Ren Huanhong talks about the five elements of Pu'er tea

Yin Yang and the Five Elements are the core of classical Chinese philosophy and are ancient simple materialist philosophy. The so-called yin and yang refer to two mutually opposing but interrelated forces that exist in everything in the world. It means: Everything in the world cannot escape the category of yin and yang. Whether it is a huge thing or a small food, it has both sides of yin and yang. Everything has the dual nature of yin and yang, there is yang within yin, and there is yin within yang.

The five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth are abstract summaries of the different attributes of all things in the universe, and do not refer to a single five things.

The same is true for Pu'er tea. A small piece of tea contains the philosophy of Yin Yang and Five Elements, which has benefited countless people for thousands of years.

The ecological environment, weather and climate in which Pu'er tea grows form different tea qualities (smoothness, sweetness, aroma, sweetness, background and brewing resistance) and taste (flavor and bitterness) different. The climate, soil quality, and five-element attributes of the tea mountains in Yunnan are different, forming northern bitter (southern temperate to mid-temperate climate, mountainous red soil, yellow soil) South Se (southern subtropical climate, red soil) Dongrou (subtropical climate, red soil, yellow soil) Xigang ( Characteristics of mid-subtropical, mountainous red soil) climate.

From a macro perspective, the five elements are in the north of our country (belonging to water), the south (belonging to fire), the east (belonging to wood), the west (belonging to metal), and the middle part (belonging to earth). This difference in the five elements also reflects the characteristics of soft in the east, strong in the west, bitter in the north and astringent in the south in Pu'er tea grown under the unique geographical and climatic conditions of Yunnan.

Another example is that Yiwu and the six ancient tea camellia areas mostly have a subtropical climate, yellow soil area, and the five elements are water; the five elements of Pu'er tea in Lincang in the west are mainly gold; the south subtropical climate and red soil area in southern Yunnan, The weathering and leaching effect is strong, the content of most elements in the soil is low, and the five elements belong to fire, so the Pu'er tea produced is bitter.

Pu'er tea has the properties of yin and yang and the five elements, which are specifically reflected in: the tea tree belongs to wood, the iron pot belongs to gold, the fried tea belongs to fire, the tea pot belongs to earth, and the tea brewing belongs to water.

I once saw this sentence:

Tea has six reincarnations: born in the soil, growing in the wood, dying in the pot, meeting people who understand tea, living in In the water, Nirvana is in the pot, and finally remains in the heart. Tea, from life to death, to life towards death, the whole process runs through the process of mutual growth and restraint, the balance of yin and yang, and the cycle, which vividly embodies the characteristics of yin and yang and the five elements.

Tea has completed the journey of a lifetime. When choosing a good tea, you can also refer to the laws of yin and yang and the five elements to choose a good tea that suits you.