Life is always accompanied by spring, summer, autumn and winter, romantic nights, ups and downs. There are successes and failures; There are laughter and tears; There are complacency and frustration; There are good times and bad times; There are flowers and thorns. ...
The key is what kind of mentality to face. When you succeed, you will be arrogant; When you fail, you will be depressed and depressed; Some people regard such people as "inferior" when they are divided into upper, middle and lower classes according to their personality.
Deeply understand the truth that "fascinated people say that smart people are willing to do things", but they don't take the initiative to understand; How steady and less enterprising; To say the least, it's useless even to protect ourselves wisely. Either the tiger's ass can't be touched or the elephant's ass can't be pushed. Some people regard such people as "China products";
Who can be the "top grade"? -victory is not arrogant, and defeat is not arrogant.
The virtue that winners need is temperance, and it is "thinking big, not taking the path"; The virtue a loser needs is perseverance. "Use great wisdom to break the dust." The latter is more valuable than the former, and it is the best annotation to the personality of top people.
Tea has always been my favorite thing: it is a natural aesthetic taste, it is an elegant cultural atmosphere, it is a pure spiritual realm, it is a beautiful poem, it is a moral spiritual quality.
However, what I appreciate most is not the difficult process of planting tea in the ground, picking tea in hand, frying in the pot and stewing in the pot, but the portrait of life that "lives in a cup" and dedicates one's life. It is a kind tea heart.
People should be like tea, no matter what, they need to have a kind tea heart.
"Character is tea, and tea is human" is absolutely right!
Chayun life
The tea is graceful and elegant, simple and simple, with a color like spring clouds and a taste like orchids. Forget your worries with incense, and be light and comfortable. Have a leisurely cup of fragrant tea and enjoy the insipid charm of the world. The leisure poetry and life interest contained in it, and the charm of Jing Ya's leisure, simplicity, nature and comfort are beyond words!
Since ancient times, many literati have pursued the ultimate realm of life. Chyi Chin, calligraphy, painting, smoking, drinking, drinking and tasting tea are highly respected by Chinese people for their spiritual connotations of "harmony", "quietness", "elegance" and "truth". The taste of tea shows the true meaning of China people's natural modesty and elegant life. Tea shows the highest state of China people's pursuit of "harmony between man and nature" and selflessness. Tea is the heart, tea is people, and tea is the true meaning of life in China.
Tea must be "harmonious" "Harmony" comes from the meaning of "protecting harmony" in Zhouyi. Everything in the world is the transformation of yin and yang, and the five elements are harmonious and balanced, that is, the harmony in tea. The harmony of tea is respected by Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. The Confucian doctrine of the mean is the "harmony" of tea, which emphasizes moderation, food insecurity, and "sensitivity to things and caution to words" (Xuewen). Affinity to nature, "fishing without nets, cruising without filming." Affinity to others, "use it with courtesy, and harmony is precious" ("Learn from time to time"). Taoism's "harmony between man and nature" and "knowing harmony and speaking" are the harmony of tea. Laozi thought: "Everything is negative and holds Yang, while anger is thought to be harmonious." "Saints follow the world, are not confined to vulgarity, do not seduce others, and value harmony." In other words, harmony between Yin and Yang breeds everything, and harmony between Yin and Yang is the foundation of everything in the world. It respects the affinity with nature and pursues the concepts of "harmony between man and nature" and "extreme harmony". After Buddhism was introduced into China, it gradually merged with Chinese culture, with a strong color of Central Plains culture. Buddhism takes "harmony" as the concept and advocates the practice of "the middle way and the wonderful principle". In the Nine Volumes of Zaagama, the Buddha was quoted as saying: "Practice and suffering should be equal, and we should not be idle." In the Infinite Sutra, the Buddha warned people to live sincerely: "Father, son, brother, wife and relatives at home and abroad should love each other, without hatred, communication and greed, and always talk to each other." This is the philosophy of neutralization. Tea tasting in China, a word of "harmony", tells the highest realm of life pursued by China people. Compared with those belligerent countries, China people can be said to be a modest gentleman!
