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After Sagawa Suzuki saw Han Tianlong take out the tea leaves, he carefully opened a special suitcase he carried with him, opened the suitcase, and there were three boxes of tea leaves inside.The packaging colors of the three boxes are gold, silver and copper.

This time, without any hesitation, Sagawa Suzuki directly took out the golden packaging box from inside, and gently placed it on the table.

However, he did not open the tea box, but looked at Han Tianlong with a smile and said, "Boss Han, can you explain the winning and losing criteria for this tea fight first?"

Han Tianlong smiled lightly and said, "Okay, that's okay. Our current standard for tea fighting is different from the ancient one. There are two standards for tea fighting in ancient times, one is the color of the soup, and the other is the water mark.

First of all, check whether the color of the tea soup is bright and white. The pure white one is the winner, and the blue-white, off-white, yellow-white one is the negative.The soup color can reflect the tea picking and processing skills. The pure white tea soup indicates that the tea is picked and tender, and the production is just right; the color is blue, indicating that the steamed tea is not enough; Reddish color means it has been baked.Secondly, look at the duration of soup flowers.

And our current tea fighting is mainly determined by several points. First, it depends on the shape and color of the dry tea. Second, it depends on the color, taste, and leaf bottom of the tea soup, and finally a comprehensive score. "

Sagawa Suzuki couldn't help frowning: "Then what if the tea I brought is matcha? How to fight? In Japan, matcha is very famous. In the world, the top brand of matcha is in Japan. The best matcha in the world is also In our Japan."

Han Tianlong smiled slightly: "If you brought matcha, you can be a bystander in today's tea fight, and we can choose another time again, and I will have matcha with you exclusively. But Mr. Sagawa Suzuki, what you just said The world's top brand of matcha is in your Japan, I admit this, but if you say that the best matcha in the world is in your Japan, I don't agree with that."

At this time, Qin Shuai said with disdain: "Sagawa Suzuki, don't pretend to be too much, although the world's top matcha brand is in your Japan, but the real originator of your Japanese matcha is in our China, from our China. The end tea in the Tang Dynasty evolved. Of course, we Chinese people are really bad at brand management, but if you say that the best end tea is in your Japan, I absolutely don’t believe it. I am a tea lover. I have drunk matcha from all the top brands in Japan, and I have also drunk matcha made by ordinary people in some tea-producing areas in China. With all due respect, your Japanese end tea brand is really powerful, but it is still inferior to the matcha made by some folk masters. It's much worse."

Hearing that the matcha he was so proud of was hit by Qin Shuai again, Sagawa Suzuki's eyes burst into flames, but he also knew that Japanese matcha was indeed imported from China. There is no problem with this. Of course, for this A piece of history, he will never admit it.

Sagawa Suzuki rolled his eyes, suddenly smiled, and said: "The history of matcha is not the topic of our tea fight today, and the tea I brought today is not matcha." Said here, Sagawa Suzuki looked at Han Tianlong Said: "Boss Han, as far as I know, your Chinese tea fighting culture has a long history, often before the real tea fighting, there is a tea fighting order, and in your Chinese traditional culture, there are many poems about tea, Since it is a tea fight in China, how about we fight for a tea fight first? Everyone recite a poem about tea, and see who can recite more in the end, and whoever has won this game ,how?"

Sagawa Suzuki is a smart person, and he is also a person who is good at grasping the weaknesses of the other party. He has studied tea ceremony for decades, and he has studied Chinese tea ceremony for more than 20 years. Therefore, for Chinese tea culture and tea culture about He is familiar with many poems describing tea, but as far as he knows, learning English is the most popular thing in China now, and English training courses are blooming everywhere, but there are very few training courses on Chinese traditional culture. The reason is very simple, because Learning English can bring employment opportunities and advantages to these Chinese people.

However, in Sagawa Suzuki's view, the Chinese people are now simply chasing after the basics. Chinese traditional culture has a long history, and there are many essences in it. .

Chinese people don't learn, but as a Japanese, he has to learn.Just like Sun Tzu's Art of War and 36 Strategies, in Japan, this is something that every Japanese elite who is interested in business and politics must study carefully.And many Japanese, especially Japanese politicians, like to use various strategies in Sun Tzu's Art of War and 36 Strategies to deal with China.

