Tea photographer

China is called the hometown of tea, not only because the land here bred the earliest tea trees in the world, but also because people here regard tea as a life connecting heaven and earth.

Every March, Su Guowen from Mangjing Village, Jingmai Mountain, Yunnan, will make spring tea with his family. Tea green, from Jingmai Mountain ancient tea garden, is a good raw material for making Yunnan Pu 'er tea. Su Guowen, like other nationalities, considers himself a descendant of the tea god. Su Guowen and his people have lived in the virgin forest in southern Yunnan for generations. During the ice age, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau blocked the deadly cold current, and its southeast edge became a paradise for ancient species on earth. The earliest tea trees grew in this virgin forest. After thousands of years of word of mouth, the affinity story between human beings and wild tea trees has gradually been interpreted as a myth and condensed into the common memory of many nationalities in this forest. Tea is an inseparable part of Bulang people's life and a sacred representative of Bulang people. It is a custom passed down from generation to generation to hold the Tea Ancestor Festival once a year. They firmly believe that there is a tea god in every tea land. Every year, the climax of tea festival is in April 16, and the climax of big festival is in April 17. People will go to the top of the mountain to offer sacrifices to cows, and use cows to offer sacrifices to their ancestors. Brown people from all over Jingmai Mountain gathered in PaAllen Temple to make tea with mountain spring water, bathe idols and give their best new tea to their tea ancestors. The tea ancestor of the brown race is called Paailan. It is said that 1800 years ago, when faced with the crisis of large-scale plague of his people, he found that tea could cure diseases, thus saving his people. During the tea festival, people will go to the top of the mountain to call the tea god. They believe that every tea land has a tea soul, and they will call all the tea gods back to celebrate the festival that day-they left a fortune for future generations, which no Bulang people can forget.

The ancient tea tree originated in the southwest of China has been extended to the southeast. Under the care of nature and ancestors, it has gradually evolved into a lobular shrub that is easy to pick and manage. It is the fresh buds and leaves of these low shrubs that have been refined into many famous teas in China. Italian Gabriella Bonino has a China name-Tang Yun, and Longjing is her favorite China tea. Different from ordinary foreign tourists, Longjing tea in Beijing Teahouse is far from satisfying her. On April 20 13, Tang Yun arrived in Hangzhou, where she will spend the tea season with a tea farmer. Every spring tea season, tea lovers often come to tea farmers' homes all over China for the night. They want to taste the freshest good tea, and they want to experience the bitterness behind a good cup of tea. They live in tea farmers' homes and work and live with them. In Jiangnan, they are called tea relatives by tea farmers. Longjing is the name of tea, place, village and spring. The ancients in China thought that this well was connected with the sea, including the dragon, so it was called Longjing. Most tea farmers in Longjing Village are familiar with the story of Longjing tea. When not busy, they all like to chat with tea friends who come here.

Longjing belongs to non-fermented green tea. Green tea is the most consumed tea in China. People like the appearance of green leaves in green tea soup and pay more attention to its health care function. Longjing tea is green and yellow in color and natural in color, just like the ink of China ink painting. It is suitable in the shade and tastes more fragrant.

Teahouses in Sichuan are very crowded, so in order not to disturb the guests, the guys can't get too close. So someone invented the long-billed copper pot on a whim, and now this craft has evolved into a dazzling skill called "Longxing Eighteen Styles". However, whether it is Pu 'er in Yunnan ancient tea garden, Longjing in Beijing tea house in the far north, or Longxing Eighteen Style in Chengdu, a big tea house, all represent our China tea culture. Tea is a journey. From the origin of tea to the land without tea, the road is born of tea. From the expectation of tea to the creation of their own tea, people are constantly looking for tradition and hope. At the end of the road, there is a home for our hearts. On the vast land, the people of China are United by tea. A few years ago, a new kind of tea, Kunlun Snow Chrysanthemum, appeared in China tea market, and its origin was in Keriyang Township at the foot of Karakorum Mountain. Xinjiang didn't produce tea originally, so Kunlun Xueju gave Xinjiang its own tea. Saussurea involucrata does not belong to camellia, but the brewed soup is red and bright, with the fragrance of chrysanthemum and the taste of fine black tea, so it can be regarded as tea. In recent years, Kunlun Snow Chrysanthemum has become an indispensable element of Eid al-Fitr, an important Islamic festival.

In China, tea is a very inclusive concept. Many drinks were not originally made from camellia plants. Such as chrysanthemum, fruit, Chinese herbal medicine, etc. But they are all brewed and tasted in the form of tea, which is divided into substitute tea and non-substitute tea. For non-tea, people pay more attention to its health care function. Guangdong herbal tea is a famous non-tea tea.