Tea must be "quiet" "To the virtual pole, keep static Benedict, everything and life, I to see its complex. In the final analysis, everything is still quiet and quiet. " (Laozi's language) "The water is quiet, the candle is bright, the level is accurate, and the master takes the method. The water is quiet and bright, but the spirit is good. The peace of mind of saints, the mirror of heaven and earth, the mirror of all things. " (Zhuangzi) "Quiet" is a concentrated expression of Taoist quietism. Tea tasting is a quiet word, refreshing in the quiet center, realizing the Tao in the quiet, seeking truth in the quiet, cultivating temperament and shaping self-esteem in the quiet. In ancient China, scholars of all ages talked about "quietness" in tea tasting. Song Huizong and Evonne wrote in "Daguan Tea Theory": "Tea is a kind of thing ... diluted, leisurely and clean, with high and quiet rhyme." The poem "To Li Taishou" in the ancient jade said: "chayuan is quiet, and' Yi' medicine hall is spring." Xu Zhenqing said in the poem "Try Tea in Autumn Night": "The quiet courtyard is cold, and the wind blows the bamboo moon. There is no cloud liquid in the stuffy, and the copper leaves are idle. " The "tranquility" pursued by tea people should be the combination of peace of mind and natural landscape. For example, Su Dongpo wrote in the poem "Yoshioka Fried Tea": "Living water needs to be cooked with live fire, and the fish and stone are deep and bright; A big ladle stores the moon and spring urn, and a small spoon divides the river and the night bottle. Snow milk has been stir-fried, and the wind suddenly pours; It is not easy to ban three bowls of heartbroken, and it is longer to lie in the mountain city. " In this quiet atmosphere of natural landscape, the poet achieved physical and mental peace. When fragrant tea permeates all around and permeates the poet's soul, the ethereal, quiet and leisurely feeling makes the poet enter the so-called "harmony between man and nature".
The taste of tea is pleasant. "Escape" refers to physical and mental pleasure. Tea tasting is a pleasure that appeals to both refined and popular tastes. Set piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, tobacco, alcohol and poetry in one, singing the moon, drinking wine, enjoying flowers and paintings, playing chess and playing the piano. Tea tasting by the elite focuses on the treasure of tea, which is intended to show off wealth and be arty; Literati value the charm of tea and pursue spiritual pleasure, aiming to express their feelings, stimulate their thinking and make friends; Tea tasting in Taoism and Buddhism emphasizes virtue, aiming at meditation and seeking Tao, and turning Buddha into immortal. For ordinary people, tasting tea means tasting its taste, which is intended to quench their thirst and enjoy life. But no matter what class, in the process of tea tasting, they can achieve "pleasure" and get physical pleasure and spiritual comfort and comfort.
Seeking truth by tasting tea. Taoism pays attention to "embracing simplicity and containing truth" and "returning to nature". Zhuangzi has a saying: "Real people are subject to heaven. Naturally, it is not easy. Therefore, the sage's law is precious and true, not limited to vulgarity "("Zhuangzi Yu Wen "). Tea tasting is not only the tea itself, but also a formal truth, especially the tea ceremony and spiritual truth. Tea tasting should cultivate one's self-cultivation, be sincere and realistic, be the same as nature, be true to tea, be sincere to people, be true to nature and follow the rules. The pursuit of truth in tea tasting is to reach the realm described in Tao Qian's poem Drinking: "Building a house is human, but there are no chariots and horses. What can you do? The heart is far from being self-centered. Picking chrysanthemums under the east fence, you can see Nanshan leisurely. The mountains are getting better and better, and the birds are back. There is a real meaning in this, and I have forgotten what I want to say. "
Three realms of drinking tea
Drinking tea can be roughly divided into three realms:
1, drinking tea: Just to quench your thirst or protect your health, gulping tea is called drinking.
