How did Tang Dynasty people drink tea?

Xinhua News Agency, Xi'an, May 21 (Reporter Sun Zhengzheng) In the Tang Dynasty more than 1,000 years ago, the first wave of tea drinking peaked in China, laying the cornerstone of tea as the national drink

Gilt gilt lei button and capricorn pattern tripod with silver salt table, gilt gilt swan goose pattern silver tea roller, gilt gilt flying crane pattern pot seat silver tea stalk, gilt gilt vine pattern silver spoon with long handle.

Gilt silver tea grinder with Hongyan pattern

Ren Xinlai, curator of Famen Temple Museum, said that this set of tea sets is noble in quality, mainly made of gold and silver products, as well as glazed and secret-colored porcelain, which were more valuable than gold and silver at that time, and can be called "top luxury goods" in ancient China

Gilt gilt jug with flying sky and crane pattern with silver tea luozi on the door seat, same as above

In addition, there are imported "luxury" glassware in the tea set

Glass tea cup, saucer, same as above

Han Jinke, the first curator of the Famen Temple Museum and a witness to the discovery of the underground palace, believes that this set of court tea sets is of high grade and rich in content.

Different from the brewed tea of ​​later generations, in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, tea leaves were generally pre-made into tea cakes

"After cooling, crush the tea cakes, and then use the tea mill.

In the Tang Dynasty, there was a saying of "three boils" when drinking tea

Only in the process of making tea, there are as many as 16 kinds of tea used by people in the Tang Dynasty, such as wind stove, fire chopper and salt table

Gilt silver spoon with long-handled vine pattern, ibid.

Gilt lei button and capricorn pattern tripod silver salt table, ibid.

Chinese tea culture is "prosperous in the Tang Dynasty and prosperous in the Song Dynasty"