Chapter 94 Yunnan Pu'er

I tasted tea a few years ago, but now I have changed to reading tea.The new kind of tea sent by friends, taste twice, no longer drink for a long time, when you are bored with reading, just open the tea package, smell the tea fragrance, and smoke the tea, it is enough. Always keep the words, somewhat boring, occasionally get together with friends, talk more about food, wine, tea, and tobacco, and filter through the secular world.Back in front of the pile of books, he faced the wall and thought about words again, cautiously.Friends know that I used to be fond of drinking and drinking tea. When I was on a business trip, they would often bring different teas and wines to send me back to Changsha.Brother Long went to Yunnan for more than half a month, and brought back a small box of Pu'er as a present for me. The box is also ordinary and exquisite. The tea is made into granules, which are as small as iron pellets.I've smelled it several times, and it's sweet and greasy.After more than a year, my wife rummaged through the boxes and cabinets, found this tea, and asked me what kind of tea it was.When I am interested, I will drink two cups with my wife.

My wife loves food and often comments on food.Let her drink Pu'er today to satisfy her sense of taste. Pu-erh tea is processed from Yunnan big-leaf sun-dried green tea. The shape is thick and fat, and the color is dark or brownish red, commonly known as pig liver color.The taste is mellow and sweet, and the aroma is strong. The inner soup is red and bright, and the bottom of the leaves is brownish red. It is placed in a glass bottle and radiates after shaking. Pu'er tea has health care effects, can lose weight, and has good pharmacological effects.According to "Compendium of Materia Medica Supplements": "Pu'er tea is warm and fragrant, bitter in nature, detoxifies greasy cattle and sheep, and is forbidden for people with deficiency. Bitter and astringent expels phlegm, scrapes intestines and relieves diarrhea. Pu'er tea paste is as black as lacquer, and it is the first to sober up. The green ones are better for digestion and phlegm, clearing the stomach and promoting body fluids, especially the energy."

Pu-erh tea is actually a kind of old tea, which can be stored for a long time, and there is a saying that the longer the better.In order to take advantage of this characteristic of Pu'er, people often buy a large amount of tea and store it at home, and then eat it after a few years.There is a saying that Pu-erh tea is "grandfather's tea, grandson sells it". Pu'er tea appeared earlier and has a long history and culture. In the Tang Dynasty, Pu'er tea in Yunnan began to be planted and produced on a large scale, and it was called Pu'er tea at that time. In the Ming Dynasty, the reputation of Pu'er tea was even greater.With the Pu'er area in Yunnan as the center and radiating to home and abroad, five famous ancient tea-horse roads have been formed, namely, the Tea-Horse Avenue, the Jianglai Tea Road, the Dry Season Tea Road, the Mengla Tea Road, and the Jingdong Tea Road.Pu'er tea is exported to countries and regions such as Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, France, the United Kingdom, North Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and enjoys a world-renowned reputation.

In the Qing Dynasty, Pu'er tea reached its first heyday and became a royal tribute tea, which was given to foreign envoys as a national gift.Puyi once said, "drink Longjing in summer and Pu'er in winter".Pu'er tea is most suitable for sitting around the stove in winter, chatting and drinking tea while roasting the fire. The bitterness, joy and leisure of life are all infused into the tea, which further reveals the culture and taste of tea. In 1975, a major change took place in Pu-erh tea, from only producing raw Pu-erh tea to producing both raw Pu-erh tea and cooked Pu-erh tea.

Raw Pu is the abbreviation of Pu'er raw tea. It is made from the fresh leaves of the large-leaf tea tree in Yunnan as raw materials. It is made into tea through processes such as killing, rolling, drying in the sun, and autoclaving. It includes loose tea and pressed tea. Pure and long-lasting, rich and sweet aftertaste, clear green-yellow soup, thick yellow-green leaf bottom. Shupu is the abbreviation of Pu'er cooked tea. It is made of Yunnan big-leaf sun-dried green tea as raw material. It is fermented into loose tea and pressed tea through fermentation. , uniform reddish-brown leaf bottom.

The traditional production process of Pu'er tea includes tea picking, killing green, rolling, drying, screening, steam pressing, drying, etc.; Pressed type, final drying, etc., because of different times, the production differences are relatively large. Pu-erh tea is somewhat similar to black tea, but the raw materials of the tea leaves are different.Dark tea is primary raw tea made from thick, old and fresh leaves of small-leaf tea trees. Puer tea is reprocessed tea made from large-leaf sun-dried green tea, which is naturally fermented and aged or fermented artificially. kind.Dark tea is mainly for border sales, while Puer tea is for border sales, domestic sales and export sales.Pu-erh tea has six characteristics of origin, variety, raw material, shape, quality, and drinking, while black tea only has fermentation.

Drinking Pu'er tea requires a lot of patience and leisure to feel the taste and taste of Pu'er tea.The tea taste of Pu'er tea is difficult to soak out the tea soup, and the time spent is the value of Pu'er tea.To drink Pu-erh tea, the first prerequisite is that there must be boiling water, which is brewed with boiling spring water. The first brewed tea is too astringent, so it is generally not drunk; the second brewed tea is dark red, like the tea in a bottle. The red wine glows faintly; the third brew of tea is bright in color, like red wine poured into a high-heeled glass, rippling with blue light.The second brew is generally too strong for people to drink, and it is often mixed with the third brew.The first time you drink Pu'er, you can drink the tea after the fourth brew.After the fourth brew, add one brew every 15 seconds. A good Pu’er can be brewed for a hundred brews. It only takes half a day to make a cup of tea. It tests people’s patience and tastes the culture and atmosphere of tea.

Drink Pu-erh tea, it is best to start half an hour after a meal, and you will not feel hungry or feel uncomfortable on an empty stomach after drinking it. , anti-aging, anti-radiation, sober up, beauty and other functions.The soaked tea leaves can be used as waste to make pigments, dyes, organic fertilizers, detergents, etc. According to the storage method, Pu’er tea can be divided into dry warehouse Pu’er tea and wet warehouse Pu’er tea. According to the appearance, it can be divided into Manchu Qing Emperor Qizi cake tea, Tuo tea, brick tea, pumpkin tribute tea, Qianliang tea and loose tea. Ripe Pu, dispersed tea and pressed tea according to the type system.

Pu'er tea is a tea unique to the Pu'er region of Yunnan Province.There is still a popular saying in Kunming that "it's better to look good than plain clothes, and it's better to eat rice with ochazuke". Pu'er tea can also be used in dishes, mainly to remove greasy, cleanse the stomach, and add a mellow aroma to the dishes.In Guangzhou and Hong Kong, there are many Pu-erh tea dishes. In Taiwan, there is a series of "Pu-erh dishes", including Pu-erh chicken, Pu-erh fish, Pu-erh shellfish, Pu-erh eggs, and Pu-erh Buddha jumping over the wall.The more popular ones are Pu'er elbow, chrysanthemum Pu'er smoked pigeon, Pu'er stewed pork ribs, and Pu'er tea porridge.

My wife and I were chatting anecdotes about Pu-erh tea, feeling the taste of Pu-erh tea, and drank 30 brews without knowing it.