2. Tea tasting or kungfu tea: I pay great attention to tea, tea sets and so on. , and carefully appreciate and taste. But mainly material enjoyment and physical enjoyment.
3, tea ceremony: the heart is as quiet as water, tea Zen blindly, tea is the heart. Mainly spiritual, or the process of tea ceremony is also a process of practice. At this time, tea and tea set are not the most important, even a glass of water can be a tea ceremony! It doesn't matter whether you drink or not.
Tea ceremony and tea Zen were put forward by Buddhists. In fact, only Buddhists, especially those who have studied Zen, can get good taste. Generally speaking, the tea ceremony only depends on its form and its fur.
Understanding life and tea through cognition
With a long history, tea has been changing since its birth. From the original black tea to the present milk tea, it has spread to foreign countries from China. Tea culture is worth learning and sharing. Tea has changed from a cultural symbol to real life. Tea is a real color and smell, and tea is a natural and appropriate life and mood.
Although I drank a lot of tea, I still only drank tea. I like to sit alone and drink tea slowly, like to drink slowly in the silence of the teahouse, like to taste new tea alone, and like to drink tea alone. There is a cup of tea, there is a quiet, taste tea in one's quiet, and then taste life and world life because of tea.
Drinking tea is a pleasure. When you are upset and exhausted, make a cup of tea. Slowly watch the tea spread its body and branches in the water, bloom beautiful flowers, and watch the yellow petals dye through the whole glass of water. The tea culture in China is extensive and profound, from the tea songs and ballads in The Book of Songs to Lu Yu's Tea Classic, Wen's Tea Picking Record and even Daguan Tea Classic. From camellia to tea set, from tea classics to tea songs, it can be seen that tea culture has a long history in China.
There are many kinds of teas in China, mainly black tea, green tea and scented tea. Green tea includes good tea, Mao Feng, Maojian tea and Longjing tea. Black tea is fermented from green tea, and scented tea is mainly jasmine tea and chrysanthemum tea. Good tea is fragrant, tangible and colored, and another allusion is famous tea. Among the five flavors of tea, the fragrance is the main one, and the fragrance, light fragrance and strong fragrance have their own flavors.
Black tea is usually thicker and more bitter than green tea. Its strong tea color is dark brown, its taste is long and vigorous, and there is another kind of simplicity and roughness. Brick tea is said to be cooked in an iron pot. It tastes warm and kind, just like an old friend for many years. Scented tea has the fragrance of flowers, or jasmine or chrysanthemum. Its taste is refreshing and elegant, like a small jasper, and it can also relieve summer heat, detoxify and cleanse the heart.
Drinking can be immortal, and drinking tea can be enlightened. In ancient poetry, singing tea is a big topic. Lu You has a saying that "short paper is inclined to be grass, and the window is cleared to divide milk and tea". There are "no worries, a few wisps of tea smoke"; Lao Du has "Chai Jing has tea, and the road leads to Lin Qiu"; Du Xiaoshan has a saying that "guests come to tea for wine on a cold night, and the bamboo stove soup is boiling red"; Zhu Dunru has "gone with the wind, flag pavilion for wine, Xiao temple for tea"; Li Qingzhao has a saying that "the wine cellar loves bitter tea more, and the dream is broken." There is "cardamom fried in water, regardless of tea." There is a saying that "I won the prize that year, smoked sleeves were born, and tea was divided by living fire." Xin Qiji has "getting old every spring is like a sick wine." It's just that the tea smells small. "
In addition to China's tea, Japanese teahouses have pushed tea culture to its peak. Exquisite utensils, elegant furniture and beautiful women serve tea are a pure expression of tea culture. Black tea and bread and butter in English family afternoon tea are symbols of social status and status, and they taste like gentlemen. There are other kinds of wild tea, such as bagged tea in a hurry under the fast pace of modern life, and tea powder without knowing the essence and dross.
