The Tea King Competition is a competition activity in which tea growers and tea drinkers compare the quality of new tea after the new tea is made in spring every year. It is interesting and challenging, with the characteristics of comparing skills and winning or losing. The victory or defeat of a tea competition is concerned by many citizens and villagers. It was called "tea battle" in the Tang Dynasty and "tea fighting" in the Song Dynasty. It has a strong color of winning or losing. It is actually a form of tea evaluation and socialized activity.
Wuyi Zhengyan Cup Tea King Competition is an official tea fighting competition. A total of 1,258 tea samples were received. Experts and the public judges selected ShuiXian, Rou Gui, and dahongpao in three categories. The top scholar, the second scholar, and the third scholar, Tongxinshe Teahouse has some second scholar "dahongpao" and "Shui Xian" in stock. If you are interested, you can experience this award-winning rock tea.
In the Song Dynasty, Su Dongpo had already recorded that "outside the mountains, only Hui people like to fight tea". This custom was still popular in Huicheng until the Republic of China. Tea fighting developed on the basis of tea tasting. Tea tasting is also called tea tasting. The host invites three or five close friends to pour the brewed tea into a teacup the size of a small wine glass and taste it carefully like drinking wine. Tea fighting is different. Fighting, in Huizhou dialect, means fighting, and also means winning by showing off one's strength in a fight. At that time, a private school teacher with a higher level of education summarized the meaning of tea fighting as "comparing the fineness of baskets and boxes, competing for the difference in judging and judging".
Those who participate in the tea fighting must each offer their own famous teas and take turns to taste them to determine the winner. The content of the competition includes the color and aroma of the tea leaves, the fragrance of the tea soup, the quality of the tea sets, the speed of boiling water, etc. The tea fighting must be collectively evaluated, and the winner is the one with the best.
In Wuyi Mountain, tea-fighting has become a trend. Not only are there tea-fighting competitions between tea growers and tea factories, but there are also frequent "tea-fights" among the best teas. They bring together the good tea they have collected, imitate regular tea-fighting competitions, set out several covered bowls to brew tea separately, and let everyone judge the quality of the tea. This allows people to enjoy the joy of tea tasting, promote exchanges, improve tea tasting skills, and make tea-drinking a popular lifestyle.