Gongfu tea is a Chinese folk tea tasting custom. It is popular in Chaoshan, Guangdong and Zhangquan, Fujian. Work tea is inseparable from the tea utensils, tea utensils refers to the special apparatus for brewing and drinking tea, including pots, bowls, cups, plates, trays and so on. An exquisite set of tea utensils with color, aroma and taste of the three best tea, can be said to complement each other. Tea style flourished, the more varieties of tea utensils, exquisite texture. Kung Fu Tea is popular in Chaozhou and Shantou, Guangdong Province, and Kung Fu Tea is most concerned about the tea utensils. Chaoshan Kung Fu Tea used tea utensils need at least ten kinds.
Kung Fu tea set is the most elaborate kind of tea tea set, the reason why called Kung Fu tea, because this way of making tea is extremely elaborate. Operation requires a certain amount of effort, this work, is to steep the learning, drinking kung fu.
Work tea set has been passed down for hundreds of years, the earliest work tea set popular with Guangdong and other places, with the later slowly spread to various regions.
Chinese tea drinking, the most elaborate is afraid to count the Kung Fu tea. The Qing dynasty wild history of the "China to cook tea, to the three provinces of Ting, Quan, Zhang, Fujian, Guangdong, Chaozhou Kung Fu Tea for the most." Kung Fu tea is mostly a leisurely pleasure to cook or as a courtesy to guests, so there is "leisure to savor Kung Fu tea", "no tea is not a gift," said.
Kung Fu tea sets, but the tea people think "four treasures" is a must: Mengchen punch cans (small alabaster pots), if the deep ou (small thin porcelain cups), Yu Shu fear (water pots), Chaoshan oven. Min, Guangdong, Taiwan tea people on the teapot punch can ranking there is a tea proverb: "a nameless, two Shiting, three Calyx nursery, four Mengchen, five Yigong." I don't know why, "Mengchen" ranked fourth but highly favored by tea people. According to history, Mengchen was Hui Mengchen, a famous pot maker in the Ming Dynasty, who first made pots during the Tianqi period of the Ming Dynasty, and initially had the words "Da Mingqi Dingmao Jingxi Hui Mengchen made" engraved on the bottom of the pot. The Taoxi Hakujutsu said: "Mengchen's brushwork is absolutely similar to Chu Suiliang's." Mengchen canisters with tea does not taste, storage tea does not change color, summer does not rancid advantages. Tea people buy it standard is "three mountains Qi", that is, the pot to cover the flat table, drip mouth, pot mouth, handle three points flat into a line is the real thing. Bubble tea the more often the longer, pot wall long tea rust the thicker, can save tea, even if the empty pot into the boiling water also have tea tea color, tea rust thick mengchen pot is often the tea master show off "tea age long" evidence. If the deep ou is the Qing dynasty jiangxi jingdezhen porcelain masterpiece if the deep, the bottom of the cup is written "if the deep collection" is now rare.
Kung fu tea another "two treasures" one of the jade book fear to chaozhou century-old "Tao shengju" to do the best, have excellent resistance to sudden changes in heat and cold performance. Winter, take out of the oven for a long time to keep warm. Kung Fu tea is concerned about the water should not be too hot, Yu Shu Fear easy to observe the fire and is not easy to produce scale. The Chaoshan oven is selected from the Guangdong East high-quality high age soil fine firing of the red clay small stove, this stove as early as in the Tang and Song dynasties that is famous, characterized by a long shape, more than a foot high, very elegant. Heart of the stove deep and small, can make the fire heat evenly save charcoal, stove has a cover with a door, ventilation performance is good, it is worth praising is the water overflow furnace, "fire is still burning, the stove is not cracked", some artisans also like to match a pair of tea on both sides of the stove door.