The so-called tea show refers to the transformation of flowers, birds, fish, insects, animals and other figures with soup flowers, and the exquisiteness of a tea soup is brought to the extreme, which makes future generations marvel. It can be said that the popularity of ordering tea is not only drinking tea, but also aesthetic.

The spread is closely related to Cai Xiang, a famous calligrapher in the Northern Song Dynasty. Cai Xiang, a native of Fujian, once served as a transshipment ambassador in Fujian, taking charge of tribute tea in Beiyuan. Cai Xiang was very proud of the tea produced in his hometown, so he wrote the Record of Tea Picking in exquisite calligraphy and presented it to the emperor. In addition to promoting Beiyuan tea, he also talked about the understanding of tea and the methods of drinking tea, and summarized the process of tea art.

There are three skills to order tea, one is to pay attention to paste mixing, the other is the rhythm of water injection, and the third is the strength of tea basket. All three are just right. You can order the best tea soup. Su Dongpo wrote in "Sending a Modest Teacher to Nanping": "Taoist priests go out to Nanping Mountain to try Samadhi", and a high-level tea-ordering expert is called Samadhi.

The development of history

In the Song Dynasty, the tea ceremony in China changed, and ordering tea became a fashion. Different from stir-fried tea in the Tang Dynasty, tea ordering is to put tea powder into a tea bowl, inject a small amount of boiling water to make it paste, and then inject boiling water, or directly inject boiling water into the tea bowl, while stirring with a teapot, and the tea powder floats to form porridge noodles. In fact, ordering tea means pouring boiling water from a tea bottle into a teacup.

The specific operation is: when ordering tea, first use a bottle to fry water, and the requirements for soup are the same as those in Tang Dynasty. Then put the tea powder into a teacup, add a little boiling water and make it paste first. The so-called paste mixing is to scoop a certain amount of tea powder with a spoon according to the size of the cup, put it into the cup, and then inject boiling water into the bottle to make the tea powder into a thick paste, with viscosity as the degree.