Carefree Prince In Tang Dynasty

"The master once said that a gentleman is like water, and a villain is like oil." Li Xin continued to talk, "The original meaning of this sentence is to say that a gentleman knows how to seek common ground while reserving differences, and understands tolerance. I think this is the role of water in tea soup." ?It reconciles and contains all the flavors, which makes it a tea."

Looking at Li Xin's serious expression, Chen Yin couldn't laugh or cry for a while. But let alone, Li Xin's nonsense does have some meaning.

"As the saying goes, jade cannot be crafted without being cut. Perhaps the process from water to tea is the process for a gentleman to sharpen himself and make himself grow. Then, what is the difference between the taste we taste when drinking tea and the character of a gentleman? "Li Xin is still talking freely.

Chen Xinheng's eyes widened. It seemed that if there were no other people present, he would have raised his thumbs up and asked, "Why are you so good at breaking things apart?"

Zheng Boyang looked at Li Xin, and there was a small flame burning in his eyes, but he couldn't find any point to refute. Because what Li Xin said is indeed the most orthodox Confucian theory, although it is only the most superficial part, and a little extension has been added, but there is no room for criticism.

"There are many virtues of a gentleman, so we add many condiments to tea. But no matter what, there are only two fundamental ones." Li Dao said, "One is water. It is the gentleman himself. The second is tea, which is all the virtues. The most important thing is 'benevolence'. As we all know, benevolence is the origin of all virtues. So I always think that there are too many seasonings in tea. Obviously, we only need benevolence."

At this point, Li Xin paused for a moment, then continued with a smile: "Other flavors will naturally be tasted gradually in the process of repeatedly tasting benevolence, just as 'benevolence' develops into loyalty and filial piety and countless other qualities. "

Chen Xinheng suddenly realized - it turned out that Li Xin wanted to take this opportunity to promote his fried tea?

"After removing all the superfluous things, we can naturally taste the taste of tea and water, and thus get closer to the way of a gentleman." Li Xin threw out this extremely important conclusion with a smile.

Listening to such nonsense, Chen Yin really enjoyed it. Among other things, Li Xin's ability to talk nonsense when he sees people is really hard for ordinary people to flatter a horse. After talking about this conversation, drinking tea is the practice of becoming a gentleman.

Zheng Han snorted, but didn't say anything.

If what Li Xin asked today was some classic question, of course he would be able to answer it perfectly. But what Li Xin asked was about the tea ceremony. Apart from being good at drinking and occasionally pretending to play with it, he really doesn't know much about in-depth things.

Now, judging from his self-cultivation, Li Xin has indeed established a quite suitable logical framework, and the rest is just adding private goods to it. It can be said that Li Xin has successfully passed this test.

Li Xin smiled lightly, and continued: "Just as people are different, different water from different places is naturally different. The tea made from them will also have differences in taste."

So Li Xin began to discuss in detail the influence of mountain spring water, river water, and well water on the taste of tea. Even Chen Yin couldn't help being surprised: Are there really so many ways?

Li Xin quietly paid attention to the expressions of the people present, and said in his heart: Hehe, the "Tea Classic" by the Great Immortal Lu Yu still can't calm you down?