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Introduction Lei Cha Chapter 16

Introduction Lei Cha Chapter 16

The hometown of Leicha mainly refers to Jiangle County, Fujian Province. Jiangle Leicha is a special product of Jiangle County, Sanming City, Fujian Province. , beat it with a long wooden stick, making a “rumbling” sound when it is beaten.

In Jiangle, Leicha is a drink improvised by ordinary people.

As the name suggests, brewing tea has to be “brewed” with utensils. Its main utensils are the holding and the beating bowl. The lei holder is a 2-foot-long stick, usually made of tea branches or white snake vines (it belongs to edible miscellaneous wood). The rambling bowl is a special local pottery pot, and its inner wall is covered with radial grooves (the roughness is to increase the friction during the brewing process), and it is in the shape of a rounded cone.

The basic raw materials of Lei Cha are tea leaves, rice, sesame seeds, soybeans, peanuts, salt and orange peel, and sometimes green herbs are added. In fact, not all tea leaves are tea leaves. There are many varieties of tea leaves. In addition to using old tea leaves, more young leaves of many wild plants are picked, such as Yamanashi leaves, Daqing leaves, etc. There are no less than ten kinds. After washing, simmering, fermenting, drying and other processes, it is prepared in large quantities and used all year round…

Both Le Lei tea and Taiwan Lei tea come from the same source, and both belong to the Hakka Lei tea series. Leicha culture can be used as a link for cultural exchanges between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, and it has a positive effect on enhancing Taiwan compatriots’ sense of identity and sense of belonging to the same ethnic origin and culture on both sides of the strait; enhancing the friendship of Hakka and hometown relatives, and promoting further exchanges and exchanges between people on both sides of the strait.

In August 1992, the largest “Lei Tea Festival” in history was held. More than 400 guests from home and abroad attended the Lei Tea event, which has a far-reaching influence on the tea culture. Since 2006, the annual Leicha style exhibition competition has been held.

In recent years, Jiangle County has attached great importance to the inheritance and protection of related cultures. Since 2006, the county has held a Leicha style exhibition competition every year.

Jiang Lei Tea Ballad

Moonlight boy, Yuemao, I want you to come down and have some tea. Lei tea is fragrant, served with ginger. Spicy old ginger, served with glutinous rice. The glutinous rice is salty, with spinach. Spinach choke, with amaranth stems. The amaranth stems are bright red, and lanterns and lanterns are hung on the bayberry tree.

Hakka “Lei Cha” Reception Ceremony

Hakka lives in remote mountainous areas all year round, and there are few guests, but whenever a guest arrives, no matter what time or which house they enter, the host will immediately take out the “tea rice” and make a cup of strong tea. The Hakka people call tea “tea rice”, and treat tea and rice as the same, which shows how much they attach importance to tea. One is the Hakka people who drink tea by themselves, and the other is the custom of entertaining guests with tea. When the guests enter the door, they will offer tea first, and after tasting it, they will start to do homework or talk about serious business.

Hakka people like to live in tulou buildings, and they have a strong sense of group. When one family has something to do, the neighbors will reach out to help, as if it is their own business. Courtesy exchanges between each household, intimacy. They are very civilized, and when they are accepted for help or congratulated, the head of the household always looks for a suitable opportunity to invite the relevant personnel to the house and invite them to drink tea as a kind of gift. Therefore, a unique Hakka tea culture has been formed. The festive answering ceremony is expressed through the unique Hakka “leicha” form.

Whenever a guest comes, the Hakka people must first make a cup of strong tea to honor the guest. This is not the case when offering tea as a gift. It has its own special customs and is a unique Hakka culture of gift-giving tea. There are many items that need to be answered, such as the baby’s full moon, the old man’s birthday, the child’s schooling, the child’s entry into the office, the patient’s recovery, a false alarm, the son’s marriage, the daughter’s marriage, etc., all need to set up a tea ceremony. It is usually a gift in the form of “lei tea”.

Lei Cha is made from tea leaves, ginger and rice. The production is very particular. First, the three raw materials are placed in a pottery bowl or a mortar made of bluestone, and then a hammer made of hawthorn or camellia wood is used to repeatedly pound and grind it into a paste. Then stir in chives, dried tangerine peel, sweet potato vermicelli, dried japonica rice noodles and an appropriate amount of salt, add water and cook in a large pot to form a gruel. When eating, sprinkle some spices, such as fried peanuts, fried soybeans, fried sesame seeds, etc.