During the process of learning and tasting tea, we will make many different friends and find that everyone has their own understanding and opinions on tea. Among them are insightful and one-sided views, which are difficult for beginners to distinguish, and those who go astray can

During the process of learning and tasting tea, we will make many different friends, and we will also find that everyone has their own understanding and opinions on tea. Among them are insightful and one-sided views, which are difficult for beginners to distinguish, and those who go astray can find it even more difficult for them to extricate themselves. Especially for beginners, you should first know some common personal prejudices to avoid getting started astray.

In our Sichuan, many old tea shops like to drink jasmine tea . After drinking for a long time, I basically don’t accept any other tea. I think other teas are not good and sell them at a very high price, which is simply a fool. The reason is that ordinary jasmine tea is mainly made of coarse and old green tea with jasmine flowers. Its characteristic is that it has a high fragrance and strong flavor. After drinking it for a long time, no tea tastes tasteless. You can't feel the floral, honey, craftsmanship and other characteristics that come with other teas. It’s like eating essence meat, but the original flavor is not delicious.

Many old tea shops in Fujian only have high-end Rock Tea in their eyes. Even the well-known local Fuding White Tea feels it is hard to swallow and is not worth mentioning at all. But the main reason why white tea exists is not the layering of drinking, but the effect of old tea . It is said that , old white tea , which has been stored for more than 7 years, has the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving cough, so ordinary people in the tea area usually add some white tea in case of emergency needs. It can be seen that the efficacy is not necessarily proportional to the taste of drinking.

There are also many old tea lovers who drink green tea, only look at old young people. Since the high-end products of green tea are mainly buds, especially , buds, so as long as you see others drinking older tea, such as one bud and two leaves, one bud and one leaf, etc., it will be regarded as non-high-end products. However, fermented or post-fermented tea such as rock tea (green tea), white tea, black tea, etc. all require different old and tender leaves. Only through unique processes can we produce advanced feelings such as layers, changes, somatosensory, and charm that we pursue when tasting, rather than a single tender fragrance. Drinking tea only looks at old age and young people, just like looking at people only looks, not abilities and morality.

Many paranoid tastes are habitual reactions caused by beautiful misunderstandings. We found in Tea Mountain in Yunnan that some old tea customers wanted to find Pu'er tea with a smoky flavor. At first we thought it was a faint tobacco smell transformed from high-end ancient tree tea after storage, but the customer said it was not. So we asked the customer to provide samples. After drinking the samples, it is very certain that the tea process is problematic. The main reason is that during the completion and drying process, the tea inhales the smoke smell of firewood, so the tea will smell strong when it drinks. Of course, this kind of tea is generally still a traditional process, and this is basically not the case in large factories for mechanical production. In other words, the essence of the tea is not bad, or it is long enough, otherwise it will not be done manually. Even if it has a smell of tobacco, the tea has a sweet and sweet flavor, a sense of layering, and tea flavor. When customers get used to drinking it, they think that good tea has a smell of tobacco.

When dealing with these very one-sided tea lovers, novices are easily brought into the trap. However, these people also have a cute side, which is that they like to drink tea, spread tea culture, and like to share. But when novices get started, they must learn some basic skills and understand the craftsmanship of the six major tea categories. The logic behind common sense and special cases will be clear, and they will naturally be able to distinguish whether the information they receive is correct or not. To drink good tea, you must break through one-sided concepts, be brave to explore, and make progress naturally.

Zhuangzi expressed a point in " Qiwu Theory ": It is difficult to judge who is right and who is wrong. Even if you find someone to referee, how can you ensure that the referee is correct? Just like the current dispute between traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, many people think that Western medicine is scientific. Why? Because there is a test form.However, the test results are just science, not science, but data given by modern inspection equipment. Moreover, this kind of equipment is basically eliminated or improved every year, proving that the accuracy of the equipment is not ideal, so it must be updated continuously. Although traditional Chinese medicine has no data, which is the experience and technology of doctors, it cannot be said to be non-scientific, but it can only be said to be non-standardized. However, everyone's situation is different. Before the data has developed to 100% correctness, doctors still have to diagnose it artificially. It requires humans, experience and technology. Therefore, both traditional Chinese and Western medicine are the same. They must be result-oriented, not superficial data-oriented. Only by mastering more knowledge and technology can we broaden our horizons and break through our one-sided cognition.