People who understand the tea ceremony also know that the level of tea art can be judged from a person's external temperament.
Don't drink wine when you are bitter, and don't drink tea when you are hurt.
When a person's mental and temperament are at their best, the tea he brews will also be top-notch.
Just by looking at the appearance, several people who know tea think that Lu Ruorong is better.
After the two beautiful women appeared, they looked at each other.
The two people's eyes met in the middle of the scene, and Jin Xiujie felt the super confidence in Lu Ruorong's eyes.
Somehow, she wanted to avoid Lu Ruorong's gaze.
This beautiful Chinese woman has excellent energy, spirit and vitality, and is in the most excited state of her emotions.
She had no choice but to go ahead with it.
But I couldn’t help but mutter in my heart: “Oh no, I might lose today.”
Kim Soo-hee could only force herself to adjust herself to the best condition.
She bowed to Lu Ruorong Yingying, then bowed to the whole audience.
According to the rules of ancient tea-fighting competitions, both parties in the competition would bring their own good tea.
The Chinese students who came from afar did not bring any good tea with them, so they could only choose the tea provided by the Korean side.
The tea provided by the Korean side is not green tea, but Pu'er tea, a fifteen-year-old tea cake.
This is good, as no one can take advantage of the quality of tea. The winner of the competition can only be determined by the tea-making skills.
Everything is ready and the tea ceremony competition is about to begin.
The South Korean side provided tap water, purified water, mineral water and mountain spring water from nearby mountains.
Lu Ruorong and Jin Xiujie both chose mountain spring water.
Great minds think alike, and they smiled at each other when they made their choices.
They both chose the same tea-making utensils and used charcoal to make tea.
Lu Yu, the tea master of the Tang Dynasty, once said: "When boiling tea, the best fire to use is charcoal, and the next best fire is strong firewood."
Tea lovers never use gas stoves to make tea, and even throw away the charcoal if it is contaminated with foreign matter.
As the saying goes, water and fire are incompatible, but in the tea ceremony performance, water and fire must work together properly to brew good tea.
Wash your hands, heat the cups, and warm the pot. Once the tea set is ready, the next step is "Ma Long enters the palace," which means putting the tea leaves into the set.
Then wash the tea, pour the boiling water into the pot containing the tea leaves, and then quickly pour it out.
Then comes the most exciting part of the tea ceremony performance - making tea, adding water, beating the teapot and sealing the pot.
When brewing, you cannot fill the teapot with tea at once. There is a so-called "Phoenix Three Nods" in the performance, which means that the teapot needs to be filled three times. The tea powder is brushed off with the lid of the pot, and then the lid is closed to preserve the aroma that comes out during brewing, and then the tea is divided into cups.
Although it sounds simple, the boiling degree of water, the speed of washing tea leaves, and the degree of filling the cup with water are all key to tea brewing techniques.
The two of them were so absorbed in the tea ceremony performance that they seemed to have forgotten everything around them.
Many people were stunned when they saw such an exquisite tea ceremony performance for the first time, which was as smooth as flowing water.
The person is beautiful, the movements are beautiful, the tea is fragrant, and the beauty is even more fragrant, which makes them intoxicated.
Even Chen Zihan is like this.
He knew that Lu Ruorong was multi-talented, but to be honest, he only felt her versatility. As for what aspects of her talents she was talented in, he didn't really know.
Anyway, I will have a good time in the future.
I must buy some good tea when I get back.
Moreover, he also wanted to ask Lu Ruorong what talents she had.
While watching Lu Ruorong and Jin Xiujie perform tea art attentively, Chen Zihan felt someone's eyes looking at him.
When he turned around, he saw Li Yunxin from the other team looking at him.
Perhaps she already knew that his relationship with Lu Ruorong was not simple.
After all, when Lu Ruorong was about to participate in the competition, he gave her a hug.
Because the students with different opinions were sitting on both sides and the distance between them was not far, they could still see each other clearly.
Chen Zihan clearly felt the provocation in Li Yunxin's eyes.
He ignored her, smiled slightly, and continued to watch the performance of the two people on the field, taking a photo from time to time.
Lu Ruorong handed him her camera, and Chen Zihan naturally wanted to capture her beauty and the battle process.
While he was filming, he also saw Luo Xiaofei, who was acting as Lu Ruorong's temporary assistant, standing on the side of the field and taking pictures with her D1X camera.
Lu Ruorong's movements were obviously more agile than Kim Soo-hee's, and she was the first to divide the cup.
She divided the tea into six cups in total. After putting them on the tray, Yingying stood up and presented them to the six Chinese and Korean officials who were watching the game.
These six people can be said to act as temporary referees.
Although not everyone is proficient in the tea ceremony, there is at least one person on both the Chinese and Korean sides who is proficient in the tea ceremony.
Theoretically, the judgment of six people can be relatively fair.
After a while, Kim Soo-hee also finished her tea ceremony performance, and also divided six cups and brought them to the six judges on a tray.
The six people who temporarily acted as judges, under the guidance of a colleague who knew tea ceremony, began to judge who was better at tea ceremony between Lu Ruorong and Jin Xiujie.
In tea competition, one dou is for the tea soup color, and the other dou is for the water marks.
First, check whether the color of the tea soup is pure. The one with pure color wins.
The color of the tea soup can reflect the tea picking and processing skills. A pure tea soup indicates that the tea is plump and tender and is made just right; a greenish color indicates that the steaming temperature is insufficient; a grayish color indicates that the steaming temperature is too high; a yellowish color indicates that the tea is not picked in time; and a reddish color indicates that the tea is over-roasted.
Secondly, see how long the soup foam lasts.
Because Pu'er tea is a cake-shaped tea, the tea cakes must be roasted and ground into small pieces before being boiled in water.
If the tea is ground finely and the addition of tea, soup and whisking are all done just right, the soup foam will be even and fine, clinging to the edge of the cup and staying together for a long time.
This optimal effect is called "biting the lamp".
Making tea and tea soup refers to the preparation of tea soup, that is, the technique of boiling and brewing tea.
While adding tea, use a tea whisk to rotate, hit and whisk the tea in the teacup to make it foam. This is called hitting and whisking.
If the soup foam cannot bite the cup, but quickly disperses, and "water marks" immediately appear where the soup and the cup meet, then you are doomed to fail.
The early or late appearance of water marks is the basis for judging the quality of the tea.
In tea-tea competition, the one who has the water mark appear later wins, and the one who has the water mark appear earlier loses.
"The tea soup is pure, with fine and even foam. It lingers in the teacup, leaving no trace of water. This is truly excellent tea." The Chinese leader, an expert in the tea ceremony, scooped up the tea presented by Lv Ruorong with two fingers and praised it profusely. "I never thought there would be such a master of the tea ceremony among the students of Zhijiang University."
Kim Soo-hee's tea soup is also very good, but whether it is the color of the soup, the soup flowers, the bite into the cup, or the water marks, there is a big gap between her and Lu Ruorong, not to mention her performance during the tea ceremony performance.
As long as one is not guilty, one will definitely think that Lu Ruorong's tea ceremony is much better.
The Korean man who knew about tea ceremony looked at the two people's tea carefully and tasted it, then showed a conflicted expression.
The other two Koreans carefully observed the tea of the two people, whispered a few words with the man who knew the tea ceremony, and then they all showed embarrassed expressions on their faces.
At this time, the whole audience was silent, and everyone was waiting for the final judging results.
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