Classification and function of tea set
First, depending on the type of use
1. Teapot: It is a container for dissolving out tea ingredients.
2. Drinking cups: including tea cups, tea bowls and fragrant cups, are instruments for drinking tea and soup directly. Smelling cups are used to taste tea.
Soup-scented cup.
3. Tea tray: It is a shallow-bottomed vessel used to hold teapots, teacups and tea ceremony groups. Its materials are all gold, wood, bamboo and pottery. Tea tray with metal
The simplest and most durable, bamboo tea tray is the most elegant and suitable.
4. Tea ceremony: refers to the six gentlemen of tea ceremony, namely tea clip, tea spoon, tea dial, tea leakage, tea needle and tea bottle. Tea ceremony is mostly made of wood.
5. Open hearth: refers to the appliance for boiling water, and the electric kettle is commonly used in modern times.
6. Bowl cover: It is a tea set with a cover on it, a tray on the bottom and a bowl in the middle, also called? Sancai bowl?
7. Cover Cup: It is a tea set with a lid at the top and a handle in the cup body. Concentric cups also have a cup core.
8. Miscellaneous: Tea sets, mainly used for tea performances, are often practical. Comprises a mug, a tea towel, a clip, a rack and a drain pipe.
Bucket, saucer, tea set, teapot, incense burner, tea lotus, etc.
2. According to the classification of tea set materials
1. China tea set
1. 1 porcelain tea set: porcelain tea set, a kind of ge kiln in Longquan, Zhejiang Province, was the most famous in the Song Dynasty.
1.2 white porcelain tea set: white porcelain is as white as jade, and Jingdezhen white porcelain is the best.
1.3 black porcelain tea set: fighting tea prevailed in Song Dynasty, and black porcelain can best set off the brown color.
1.4 colored porcelain tea set: blue and white porcelain is the most eye-catching.
2. Bamboo tea set
Bamboo and wood tea sets are natural and elegant.
The spirit of bamboo and wood culture, which is quiet, humble, frank and restrained, has always been highly praised by China literati.
3. Glass tea set
Glass tea set is widely used as tea set because of its transparent texture, bright and clean color and different morphological changes.
Make tea with a glass tea set. The tea soup is bright in color and the shape of the tea can be appreciated. The disadvantage is that heat transfer is too fast and it is not resistant to cold and heat.
4. Ceramic tea set
Pottery tea set is the first to promote Yixing purple sand tea set. Ceramic tea sets are compact, leak-free and have extremely small pores. They are durable, can also be used as tea juice, and contain tea flavor. Tea leaves are not easy to turn sour in hot weather, even if they change sharply in time, they will not go bad.
5. Metal tea set
Tea sets are mainly made of gold, silver, copper, iron, tin and other metals. Tin tea sets, in particular, can resist moisture, odor and oxidation.
3. Functions of various tea sets
1, tea set
① Chaze: an instrument for taking out tea leaves from a teapot and putting them in the teapot.
Teaspoon: A tool for putting Chaze tea into a teapot.
③ Leaking tea (barrel): put it on the spout to guide the tea leaves into the pot and prevent the tea leaves from being scattered outside the pot.
4 Tea Lotus: It is a multifunctional appliance, which not only has the functions of the first three, but also can see the shape, quantity and dry fragrance of tea.
⑤ Tea crushing: used to crush the long tea leaves in the tea lotus root, which is convenient to put into the pot.
⑥ Tea barn: a small tea pot for subpackaging tea.
2. deal in tea sets.
(1) tea clip: take out the tea residue from the pot and cup; You can pinch the cup when washing it to prevent your hands from being burned.
2 teaspoons: used for putting tea leaves and digging tea dregs.
③ Tea needle: used to connect the internal network of the pot.
4 tea paddle (hairpin): an instrument for skimming tea foam; The tip is used to pass through the spout.
Step 3 distribute tea sets
① Tea Sea (small cup, mother cup and male cup): After the tea in the teapot is soaked, it can be poured into the tea sea and then evenly distributed according to the number of people.
Average distribution; When the number of people is small, pour out the tea to avoid the bitter taste caused by soaking for too long. Tea leaves can be filtered with a strainer at sea.
Tea residue flowing out when pouring tea.
4. Tea taster
① Tea cup (small cup): used for sipping tea soup.
(2) Smelling cup: to preserve the fragrance of tea and use it for smell identification.
3 Cup holder: A small tray for holding teacups can avoid hot tea soup and also play an aesthetic role.
5. prostitutes
Tea tray: A tray for holding teacups or other tea sets.
(2) Tea boat (tea pool, tea washing, pot holder): an appliance for holding teapot, and also used for receiving overflow and pouring tea soup.
③ Residue formula: used to hold tea residue.
④ Water side (teapot, pitcher): used to receive discarded tea leaves.
⑤ Detergent: used for placing cups and plates to be cleaned after use.
⑥ Tea towel: mainly used for drying pots, which can dry the mixed water left at the bottom of teapot and tea sea; It is also used to wipe off water droplets on the desktop.
⑦ Container: A container for holding Chaze, teaspoons, tea clips and other utensils.
6. Others
① Boiler: There are many kinds of boilers, including charcoal stove (Chaoshan stove)+Yushu Tuan, alcohol stove+glass kettle, electric kettle, induction cooker, etc. The key point of selection is that the tea set is harmonious and the boiled water has no peculiar smell.
