The flowers in the world are in full bloom, but it takes time to slowly boil the tea.

On the first day of the holiday, whether the mud on Phuket Island was blocked on the road or in the scenic spot. Shaoyao didn't go anywhere today, cleaned the balcony at home, then made a cup of scented tea and read in the warm evening sun.

Cool early autumn, soak a cup of chrysanthemum tea, this day is like autumn clouds in the blue sky, slowly floated past, without a trace. At this time, it would be best to have one or two pots of chrysanthemums as companions.

Clear autumn afternoon is the most suitable for drinking scented tea. I haven't talked about scented tea with you for a long time. Today, Paeonia has found flowers of the four seasons to match the tea of the four seasons. No matter it is a busy holiday or a leisurely holiday, I always have to drink tea when I stop.

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04:00 scented tea

Flowers and tea have been inextricably linked since ancient times.

Since ancient times, people have been friends with tea and accompanied with flowers. later, the people of the Song Dynasty felt that instead of drinking tea with flowers, it would be better to put flowers into tea. From then on, there was not only the serenity of tea, but also the elegance of flowers. Flowers and tea, every time we meet is a reunion after a long separation.

In order to make tea fragrant with flowers, the ancients tried every means.

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Luo Lin in the Ming Dynasty said in "Tea interpretation": "the tea garden should not be mixed with evil wood, but only cassia, plum, magnolia, magnolia, rose, green pine, emerald bamboo and planting between them." The purpose of planting all kinds of fragrant flowers around the tea tree is to make the tea tree absorb the fragrance of the flowers through the underground root veins, so as to increase the aroma of the tea.

People also add flowers to their tea and even take candied fruits made of roses and peonies as refreshments. Later, people learned to use flowers to scent tea, tea to attract flowers, flowers to increase the flavor of tea, to complete the perfect combination of flowers and tea.

Figure 1.2 | Tea Road Maling

Scented tea, set tea flavor and flower fragrance in one, see the buds in the Mingjing tea soup floating, sinking, stretching, and finally blooming. With a sip of tea, the freshness of the tea and the fragrance of the flowers are refreshing and refreshing, and the soul is also washed away.

Chinese people are very particular about drinking tea. They should not only taste the tea, let the fragrance of flowers and trees flow in their hearts, but also realize the tacit understanding between man and heaven and earth at 04:00. Therefore, when people drink scented tea, they will also be on time in different seasons.

People put spring orchid, Xialian, autumn chrysanthemum and winter plum into tea respectively, so that the taste of the four seasons is in the tea.

/ Spring /

Orchids into tea, quiet and elegant

Empty valley quiet orchid, quiet and elegant, eating the rain and dew in the mountains, feeding the fragrance of the four seasons, known as "the first fragrance in the world" laudatory name, the ancients often used it to order tea (grind the tea into fine powder and place it with boiling water).

Picking mountain stream orchids

First soak in light salt water

Keep changing the water during the period.

After three or four days, take out the orchid and rinse it clean

Add a small amount when making tea

Its fragrance is so high that it leaves fragrance on lips and teeth after drinking.

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In spring, spring crabapple can also be added to tea. Begonia has no fragrance originally, but Kong you, a person of the Ming Dynasty, talked about the fragrance of the crabapple flowers in Xiangfeiting, Dazu County, Sichuan Province, which is very different in fragrance.

For those who are good at drinking tea, take the bluestone from Fujiang in Chongqing to make a tea mill, crush the snow brocade tea produced in Wulong, and then mix the crabapple flowers of Dazu to make the crabapple scented tea, which is absolutely abnormal.

Spring returns to the earth, and all things revive. After a long winter, people should ward off cold and evil, orchids into tea, smell pleasant fragrance, drink fresh and refreshing glycol, can dispel cold and exorcise evil, not only contribute to yang hair, but also uplift spirit.

A cup, a solution to the spring sleepy.

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/ summer /

Lotus flowers into tea, Zen meaning to spend the summer

In summer, "the lotus comes out of the mud but not dyed, Zhuo Qinglian but not demon", drinking wind to absorb dew, such as the Lingbo fairy who does not eat fireworks. In the heat of summer, only the breeze at the bottom of its flowers leaves people in a cool place; the scorching sun is burning, and only it sits in the water, making people see the flowers blooming like the Buddha.

Every sweaty afternoon, make a cup of lotus tea, which is not only a special drink in summer, but also the only drink that can meditate.

