How to choose a good tea set

How to choose a good tea set? Tea sets are made of various materials and have various shapes and patterns. How to choose depends on local tea drinking customs, tea drinkers' aesthetic taste in tea sets, and the type and environment of tea they drink. Let's share how to choose a good tea set.

How to choose a good tea set 1 Generally speaking, porcelain tea sets and pottery tea sets are the best, followed by glass tea sets and enamel tea sets. Because porcelain has slow heat transfer and moderate heat preservation, it will not react with tea, and tea can get better color and fragrance;

Moreover, it has beautiful shape and exquisite decoration, and has artistic appreciation value. Pottery tea sets are elegant in shape and simple in color, especially Yixing purple sand, which is a rare boutique in pottery. Used to make tea, the tea is mellow, the soup is clear, the heat preservation is good, and it is not easy to deteriorate even in summer.

Oolong tea has a strong aroma and mellow taste. When brewing, the tea leaves are pre-heated with boiling water shower before being put in; Immediately after the tea leaves are put in, they are brewed with boiling water and washed with boiling water for many times to make the tea fragrant. Therefore, it is most suitable to brew oolong tea with ceramic tea sets. However, the opacity of ceramic tea sets makes it difficult to appreciate the beauty of bud leaves in the pot after making tea, and it is not suitable for making famous tea.

If you brew with a glass tea set, such as Longjing, Biluochun, Junshan Yinzhen and other famous teas, you can give full play to the advantages of transparent glassware, which is pleasing to the eye.

As for other tea sets, such as enamel tea sets, although there are some shortcomings in appreciation value, they are also durable and convenient to carry, and are suitable for factory workshops, construction sites and travel. Plastic tea sets, because of the texture, also have an impact on the taste of tea. Except for temporary use under special circumstances, it should not be used at ordinary times, especially it is forbidden to brew high-grade green tea with plastic thermos cups. Therefore, the long-term heat preservation of the cup will make the tea soup turn red, the aroma will become lower, and the taste of boiled soup will appear, which will inevitably destroy the scenery.

When choosing a tea set, we should not only pay attention to the texture of the instrument, but also pay attention to the color of the appearance. Only by coordinating the function, texture and color of tea set can we choose a perfect tea set. The color of ceramics is closely related to the mineral composition in the tire or glaze, and the same mineral composition can also be changed into different colors due to its content.

Pottery is generally fired with clay containing iron oxide, but the firing temperature and oxidation degree are different, and the colors are mostly yellow, reddish brown, brown and gray. The colors of porcelain have always been rich and varied.

How to choose a good tea set 2 1 and the characteristics of ceramic tea sets

We often say that ceramics are porcelain, stoneware and pottery, and pottery and porcelain are completely different things. Although purple sand is separate, it is generally said that purple sand belongs to stoneware or pottery.

The firing temperature of pottery is lower than that of porcelain, the shape is generally simple and rough, the atmosphere is calm, the color is dark, the surface is slightly rough, the tire is thick, there are many pores, the heat transfer is slow, and the heat preservation is good.

If porcelain is suitable for smelling, then pottery is suitable for smelling. Pottery can especially highlight the charm of tea and is suitable for brewing black tea and old white tea. Suitable for boiling tea and water.

Pottery is usually fired with clay containing iron oxide. The firing temperature and oxidation degree are different, and the colors are mostly brownish red, brownish yellow and gray. Pottery generally keeps its primary colors and is rarely glazed. Glazed pottery, be careful not to choose too bright colors.

When choosing pottery, besides paying attention to the color of appearance, texture and feel are also very important. Only by coordinating the function, texture and color of tea set can we choose a perfect tea set.

2, the characteristics of porcelain tea set

Porcelain is fired with kaolin at high temperature, with smooth surface, thin and compact tire, few pores, low water absorption, fast heat transfer and moderate heat preservation, and tea can obtain better color and fragrance.

The porcelain is dense, and the tea taste is impartial, true and fair. Therefore, porcelain is the most widely used tea set, and all teas can be brewed without distorting the fragrance and taste.

Porcelain pays attention to "white as jade, bright as a mirror, loud as clear, thin as paper", and its surface is moist and clean. If it is irradiated with light, it can be judged as good porcelain.

Blue and white or painted porcelain, pay attention to the color is not bright, not dull, not shallow or deep: too bright, too dull and too thin; Too shallow and not deep enough.

In addition, pay attention to distinguish between underglaze color and underglaze color: underglaze color means that the pattern is under glaze, the surface feels smooth, and the painted pigment is not in direct contact with tea soup, so it is safe; Overglaze color painting on the glaze feels concave and convex. Generally used for viewing, excluding food.

3. How to choose the right tea set for different teas?

Green tea: Green tea is characterized by clear soup and green tea. When brewing, it is advisable to choose tea sets with thin walls, easy heat dissipation, dense texture, small porosity and difficult fragrance absorption, such as glasses and thin-embryo porcelain cups.