Some people drink tea to quench their thirst, some because of its fragrance, some to kill time, and some to drink tea. Some teas are for drinking, others are for tasting, and different people drink the same tea differently. Zhou Zuoren said that drinking tea should be in Jiangcun, under the paper window of the tile house, with clear spring green tea, and two or three people can drink it for half a day, which can be worth ten years of dust dreams. Miao Yu, a figure in the Red Chamber, said: One cup is a delicacy, two cups are stupid things for quenching thirst, and three cups are for drinking cattle and mules. Su Dongpo's Japanese master is thirsty for tea, and knocking at the door to ask the savage is another way to drink. And frying tea with snow water will bring silent snow, embrace flying flowers, be ecstatic, and be more elegant. There is also Longjing tea that I have been longing for for for a long time. I listen to classics and have a cup of tea in a quiet place with pleasant scenery and beautiful mountains and rivers. I wonder if there is one today.
Time goes by like running water, only tea is still black. Just open the window casually. It's a quiet autumn day, and the warm wind is blowing outside. Under the blue sky and white clouds, leaves rustle and tea is surrounded. A quiet and comfortable life is like this leisurely cup of hot tea, and cherishing it is happiness. Leisure in life is the time to drink tea. A floating life, a bleak world, is most suitable for people to taste after middle age. Three meals and five grains, the five flavors of life, all turn into thick and light in tea, with strong fragrance and light fragrance. Strong tea and fresh water, pour it carefully, taste tea, taste life and taste life. Thick life, light days and flowing years are all in tea.
Smell incense, learn tea, and experience physical and mental practice.
The balance between tasting tea and smelling incense.
If you want to ask: don't they affect each other when you smell incense while drinking tea? Then you should have a cup of tea with Tianke and enjoy the fragrance once. First of all, from the choice of tea products, with the corresponding tea set, arrange a simple or grand tea mat, replace the electromagnetic oven with a quiet red stirring in the oven, choose the right fragrance position according to the gas field (the direction of air movement), and quietly arrange incense ashes, incense charcoal, charcoal, incense and warm cups when burning charcoal and boiling water ... My heart will also calm down, leaving only a tea feast. Boil a glass of water and another cup of tea. The aroma of tea in the cup in the pot goes into your nostrils with the aroma of agarwood steam, stirring your sensitive nerves with a little warm water vapor. At this time, lower the head to sip tea, and then take a sip. The throat transforms into ethereal and mellow tea fragrance, and the nose exhales the aroma after precipitation. Wonderful! As long as the fragrance is properly selected and the ignition point is properly arranged, the fragrance is not only harmless to tea, but also beneficial to tea. Learning incense helps to enhance the sense of smell, and burning incense also helps to purify the air. Appropriate degree and summation method is the key.
In the eyes of Tianke, people who play tea usually don't have to drink tea every day like doing research in the laboratory. Tea is a kind of learning. It is certainly worth showing off that people who play tea can approach the level of professional tea people, but tea tasting is also a kind of accomplishment. Lu Yu, a Cha Sheng in the Tang Dynasty, described in The Origin of Tea Classics: Tea is used for it, tastes extremely cold, and it is best to drink frugally. As early as the Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest in the Northern Wei Dynasty, some ancestors advocated replacing wine with tea, which is actually quite in line with the current social trend. Fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis, hyperlipidemia, hypercholesterolemia, etc. What is common in modern urbanites is the phrase "Too much wine and meat will hurt your health". If you use tea instead of wine, you can at least reduce the harm caused by wine and meat, and then adjust your body to a more balanced state.
There are different opinions about the origin of China incense. The fragrance of China is closely related to the profoundness of moxibustion in traditional Chinese medicine. Mr. Liu Liangyou, an expert on cultural relics and incense, explained that the culture of using incense in China began with the development of territory and foreign exchanges, thus discovering and introducing spices. During the Zhou Dynasty, because of the separation and integration of politics, spices were discovered one after another in the process of developing the territory to the south. Since then, the use of incense has gradually formed the fashion trend of the nobles in the Zhou Dynasty. The pharmacological action of spices is also more combined with the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, and gradually changes from burning meridians in moxibustion to burning smell.
