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Introduction Lei Cha Chapter 23

Introduction Lei Cha Chapter 23

In Taojiang County, Yiyang City, drinking Lei tea has long been a custom, and almost every household has a pottery bowl, bowl stand, and Lei tea stick. When making lei tea, the tea leaves are first smashed, and then sesame, ginger, and peanuts are added. They are all smashed into a paste, and there are various flavors. They are prepared with sugar and boiled water, like soy milk or milk. The taste is sweet and can be drunk in all seasons, especially in the summer season.

When a guest comes, fill it with a big bowl, and the guest can drink as much as they want. The more the guest drinks, the happier the host will be. This is the reception for regulars. If there are rare customers, they will drink Lei tea and serve homemade tea food, such as fried sweet potato chips, fried soybeans, fried fruit peel, popcorn, sour beans, chili radishes, etc. After the 1980s, there were already processing factories producing Lei tea, and there were also business households facing the street selling Lei tea.

Drinking Taojiang Lei tea, there is also the habit of placing “dishes”. On the quaint Baxian table, there are usually eight “dishes”, including withered shell peanuts, burnt-flavored fried sweet potato chips, sturdy pumpkin seeds, crispy Qiaoguo slices, and purple ocean nests. …all are home-made, appetizing and delicious green foods.

Why put eight plates? The locals say two meanings: one is that eight people sit at a table, which means that everyone has a share; the other is that the eight characters are an auspicious number. creed.

In addition to holding large-scale tea parties on important occasions such as weddings and funerals, Taojiang people often drink tea with their families on weekdays. Since Taojiang people drink Lei tea all the year round, processing Lei tea is one of the main tasks of housewives in Taojiang area.

Taojiang people are enthusiastic. Whenever a guest comes to visit, the hospitable host will pick up a bamboo spoon or wooden spoon. The fragrant heat made the guests drool. After receiving the first bowl of Lei tea, guests who don’t understand the mountain rules in the mountains can’t wait to drink it. However, as soon as the guest drinks a little, the sharp-eyed hostess will pick up the spoon and refill it for you. Therefore, there is no end to the drink. According to local customs, if you don’t want to drink the bowl after drinking it, don’t drink the bowl of tea in your hand, let it stay in the bowl, and wait until you leave the host’s house. He drank again in one breath, and said goodbye.

Lei tea, with raw rice, ginger, raw tea leaves, sesame seeds, peanut kernels, etc. can also be added to enhance the aroma. The “Sansheng” is placed in a ceramic beating bowl that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, with an inner diameter of about one and a half feet and a groove-shaped vertical pattern in the wall. Pound, and add a little cold water to make a paste, rinse with boiling water and serve. Lei tea is thick and sticky after being made, the color is light brown, the aroma is fragrant, and the entrance is smooth and soft, sweet and refreshing. The preparation method is roughly the same as Taoyuan, but the taste is different. Taojiang Leicha is generally sweetened with sugar, making it a “sweet drink”.

Taoyuan Leicha, on the other hand, contains salt, which is mostly “salty food”. When women in Taojiang become pregnant, they have a custom of drinking lei tea, saying that the more lei tea they drink, the whiter and fatter the baby will be.

Due to the development, most of the Leicha is mainly made of sesame and peanuts. Titian can also add a little other ingredients at will to make it milky white. And only in some small sections are some special ingredients added: Grain Rain, plus raw tea leaves, etc.!

Lei Cha is only used as a general drink. If it is used for medicinal purposes, such as dispelling wind and cold, relieving summer qi, clearing fire and detoxifying, it can be added such as fine leaf money, mugwort leaves, small leaf guest bowl (horseshoe gold), bansuncai (shepherd’s purse), yellow flower, mint, etc., with tea Beat together. All kinds of ingredients, easy-to-cook products, after being chopped, put them in a bowl and boiled with boiling water; if they are difficult to cook, put them in a pot and boil them, and pour them into the bowl together with boiling water.