showed his mastery of tea tasting, but also constructed an artistic conception of tea tasting for the world, that is, "harmony between man and nature, dancing with people and the moon".