? 3. 16. The group set off from Menghai after lunch and drove for nearly three hours to the old village of Tang Bao, where Xibao No.8 and Xibao No.7 are both here. The journey can be described as dusty, and the ancient tea tree I have always admired is full of expectations when I think about what I saw with my own eyes.
Stepping into this mountain forest, birds and flowers are singing. Ride the wind and keep company with your best friends in the breeze and white clouds. The Tea King Tree No.8 in Xibao, where we first arrived, is now surrounded. The spreading branches are stacked on top of each other, standing for more than 700 years, silently watching passers-by, year after year, day after day.
[Xibao No.8 Tea King Tree, elevation1700m, according to research, it is over 700 years old. The height of the tree is about 9.2m, the crown diameter is 7.7m, and the base circumference is 2. 1. m]
The taste of tea in Baolao Village of Mengsong Tang Dynasty: the aroma is high and soft, the soup color is delicate and full, and the charm is obvious, just like the sweetness of honey.
After a short rest under the tea king tree at No.8 Xibao, continue to climb the mountain to the top. The ancient tea gardens are all at the top of the mountain, and they are almost impossible to find. The rugged slope, leaning on a stick, is full of thorns, probably because I love this mountain forest and ancient tea garden so much that I forgot to wear skirts and sandals. I laughed and laughed all the way just to see what the ancient tea tree I imagined many times looked like.
? The road to Xibao No.7 is even more difficult, and there is a feeling of crossing the river across the mountain. On a slope of nearly 70 degrees, walk all the way and rest. After personal experience, I know that a good cup of tea is hard to come by.
? ? 3. 17? Brother Lin took us to eat the most distinctive barbecue in Menghai last night. The barbecue here is very interesting. When the ingredients are ready, dip them in various sauces. It's delicious and the ingredients are fresh. At this moment, with like-minded people, you must drink some wine. Ringo's own corn, which has been kept for several years, has a soft taste and a long aftertaste. I liked it after only four drinks.
? It happened to rain heavily when I went to the factory, and I walked all the way in the mud. Shenlin tea factory is located in the deep forest, surrounded by mountains and waters, surrounded by vegetation, and the sound of birds and rain intersects together, just like a mountain symphony. Before the rain stopped, Ringo went to the yard to pick a bunch of flowers stained with rain and dew, and inserted them casually. It was beautiful. People who love flowers are very cute. A school of innocent and sincere love, like the mood of loving tea, is pure love.
Before the rain stops, set up a teahouse to listen to it.
3. 18 The journey took more than two hours, and the mountain road bent 18 times, reaching Mamba Laozhai at the top of the mountain. The indigenous people of Mamba Laozhai are Bulang people, who used to mainly hunt, and settled down after the tea business became good. The people here are very hospitable, simple, kind and friendly. The lunch cooked by the Yanshi brothers, the local special rice, white gourd are particularly tender, the chicken soup raised at home is particularly fresh, and the Chinese toon salad is very good. They will still be shy when they see us foreigners.
? Every village will build magnificent temples and white pagodas, and the little boys in the stockade will be sent to the temples as young monks in the second grade to learn Dai language and knowledge for two to three years. People here are all good drinkers and can drink, two cups a day, all the time. I thought I could still drink a little, but compared with them, it pales in comparison. One side nourishes the other, so the pure and direct character is really like the ancient tree Pu 'er, simple and pure, enjoying the pure aesthetic feeling, but its rhyme has a long aftertaste.
? No matter how strong it is, the pure ancient brown mountain tea will not be astringent, but will only have a sweet feeling of bitterness and sweetness.
? Good ancient tea is inseparable from the purpose of sweetness, moistening and thickness.
After lunch, the group drove for nearly half an hour to the bottom of Mambagu Tea Garden and needed to hike up the mountain. There is a big ancient tea garden here, and Xibao No.283 is in this ancient tea garden.
The years when the ancient tea garden lived in the mountains were full of fragrance and only waited for the right person. In the ancient tea garden of Mamba Laozhai on the top of the mountain, tea trees are covered with various parasites, and moss can be seen everywhere.
The fun of traveling in the mountains is that you can see the ancient tea gardens, mountains and rivers, vegetation and everything growing, and marvel at the magic of nature. At this moment of meeting, you are with them, feel their temperature and appreciate their posture. Only a good ecological environment can breed good tea.