Tea has the saying that "Shennong tastes a hundred herbs, and there are seventy-two poisons in Japan and China, which are solved by tea". It can be seen that tea and acupuncture originated from ancient ancestors who explored and summarized people's own ideas by observing and understanding nature. Tea fragrance, quiet aroma and taste make people relaxed and happy, achieve the purpose of cultivating temperament, and it is an elegant artistic activity of personal cultivation. In nature and internal cultural connotation, meditation and self-cultivation have something in common. The combination of tea and fragrance-quietness for self-cultivation and frugality for Xiu De.
Tea fragrance practice can be enjoyed by one person, but many people can enjoy it.
When it comes to drinking tea and practicing incense, the general cognition is that they can make people enter a state of meditation and concentration, and then sweep away the pressure and impetuous atmosphere brought by daily life, so their practice environment should be quiet, and they should also keep their inner peace and not be disturbed by the outside world. However, "Tianke" also has his own opinion: the practice of tea ceremony and Xiang Xiang can really help us relax, but we don't have to stick to some formal constraints, which is also the difference between China tea ceremony and Xiang Xiang and Japanese and Korean tea ceremony and Xiang Xiang. When you are alone, you should taste a cup of tea and a cup of incense, and appreciate the exquisiteness of both with your heart. If you have any gains, you should be willing to share them. Like-minded friends can also appreciate the mystery of tea fragrance when they practice together. Discussion is also learning, because the Enlightenment is mainly about experience. Only by truly understanding the connotation of the two can we understand the essence of tea ceremony and incense.
Coincidentally, tea lovers who like to taste and smell tea as "Tianke" also include Manibao in Beijing and a group of like-minded friends who are fascinated by tea. In order to incense wood, they came all the way to Hainan Island, and even went to Vietnam, Laos and other places to "seek incense". A piece of fragrant wood is more expensive than gold, and you will be ecstatic when you find one; If you are cash-strapped, I hope you can smell a "gas fullness" from the incense owner, glad you came. Speaking of the "stupid things" he and his friends did for the fragrance of tea, Manibao applauded: once, he flew to Singapore for a good cup of tea and stayed at someone else's tea table for three days until he was satisfied. If you want to be a master, you must find a relationship to contact the exporters or customs records of Pu 'er tea in those days, find the whereabouts of importers from all over the country, and then go to the door to keep track of them until you find a teahouse in stock, and then go back to China through hardships. It seems that people who have good tea and people who have good smell are generally the same.
The joy of sharing and the knowledge of seeking communication are always pleasant. These tea friends and pilgrims not only carefully study their favorite teas and incense at home, but also often meet and communicate. Whoever gets a good cup of tea and a small piece of spice will share it, record it carefully and communicate with each other after tasting the experience. Although it is inevitable that there will be differences of opinion when quoting classics, you will smile after drinking a cup of tea and smelling it for a while. No matter how persistent you are, you will not blush. Go home and check the information and prove it tomorrow.
Some people say that tea ceremony and incense are both liberating people from the daily complexity, making people understand the communication between mind and body, and then understand where the heart is going and where the body is going. Both of them have fascinating mysteries that can't be explored for a lifetime. If you want to upgrade your favorite tea ceremony and incense to the realm of practice, apart from being familiar with the history and culture of China and the development of tea fragrance, the hardest thing to find is a persistent but not stubborn attitude and a bosom friend who can meet you. Will this also be a fate that can be met but not sought? Text/Twilight
There is nothing wrong with drinking tea.
