Summer Scenery Photography: Tang Xiaoliu
Today is in the lurch. It seems that the temperature of 40.9 degrees in Shanghai in the past few days is just a preview of this summer. I have always wanted to write an article about what kind of tea to drink in summer, so yesterday I asked many tea drinkers and non-tea drinkers for their opinions on what tea to drink in summer. The feedback was very interesting. Tea drinkers (tea drinkers here specifically refer to The answer from people who have a tea mountain tea factory at home and are engaged in the tea industry is: " I'm not that particular. ". Some tea people said: "I just drink the tea I make at home!" Non-tea people are very particular, Speaking of summer, you should drink scented tea, chrysanthemum tea , honeysuckle tea , green tea, old white tea . There is also a list of teas to drink in the morning, afternoon and evening. Some non-tea drinkers answered very honestly: "A gift from a friend. Drink whatever tea you are given." It is indeed the truth. This is basically the case for many non-tea people.
The character "summer" in seal script
Back to today's topic, what kind of tea do you drink in summer? This is a specific solar term, "Small summer leads to big heat, steaming at the top leads to boiling at the bottom!" Let's take a look at our Chinese character "热" first. There are two characters for "日" on the top and bottom, and a character for "土" in the middle plus a stroke. , meaning the heat seeps into the soil. Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that the heat of summer is "steaming at the top and cooking at the bottom". "Su" in English is "hot" or "heat", heat stroke is called "heatstroke", and extreme heat is called "heating hot".
Interpretation of "summer" From "Hanzi Tong" edited by Gu Jianping
So, what kind of tea should you drink in summer? This brings us to the efficacy of tea. The "100 Questions on Chinese-English Bilingual Tea Knowledge" compiled by the China Tea Society in 2019 talks about 23 effects of tea. Professor Lin Qianliang of Zhejiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine summarized it based on more than 500 historical materials. There are 24 functions of tea, including the functions of "relieving heat", "clearing away heat", "relieving inflammation", "promoting body fluid" and so on. In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, tea belongs to the category of " blindly makes a prescription", that is, a piece of medicinal material is a prescription. This is very rare in traditional Chinese medicine, because there is a saying in our traditional Chinese medicine: " piece of medicine cannot be separated from licorice" . see it? What kind of tea do you drink in summer? Tea people say it well: " doesn't care about !" Just tea will do. Of course, considering the freshness of the tea, green tea is a better choice. So, how to drink it? Lu Yu " The Classic of Tea " has something to say about the five principles of cooking: "Do drink tea continuously while it is hot" (Do drink tea continuously while it is hot).
NO TEA, NO LIFE
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Calligraphy works by Mr. Jiang Min of China Academy of Art
