CommunicationOfOil-teaCulture

1、Communication Of Oil-tea CultureSpeaking of the oil-tea, maybe we can think oftheoil-teacamelliawhich itis a specialedibleoiltreein China.Most of Chinese like drinking tea and I prefer tea to coffee,as a Chinese. As we know that tea is a drink, have you heardof the tea as a kind of food?Inmy hometow

2、n, Yao Autonomous County ofGuilin Gongcheng,where people put the tea as a kind of food. The people ofGongcheng(恭城 )“play oil-tea”( “打油茶” ) with breakfasteach morning , even some families cannot do without tea at allof meals. The oil-tea is not called cook but beat, was aroundthe unifiedcallmethod,wh

3、iletheteahas itsdifferentflavorin differentplaces.About thecamelliaseries-making method,we use old leaves of black tea as the main ingredient,oil tofry untilslightlycoke and sweet,add salt water toboil,andmost add ginger boil.The flavorofboiled oil-teaisthickandastringent,bitterand spicy.Inmy hometo

4、wn, peopledrinktearegardless of the season. The four seasons of a year, a daysooner or later, people will drink the oil-tea. No sooner orlater guests arrival, we will“play oil-tea” to serve theguest at any time.“Gongcheng oil-tea ” is a kind of traditional food ofGongcheng Yao compatriots.It began i

5、n theTang Dynasty and hasa history of over 1000 years according to historical records.After90 years of the last century,“Gongcheng oil- tea ” hadspread to the Guilin and some places of Guangxi, now drinkoil-tea has become a funny thing for peoples diet leisure.The person of Gongcheng has a special m

6、ethod to“playoil-tea”. Theyuse a specialpotto beat. Afterbeating,addwaterinto it,boiland cook until duften. Then,we willoftenadd some scallionorcaraway toit.Afterdoingitwell,we cansmellnice. Atlastwe can drinkit withsome rice flowerandnut. We can taste a bitter of tea, after is a mellow flavor,and l

7、ead a person toendlessaftertastes.Afteroil-tea,we canadd water to pot and continue to cook. But the taste has notbeen previously strong. At Gongcheng, people often say“一锅苦、二锅呷（涩）、三锅四锅好油茶”and “恭城油茶喷喷香，既有茶叶又有姜” . The sentence reflects the essenceof theoil-tea.The two main ingredientsof oil-teaare tea

8、and ginger.Everyone will drink the oil-tea, who arrive this place.There is a taleabout the oil-teain my hometown. Long longago, there is a national who is named yao, they lived atQianjiadong, and had little contact withthe outside world.They cook oil-tea very well.In the Ming Dynasty, Some peoplesay

9、 that they do not pay imperial-cereals (皇粮 ).So, theemperor ofZhu sent troopsto suppress them. Somepeople ofyaoescaped toGongcheng. Someofthem settledinJiahui(加会 ),whois called Bafang(八房人 ). At thesametime,they brought theirtraditional delicacy-oil-tea.They lived in the ChaJiangRiver,and had conveni

10、enttransportation,numerous ofpersons.So, the oil-teahad spread quickly.In Qing Dynasty,thereareone thousand households at Tang Huang village. Fishing on theChajiang river,the otherpeople should pay taxes to them. TheybuiltTang Huang Temple, and helda grandfestivalevery threeyears,near themasses ofal

11、lethnic groups to participate.Thetemple fail provides that the native are not allowed to grabthe fireworks, fireworks will only be allowed outside of thevillage to grab. Gentiles to participate in the festival, thepeople of Bafang were warm reception. The custom of drinkingoil-tea and hospitality we

12、re spread, since then.Inmy hometown, thereisa custom toentertainguestswithoil-tea. About the way to entertain guests with oil-tea, the Dong is different with Yao. In nationality of Dong, in order to show respect, the master send oil-tea to the guests withhands and say some humble words, some people,

13、 who are good at singing, maybe sing song instead of words. The guest mustdrinking bowls, considered to the master face, also there is"good pairs" mean. After two bowls, if you do not want to drink, you will give the dishes and chopsticks to the master. If youonly give the bowl, its meanin

14、g of you would like to drinkanother one. Certainly, the master will fill a bowl of oil-tea and sent to the hands of guests happily. But in Yao, at first,Before the guests drinking two bowls, the master would not sent them chopsticks. They will add Chaodou snacks or rice flowerto bowl. Drinking all of the oil-tea, they need to leave some snacks in the bottom of the bowl, to show more than endless, To send chopsticks until the drink the third bowl, so guests have to drink more than three bowls. If you drink one or two bowls, the master will