{"id":2363,"date":"2022-03-29T09:20:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T09:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.ctma.com.cn\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2022-04-28T08:24:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T08:24:23","slug":"changes-in-methods-of-drinking-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.ctma.com.cn\/index.php\/2022\/03\/29\/changes-in-methods-of-drinking-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes in methods of drinking tea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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China has witnessed thousands of years history in drinking tea, with its vicissitudes and development accompanying with it. During this long time, the way we drink tea has undergone many changes. Due to different times, regions, climates, the ways of drinking tea are also different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tea cooking methods are changing\nwith the improvement of tea production technology and the development of tea.\nDating back to our earliest discovery of wild tea trees, our ancients used to collect\nfresh leaves, cook into soup with the pot, and use as potion. The cooking\nmethod and utensils are simple. Fresh tea is similar to medicine and tastes\nbitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the Spring and Autumn\nPeriod, tea, as a vegetable, was the same as food, and there was no special\ncooking method or utensils.Tea is blent with meals to reduce the bitterness.\nBut there still remained some, so it’s called bitter vegetables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the Qin and Han\ndynasties, fresh leaves were processed to reduce bitterness. According to\nancient books, fresh leaves were made into tea cake, wrapped in rice and baked\ninto red.The method of drinking is to triturate tea into powder and put it into\na porcelain pot, then pour boiling water into it and add spring onion and\nginger to season it. In this time, there is a special way to cook it. Tea\nleaves are mixed with other foods to temper the bitter taste. Drinking tea is\npart for medicine, part for hospitality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Tang Dynasty, not only\nscallions and ginger, but also dates and mint were added into tea for flavor.\nIn this way, covered with the smell of grass, people can not taste the real tea\nfragrance.When the steaming method is adopted, people can get rid of its herbaceous<\/a> taste<\/a>,\nso it gradually become a common drink, and the cooking method also changed\ngreatly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the Song Dynasty, people\ninvented a method of steaming green tea. When drinking tea, people used whole\nleaves without being crushed into powder. Without salt, the original fragrance\nof tea diffuses in the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the improvement of tea production level and tea quality, brewing is the mainstream of drinking tea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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tea is mainly brewed. Different drinking\nmethods have their specific historical reasons, different types of tea are also\nsuitable for different drinking methods, there is no need to adhere to the\nestablished method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

China has witnessed thousands of years history in drinking tea, with its vicissitudes and development accompanying with it. During this long time, the way we drink tea has undergone many changes. Due to different times, regions, climates, the ways of drinking tea are also different. Tea cooking methods are changing with the improvement of tea<\/p>\n

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