Ouyang Xiu's poem "Tasting New Tea" in the Song Dynasty said: "Spring fragrance is clean and sunny, so you can choose your guests when you sit down." This poem depicts fresh tea, fresh water, clean utensils, good weather, and two or three good guests, which is already a good time to taste tea; Su Dongpo's Poem on Tea Tasting in Xita Temple: "The Zen window is beautiful in the afternoon, and the well is full of ice and snow. Everyone can sit on it, and the tripod is self-cleaning. " This is a good environment for tea tasting. In the meditation room with deep flowers and trees, it is sunny outside, with excellent tea, clean utensils and sweet well water, and "lovely" companions. This is a good space for tea. In fact, the time and space factors of tea tasting complement each other.
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, people's requirements for tea tasting environment were more strict and meticulous. We can see the environmental conditions and elegant taste of tea from Xu Wei's The Secret Collection of Xu Wenchang in the Ming Dynasty: "Tea should be in a quiet house, a cloud forest, a bamboo stove, a quiet gentleman, sitting in a cold night, under the pine moon, between flowers and birds, innocent stone, moss and plain spring." Red makeup sweeps snow, bows blow fire, and smoke floats in bamboo "; At the end of Ming Dynasty, Feng Kebin's "Mustard Tea" talked about "tea is suitable" and put forward thirteen conditions for tea tasting: first, nothing. In other words, tea time should get rid of the secular and put down all worldly chores; Second, be a good guest. A good tea couple should be an elegant person, interesting and know how to appreciate the three flavors of tea; Third, sit still. The elegant environment is a good time for Ann to sit down and have tea. Fourth, chanting. When drinking tea, you can recite poems, and you should also be able to recite poems to help tea prosper and make poems with tea; Fifth, wave Korea. Prepare a pen, ink, inkstone and paper, and you can splash ink, drink deeply, dye deeply, and linger deeply and elegantly after drinking tea; Sixth, wandering. It's a good time to drink tea with a tea mat when strolling in Xiao Yuan Xiangdao. Seven, get up. Just woke up. I had another dream that tea is the best choice to clear my head; Eighth, spend the night in the headland. After drinking, especially when you are drunk and still not fully awake, it is a good way to use tea to sober up; Number nine, get ready. Prepare fresh fruit with green tea to worship ancestors and gods; Ten, exquisite house. Exquisite and elegant environment, it is a good place to taste tea; XI。 Understand. Only by tasting tea with your heart can you taste the three flavors in tea; 12. Appreciation. Savor carefully and appreciate the "color", "fragrance", "taste" and "shape" of tea; Thirteen, Wentong. Tea tasting can only proceed smoothly with the help of an assistant with quiet temperament and clear wisdom. Having one of the above thirteen conditions is the best choice of time or space for tea tasting.
Xu Cishu, the author of Tea Book in Ming Dynasty, once put forward the time and space requirements of tea tasting. He listed when tea can be tasted and when it is not suitable. Where can I drink tea and where can I not? For example, "I'm idle, tired of singing, confused, listening to songs, leaving people at the end of the song, avoiding things alone, and talking in the middle of the night" are all good opportunities for tea. "The windows are bright and clean, the bridal chamber is a pavilion, the bridges are painted with boats, the Woods are covered with bamboo, and the famous springs and rocks in Jing 'an are all good places to enjoy tea. The quiet and elegant teahouse is an ideal place for elegant people to get together and enjoy tea.
In the environment of tea tasting, besides good tea, people are also indispensable factors. Drinking tea focuses on the word "quality", which is intended to gain its interest. The cultivation of tea tasters is the key to determine the charm of tea tasting. Since tea is a noble thing, only refined literati and monks can taste and drink tea in the pine wind, bamboo moon and Buddhist temple, which is considered to be compatible with tea products and can taste the taste and authenticity of tea. Therefore. Character is as important as tea. It is best to invite people who love tea to have tea with selected people who know the taste. In Tea Liaoji Seven Kinds of Stir-fried Tea written by Lu Shusheng, a tea man in Ming Dynasty, personality is listed as the first category. He said: "fried tea is not a wave, but it must be accompanied by tea products." Really said the key point of the tea party.