Chapter 26 Chengdu Tea Flavor

Everyone knows that the teahouses in Chengdu are very famous all over the country, so many people who like to relax go to Chengdu to experience the fun of drinking tea.I am a playful person. Except for my own publishing business, I spend my rest of my time wandering around on fun, doing business of tasting food and leisure in the world, and preparing a post-therapy course for my thinking. When I stayed in Changsha, I seldom went to teahouses to feel the fashion and warmth, and I still competed for seats in restaurants to taste delicious food.A few years ago, I switched from drinking tea to drinking boiled water. Occasionally, a friend gave me a box of famous tea, but I rarely drank it.If friends come a lot and are happy for a while, it’s okay to make a pot for everyone and taste it with them.Once, a friend told me that people’s desire is often to eat meat. If you eat more meat, your desire will expand.I hope that I will live a simple life and have less extravagant thoughts, so I will lower my eating level and hang out in fast food restaurants for a long time.

After living in Chengdu for half a month, there are many teahouses all over the street, and I thought of the taste of tea again.In the tea world, I used to go crazy for it.That was 8 years ago. When I saw a good tea, I wanted to keep it for myself. There are many famous teas in my family. When friends come to visit, they must buy tea.Now living in the hometown of tea tasting, I have to linger in the past, wanting to associate with tea again, to see if there is a destiny. In August 2007, I met Zhu Xiaojian, the editor of "Chengdu Guest" magazine in Chengdu. He took me to a teahouse as soon as he came out of the office.His office is on Hongxing Road of the "Chengdu Daily" newspaper group, which is a bustling area and the cultural center of Chengdu.We found a window seat at Tianhe Teahouse and wanted to have a little chat.The teahouse is relatively quiet, there are not many people, and the decoration is elegant, and there is a sense of casualness and comfort at home.

The teahouses in Changsha are no longer very elegant places. Changsha people regard it as a place of entertainment, and the things they do in teahouses are mostly entertainment.Chengdu, however, dresses up teahouses as beauties, and it has become a favorite thing for the common people, and it is also a shelter that the common people love to go to. Elegant and vulgar can be integrated into the life of tea, creating the characteristics of Chengdu. After visiting many cities in Sichuan, I realized that not only is there a lot of teahouses in Chengdu, but there are also many teahouses in other cities.In Sichuan, the business of teahouses may not be very good, and the bosses will insist on poor management. That may be the strength of the survival of Sichuan teahouses and the teahouse owners have always maintained a tea-like state of mind.I have read some information. There are 7,000 teahouses in the urban area of ​​Chengdu, and 30,000 teahouses in the entire city of Chengdu.These leisure and play places are almost all over the streets and alleys, and they are also crowded with the lives of every Chengdu person. Teahouse life has become a part of Chengdu people's life.I also found that the existence of teahouses has a certain relationship with the popularity of mahjong.Chengdu people generally have a lazy attitude towards life. They spend a lot of time playing mahjong, drinking tea while playing mahjong. The fun is transmitted from the mahjong pieces, making life more enjoyable.

I have considered the historical reasons for the formation of Chengdu teahouses: in the jungle grassland of the Yunnan, Sichuan and Tibet triangles in the high mountains and valleys of the Hengduan Mountains, there is an ancient tea horse road. Had a lot of effects.Although Chengdu is far away from the ancient tea road, chieftains of ethnic minorities collect tea in Chengdu and transport it to Ya'an.In places where tea gathers, there must be a lot of people relying on tea for survival, and tea cannot be used as food or condiment to eat in large quantities, but can only be brewed and drunk, so there is a need for teahouses.There is also a place to make tea for business tasting. If you need to specialize, you have to go to a teahouse.

I sat in a modern teahouse with Brother Zhu Xiaojian, talking about the disappearance of those traditional teahouses and how to preserve the teahouses that have the habits and hobbies of our current life. I feel very embarrassed.I had to talk to him about my views on the book, but I still spent most of my time enjoying the taste and posture of others drinking tea to satisfy our tea-tasting pleasure. Sitting in a teahouse, there are not all men. Sometimes there are more women than men, and some even bring their children to drink tea, enjoying the leisure life and hobbies of our current people, playing cards and mahjong or talking about love, even the formality of the family It can also be lost.

We came out of the teahouse and walked to the street. Looking at the densely packed teahouses, I felt like I could smell a strong tea smell, which is the smell and breath of Chengdu.