Scented tea: bowls, cups, pots and cups of celadon and blue and white porcelain.

Yellow tea: Mildly fermented tea with rich aroma and mellow taste. Purple sand is the best musical instrument to use.

Black tea: black tea should be brewed with white porcelain, and soup should be enjoyed in glass, which is convenient to set off its characteristics such as Bao Guang, Jin Yuan and Tang Se Hong.

White tea: Tea sets are simple and natural, and ceramics are the best, especially old white tea can be boiled and drunk in clay pots.

Oolong tea: choose a thin tire to cover the bowl for brewing and drink in a small cup. It can highlight its high fragrance.

Black tea: Black tea can be brewed or boiled. When it is matched with ceramic tea set or coarse sand purple sand tea set, it can remove the peculiar smell and make it more fragrant.

How to choose a good tea set 3 1 and tea tray

The choice of tea tray involves many problems, such as space size, budget, environment and so on. As one of the important elements in the teahouse, there is really too much room for choice. Generally speaking, tea trays are distinguished by materials, and there are roughly the following three types:

A. bamboo tea tray: the weather in the north is dry. If you don't use it for a long time, the bamboo tea tray will crack easily. Therefore, if you are not a northerner who often drinks tea, carefully choose a bamboo tea tray.

B, inkstone tea tray: At present, the inkstone market is chaotic, so choose carefully when buying. However, if you see your own inkstone tea tray, the price is acceptable, and it doesn't hurt to buy it, just don't always think about appreciation. However, the problem with this thing is that it is too hard. If you are not careful, it is easy to knock over the teacup and teapot, so you need to pay attention when using it.

C. Bakelite tea tray: Bakelite tea tray is widely used now; This is a phenolic plastic. You can pour hot water on it and smell it before you buy it. If it smells pungent, don't buy it.

2. Choice of tea-making equipment

Generally speaking, three things are basically used to make tea, namely teapot, bowl cover and glass.

A. teapot: it is characterized by convenient use, but it is best to use it exclusively for one pot, and only one kind of tea is brewed in one pot.

B. Bowling: Bowling has a wide range of applications and is suitable for any tea. You don't have to worry about the smell, but you have some skills (because it's easy to burn your hands if you don't use it well). If you want to find a good price/performance ratio, you must recommend the cover bowl of Fujian Dehua porcelain. Dehua white porcelain is white and bright. If you want to find Dehua porcelain objects in Taobao, you only need to screen the objects in Quanzhou, Fujian, and most of them are Dehua porcelain.

C. glass: it is basically used to make green tea or other tender tea.

To sum up, you can choose the right utensils according to your ability to make tea and the type of tea.

Step 3: Tea cups

The key point of the cup is the right size, thickness and weight.

The choice of white porcelain teacups makes it easy to observe the color of soup and looks very comfortable and elegant.

If you don't care about the color of soup and prefer simple teacups, there are many choices, such as celadon, Ge kiln, coarse pottery, imitation Ru kiln, purple sand and so on.

When choosing the shape of the cup, there will be many shapes of the cup, and you can choose according to your favorite. And the inner ring cup will be hotter.

4. Selection of other accessories

Other accessories, such as tea pets, tea washing, cup holders, coasters, Chaze, tea lotus, etc., can be added according to personal hobbies.

The history of tea sets

Lu Yu recorded many tea sets in the Book of Tea, including many tea-making utensils, including an air stove. The wind furnace is made of copper or iron, like a tripod. An ancient vessel with feet was called a tripod, and an air furnace looked like a tripod. The wall thickness of the air furnace is three points, the edge of the furnace mouth is nine points, the furnace is six points inward, and the lower gap is plastered.

The record of tea set in the Book of Tea shows that people have noticed tea set as early as the Tang Dynasty. In 1980s, a set of exquisite gold-plated silver tea set was unearthed in the underground palace of Famen Temple in Shaanxi, which is the earliest known tea set with the most complete combination and the highest grade in China.

This group includes the utensils used in the process of tea storage, baking, grinding, sieving, cooking and drinking, including tea cages, tea mills, tea rollers, tea stoves, teaspoons, teapots, tea bowls, saucers and seasoning containers, which are very close to the tea sets we see now.

In the Song Dynasty, according to the needs of tea tasting, people's attention to tea sets reached a peak. Before the Song Dynasty, the best porcelain was produced in Xingtai. After the Song Dynasty, Shaoxing porcelain in Zhejiang surpassed Xingtai porcelain.

Fighting tea was popular in Song Dynasty, and the most popular tea set was sword lamp. Pay attention to the color of tea when fighting tea, that is, the color of tea foam formed by the fusion of tea and tea soup. It is very popular because it is most suitable for matching with black floor lamps. There have been rabbit-eye lights and partridges. Because of the change of kiln, it has been loved by people so far.