Speaking of the origin of Guangdong morning tea, it can be traced back to the reign of Xianfeng Tongzhi. At that time, there was a restaurant named "Yili Pavilion" in Guangzhou. There is a wooden sign that says "tea party" hanging at the door, serving tea and cakes. The facilities are simple, with only a few wooden tables and benches for welcoming guests and chatting for passers-by. Later, the teahouse appeared, and the scale became larger and larger, and it became a teahouse. Since then, it has become a common practice for Cantonese people to drink morning tea in teahouses.
Until today, the tea in Guangdong morning tea has become a supporting role, but the refreshments are more and more exquisite and diverse. With the rapid development of Guangdong's economy, this traditional culture has not disappeared, but has increasingly become a beautiful landscape in Guangdong's leisure life.
There is also a restaurant called "Erli Restaurant" that serves the same snacks. The difference lies in the price and equipment. The cost of tea in teahouse is 36 cents, while that in Erli restaurant is only 20 cents, which is a far cry from 16 times.
Some old-fashioned teahouses are graded, and upstairs is more expensive than downstairs, because there is air conditioning (or electric fan) upstairs, and the place is more spacious. Since it is called "morning tea", tea is naturally an indispensable part of Guangdong morning tea. Black tea is the main tea of morning tea, which can warm the stomach and get rid of boredom, which is beneficial to digestion.
Commonly used fermented tea (Anhua black tea, Pu 'er tea, etc. ) and oolong tea (Tieguanyin, Dahongpao, etc. ), and some people also like to drink chrysanthemum tea, that is, add chrysanthemum to Pu 'er tea to cool off the heat. Black tea is dark red in color and the soup is thick and bitter. Although it is not as good as green tea in vision and taste, it is a perfect match with the rich refreshments in Guangdong morning tea.
The prosperity of Guangdong morning tea is inseparable from Guangdong's prosperous trade and rapid economic development since ancient times. In Guangdong, you can talk about business and exchange information in the morning tea, or get together with friends and talk about things. Businessmen regard teahouses as important discussion places, where ordinary people express their pressure in exchange for half a day's leisure. There is a couplet in the "Miaoqixiang" teahouse in old Guangzhou:
"Busy in the name, busy for profit, busy for leisure, have a cup of tea;
Work hard, work hard, have fun in pain, and bring a pot of wine. "
On the third floor of the famous teahouse "Taotaoju" in Guangzhou, there is also a couplet that reads:
"Tao Qianshan drinks, Yi Yashan cooks, and just meets the gentleman;
Tao Kan cherishes flying, Yu Xia cherishes inches, and the most regrettable thing is the time in the cup. "
I think it should be the psychological portrayal of most Cantonese people when they drink morning tea.