② Pot mats: textiles. Used to separate the pot from the tea boat to avoid the influence of noise on the atmosphere.
③ Lid: a small dish for placing teapot lid and kettle lid (generally replaced by saucer).
Tea tray: A tray for holding tea.
⑤ Tea brushing: used to brush off the residual tea powder in tea lotus after placing tea leaves.
⑥ Thermometer: used to learn to judge the water temperature.
⑦ Tea towel tray: used for placing tea towels, tea brushes, thermometers, etc.
Incense burner: Drinking tea and burning incense can increase the interest of tea.
Step 4: Choose the right tea set.
1. Green tea: Glass tea set is suitable.
2. Yellow tea: Porcelain tea set is suitable.
3. White tea: porcelain tea set is suitable.
4. Oolong tea: purple sand tea set or porcelain tea set is suitable.
5. Black tea: White porcelain tea set is suitable.
6. Pu 'er tea: porcelain tea set or purple sand tea set is suitable.
The same tea, the same water temperature and tea set, different people brew, the taste of tea soup will be different, which is normal.
In fact, making tea is really simple, and there are some things to pay attention to, but it is not so mysterious. The matter of making tea is foggy, either for making tea as a performance, or for deliberately showing off, and then for drinking tea with your ears. You always say this and that.
On the premise that there is no problem with the quality of tea, to make a tea taste good, personally, it mainly lies in three aspects: tea set, tea consumption and brewing time, and they are connected end to end.
How to choose a tea set?
1, look at the color
Yixing teapot is mainly purplish red, and there are green, yellow and black colors. It can be said that the colors are similar and the products are different. Non-Yixing purple sand is single in color, dull and lacking in change. Yixing purple sand is rich in color, besides chestnut purple, there are red purple, brown purple and indigo purple.
My father thinks that purple sand tea sets should not be too bright, and the colorful mud is mostly added with chemical raw materials. Do you have natural purple clay? Colored soil? Because it contains a lot of metal components, it is called purple clay.
2. Look at the product.
The shape of teapot is the richest in all kinds of utensils in the world, and it is called? Square is different, round is different? Known as. How to evaluate these changeable shapes is also a matter of opinion. Gu Zhuo is the best, followed by the elegant atmosphere. Zisha pot is an integral part of tea culture, and the artistic conception it pursues, namely? Indifferent and peaceful, detached and refined? And Gu Zhuo is the most harmonious with this atmosphere.
Step 3 touch the texture
It is said that compared with other purple sands, the famous purple sand has a remarkable feature that it feels different. Touching purple sand is like touching bean paste, fine but not greasy. Therefore, the feel of the teapot surface is particularly important. Famous teapot is a work of art with strong practical function, especially it needs to touch its surface constantly to feel comfortable.
4. Listen to the sound
Yixing purple sand has been artificially produced, and the mud embryo has been hammered and pressed many times, and then passed through many processes. The fingerprints of the makers on it can be said to be tens of millions. After firing, the knocking sound is crisp. The sound of the teapot should be combined with many factors, which is directly related to the old and new thickness of the tire. If the sound is too sharp, it is probably a new pot. If it is extremely sharp and brittle, it may be chemical mud.
Step 5 look inside
It is difficult to get rid of manual traces in many processes of making purple sand tea sets, but if you carefully observe and touch the inside of the pot, such as the mouth, body and tail of the pot, you can find some signs. If it is glued by hand, there will always be some marks at the junction, because it is difficult for the pot maker to repair the inside of the pot very greasy and there is no need to repair it very smoothly. At the same time, you can learn the basic knowledge of teapot, let you see the talented teapot, and many doubts will naturally come.
How to maintain the tea set?
Many friends who like to drink tea will have a small problem, that is, it is easy to get a layer of tea dirt on the tea set. So, how do we clean the tea stains on the tea set?
Generally, many people will use rough cleaning tools such as steel balls (cleaning balls) or loofah to brush. This can play a cleaning role, but it is easy to damage the enamel on the surface of the tea set and make it thinner and thinner. Slowly, these tea stains will completely penetrate into the tea set.
The best cleaning method is: after drinking tea, remember to throw out the tea leaves and clean the tea set with water. If this good habit can be maintained for a long time, the tea set can still keep bright luster without any cleaning tools.
Many friends go to rest or do other things after drinking tea, and wait until the next time to clean the tea set. In this way, after a long period of soaking, many tea sets are brown and cannot be washed off with clear water. At this time, you need some special methods to clean.
Squeeze a small amount of toothpaste on the tea set, and spread the toothpaste evenly on the surface of the tea set by hand or cotton swab. Wash these tea sets with clean water in about a minute, so that the tea stains on the tea sets can be easily cleaned. It is convenient to clean with toothpaste, which will not damage the tea set or hurt your hands. Tea lovers can try it!
The thicker the tea scale on the tea set, the unhealthy the tea brewed, or the less fragrant and impure it will be. I often listen to the old man who loves to make tea take out his beloved teapot and show the black and shiny tea stains. It seems that the thicker the tea scale, the more valuable it is. Chinese medicine says that tea scale is extremely harmful to human health.
If you love tea, you should wash tea sets frequently and develop good living habits. Tea cups with long-term tea stains can be scrubbed and removed repeatedly with toothpaste; For teapots with tea stains, you can heat them with rice vinegar or soak them in baking soda for a day and a night, then shake them and rinse them repeatedly.