Traditional Guangzhou herbal tea needs more than 20 kinds of medicinal materials, which are boiled slowly in casserole. Strictly speaking, herbal tea is more like medicine. When the old Cantonese have a headache, a hot brain and a sore throat, the first reaction is to have a cup of herbal tea. Two thousand miles away in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, tea people there still live in ancient traditions. At the wedding reception, offering tea is the most important etiquette, and tea is also indispensable in the dowry. Fighting tea is the highlight of every tea area in China in the annual tea season. The tea-fighting competition in Menghai County, Yunnan Province is particularly fierce. Brown, Hani, Lahu and other ethnic groups living here all consider themselves descendants of the tea god, and there is only one title of tea king. Handmade hairy tea can best show the skill of tea people. Fighting tea is about the degree of integration between people and tea. Only those who really understand tea and express it in the most delicate way are well-deserved tea kings. The most famous in Yunnan is Pu 'er tea. Nowadays, many people prefer the vicissitudes of old Pu 'er tea. In the past, the journey of transporting tea was extremely long and dangerous. Tea began to ferment during the journey, thus transforming various contents beneficial to human body. In cold and oxygen-deficient Tibet, butter tea can not only dispel cold and warm the body, quench thirst and satisfy hunger, but also supplement nutrition and eliminate greasy. For Tibetans, tea is the water of life. Tibetans regard life as a journey, and life is full of hardships. Only through hard training can we find a way out. Tea is the comfort of Tibetans' real life, accompanying them through the joys and sorrows of life and looking for the pure land of the soul. Tea is linked to the fate of China people. Many ethnic groups thrive here with different cultural beliefs, and integration is the nature of tea. Tea and milk, tea and oil, tea and medicine, tea and flowers, tea is the fusion of man and nature, and it is the fusion of life and life in this land. Drinking tea is a simple matter; Drinking tea is also a complicated matter, from simple to complex, from complex to simple. For two thousand years, the way of drinking tea has been changing. You don't need to take a time machine to taste ancient tea bowls. In some corners of the world, ancient tea is still fresh, elegant and simple, which is a slow and warm time unfamiliar to modern people.

Tea drinkers are hospitable in all directions, and the breeze comes naturally. The action of Japanese tea ceremony is complex and long, and the strictest tea ceremony lasts for four hours. Japanese tea ceremony drinks tea soup brewed with tea powder. The key step of tea ceremony is to mix the tea soup evenly with a tea basket, which is called ordering tea. In this ancient way of drinking tea, there are still many legacies of the Tang and Song Dynasties. Looking for the legacy of the Tang Dynasty from a bowl of tea soup. The first step in the Tang dynasty was to process tea cakes, bake them and grind them into tea powder; The key is to boil, use an iron pot to boil water, and pay attention to water quality and water temperature.

In Enshi, Hubei Province, the history of oil tea soup is very long. Legend has it that someone once tried to stir-fry tea leaves and add them to soup to treat diseases caused by damp heat. In the era of poverty, tea once replaced meat and appeared as a new year's product in oil soup in the 1930s. Enshi steaming green tea technology can bring purer green and delicious taste. After the tea leaves are fixed, they are first kneaded in an oven at 50 to 80 degrees Celsius, scattered and dried, and then the tea leaves are shaped and polished. In an hour and a half of hand-making, the tea leaves exude fragrance and turn into the shape of pine needles, which is the famous Youlu tea in Enshi.

Chaozhou Kung Fu Tea is known as "the living fossil of China tea culture". In Chaozhou, making tea is a popular skill in the streets and is a part of chaozhou people's life. The most common tea brewed in chaozhou people is Fenghuang Dan Cong tea, which is named after it is produced in Fenghuang Mountain in Chaozhou. On the Phoenix Mountain, there are more than 3,700 old tea trees over 200 years old. Fenghuang Dan Cong belongs to semi-fermented oolong tea, which is famous for its various flavors. Learning to make tea and drink tea is actually nourishing the heart. Tea can be made for a lifetime. For more than a thousand years, orientals have realized the true meaning of life in a bowl of tea soup. People in the Tang Dynasty cooked tea, and people in the Song Dynasty invented the method of drinking with notes. People in the Ming Dynasty changed the tradition of drinking tea and tasted the fragrance of making tea, while Japanese tea people cultivated their own hearts by sticking to the tradition of tea ceremony. Time has made the taste of tea, and tea exudes the fragrance of the soul. Every tea man is actually practicing and belongs to his own tea ceremony. In the past 100 years, the spread of tea has reached a climax. From Asia to Africa, tea has found a home in all suitable lands. People from different countries, races and cultures. Tea presents infinite possibilities. In the past 100 years, the spread of tea has reached a climax. From Asia to Africa, tea has found a home in all suitable lands. Tea is tolerant. In the hands of people of different countries, races and cultures, tea presents infinite possibilities. Whether at home or far away. Spring in southern China was originally golden, the color of sunshine, and the color of rape blossoms. This is the season of sowing, picking and brewing hope. When the golden color gradually receded and the green curtain opened, tea became the protagonist of the spring stage. China, Japanese, Indians, Kenyans, all the tea countries from Asia to Africa are "awake".

