Tea lovers often say that it is hard to have a friend in life, and it is also hard to get a good tea. There are also tea friends who always ask: What is the standard for good tea? What kind of tea is a good tea?
In fact, the world of tea is diverse, and everyone may like it differently. Everyone has different definitions of how to applaud a cup of tea.
Then why can people who often make tea and drink tea distinguish good tea? The answer lies in their bodies.
It is because they have mastered these four key words: Sweetness, Shengjin, Throat Rhyme and Somatosensory.
Sweetness refers to the process by which bitterness is transformed into sweetness in the mouth.
Sweetness is a pleasant experience of drinking tea. Good tea often comes with "returning sweetness", and the strength and durability of returning sweetness are often used as the criteria for judging good tea.
Good tea is sweet and slightly bitter at the beginning of the tongue, and has a long aftertaste in the mouth. As time goes by, the sweetness gradually exceeds the bitterness, and finally ends with sweetness. In the taste of a sip of tea, it shows full contrast and contrast, which brings magical impact and enjoyment to the taste buds.
Shengjin refers to saliva gushing out of the cheeks, tongue, and bottom of the tongue after drinking tea.
Both cheeks produce fluid. When tasting tea, the first sip is very important. Squeeze and feel whether saliva is secreted from both cheeks. Certain components of tea can stimulate oral astringency to form astringency and body fluid. It should be noted that not all astringency will produce fluid.
The tongue produces fluid. After the tea soup is swallowed in the mouth, the saliva in the mouth is slowly secreted, and it feels soft and smooth. Saliva is constantly secreted from the tongue and then flows into the mouth on both sides of the tongue.
The sounding spring at the bottom of the tongue, the highest state of Shengjin, focuses on "ming", which means continuous. The tea soup passes through the mouth and touches the bottom of the tongue. The bottom of the tongue will slowly produce fluid, and there will be a sensation of small bubbles gushing out continuously. This process is more gentle and continuous.
Throat rhyme, in simple terms, is the sensation that the tea soup brings to the throat after drinking tea, such as the refreshing aftertaste produced by the throat.
After the tea soup satisfies the taste stimulation in the oral cavity, it penetrates into the throat and even the esophagus and stomach to produce a feeling of heat. For some more senior tea customers, the rhyme of the throat is their standard for evaluating the quality of tea. Sometimes they even point to the throat and say: "I feel that the tea soup is here, good tea."
In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the body will have corresponding feelings according to its cold and heat attributes when eating any food. After the tea soup enters the human body, the corresponding feelings of the various organs of the body-"cold, cold, warm, hot, acid, numbness, swelling, pain" are somatosensory.
The body sensation when drinking tea is the tea smell in the mouth of tea people. It is produced by the combination of organic germanium in tea and polysaccharides and dissolved in water. It is often manifested as hiccups, body heat, light sweating and so on.
Strong body sensation is a manifestation of the rich material content of tea. It is only an objective or even accidental existence. It is not an inevitable standard for good tea, but the communication between the personal body and the tea, and it only represents the tea atmosphere. It is a personal feeling.
Tea Qi is the natural reaction of the human body to tea. People of different constitutions have different reactions, so don't define others by your own feelings.
The human body is better at picking tea than the mind. The mind may be influenced by others, but the body does not. So you need to discover the clues buried in the body and even the sound, and savor it carefully, so as to find a good tea that suits you.