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Published at 21st of October 2021 11:01:14 AM


Chapter 27: 27

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In Japan, daimyo or samurai who pay attention to the ordering tea ceremony will have a special tea room to hold a tea party. The standard teahouse is generally four and a half stacks (tatami).

There is such a teahouse in the Tianshou Pavilion of Gaoyuan City, which was left by Shangren city on behalf of Qiushan Xinyou. The teahouse is just four and a half stacked. Tatami is spread on the floor, and a calligraphy and painting is hung on the middle wall with the word "Youxuan" written on it.

Youxuan is derived from the aesthetic consciousness of Zen. The Japanese Buddhist scriptures have repeatedly mentioned the word Youxuan, which expresses a hidden, soft, far-reaching and unspeakable artistic conception. Zen is used in various fields in Japan. For example, the word Youxuan is also used in chess. In the animation "soul of chess", the protagonist Jin tengguang and Tashi foreign firm, the first duel in the new early stage, and the chess room is the secluded room.

As a military general, in addition to these calligraphy and paintings fiddling with their knowledge level, a famous Taidao is often placed in the teahouse. Taidao is placed on a specific placement frame, with the tip upward, the handle downward and the edge inward.

As a demonstration, the handle must be arranged to the left. On the one hand, the left side is the front of the knife, on the other hand, it means no threat. If the handle is to the right, it means that you can pull out the knife with your right hand and hurt people at any time.

In the middle of the teahouse is a small fire pond, on which there is a tea pot boiling water. The three sides of the teahouse are walls, and outside the sliding door, there is an ambulatory and pond to form a Japanese courtyard.

A bamboo tube is placed next to the pond in the courtyard, followed by spring water. However, when the bamboo tube is almost full, the bamboo tube will turn upside down and put water into the small stone pool, and continue to store water when it is reset to its original position, so it will start again and again.

When the bamboo tube pours water, the stone at the bottom will make a thump, which is particularly crisp and elegant in this silent courtyard.

This bamboo tube water intake device is called "adding water", which is often reflected in Japanese comics.

All the above elaborate furnishings are to create an atmosphere for drinking tea at the tea party. Japanese tea ceremony was introduced to Japan by overseas monks in the Song Dynasty of China, and then prevailed among the monks who had nothing to do all day, and then spread to Gongqing and Wu family.

It is said that monks love to drink tea because they can feel the pain of life from the bitter taste of tea, which is of unique help to understand some mysterious artistic conception. I don't know whether this is true or false, but tea was imported from Japan at that time. It had to be imported from China across the sea, which was super expensive.

Monks use such expensive tea and drink tea to understand Zen. In Li Xiao's view, this excuse is a bit like that in the past, primary school students asked their parents for money to buy a bully learning machine, saying it was to practice typing and study hard.

As the host, Takeda shenglai has to boil water and clean the tea bowl. His every move must be in line with etiquette. In this waiting process, Takeda Xinfeng brothers, Baoke brothers and masata Changxing can't whisper. They can either watch the calligraphy and paintings on the wall, appreciate the Taidao, or overlook the courtyard. In addition, they can carefully listen to the boiling sound of the water in the tea pot, accompanied by the occasional "tap" of adding water.

Whether they are doing superficial Kung Fu or really immersing themselves in it, they are a posture that can realize a certain Zen realm from this tea party. Even if they do not realize it, they must pretend to sublimate their ideological realm, indicating that they are together at the spiritual level, otherwise they will be despised by others.

As they slowly integrate into this realm and reach a level of spiritual communication, it is like using the elegant and lonely heart card in Taige 5 to get the effect of increasing friendliness together.

Relatively speaking, Li Xiao didn't give so much face. He yawned all the time. Although he didn't do too much, he also had little interest. For him, this kind of forced Japanese tea party had no interest at all. He would rather let everyone get together to fight the local owner, so the atmosphere was more harmonious.

The water is finally cooked. Takeda shenglai first pours a packet of tea powder into the tea bowl, then pours the boiled water into the tea bowl with tea, and quietly waits for the tea powder to blend with the water. At this time, the Japanese still drink Matcha, that is, grind the tea into powder and then brew it.

This is also the way of drinking tea in China during the song and Tang Dynasties, but they replaced it with tea bricks or tea cakes. In the Ming Dynasty, the way of drinking tea pursued the unity of heaven and man, returned to nature, and put the pursuit of the true fragrance of tea first. Only then did they change the way of making tea and drinking it until now.

Takeda shenglai brought the brewed tea bowl to Takeda Xinfeng on the right. Takeda Xinfeng respectfully took the tea bowl. First, he thanked the host for his warm hospitality, then slowly turned the tea bowl three times, watched the tea color, smelled the tea fragrance, looked at the tea set carefully, took a sip, and passed the tea bowl to his brother, moon watching Xinyong.

Yes, this is the drinking method invented by qianlizong, that is, no matter how many people at the tea party can only drink tea in the same bowl. It is said that this can make the participants have the friendship of drinking a cup of tea and blend other people's emotions together.

See here, Li Xiao can only secretly pray, do not let that who who gets AIDS, gonorrhea, SARS, what harm, he was behind the tea drinkers all hung up.

After Wangyue Xinyong finished drinking the tea bowl and brought it to Li Xiao, Li Xiao pretended, touched the extremely bitter tea lips slightly, and passed the tea bowl to the next one, masata Changxing, who said he had finished drinking it.

Pass it on one by one. When everyone finishes drinking, Takeda shenglai brews another pot and drinks another round. It's finished. Then everyone took up the tea bowl, including the tea set, to appreciate it. At that time, the whole Japanese people were obsessed with the tea ceremony in the Warring States period, which had reached a kind of madness.

This includes the collection and pursuit of tea sets. For example, the demon king of Zhitian family is not only a tea ceremony lover, but also likes to collect all kinds of tea sets. They call them famous utensils, such as his famous' 99 hair eggplant '.

The demon king not only likes tea ceremony, but also develops his own generals. The most famous is the later Taige. Taige is not only obsessed with the tea ceremony, but also crazy about the collection of tea sets. It is said that his funniest thing is that he once obtained something made by Nanman. Because it looks like a kettle, he regarded it as a superior tea set to entertain guests. Later, he learned that it was a night pot used by Nanman people.

Thus, no culture kills people.

After everyone praised the tea set collected by Takeda shenglai, the appreciation of the tea set was just completed, and then some tea desserts were brought in succession. Each person had several sections of roast eel, a small plate of pickled radish, several glutinous rice balls, several pieces of seaweed and a bowl of soy sauce soup. All this is only enough for Li Xiao to eat half full food, but after drinking so many bitter tea, these snacks taste especially delicious in Takeda shenglai's eyes.

At this time, the tea party was finished, and everyone could finally chat and fart without scruples.





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