What are the steps of tea art?
The eighteen steps of making tea are as follows: The first step: Sizhu Heming prepares tea sets, hangs pictures, lights incense, plays music, and waits for guests. There is a saying that a tea party is "one session at a time". Every tea party may be the only one in your life, so you must prepare with a very pious heart and wait for the arrival of the guests with a joyful heart. Step 2: Welcome the guests. Turn on the water boiler, place the cup and place it in position. The purpose of learning tea art is to improve one's quality of life, so making tea must be in order and the movements must be elegant. The third step: Linquan pine fengshui boils. Lu Yu's "Tea Classic" says that water boils three times. Sit quietly by the fire and listen to the sound of the water. The first boiling sound is like the eyes of a fish, the sound of the water is gurgling like a singing spring, and the second and third boiling sounds are gradually rushing and surging, like the rustling autumn wind sweeping through the pine forest. Step 4: Meng Chen is warm and warm. Warm it first, then add tea leaves to brew hot water later, so as to avoid the difference between hot and cold. The Ming Dynasty master craftsman Hui Mengchen made the Mengchen teapot, which is one of the four treasures of Gongfu tea. Step 5: Appreciate high-quality tea. There are four steps to evaluate tea. First, appreciate the dry tea. To treat guests with good tea, guests should first look at the tea leaves. The shiny and beautiful tea leaves are already fascinating before they are brewed. Step 6: Bring the best tea into the palace and put it in the pot. Palace means room. Su Shi once said in a poem: "Good tea has always been like a beautiful woman." Putting the tea leaves gently in the pot is like inviting a beautiful woman to walk lightly into the room with lotus steps, and the room will be filled with fragrance. Step 7: Soak in the moistening fragrant tea. Warm the tea first and loosen the tightly knotted tea leaves, so that the tea soup will remain the same intensity every time you make it in the future. Step 8: Pour the warm and fragrant tea from the lotus pond into the sea of tea. Although the sea of tea is small, when the tea soup is poured into it, the fragrance of tea will hit your face, which can wash away confusion, clear your mind, and eliminate worries. Step 9: The melody is elegant. When making tea, the moving lines of both hands are based on the principle of drawing circles inward, just like the melody of music, drawing elegant arcs to express rhythmic movement. Step 10: Mu Lin Ou cup warm cup. The host pours the warm tea water in the tea sea evenly into the scent cup. The guest pours the tea in the scent cup into the tea tasting cup with his left hand, and then pours the tea in the tea tasting cup into the tea cup with his right hand. middle. If Shenou is one of the four treasures of Gongfu tea, it is a small cup for drinking tea. While waiting for the first time to make tea, smell the aroma and warm your hands. When making tea, you need to pay attention to the balance of movements, so use your left hand to operate the scent cup, and your right hand to operate the tea cup; your left hand operates the water boiler, and your right hand operates the main infuser to show the balance of the movements of the left and right hands. Step 11: Cooking and fragrant tea Warm the tea. The tea is first poured into the tea sea and then poured into the guest cups, so that the concentration of the tea soup in each guest's cup is the same, so the tea sea is also called the fair cup. Step 12: Tea sea Cihang divides the tea into cups. The host pours tea from the sea of tea evenly into each guest's scented cup. The Chinese say: "The tea is poured seven-tenths full, the wine eight-tenths full, and the rice nine-tenths full." When the host pours tea, there is no distinction between rich and poor. Each guest pours seven percent full, from the same pot. Brewing tea soup of the same thickness is like Guanyin's enlightenment, and all living beings are equal. Step 13: Pass the hot soup across the bridge, smell the aroma, and pour the tea soup into the tea cup. Step 14: Watch the color of the soup in the cup. The tea soup of good tea is clear and bright, ranging from emerald green, honey green to golden, which is a pleasure to watch. Step 15: Smell the fragrance of the valley. The bottom of the tall-mouthed fragrance cup is like a valley full of flowers. As the temperature gradually decreases, it emits different fragrances, including high-temperature fragrance, medium-temperature fragrance, and cold fragrance, which are worth experiencing in detail. Step 16: Listen to the taste and taste the tea, taste three words, drink in small sips, and appreciate the beauty of the tea with your heart. Step 17: Taste again and again The beauty of tea art includes spiritual and material levels, that is, sensory enjoyment and humanistic satisfaction. Therefore, when tasting tea, you should concentrate on it, with eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind, and all-round input. Sip a cup of tea in at least three sips slowly and drink up the tea in the cup. Step 18: Sit quietly and reflect with Jingqing, and have endless fun. There is a saying that tea parties are "one time, one meeting". Every tea party may be the only one in a lifetime. Gathering to drink tea is fate and blessing. We bond with tea and support each other with blessings. With a pure heart and sincerity, in peace , in a peaceful atmosphere, enter a worry-free Zen state.