安溪茶俗 铁观音茶王赛 敬佛茶俗 丧事茶俗

铁观音茶王赛

说到茶王赛，那可是家乡人最最熟悉的，也是安溪最精彩的茶俗。每逢新茶登场时节，茶农们便携带各家自制的上好铁观音茶叶聚在一起，由茶师主持，茶农人人参与评议，从“形、色、香、韵”诸方面细细品评，孰好孰劣当场判定。如果当上了“茶王”，乡亲们还敲锣打鼓地把“茶王”迎回家呢!那场面真是壮观至极。

敬佛茶俗

安溪，是一个信奉佛祖的地区。敬佛，也有一定的茶俗。

每逢农历初一和十五，安溪农村的不少佛祖信徒会向佛祖、观音菩萨以及地方神灵敬奉清茶。敬奉当天，主人要赶个清早，在日头未上山，晨露犹存之际，往水井或山泉之中汲取清水，起火烹煮，泡上三杯浓香醇厚的铁观音等上好茶水，在神位前敬奉，求佛祖和神灵保佑家人出入平安，家业兴旺。虔诚者则日日如此，经年不缀。

丧事茶俗

不单单在敬佛之时有茶俗，办丧事之时，也不例外。

在亲戚奔丧、堂亲送丧、朋友同事探丧时，主人都要对来客敬上清茶一杯。客人饮茶品甜企望得以讨吉利、辟邪气。清明时节，后辈上坟扫墓跪拜先祖，亦要敬奉清茶三杯。清末着名诗人，茶商林鹤年在(福雅躺堂诗抄)中曾记述，因“经年未登先观察坟茔，于弟侄还乡跪香致虔泣”时，基于“先观察性嗜茶，云初泡过浓，二泡味淡而香始出，特嘱弟侄于扫墓忌辰塑望时，作茶供，一如生时。”

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一千多年过去了，安溪铁观音茶俗就是这样通过长期的生活积累，演变发展，口传心授，一代一代传下来的。它，已成为了安溪人民生活中不可缺少的一部分……。

Tea King Race

When it comes to the tea king competition, it is the most familiar to the hometown people, and it is also the most wonderful tea custom in Anxi. Whenever the new tea comes on the market, the tea farmers will bring their best-made tea leaves together, chaired by the tea master, and all the tea farmers will participate in the evaluation. Judgment on the spot. If you become the "Tea King", the villagers will beat the gongs and drums to welcome the "Tea King" home! The scene is really spectacular.

The custom of worshiping Buddha tea

Anxi is an area where Buddha is believed. To worship Buddha, there are also certain tea customs.

On the first and fifteenth days of the lunar calendar, many Buddhist believers in rural Anxi will offer tea to the Buddha, Guanyin Bodhisattva and local gods. On the day of worship, the host should rush early in the morning. Before the sun goes up the mountain and the morning dew is still there, he will draw water from the well or mountain spring, cook it on fire, and make three cups of good tea such as Tieguanyin with a strong fragrance. Worship in front of the throne, ask the Buddha and the gods to bless the family to go in and out safely, and the family business is prosperous. The devout do this day by day, year after year.

Funeral tea custom

Tea is not only customary when worshipping Buddha, but also when funerals are held.

When relatives go to funerals, cousins send funerals, and friends and colleagues visit funerals, the host will offer a cup of clear tea to the guests. Guests drink sweet tea and hope to seek auspiciousness and ward off evil spirits. During the Qingming Festival, the younger generations go to the graves to sweep the tombs and kneel to the ancestors, and also offer three cups of Qing tea. Lin Henian, a famous poet and tea merchant in the late Qing Dynasty, wrote in his (Fuya Lying Tang Poem Copy) that because "the tombs were observed before they were registered for many years, and when the younger brother and nephew returned home, he knelt down incense and cried piously", based on "observation first." I am addicted to tea, the first brewing is too strong, the second brewing is light and fragrant, and I specially instruct my brother and nephew to make tea offerings on the anniversary of the death of the tomb, just like when he was born."

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More than a thousand years have passed, and Anxi tea customs have been passed down from generation to generation through long-term accumulation, evolution and development. It has become an indispensable part of Anxi people's life... .