On the Prose Beauty of Longnan Spring Tea

The poet Mei compares spring tea to gold. He said in the poem "Answer to the New Tea of Shentuntian in Jianzhou": "Spring tea grinds white paste, and purple cakes are baked at night. The price is the same as gold, and the packaging is clean and tidy. Crushed into jade dust, as far as Ludijing. Take a sip of the same drunk and think of a gentleman to lead. " It shows that the poet is leisurely reciting poems, enjoying spring and tasting tea, with no attachments in his heart and a feeling that "tea is not intoxicating".

Every year, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Yangba in Kangxian, Bikou in Wenxian and Yu He in Wudu are in the busiest season, and tea farmers are picking tea all over the mountain. After the rain, the mountains are empty and the tea garden is in bud. Some people say that if Tomb-Sweeping Day wants tea, it is naturally the best tea in Suzhou and Hangzhou, especially the Robbie girl in Suzhou Xishan is particularly attractive. However, in Longnan, you will also be attracted by the fresh and beautiful beauty of tea country. A lush and vibrant tea garden adds a breath of spring to the land of Longnan, making you pleasing to the eye and lingering.

April is the season of spring tea in Longnan. Strolling through various teahouses, tea shops, teahouses, tea gardens and shops specializing in agricultural products in urban and rural areas of Longnan, people's eyes will also be attracted by various Longnan spring tea products. Boxed, bagged and even in bulk all have their own characteristics, waiting for "marriage" one by one, adding a lot of strong and fresh colors to the bustling farmers' market in Longnan.

Camellia township, foggy, fragrant and soft. The breeze blew and the tea leaves floated like green water. The tea garden is picturesque, with golden straw hats, small umbrellas, colorful skirts, beautiful images of young girls, whispers of harvest and low laughter floating in the green tea sea like waves. Cool as water, moist as feathers, slender, moist and soft buds are gently picked by one pair of hands, put into baskets, sent to workshops, and enter a series of complicated and meticulous production and processing processes to become various finished products.

Longnan is located at the intersection of Qinba Mountain, Minshan Mountain and Loess Plateau, and belongs to the transition zone from subtropical zone to warm temperate zone. It is adjacent to Shaanxi in the east and Sichuan in the south, and it is the only area in Gansu Province that belongs to the Yangtze River basin. The region has a mild climate and abundant rainfall. Sub-hot, cold and warm climates are intertwined, and mountains, valleys, hills and basins are intertwined, forming a three-dimensional climate feature of "one mountain with four seasons and ten miles of different days", which is known as the "Xishuangbanna" in the northwest; There are 1300 species of natural trees, more than 0/00 species of delicacies and edible fungi, and hundreds of Chinese herbal medicines. This is the natural and original ecological Longnan. Because of the diversity and richness of climate and geographical environment in Longnan, tea people naturally choose to settle down here. Now, Longnan tea market, Longjing, Maojian, Cuizhu, Zhenmei, Tieguanyin and other varieties, everything.

Liziba Longjing: produced in Liziba Village, Bikou Town, Wenxian County. The village is 15km long from east to west, with a natural forest area of more than 20,000 mu, covering 80%, abundant sunshine and humid climate. In spring and summer, whenever the sun rises, clouds of fog pass over the top of the mountain, with fog beads, making the tea tree green. The produced tea leaves are wrapped in buds like a flag gun. The processing method is modeled after the West Lake Longjing, and the production process of "Maoshan Qingfeng" in Jiangsu is introduced to make flat tea. It's shaped like a bent nail, flat and beautiful, smooth and even, green and slightly yellow. After brewing, the aroma is rich, lasting and lofty, the soup color is clear and bright, the taste is sweet and delicious, the leaf color is even, and the flag is staggered and lifelike.

