Chapter 36 Chapter 36 Ziyun Tea

Ziyun tea is born on Ziyun Mountain, which is famous for the Laozu Temple on the mountain (the Laozu Temple was built in the Sui and Tang Dynasties), and it also benefits from the majesty of Ziyun Mountain with many bamboos, pine trees, rocks and fog. Dangerous, double-pointed side by side, the majestic stalwart of the double-pointed peaks, the beauty of the lotus land, and the clean water of the Xueyan Reservoir, the name of the temple, the temple has a mountain scenery, in the Ziyun Valley at an altitude of 1240 meters, Ziyun The tea is green and lush, vaguely in the coolness of milk mist.

Ziyun Valley is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and there is a big water in the middle. The Laozu Temple facing south and north is already in ruins, and three small temples have been erected on the ruins. From time to time, there are sounds of bells and drums, chickens and dogs barking in the valley, and birds. Words are intertwined, and they merge with the milky white mountain mist and wind around the clusters of purple cloud tea.There are several families in the southeast and northwest of the valley, and they are all from Ziyun Mountain Tea Farm.I came here one winter, originally for the Laozu Temple. At this time, the sunlight pierced through the thin clouds, and a beam of bright water in the Qingxi escaped under the cliff. Old man Liu Donghua brought a cup of purple cloud tea.

Drinking clear springs along the way, people are never thirsty, but they only have a glimpse of the green blossoms that gradually disappear into the sky like terraced fields, but they are suffering from a little thirst for greenness, and they want to drink the clusters of greenery in the sky. In my heart, I want to drink a valley of tranquility in my chest, I feel that this is a tea that can be drunk.The old man Liu Donghua was 73 years old in 2002. He insisted on using some purple cloud tea made by himself to entertain guests from afar. The mountains are all poured into the water of the Xueyanyan Reservoir. It is a mirror, and countless snow-white Bamangs are inlaid around it.

Sip leisurely, take a sip of tea without rushing to swallow, gently hold it in your mouth, the green air of Ziyun tea ripples slightly, rises curlingly, the green juice overflows, and the delicate feeling as thin as gossamer spreads through the blood vessels , I felt a sense of joy all over my body.The power of life is hidden in the green. Looking at the 73-year-old Liu Donghua, who is walking like flying, drinking a cup of purple cloud tea, he has a strong and clear spirit.After parting, the old man Liu Donghua gave me two taels of purple cloud tea, which is the tea leaves that grow in clusters among the rocks under the purple cloud, and I packed it.This Ziyun tea has undergone a series of processes of picking, cooling, picking, kneading, shaping, lifting, and baking by the hands of the old man. Some tea people praised it: the leaves are tender and green, the cords are tight and fine, and the grass tip Revealed, the color is emerald green, the soup color is light green and bright, the aroma is strong and long-lasting, the taste is sweet and mellow, the bottom of the leaf is green and neat, juicy and resistant to foaming.If the above words are not enough to prove Ziyun tea, Lu Yu, a tea sage, went to Ziyun Mountain to burn springs to taste tea twice during the Tianbao period. His book "Tea Classics" contains "Qizhou tea was born in Huangmei Valley".Deng Wenbin, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, often went to Ziyun Mountain to taste tea and watch waterfalls. In the third year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty, he inscribed "Longde and Hidden" on the waterfall watching rock, and wrote "Standing like a purple cloud, washing your heart like white snow". Nanyang Commoner".If so, I found that drinking tea is always the way of common people, and I couldn't help but think from my heart: common people return common clothes, and green tea depends on Ziyun.