Sunday, June 02, 2013

Drinking good tea, listening good music

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喝好茶聽好聲
人生難得幾回
吾於坐四望五之首日
得享一回
何其有幸

Drinking good tea, listening good music,
A few times in life, what a fortune.
Yesterday I was fortunate enough
to experience both with several nice friends

茶人Yang Wang 讓我們品嘗到四種不同的茶
2011年的武夷烏龍茶
鐵觀音
普洱
三十一年老普洱

If I remember right, Yang demonstrated 4 kinds of tea for us to taste
2011 Black Dragon Tea (Wulong tea)
Tie Guan Yin (Iron Goddess of Mercy)
Puer tea
31 years old Puer Tea

對於品茶我該學習的還太多
平常喝茶包慣了
第一口烏龍茶入口那就真的是平常沒有品過的味
很是甘醇可口

I need to learn how to taste Chinese tea,
used to drink tea bags
the first sip of the Wulong tea, I felt very smooth and tasty in my throat.

Yang 用音樂來形容茶味
有的像偏高了一點的音讓你的味覺總感覺有那麼一點不順
有的會在喉中回甘
我想印象最深還是老普洱
會讓我想到外公的老書房味

Yang likes to use musical feeling to describe tea
He said that 'tea' is a verb not a noun
because tea flavor is always changing in our mouth.
The most impressive one is the last one we taste,
the 31 years old puer, it gave me an impression of grandpa's old study room.


好聲也是難得
古琴適合小眾
這樣的氣場剛好
幾杯香茶入口之後
培幼先行彈了最近的打譜
西麓堂的楚歌
Jennie 幫忙講了那關於相羽的
四面楚歌 十面埋伏 霸王別姬之故事

Good music is not easy to hear as well,
Guqin likes to have small audience
the energy is just about right

接著Yang 彈了梅花三弄
Yuni 彈了平沙落雁

Glenn 吹了一首近代尺八曲- 流謫
我一邊聽著一邊看著牆上溥濡的行草
簫聲在溥濡的字間流轉
極為協調舒暢

Listening Glenn's shakuhachi - Exile, looking at the running script calligraphy on the wall by Puru,
I felt they float together very well.


之後Jennie 彈了神人暢

絲竹伴茶香

在這炎夏之初

加了一劑清涼

It was a hot day, 90 degree F outside,
But inside, the silk and bamboo with tea really cool us down so well.


The yaji was ended at 7pm.