Dragon bamboo: produced in Meiyuan ditch and Longshen ditch of Yangba town in the south of Kangxian County. This is a national nature reserve with beautiful scenery, misty all year round, mild and humid climate and beautiful natural environment. The tea produced is the first-class raw material for making high-grade and medium-grade green tea. "Dragon God Cuizhu" is made of tender buds sprouting around Qingming Festival with unique techniques. Its shape is slightly flat, straight and hidden like bamboo leaves, with green color, bright soup color, lasting fragrance, chestnut fragrance and fresh taste. Shenlong Cuizhu is a famous tea in Gansu, and its products sell well in Lanzhou, Hanzhong and other places.

Yangma Zhenmei: produced in Yangba Town, Kang County. Zhenmei is a kind of superior tea with tender leaves and hairy back. When processing, it is not fried, rubbed, dried or dried with slow fire, so that the white hair on the appearance of tea leaves is completely preserved, which is why it is white. Because it looks like the eyebrows of the birthday girl, it is called beautiful. Zhenmei tea is cool and has the effect of clearing away heat and reducing fire. Zhenmei tea leaves are slightly curly, with fine white hairs on the back and silvery green leaves. After brewing Zhenmei, the buds are vigorous, silvery, bright in color, pure in aroma, mellow and sweet in taste, and orange in soup color. Yangma Zhenmei was awarded the title of Gansu Famous Tea, and its series of products were sold to Longnan, Lanzhou and other counties.

Yu He Maojian Tea: produced in Yu He Township, Wudu District. Here, green mountains and green waters, humid climate, moderate temperature, tea production has become a scale. The produced tea has only one leaf bud, which is tender and tall, with tight and slender lines and slightly curly. After brewing, the soup is green, fragrant, fresh and thick, and the leaves are green and yellow. After processing, Yu He tea has formed more than 10 plants, mainly in boxes, with exquisite colored satin boxes, which doubled the price of tea. Yu He Maojian Tea has won the title of "High-quality Tea in Gansu Province" for many times, and its products are exported to both inside and outside the province, enjoying a high reputation.

Longnan spring tea is "dressed up" into various shapes and appears on the counters of shops all over the country, which is dignified and elegant and full of fragrance; Teahouses, teahouses and tea houses all over Longnan City are elegantly and quietly arranged, and guzheng music lingers in my ears. Quiet, euphemistic and elegant tea performances are pleasing to the eye. It is refreshing to pour green tea into magnetic cups and pottery bowls. Close your eyes, the rural spring scenery in Longnan can easily spread out in front of your eyes. Or make a cup of Longnan green tea after a busy life. The life called "tea" revives and rises in the cup, dancing in boiling water, like a spring breeze.

Misty tea country, green tea gardens in four seasons, tea in Qingming period, tea aunts among evergreen trees, exquisite tea products, tea shops with laughter and fragrance ..... all these have formed a unique Longnan tea rhyme.

There is a tea-picking festival in Longnan. Focusing on the goal of building Longnan into a tea capital in the northwest, an eco-tourism resort in the west and a hometown of tea culture in China, the Longnan Tea-picking Festival has embarked on a road of local tourism combining tourism and tea industry in accordance with the principles of government building, enterprise singing opera, cultural media, participation of all parties and benefit of the masses. It fully demonstrates the rich tourism resources, beautiful rural scenery and rich southern customs in Longnan, which can be described as a grand event to promote the development of tourism industry in Longnan, carry forward local cultural characteristics, promote the construction of cultural Longnan, and promote the harmonious and prosperous development of one party.

Longnan also had a tea tasting in Jiangnan before the Ming Dynasty. Longnan is the only tea-producing area in Gansu Province, and is known as "Longshang Tea Town". With the theme of "Green, Healthy, Tasting and Negotiating", the "Tea Tasting before Tomorrow" advocates the concept of natural, green and healthy consumption, and integrates tea performance, tea processing display, fresh tea tree display, guest tasting, tea auction and tea boutique display to show Longnan tea culture.

Throughout the ages, the poet's praise for spring tea can be described as colorful and extremely rich. Poets dip their pens in bright tea dew with spring breeze, and every note they sing is a beautiful feeling from the heart.

