Why has the Mid-Autumn Festival been inseparable from tea since ancient times?
In a few days, it will be the annual Mid-Autumn Festival. Everyone is eagerly looking forward to the reunion, just like this autumn feeling is getting stronger and stronger. I bought a lot of moon cakes and tea products early, and waited for the moon to be full of the sky at the beginning of the lanterns. I gathered with relatives and friends, enjoyed the moon and drank tea.
So from ancient times to the present, why have tea been drunk on Mid-Autumn Festival in addition to eating cakes? Mooncakes were originally a tribute to the Moon God, so it is understandable that they come as a “standard item” for the Mid-Autumn Festival, but how much do we know about the relationship between tea and the Mid-Autumn Festival?
1. The origin of Mid-Autumn Festival and tea
Tea lovers who are familiar with tea culture know that our Chinese tea has a long history. In the previous article, Mr. Yiqiu also explained in detail, “tea originated in Shennong” may not be tested, but fortunately, Wang Bao, who teased his servants for fun Can write a good article. The term “Mid-Autumn Festival” comes from “Zhou Li” which was formed between the Han Dynasty. The Mid-Autumn Festival became an officially recognized festival in the Tang Dynasty, and Lu Literature also endorsed tea at this time and led the tea drinking trend of the times.
Since the Tang Dynasty, there has been a custom of brewing and drinking Tuancha, and Tuancha has also been called “Moon Tuan”. During the Mid-Autumn Festival when the moon is full, drinking Tuancha while admiring the full moon represents reunion. Since Zhu Chongba, a farmer brother in the Ming Dynasty, turned the group tea into loose tea, the tea leaves no longer form a group, but this does not prevent people from “making new tea under the cold lamp and frying the same moon, and blowing snow in shallow pots to try new tea”.
Up to now, the emergence of cake tea, tuo tea, brick tea, dragon ball, mandarin tea, etc. has finally broken the monopoly and enriched the shape of tea products. The moon is still the bright moon of that year, and the tea seems to have regained the moon group shape and meaning of the year.
2. One taste and one sustenance
In ancient times, wanderers and strangers had no sustenance for their homesickness. The flood of nostalgia and the use of wine to relieve their sorrows are just more sorrowful. If you taste a cup of tea from your hometown, the beat from your mouth to your heart is a unique rhythm; a cup of appreciation of the moon , Two cups of reminiscing your beloved, three cups and four cups of tea are like seeing each other for thousands of miles.
The friendship between relatives and friends is thicker than water but not like sweets and sweets. It is as elegant as admiring the moon, and it is also like a cup of good tea.
3. Sensory satisfaction and health needs
The Mid-Autumn Festival is inseparable from moon cakes and feasts, which also makes the Mid-Autumn Festival inseparable from a cup of good tea, a mouthful of mooncakes and a sip of tea, refreshing taste buds and refusing to be greasy.
As the saying goes, every festive season puts on three catties. In the face of high-sugar and high-oil moon cakes and high-purine and high-fat meals, healthy young people have to give up three points, not to mention middle-aged people who are prone to diabetes and high blood pressure. The Mid-Autumn Festival may also be regarded as a small “scourge” for the elderly, as well as ladies who are extremely concerned about their body shape, and tea with the characteristics of lowering blood fat and blood sugar can perfectly solve this contradiction.
However, you should also drink tea in moderation. Drinking too much tea at one time can easily lead to hypoglycemia, which is what we usually call “tea drunk”.
All in all, appreciating the moon, eating cakes and drinking clear tea is not only a traditional custom in our country, but also a perceivable emotional sustenance, and it is also a rigid need for health issues that are getting more and more attention nowadays.