Milk tea was originally brought to Malaysia by Indian immigrants, and Malaysians mixed tea with milk. And the action of "pulling" can get a smoother taste, so "teh tarik" appeared. Teh tarik is very popular in Southeast Asian countries. A teh tarik teacher who has mastered difficult skills can even become an idol for young people.

Under the influence of China, Thai people began to drink tea very early, but it took a long time to grow tea. Today, tea gardens in Thailand are mainly concentrated in the northern mountainous areas. Messler is the most famous tea-growing area, located at the edge of the Golden Triangle, which was once controlled by civilian armed forces. Since 1980s, the United Nations has been encouraging the whole Golden Triangle area to develop alternative tea cultivation. Tea, another "reborn" Maisler. The large-scale introduction of Thai tea is only a fragment of the upsurge of tea planting in the modern world. /kloc-In the 9th century, the rich profits of tea trade and the monopoly position of China prompted westerners to explore tea producing areas outside China, and India, then a British colony, became the first choice. Darjeeling Mountain produces world-famous black tea, and its unique climate and natural environment seem to be specially designed by God for tea.

Darjeeling black tea has been planted for less than 200 years, and both tea art and varieties come from Wuyi mountain tea area in China. At that time, eight skilled tea workers in Wuyishan went to India, and their names could not be verified. But throughout their lives, they laid the foundation of Indian tea. These unknown tea workers from China failed to return to their hometown in the end.

During the Soviet period, China native Liu came to Georgia to open a tea garden and make black tea. At that time, all the teas he produced were called Liucha. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Georgia's tea production entered a trough, and the willow tea technology was also lost. In the process of searching for Liucha, the local old tea artist said that the technology of Liucha in those days was the technology of China Qimen black tea. The tea varieties brought by Liu actually come from the south of China. Nowadays, Georgia tea is improved on the basis of Liu tea. In the world of tea, people come and go, some people find the destination of life, some people realize the redemption of their souls, some people discover the poetry of life, some people rebuild their connection with their ancestors, and more people regard tea as the foundation of settling down. The smell of tea makes us stay or run away. There is a country that drinks the most tea per capita in the world. For tea, they have started the most dangerous voyage and launched the most cruel war. They have mastered the first-class tea blending technology and created an afternoon tea culture that is popular all over the world. However, this country does not produce tea at all. This is the story of English tea, a story full of contradictions and closely related to our hearts. /kloc-In the 9th century, Fujian's black tea and oolong tea were popular all over the world, and most of the tea was sold to Britain. The main means of transporting tea is flying shears. The flying shear boat is the last leap of the traditional wooden sailboat. The design of the ship is extremely bold, the hull is reduced, the mast is increased to four or five floors, and the sail area is doubled, just to make better use of the wind at sea. And all this, just for one purpose, faster. Fly scissors and transport tea quickly. It takes a year for a traditional sailboat to travel from China to Europe, while the fastest flying shear boat at that time took 50 or 60 days. The voyage of transporting tea is a gamble at the cost of life, and the flying shear ship that arrives in London first will get excess profits. At that time, every family used one tenth of their income to buy tea. Tea consumption has soared, and a large amount of silver has flowed out. The British government began to worry about what Britain would use to buy tea from China. At that time, China didn't need British industrial products, and British businessmen shipped opium from India, which inevitably led to the disastrous war of 1840-the opium war, which was actually a tea war.

It took Britain less than 200 years to know and fall in love with tea. It was a Portuguese princess who let the British know the value of tea. She was the first queen of drinking tea in Britain, and the time was 1662. The Queen of Tea-drinking fascinated the British upper class, and the tea-drinking fashion she brought has been popular for more than 400 years. When green tea was brought to Europe in the early17th century, it was generally believed that it tasted more like medicine than drink. At first, tea appeared in pharmacies in Europe because it was expensive and sold in small packages. Europeans regard green tea as an oriental fairy grass that can cure all diseases, and British poet Byron even brought green tea into the palace of poetry.

