Cao Xue-Qin: What kind of water is suitable for tea Bashny.Net

If you still think that all water is the same, and it's just clear liquid, and it makes no difference what kind of water to brew tea. Cao Xue-Qin wrote about water:( by the way, the era of China — the last era of the Chinese emperors ( 1644-1911)





Well water: it channels the dark, and by nature it is stagnant. The taste is salty, the color is muddy. It makes breathing difficult Tea. If you make the tea and look into the Cup the next day, you will see that floats on the surface oily film and good water this does not happen. This well water is not suitable for Tea.

Water: on top of a mountain source - pure and easy. Under the mountain — clean and heavy. In the middle of the mountains is the best. Among the stones source — pure and sweet. The sand source is clean and cold. Among soil source of fresh and white. The best one is the one that flows among the yellow stones. If some blue gems to not drink. The one that flows in motion, better calm and motionless.

Water from the river: if you take water in the upper reaches — it is too strong, and at the bottom have the power lost. In the middle of the river water is suitable.

If there is no nearby river, and to the nearest hill there is no source, then we need to store more water of the plum rains (the season of blooming plum trees). The taste of her sweet and neat, this water feeds a lot of things.

Meltwater: snow water although clean, but the nature of heavy — Yin, in her cold to the spleen and stomach. It is not necessary to store a lot of water.published

P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption — together we change the world! ©

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