Sagawa Suzuki saw that Qin Shuai was only in his 30s, and he believed that he must be very rough in traditional Chinese culture, even half-knowledgeable, and there were very few verses about tea in Chinese textbooks, so he believed that through this The Tea Fighting Order can directly give Qin Shuai a disqualification and humiliate him severely. He has even thought out the subtext of humiliating Qin Shuai.

But Han Tianlong frowned when he heard the words.As a tea ceremony master, he has a deep understanding of the tea ceremony, and he also understands some poems about tea, but he is far from being proficient. Looking at the meaning of Sagawa Suzuki, it seems that he is quite familiar with the tea ceremony. Proficient and even full of confidence, Han Tianlong lacked confidence.

However, as the host of the teahouse, he was embarrassed to refuse directly. After all, it was a Japanese who proposed to start the game with a tea fighting order, and what they wanted to fight was the traditional Chinese culture.If I don't even dare to accept this challenge, then I would be too embarrassing for the Huaxia people.

While hesitating, Han Tianlong looked at Qin Shuai and said, "What do you think?"

Qin Shuai still had the calm look before and said: "Whatever, just fight for tea orders, a little Japanese competes with us Chinese people for poetry, isn't this a mouse licking a cat's leg and sucking it to death? What, Han Boss, don't you dare?"

Seeing Qin Shuai's face, Han Tianlong was so angry that he wanted to pick up the teapot and pour boiling water on his face.This guy is so fucked up.I didn't see my own hint at all.

However, Han Tianlong is also a well-informed person. Under such circumstances, he naturally refused to admit defeat, and he immediately said with a smile: "Okay, then let's fight for the tea order first. Since I am the host, let me Let’s get started first. I’ll start with a piece of “Song of Six Enviments” by tea sage Lu Yu.”

While talking, Han Tianlong chanted: "I don't envy the golden cup, I don't envy the white jade cup. I don't envy going to the province in the morning, and I don't envy entering the stage in the evening. I envy the water of the West River, and I once came down to Jingling City."

After Han Tianlong finished reciting, he looked at Sagawa Suzuki with a smile, his face was full of calm, but his heart was a little beating.

Sagawa Suzuki chuckled, nodded and said, "What a song "Song of Six Enviments". Through this "Song of Six Enviments", the tea sage expressed his love for tea to the fullest. Then I will play "Mountain Spring Fried Tea" by Bai Juyi. You are pregnant. This is also a person who loves tea!"

After finishing speaking, Sagawa Suzuki chanted in his blunt mandarin: "Sit down and drink cold water, watch the decoction rustle. There is no reason to hold a dish and send it to tea lovers."

After finishing speaking, Sagawa Suzuki looked at Qin Shuai with provocative eyes.

Qin Shuai smiled: "Since Mr. Sagawa Suzuki has come up with Bai Juyi's poems, then I will present Yuan Zhen's "Fu Cha". poetry:

tea

fragrant leaves, buds

Mu Shike, A monk's family

Carved white jade, weaving red yarn

Choco-fried yellow pistil color, twisted dust flowers in a bowl

Invite the queen of night to accompany the bright moon

Washing away all the past and present people are tireless, how can it be boasted that they will become drunk and chaotic

After Qin Shuai finished reciting this pagoda poem, whether it was Sagawa Suzuki or Han Tianlong, both of them were a little shocked.

Both of them have read a lot of poems about tea, and even recited a lot, but they rarely noticed this pagoda poem, but now, after Qin Shuai finished reciting, both of them were The delicacy and artistic conception of this tower poem shocked me.

At this moment, Sagawa Suzuki no longer looked at Qin Shuai with the previous contempt in his eyes. He has realized that although the young man in front of him looks like a fool, since the other party can recite this strangely structured pagoda The poem, and it is Yuan Zhen's poem, which shows one point, that is, the other party's research on Chinese traditional culture may be quite profound, otherwise, how can such a tower poem be found casually?

Not to mention reciting it verbatim in front of everyone.

Han Tianlong also looked at Qin Shuai with a little more solemn eyes, and he has also realized that the young man in front of him may not be a generation that is easy to be with.

Thinking of this, Han Tianlong said with a smile: "Okay, it's my turn again. Tea is also known as tea. Since ancient times, tea has been a gift for mutual exchanges between friends. It is also in line with the tea ceremony expressed by Mr. Sagawa Suzuki, so , I will come to a poem "Response to Friends Sending New Tea" by the Tang Dynasty poet Li Qunyu to meet the occasion: the fire is full of fragrance and the front fireflies are crushed, and the Wu Ouxiang water is green and the flowers are new. I am ashamed of the taste of thousands of miles, and send it to the thirsty people with spring breeze and wine."

