In the summer, when Fuzhou was extremely hot, Xiao Chen would drink tea in a teahouse converted from a garage. Every day, he would look out the window at pedestrians outside being roasted by the blazing fire and rushing about, while he would hide in the room, enjoying the air conditioning and drinking Buddha's hand tea, and he felt very guilty.

The poet Du Fu said, I wish I had thousands of spacious houses to shelter all the poor people in the world and make them happy.

Xiao Chen, a little woman, doesn't have such sentiments. So she can only be a coder, and cannot become a master.

Some readers may ask, why do you choose to drink tea in the garage? The garage has no ventilation and no light, how unrefined!

Dear readers, don't be alarmed and listen to what Miss Chen has to say in detail.

Have you heard of the famous SoftBank? Mr. Masayoshi Son, the man behind Jack Ma, started out by renting a garage as an office.

Have you ever used Google? It started out in a garage.

There is also the famous Facebook, which also rented a garage in its early days.

So, the Feng Shui in the garage is really good! As a culture enthusiast like me, how can I escape the temptation of starting a business in the garage?

However, choosing to drink tea in the garage is really a helpless choice. If conditions permit, you should choose a quiet room with bright windows and clean rooms, even if it is a small room or even a shabby room.

Next, based on my own ten years of tea drinking experience (it’s relatively short, so I’m embarrassed), Xiao Chen will analyze for you what kind of room you need to decorate and what utensils you need to equip, if you want to relax yourself after get off work or on holidays and make a cup of tea for yourself at home?

As soon as I wrote this element, I knew that there would be professional trolls coming to criticize me. Damn it, you are drinking tea at home, not on the street, how can it not be quiet?

Wrong. Please go brush your teeth before reading my article.

The quiet space that Xiao Chen refers to is a relatively independent space, such as a study room, a corner of the living room, or a balcony.

In short, this space must be separated from other spaces in the house, not to mention the study, which is an absolutely independent space.

The balcony has a door, which can be completely separated from the living room.

As for choosing a corner of the living room as a tea room, you must separate it with curtains or bookshelves.

Someone may ask, why do we need an independent space?

Because drinking tea is a very private thing, you need a quiet space to slow down your mind. You need an independent space to keep the tea fragrance longer.

Only with a quiet environment and a peaceful mood can you brew a cup of tea to perfection and have a deep soulful communication with a cup of tea.

It is said that the soul is a proton, so tea is a molecule? Please forgive Xiao Chen for not being good at physics. We will discuss this later.

Here, tea table is a broad concept, referring to a table that can be used for making tea, not specifically a mahogany tea table with drainage function.

Of course, if you have enough Mao Zedongs, you can buy a piece of collectible mahogany board as a tea table, or just buy a carved mahogany tea table.

If you want to keep it simple, you can just use a glass coffee table or table.

As long as the height and size are right, it can be used as a tea table.

Usually, when we Fujianese make tea, we prefer to use tea tables instead of coffee tables, because coffee tables are low and require us to bend our backs, which can easily cause backaches if we sit in this position for a long time.

In a broad sense, a tea table can be described as extravagant and elegant. In a simple sense, it is just a piece of cloth.

A long piece of cloth was spread on the tea table.

As the saying goes, clothes make the man, and saddles make the horse. This is true for people as well as tea tables.

An ordinary wooden tea table instantly becomes elegant just by covering it with a tea cloth.

The width of a tea table is usually 30 cm. If your tea table is particularly wide, buy a 40 cm one. Tea tables for home use are basically these two widths.

The length of the tea mat depends on the length of your tea table. You should choose one that is longer than the tea table, and it is best if the left and right sides can hang down a little, which makes it look more elegant.

The patterns on the tea table include blue and white, Chinese painting, and plain colors. It is hard to say, it depends on personal taste. It also depends on whether the color matches the tea table and the environment of the tea room.

Miss Chen personally prefers tea ceremony. Why? It's very simple.

With the tea mat on it, the table is no longer flat, it has a three-dimensional sense, and its size is divided by the tea mat. In your sight, it becomes a multi-line painting, no longer rigid and boring.

Moreover, don’t you think the table covered with the tea mat looks like an ancient “case”? The kind of “case” that ancient people used to write and paint on is the same table that the four beauties used to paint on in A Dream of Red Mansions.

With this connection, the flavor of your tea table culture will come out.

Sitting at such a tea table, you will feel elegant even before the tea is brewed.

Tea trays. Wooden tea trays were popular in the past few years. Tea houses almost always had large ebony tea trays or camphor wood tea trays.

Xiao Chen still has a piece of camphor wood at home, on which is engraved a seated statue of Arhat Grandpa. It is very heavy and he can't move it at all.

My mother said that such a big piece of wood should be kept for fumigating the house.

Later, purple clay tea trays became popular. They are also large tea trays made of purple clay. The tea leaves can be brewed in a clear stream and the tray can be maintained while brewing tea.

Later, inkstone tea trays became popular. There are Duan inkstones and She inkstones, which are also large, thick and heavy, with flowers, birds, insects and fish carved on them. You soak them in water, then use a brush dipped in tea to paint the carvings on the edges.

Dry foam has become popular in the past two years.