3. 19? It coincided with the opening of the tea factory in the deep mountains and forests, and I experienced the life of Sister Yu for a day. On such an important occasion, pigs and cows will be slaughtered, and tea farmers from surrounding villages will also come. It doesn't get dark until 8 o'clock in Menghai, and dinner basically starts at this time.
? Eating vegetables is second, drinking is common, and dozens of tables take turns drinking, and it is also very popular to switch to wine (starting from sponsors, sponsors can choose white wine or beer in the same container, pour as much as they can, then receive the next person to drink the wine in the same container, and so on). After three rounds of drinking, Dai girls danced and danced, fireworks bloomed, and those who were not drunk continued to drink, so they drank until they were drunk, which made them feel drunk today.
? Every local culture has wine, with different personalities and different wine cultures. The same is true of tea. Yunnan Pu 'er tea is a kind of big leaf tea, which is much rougher than other teas and has a long history of pure bitterness and sweetness.
3.20 Today, I went further, in Mangong Nature Reserve, Mengweng Shangzhai, an indigenous Dai people. There is a tea garden in the deep forest, which is the only ancient tea garden in Mong Weng.
? Meng Weng ancient tea garden, there is no way to go, the slope is steep, and the stick is easy to slip. I admire the local people for walking freely and picking tea from trees.
? This day happens to be the vernal equinox. It's cold day and night in summer, everything is clever and the vernal equinox is long. Trees and grass grow in the forest, and wild flowers bloom alone. In the ancient tea garden of Mengweng, tea trees have just begun to sprout.
? Drinking ancient tea in Meng Weng Ancient Tea Garden: It tastes soft and sweet like Yiwu tea, and Meng Song Chacha is sweet and rich, which combines the advantages of both, with a slight fragrance of orchids and rock sugar.
? In the mountains, use a cup of good tea to interpret the true nature of Pu 'er tea, which is sweet, smooth and strong. The nature of tea is like human nature, the nature of tea is true, and the nature of people is sincere. When tea is right, people are right. People are right, so is tea. Drink the right tea with the right people.
? Five-day mountaineering trip, walking by the ancient tea tree. There is awe, surprise and joy ... and this is just the tip of the iceberg of 72 stockades in Brown Mountain. Brown Mountain, 72 villages are different, and the taste of tea in each place is different. To understand, it takes a long time of taste training and learning accumulation, Ringo said, and the process from quantitative change to qualitative change takes at least seven to eight years of accumulation.
Ancient tea grows on the top of the mountain, and the total output is less than one tenth of the total output of Pu 'er tea. It is a blessing to have good tea and the right tea. The beauty of good tea needs no explanation. Feel the rhyme of tea with your mouth and appreciate the essence of tea with your heart. Its charm is endless, like wine and food, which is worth remembering.
I have never been to Chashan before, but I know that Chashan and ancient tree tea have also been pushed to the forefront by the market from other people's oral information or pictures, tea tasting and other information, and there are countless followers, and its mystery index is no less than a mirage. This time I experienced it personally and really felt the charm of Chashan.
? The Dai people used to be a strong ethnic group in Yunnan, and only the Dai people have their own writing and language, forming their own cultural characteristics. Their female status is low, and they are even more shy when they meet us foreigners. Their lifestyle is much simpler than ours, and they don't have so many colorful urban cultures, so they are simple and simple, so they are happy.
? In this close contact with ancient tea trees, I learned about the local cultural customs, and deeply realized that drinking tea is not only a story of a leaf, but also a sense of beauty in taste, as well as the regional characteristics of cultures other than this tea, which is closely related to Pu 'er tea.
? The market of Pu 'er tea is too deep, so it's difficult to learn about tea tasting in the peripheral markets. Ringo said that tea that is too astringent is definitely not ancient tea, and tea that is not sharp enough in aroma is definitely not spring tea. These two are truths. As for the difference between ancient tree tea and platform tea, it takes many years to drink from quantitative change to qualitative change. It's good to drink light summer tea in the first spring in the peripheral market. Most people go to Chashan and basically pull banners to take pictures and leave. ……
Tea is a long road, but this is Xiu Yuan. The road of life never stops, and so does the road of tea. We are a group of people who love tea. We love tea and never stop.
Thanks to Mr. Lin Libin, a tea factory in the deep mountains and forests, for letting us know what really good tea is.