Miracle, a monk, was also a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty. His poems on spring tea are far-reaching in artistic conception and really warm and cordial to read. He wrote in "Tea Sent by a Master in Xie Zhong": "In front of Grain Rain in Spring Mountain, the cigarette was picked in your hand, so it was tender and easy to make it late. Let's invite the guests from the yard next door and try to cook the fallen petal spring. The land is far away from labor, and it is the year after. " Miracle worships spring tea very much, so there are many poems describing spring tea, such as "If there is a spring day, don't forget to write it from the west" in the poem "Xie Hu Cha" and "Recalling the green bushes in the spring breeze on the Sichuan" in the poem "Tea Tasting" express his infinite love for spring tea.

Wen Tong, a poet, thinks that the spring tea that can be called "Cha Sheng" is Sichuan Mengshan Tea, and he evaluates it based on the materialization of nature and spirit. He said in the poem "Thank People for Sending Mengding Tea": "In Cha Sheng, the Mengshan Mountain is absolutely delicious, and the spirit roots support the top. The resort is in spring first. A few trees are warm and cold, and the baskets are vying for new branches. " It shows that when Mengshan tea germinates in spring, tea pickers are all carrying baskets and competing to pick them. "

The poet Su Dongpo, with the deep affection of a generation of tea people, described spring tea as a peerless beauty, with a beautiful face, a heart of ice and snow, a tender heart and a charming charm. His poem "Er Yun Cao Fu Jigou Trial Baking New Tea" said: "The fairy grass is wet, and the fragrant muscle powder is not evenly washed. The bright moon comes to vote for Yuchuanzi, and the breeze blows Wu Linchun. You know, Jade Snow has a good heart, not a new face. Don't laugh when you play a poem. Always beautiful. " After reading this poem, especially the sentence "A beautiful woman's tea is like a beautiful woman", how can one not admire Su Dongpo's spring tea? How can you not be ecstatic? So far, people have compared this quip to "I want to compare the West Lake to the West Lake". Su Dongpo likes spring tea very much. In the spring tea picking season, he even drinks it before going to bed. He often said: "It is enough to sleep by the window in spring, and it is like splashing milk to see new tea."

Some poets praise spring tea with poems, but they also don't forget the hard work of tea pickers. Zhang Chen, a poet in Qing Dynasty, knew well the sufferings of tea pickers before Ming Dynasty. They often get up in the morning and return to the basket in the afternoon. The government forces them hard, so they deeply sympathize with the fate of tea pickers. He wrote in "Tea Picking Song": "The head of Phoenix Ridge is fragrant with spring dew, and the daughter with green skirt has long fingers and claws. Alone, the sword goes through the clouds to pick tea, and the afternoon is not enough. When Gong Wen was persuaded to go to the yamen, the cold buds on the mountain were not spit out. Baking grain is more bitter than lotus seed heart, but who knows that Nong is more bitter than lotus seed heart. "

The main feature of spring tea is its faint fragrance, which needs to be savored carefully, and it is not as bitter as summer tea and autumn tea. Some people like summer tea, while others like autumn tea, all because of personal hobbies. But one thing is certain, that is, in the cold spring, seeing tea before the Ming Dynasty and tea in Grain Rain makes people feel that the years are like new, and spring has really come, just like Yuan Haowen wrote in Drinking Tea that "the fragrance of a spring dew has been lingering for ages, and the breeze in Wan Li has dissipated", which is followed by all the colorful love. People seem to have a feeling of wave upon wave when they treat spring tea. When they sip gently, they feel a poetic flow in the water, and there is a feeling of being suddenly enlightened. This flowing liquid seems to permeate the soul of tea.

The author believes in the saying that "rough tea and light rice". What is "coarse tea"? The author understands it as middle and low grade tea. Fine tea takes its fragrance, but coarse tea eats its bitterness. People live in the world, bitter, sweet and salty. As the saying goes, you have to suffer to be a master. Coarse tea is bitter, but it is not "bitter in bitterness", at most it is slightly bitter, so people who drink coarse tea can only "be a man" if they can't "be a man"; It's good enough to be a middleman. More importantly, it is good for health. Happiness lies in contentment, health and happiness. What more can a husband ask for?