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Experience traditional Huế Lotus tea with tea artisan Thanh Nhị - SaiGonTiepThi
These days, when coming to Huế, visitors can visit Nhị Độ Mai tea house on Nguyễn Thiện Thuật street to join tea artisan Trần Thị Thanh Nhị in marinating tea in ancient Hue lotus flowers that are in full bloom. as well as the traditional way to enjoy Huế tea.
With a pure, gentle fragrance, a symbol of purity, nobility, compassion, indomitable qualities, and strength, the lotus has long become familiar in daily life and in artistic life. art of the Vietnamese people. Lotus enters culinary culture associated with the use of lotus ingredients to make dishes, especially lotus tea.
Lotus flowers are widely grown all over the country, so many regions also make lotus tea. However, Hue lotus tea still leaves a very unique mark in people’s hearts because of its cool, gentle, deep, persistent, and sweet flavor. The taste of Hue Lotus Tea can be compared to the image of a girl in Trinh Cong Son’s poetry and music: “Your shoulders are thin and small like the wings of a cauldron flying to a distant place” (Like the wings of a cauldron flying – Trinh Cong Son), is elegance, contemplation, elegance with “A beauty that cannot be found anywhere else/ A gentleness mixed with contemplation” (My love Hue – Poetry Do Thi Thanh Binh).
Unlike lotus tea made from the Lotus Bach Diep variety (Tay Ho) which has a characteristic thick, bold, fragrant, and brilliant scent, lotus tea from Hue (from the ancient lotus variety from Hue) has a very elegant, sensual scent. The feeling is as far as it is near, illusory, and beautiful, reminding people of the hide-and-seek game of scent, of the beauty of a girl wearing an ao dai walking in smoke and mist. “Here the mist and fog blur the image” (Han Mac Tu) . Those who understand the heart of the lotus and understand the taste of meditation understand the “lotus love” even more, the very rich taste of tea.
Doctor – Tea artist Tran Thi Thanh Nhi comes from a family with a tradition of tea research spanning many generations (especially associated with her maternal great-grandfather, Mr. maternal and paternal). Memories from when I was a child at my grandfather’s and father’s tea table with home-made handmade teas such as rose tea, chrysanthemum, dandelions, and wolf flowers; The nights of enjoying tea with the family waiting for the flowers to bloom or the times of enjoying tea on bright moonlit summer nights fragrant with the scent of areca flowers… have left deep impressions in Ms. Thanh Nhi’s heart.
As a researcher and lecturer on Vietnamese culture and a tea artisan, for Ms. Thanh Nhi, making and enjoying tea is both a way to cherish and preserve the values of family and people’s traditions. tribe, is both a way to hold on to time and keep one’s soul pure and kind.
“I know that those days have passed forever, there will no longer be the fragrance of the old days, and my grandmother has also returned to eternal life forever. That is also the impermanence of life. However, my grandmother has never left me, she is still here in every cup of tea I drink, in every morning flower bud in the garden, in the good things of life,” the tea artist confided.
Therefore, even though it is little, it is just a little, but in every season, weave incense to make flower tea: in spring, grapefruit flowers, in summer, lotus flowers, in autumn, look for chrysanthemums, and in winter, enjoy wood, which is The way for me to not only keep that season of incense for my friends and confidants, but also to preserve that season of incense for the month of May, to purify and nurture my soul so that it is pure, clean, kind, and knowledgeable. vibrate, appreciate and cherish the beauty of life, the artist said.
In addition to the aroma and beauty that brings relaxation and comfort, lotus tea brings many health values. With the combination of green tea and lotus flowers, lotus tea helps cool down and treat summer diseases, cools internal organs, beautifies the skin, and contributes to nourishing and regenerating skin cells, keeping the skin youthful. Medium, smooth.
Besides, lotus tea is very good for bone and dental health; Helps detoxify, helps clarity, alertness, benefits the heart, helps melt fat, lose weight, maintain a slim waist.
There are two common ways to make lotus tea: fresh lotus tea (many places call it fresh lotus tea, lotus tea, early lotus tea…) and traditional rice lotus scented tea. When making lotus tea, it is important to choose the ideal source of ingredients (you can choose many materials depending on your preferences, you can choose Tan Cuong – Thai Nguyen tea, or ancient Northwest tea varieties…) and The lotus contains the essence of heaven and earth packed into each pistil.
These carefully selected Ham Tieu lotus flowers will be carefully separated from the rice to make traditional lotus rice tea or kept in the tea for about one night in the method of marinating lotus lotus. The moment the tea is full of flavor and flavor, the tea guest cleanses his body and mind, then goes to the green mountain water, or the flower corner of the porch, or the study room… and then leisurely and leisurely enjoys it. tea.
Each lotus flower has poured out all of its fragrance and the incense artisan has also diligently poured all of his heart and soul into each tea petal to create a flavor that blends the essence of heaven and earth and the people here. Hue lotus tea with the taste of mountain breezes and thousands of clouds in the Perfume River and Ngu Mountain, with the pure lotus scent of ancient lakes and lagoons, and also the ingenuity and patience of tea artisans, that is the success. The harmony of Heaven and Earth is sublimated by the love of people who want to preserve and develop the traditional craft of making Hue lotus tea.
In 2019, in the Tea Masters Cup competition organized by the Tea Association, Ms. Thanh Nhi won second prize in the Tea Tasting competition, and the champion prize in the Tea and side dishes competition, honored to become one of three grandees. Vietnam’s representative will participate in the upcoming international tea competition to be held in China.
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