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In the six stories of floating Life, it is written: "when the lotus blossoms at the beginning of the summer moon, the lotus blossoms in the evening. Yun uses a small gauze bag to pinch leaves, buy a flower heart, take it out tomorrow morning, and soak it in Tianquan water, especially the fragrance." You can see not only the delicate mind of Yun Niang, but also the ingenious way of lotus tea.

Figure 1.2 | Flower work

As a matter of fact, as early as the Legend of Yunlin in the Ming Dynasty, it recorded the lotus tea made by Ni Yunlin in the Yuan Dynasty: "choose the lotus core slightly broken from the pond, poke it away with your fingers, fill it with tea, tie it with hemp, pick it for one night and pick it tomorrow morning." take tea paper to dry. "

To make lotus tea, before sunrise in the summer, quietly poke away the half-open lotus petals, put a handful of tea leaves in the stamens, and tie up the lotus flowers with fine hemp rope to keep the flowers from opening.

After one day in the sun, the lotus flowers were picked again the next morning, and now the tea has been full of fragrance all night long. After it is poured out and dried, it becomes a first-class lotus tea.

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The Compendium of Materia Medica records that Lotus Tea can "calm the mind and calm the mind, nourish the face and lighten the body". Hot summer, sweating a lot, we must replenish a lot of water, at this time to soak a cup of lotus tea, bitter cold, fresh and refreshing, not only clear heat and relieve fever, but also invigorate body to quench thirst, restless heart also calms down.

One cup, as soon as you enter Zen.

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/ chrysanthemum /

Chrysanthemum into tea, sincerely concerned about

In the golden autumn, the flowers converge, only the chrysanthemums are yellow and beautiful, and the petals spread out layer upon layer in the sun, such as the warm autumn sun.

It is said that people are prone to sad autumn and lovesickness, but a cup of chrysanthemum tea with autumn flavor can solve a thousand worries, chrysanthemum fragrance in the heart like warm sun, Chongyang Denggao drink chrysanthemum tea, you can also send Acacia.

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It is necessary to make chrysanthemum tea in golden autumn.

When the chrysanthemum is in bud

Seal the bud with burnt wax

Don't keep it open.

When the flowering season is almost over

Take off the chrysanthemum bud

Then use boiling water to bubble the wax on the bud.

Order tea with this unopened chrysanthemum bud

The fragrance is strong, full-bodied and durable, and it is a rare wonder.

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Xiao kill in autumn, dry air, dry autumn makes people's skin, nasopharynx dry uncomfortable, at this time a cup of chrysanthemum tea, bright color, rich endoplasm, neither cold nor hot, drink can moisturize the skin and remove dryness, rise and moisten the lungs, the heart is instantly relieved, take advantage of the cool breeze, sigh this good autumn light, who says autumn can not beat the spring dynasty? "A crane in a clear sky will draw poetic feelings to the blue sky."

A cup, a solution to sorrow.

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/ Winter /

Plum blossom into tea, elegant and warm

It is cold in winter, and the plum blossoms before it blossoms.

Since ancient times, scholars love its noble and unyielding, people even with plum blossom into tea, soak in boiling water, add the right amount of honey, invigorate body and quench thirst, clear heat and moisturize dryness. In the days when it snows heavily and there is nothing to open the door, it is full of the elegance and warmth of winter.

Pick half-blossom plum blossoms in winter

Put the whole flower in a container

Sprinkle the flowers with the same proportion of salt

Don't touch it with your hands.

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Seal the container with thick paper

Store in a cool, dry place.

Take out the salted plum blossom in the coming year

Soak in honey instead

Add one or two when cooking tea, it is extremely fragrant.

In winter, the wind is cold, the sky is cold, and the human body is in a state of attraction, slow metabolism and easy to suffer from "cold disease". At this time, cooking snow and boiling a cup of plum blossom tea can heat up and warm up, and solve the "frozen" state. If a few pieces of plum blossom petals are sprinkled in the tea, the tea soup is green, the plum petals are like snow, the fragrance of flowers and tea is clear and fragrant, and the fragrance is also very elegant.

A cup, a warm embrace.

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When the tea did not meet the flower, the tea book was just tea, and the flower book was just a flower. Because of the Chinese people's brilliance, the flowers were put into the tea. From then on, there was a summer in the tea, an autumn in the tea, a winter in hiding, and a spring in pregnancy.

It is only when flowers are added to tea in the four seasons that I find out

It is not only tea and flowers, but morning dew among flowers.

It is the light smoke at the tip of the leaf, and the breeze on the river.

It is the setting sun, like the water and the moonlight

It is not only the natural things, but also the vicissitudes of time.

But also a heart to enjoy the four seasons.

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