The first pineapple green tea exported to Europe was produced in Xiuning, Anhui, China. Pineapple tea technology matured in the early Ming Dynasty. Three hundred years ago, at the beginning of China-Europe tea trade, it was the most brilliant time for usnea green tea. According to the trade records of the East India Company in 1792, two-thirds of the tea in the whole ship is pine tea. The golden age of usnea green tea lasted until18th century before it was surpassed by other famous teas. But its unique taste is still remembered by Europeans. Today, organic green tea produced in Xiuning, Anhui Province is still exported in large quantities. Just like tea hundreds of years ago, the destination of tea is Europe. Every cup of tea that the British drink comes from overseas. Tea from India, Sri Lanka and Kenya is of high quality and low price, so the British don't have to worry about the supply of tea at all. At the beginning, some people in Britain tried to grow tea, but because of the high latitude and cold climate in Britain, it was not conducive to the growth of tea trees, and all ended in failure. For 300 years, there has been no ethnic tea in Britain. Growing tea is the dream of many tea drinkers in Britain. The Taigesang Tea Garden built by Jonathan, an Englishman, took almost ten years to harvest tea in the first season. Although the output is very low and few people know it, it has become the only tea garden in Britain, so that British people can drink their own tea. In London, more than 400 kilometers away, the work of preparing commemorative tea for the Queen continues. /kloc-For over 0/00 years, the Ning Chuan family has specially made tea for the British royal family, each of which is unique. /kloc-te amo, which was popular for a while more than 0/00 years ago, is almost extinct now. Hilton Wolf Hotel in London hosts the te amo once a month, which is the only five-star hotel in Britain that has preserved the ancient customs of Teamo.

Tea is the best companion for people to enjoy the afternoon sunshine. In English teacups, there are ups and downs, and the land and sea are hidden deep. The great intersection of East and West has influenced the progress of human civilization. Nowadays, tea is no longer a commodity that changes the world. It is an artistic way of life and a drink to communicate with the soul. Tea is a kind of life. According to the writing of Chinese characters in China, tea is a person, between plants and trees. Tea is the attitude of human beings towards nature and their own hearts. In this world, there is a kind of person who is born of tea and takes tea as his companion. They are called tea men.

There is a Guanyin Pavilion teahouse in Pengzhen, Sichuan. A cup of tea is one yuan, and you can refill it all day at will. Teahouses used to be the most important social place for China people, but now old teahouses like Guanyin Pavilion are rare in China. Guanyin Pavilion, an old teahouse, is a house with memories. It brings together the leisure time of Peng Zhenren for more than 100 years. For old tea drinkers, no matter how busy their lives are, as long as they make this cup of tea, their hearts will be at ease. People in China think that tea is like life, with both bitterness and sweetness. Jasmine tea in Fuzhou is famous for its fragrance. The inheritor of jasmine tea technology has been sleepless all summer, because jasmine flowers only bloom at night. Making jasmine tea is divided into five steps: processing tea leaves and stepping on tea stems; For buds, seemingly static buds, the internal temperature is rising and need to be turned constantly; Picking to make the dried tea fully absorb the fragrance of fresh jasmine; Jasmine is separated from tea; Drying tea leaves is also a kind of scenting. Tea farmers, tea pickers, tea makers and tea drinkers are linked by a cup of tea. Real tea people know that the source of this tea fragrance is not in their hands, but in their hearts.

Matthew, an American photographer, began his photographic journey to find the soul of tea in 2007. During the filming, he met tea friends from all over China, and they all opened their doors to Matthew without reservation to show their tea life. For Matthew, tea soul is the most beautiful embodiment of human culture, and he hopes to show this beautiful culture to the whole world.

Every tea party is like the practice of tea people and guests. 20 13 held a tea party with the theme of Guqin in Beijing National Grand Theatre. The host of the tea party is Li, a Taiwan Province tea man who has been walking around. In Li's view, the teahouse is the stage of dreams. 20 13 Li Gang came to the mainland to develop and prepared a plateau tea party in Shangri-La, which turned the tea party from a closed room into a plateau. She hopes that people can get different feelings from nature. It was originally a leaf. When it first met human beings, it was blindly regarded as a prescription for detoxification. Thousands of years ago, it became a delicious drink through the hands of China people. It entered the poet's palace in the Tang Dynasty and became the life drink of nomadic people. It was hidden in a monk's bag and spread eastward to Japan with Buddhism, where it rose to a belief in life. It boarded a cargo ship in the era of great navigation, and together with porcelain and silk, it satisfied Europeans' imagination of the ancient oriental country. It condenses the most exquisite and elegant etiquette in British culture, and takes root and sprouts all over the world in the footsteps of an empire that never sets. It has gone through a long journey, and life is dying, reborn and blooming again, perhaps just to remind people who are walking in a hurry that they can feel perfect in a life that they know is imperfect. Even if it's only time for a cup of tea.