A small tea tray with a ceramic bottom and rattan cover, the round diameter is between 25-30 cm, just enough to hold a covered bowl.

If it is long and narrow, the length is usually 40-50 cm, and you can put a covered bowl and a teapot in it.

The tea tray is placed in the middle of the tea table. When choosing, it is best to match the colors of the same color scheme. Suitable colors will create a warm and pleasant effect.

In a broad sense, tea trays are also included in tea sets. But in order to give a detailed introduction today, I will first introduce tea trays and then talk about tea sets in detail.

If you want to keep your tea making set simple, you can usually choose a Kung Fu tea set.

An ordinary Kung Fu tea set includes 1 covered bowl, 1 teapot, 1 filter, and 4-8 teacups.

In addition, you need to buy a set of "Six Gentlemen of Tea Ceremony". It contains six tools needed for making tea, such as tea clips, tea spoons, tea needles, etc. You can find it by searching for "Six Gentlemen of Tea Ceremony" on Taobao. There are various materials, such as wood, metal, and mahogany, and the prices vary. It depends on your preference.

In addition, you should also buy a large tea bowl to hold extra teacups, or to pour water for washing cups, washing tea, etc.

Tea snacks, as the name suggests, are small snacks.

I guess the haters will come back to criticize me after brushing their teeth. Damn it, eating snacks and drinking tea at the same time, isn't that a waste of tea?

Close the door and let the dog out~~

Well, amid the wailing of the critics, Xiao Chen is here to explain to the readers why we should eat some snacks while drinking tea, and how to choose the appropriate snacks.

Drinking tea can easily make you drunk, especially Wuyi rock tea. One brew of medium-fire rock tea can be made by pouring at least 9 cups of water, and two brews are 18 cups. After drinking these 18 cups, even Wu Song can’t kill a tiger!

If Wu Er continues to drink, he will also be drunk from tea. The symptoms of tea drunkenness vary from person to person. Some people feel weak in their hands and feet, some feel dizzy, and some have stomachaches.

At this time, you should supplement with some melon seeds, peanuts, soda crackers, white bread, etc., so that the starch and carbohydrates can be digested in the stomach, replenish some energy to the body, and get the blood flowing.

But when choosing tea snacks, you should pay attention to one principle, that is, they should not be too sweet, too sour, too spicy, or too salty, so as not to affect the sensitivity of the taste buds and fail to taste the true flavor of the tea. In this way, a cup of good tea would be wasted.

Playing some soothing music while drinking tea is the best way to relax.

However, Xiao Chen suggested that you only listen to music and not songs. Sometimes the lyrics in songs can make you distracted, remind you of someone or something, and affect your mood.

Just listen to the music, and savor a cup of tea slowly in the beautiful melody. Its top taste, middle taste, aftertaste, its aroma, its soup color, its taste, its origin, its story, its mountain field...

As for what kind of music to choose, it depends on your mood.

Xiao Chen usually listens to folk music, like xiao music.

Of course, you must not listen to the Dance of the Golden Snake.

I mentioned the environment when I talked about space before, but now I want to talk about the layout of the environment.

For the walls, it is recommended to use white walls. White walls can provide space for thinking and imagination, and will not make people feel depressed and dull.

You can hang paintings on the wall. Both Chinese and Western paintings are fine. It depends on your preference.

Xiao Chen prefers to hang paintings. Portraits. Something with a bit of artistic conception, something that can be imagined.

I once bought a painting of an old man fishing at a small auction. The old man was sitting alone in a boat, wearing a straw hat and raincoat, and he had caught a big carp. The inscription on the painting was: "More than enough joy."

I really like the meaning of this painting. I hang it next to the tea table wherever I go.

Look, Xiao Chen is such a vulgar person, who likes prosperity, luck and wealth.

In addition to hanging paintings, you can also hang some treasure boxes or bookshelves on the wall, put some books, or your favorite teapots and teacups.

Although Xiao Chen does not recommend using purple clay teapots to make tea, he likes to collect purple clay teapots. The collection of purple clay teapots is another long article, and I will share it with you another day.

As I get older in recent years, I feel that the effect of light is more and more powerful.

A simple room can have a completely different overall style just by installing designed lighting.

A room that was expensively installed is ruined by the wrong lighting.

Lighting can cure human psychological diseases and adjust people's mood. Therefore, the tea room for drinking tea can be installed with appropriate lighting. In the right light, whether drinking tea or reading, you will feel extremely happy.

At this time, even if Wuyan is sitting opposite you, you will find her pleasing to the eye because of your good mood.

Drinking tea under good lighting conditions can make an ordinary cup of tea exude a unique charm.

Um, do you understand? Am I talking about drinking tea?

For those who keep shouting about being single in private messages, I am here to give you advice on blind dates. I am here to teach you how to use light, and how to make good use of people's good mood under light, to have a successful blind date.

The layout of the tea room varies from person to person, and also varies with time and environment.

Generally speaking, as long as it is warm, comfortable and pleasant, it is a good tea room.

I forgot to write about green plants in this article, I will make up for it in the next article.

About the romance of plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum.

Everyone is also welcome to post pictures and show off your tea room. 

I am going to a blind date with my bestie today, so I am lazy and can only write one article. Please forgive me~~

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