Text/Falling Plum Blossoms on Autumn Water

I have always loved tea, the delicate fragrance and light bitterness of tea leaves. But because I always suffer from insomnia, a cup of strong tea will keep me awake all night, but every time I see the crystal clear tea in the cup, I can't help but want to sip it lightly.

I don’t know how many processes a tea leaf has to go through to become what it looks like in my cup. The pure boiled water is as clear as the world outside the window. Add a few dried flower teas, and those sleeping flowers slowly become plump under the moisture of the white water. The abundant vitality and light fragrance render the entire afternoon, and the fleeting youth is reflected in a cup of tea. reappear in.

Those beautiful flowers are picked when they are most beautiful. Those that are in bud, graceful and charming, slowly dry from the moment they are separated from the branch, and their lives are like this. She was deeply asleep, but a cup of boiling water brought her back to life. She took a sip of the drink, and her lips and teeth were filled with endless reverie and meditation.

If you think about it carefully, in fact, different teas have different moods. Longjing tea is fragrant, Tieguanyin is mellow, Pu'er tea is mellow and rich, and the sweet fragrance of fruit tea reminds people of that season when melons and fruits are fragrant. . Those teas and those flavors give people a sense of tranquility and comfort.

I always feel that only by using a transparent glass cup to brew tea can you bring out the spiritual nature of the tea. Those different tea leaves show their graceful figures in a small space, and the hot boiling water rushes through them, floating and sinking, slowly returning to the original appearance of life, revealing either a refreshing or fragrant tea fragrance. Isn't this the essence of life? How does it look?

It is said that Zen tea is just a cup of water. In fact, the world is just like a cup of white water, colorless and tasteless. Because tea leaves are added, the water has penetrated the sweet, bitter and spicy taste of the tea leaves. After experiencing the vicissitudes of life, it slowly leaves the most true meaning of life on the tip of the tongue. Only with the taste can you realize the sweetness after the strong bitterness, which is also unique. This is the truest and purest truth in life.

Then cups of boiling water were washed repeatedly, and the tea became lighter in color. Those thin tea leaves slowly unfolded and sank quietly to the bottom of the cup, finally becoming silent, retaining the original appearance of life. .

Isn’t life just like tea leaves? There will always be ups and downs at the beginning, just like youth, filled with the breath of youth, but lacking a kind of calmness. Slowly, it is washed away by the boiling water of time cup by cup. Life is tempered and washed by time. It began to be calm and heavy, putting away the sharp edge of youth, knowing how to restrain, know how to wait and see, and how to faintly exude a faint fragrance.

Until the tea cools down, what is silent at the bottom of the cup is a calm heart. Life does not matter whether it comes or goes. It is not happy, but it is not sad either. A cup of tea is a whole life!

Life is like water. Only when you have experienced the majesty of the turbulent waves can you have the peace of being unfazed by humiliation. You have the endurance of dripping water through stone and the pride of water lingering in Liangshan. Life is like tea. Only by remembering the fleeting time that disappears can you create beautiful youth. Only after going through the tempering and beating of time can the beautiful appearance be restored.

Read life quietly in the fragrance of tea, walk slowly, appreciate the beautiful scenery around you, and stop for the satisfaction and beauty of life!

About the author: Plum blossoms fall on the autumn water, formerly known as Wei Jumei. A middle school Chinese teacher who loves life and writing. Under the light leisurely clouds and hazy moon, I look at the years through the mountains and rivers. I wish to grow old with you leisurely in the gap of time.