After Han Tianlong finished reciting, he looked at Sagawa Suzuki again.

After three rounds, when it was Han Tianlong's turn again, Han Tianlong shook his head with a wry smile and said: "All I can remember has been told by you, this round I admit defeat."

Seeing this, Sagawa Suzuki showed pride and arrogance on his face, straightened his waist, looked arrogant and arrogant, looked at Qin Shuai with pride and said, "Are you admitting defeat?"

Qin Shuai laughed and said, "I don't have the word lose in my dictionary! Are you first or me first?"

Sagawa Suzuki put on a very magnanimous look and said, "You go first?"

Qin Shuai was not modest either, just nodded slightly, and recited: "Then I will write another poem by Bai Juyi, the title of which is "Xiao Yuanwai Sends Shu New Tea": Shu tea is sent but it is new, and Weishui boils it. Shi Juezhen. A full ou is like milk, it can be held and played, but it's the deep spring of wine and thirsty people."

After Qin Shuai, Sagawa Suzuki recited Pi Rixiu's "Cooking Tea", and then Qin Shuai immediately responded to Liu Yuxi's "Tasting Tea".

The two of you are competing with each other, Han Tianlong is already a little dumbfounded at this moment.

He didn't expect that a Japanese, Sagawa Suzuki, would be so proficient in Chinese tea poetry, and what he didn't expect was that Qin Shuai, without any preparation, had no intention of admitting defeat and compromise, and even fought with Sagawa Suzuki on equal terms. .And Qin Shuai looks like a young man in his 30s. It stands to reason that people of this age should not be very proficient in Chinese traditional culture and poetry.

Next, after the two competed for another 8 rounds, Sagawa Suzuki sat there, sweating profusely. No matter how hard he racked his brains, he couldn't think of a poem related to tea.

But at this time, Qin Shuai said lightly: "Mr. Sagawa Suzuki, do you admit defeat?"

Sagawa Suzuki's face was full of unwillingness, but he could only nod with a wry smile: "I admit defeat. Unwilling, can you still recite a few more poems?"

Qin Shuai didn't speak, just stood there, and calmly recited "Snow Fried Tea" by Xie Zongke, "Singing Tea" by Su Shi, and "The Tea of ​​Yuquan Immortal Palm Presented by Monk Zhongfu Presented by the Nephew of the Da Family" by Su Shi. "Preface", after reciting these three poems, Qin Shuai looked at Sagawa Suzuki lightly and said: "Mr. Sagawa Suzuki, do you need me to recite some more? There are not many tea poems that I can recite, only more than 300." It's just the first."

When Sagawa Suzuki heard this, his eyes widened immediately, and he looked at Qin Shuai in shock, with an incredulous look on his face.

He has always believed that his attainments in the tea ceremony can be regarded as relatively advanced in Japan, especially in the poems related to tea, he has worked hard, how many poems related to tea can he recite? Ten poems, but now, compared with the young man in front of him, he realizes that he is still a little shallow.

Although he didn't know whether the young man said he could recite three hundred tea-related poems was true or not, he had to admit that he really underestimated the Chinese people, and even more so the young man in front of him. .

Thinking of this, Sagawa Suzuki frowned and asked, "Young man, are there many Chinese people familiar with traditional Chinese culture like you?"

Qin Shuai smiled and shook his head: "Mr. Sagawa Suzuki, I really can't answer this question you asked, but in terms of the attainment of traditional Chinese culture, there are about seven or eight people who I admire and admire. Well, I’m only talking about friends of our age, as for those who are bigger than us, I don’t know much, but most of these friends of mine are just disciples of some masters of Chinese studies.”

As soon as Qin Shuai said this, Sagawa Suzuki felt that at that moment, he seemed to be struck directly by countless thunderbolts, and there was a short circuit in an instant.He suddenly realized that Chinese people really shouldn't be underestimated.This tea-fighting person who jumped out casually was far superior to himself in both tea ceremony and tea poetry.

But what made him more gratified was that this person might not be very good at fighting tea, otherwise, how could he use an iron box to store tea?Thinking of this, he seemed to have regained a sliver of confidence, looked at Han Tianlong and said, "Okay, Boss Han, he won this round, let's go directly to the tea fight."