According to old documents, the proper noun B'Lao was renamed Bao Loc on August 19, 1958, but the old name has been deeply imprinted in the subconscious of those who have lived since 1940. For the 8X - 9X generation born in the tea land, there are students who have achieved high grades and have gone abroad to study or work, but still remember the rows of green tea on the porch, the fence and the hot cup of fresh tea deeply imprinted in their minds.
Tea Harvest in B'Lao
As a teacher with more than 30 years of teaching foreign languages in the land of tea spanning two centuries, every time I stand in class, I sometimes share with my students: "I am a B'Lao person, you must have knowledge about the history of your family and region, especially the tea culture of the indigenous people. Maybe when you grow up, you will still remember the image of your homeland, your ancestors, and your old teachers from a long time ago."
Although green tea is a traditional drink, tea is like people, tea is only delicious when it has time to absorb...
Last Tet, Master Nguyen Hung Son - a former student - came to visit. I invited him to a cup of fresh tea from the fence. He stared at the fragrant green tea with his eyes shining. She confided: "I have been to many countries, enjoyed many different drinks, but when I come home and look at a cup of fresh tea with the flavor of my hometown, I suddenly remember the tea fields of my childhood, remember the image of the conical hats of my mothers and sisters with the baskets on their backs bobbing in the tea hills or the K'Ho mountain girls walking in long lines carrying firewood home along the tea and coffee gardens that have been deeply imprinted in my memory. Then I remember the echo of my teacher more than 20 years ago... Although green tea is a traditional drink, tea is like people, tea is only delicious when it has time to permeate and then has a good ending. People are the same, if you want tea to enter your mind, you must also meditate on the story to bring good things to the drinker. The ancients said "ruou khà tra ch". Chập ngon is an expression of respect for the flavor of green tea and the gratitude of the host".
Recently, meeting Master Tran Dinh Long who was returning home to visit his family, both teacher and student made a pot of green tea. While waiting, Long confided: "I left B'Lao for nearly 10 years. Over there, in the winter, the temperature drops to 0 degrees. I miss drinking a cup of hot green tea with ginger and hearing the wisdom of tea from an old person like you to warm the heart of a person far away from home. There is nothing more enjoyable than drinking a cup of tea and talking about the culture of the newly settled people and their survival and progress. A few years ago, I fell off my motorbike and broke my arm, lying alone in the room. After getting a cast, I realized the loneliness and thought a lot about money - to survive. You also know that my family is not well off. As the eldest child, I try to survive to test my survival skills in a foreign land. I always remember what you told me before going abroad: 'In a family where no one brings honor to the family, that is an unhappy family'. In Taiwan, there are also many wild sunflowers like Lam Dong. me. A type of flower that exists until the season of blooming bright yellow full of vitality like a life of suffering to have a future, or like the aftertaste of a cup of green tea when I piece together. Now I have a family, my wife is also a master - a native of B'Lao - that is a happy thing, teacher! Remembering my hometown is remembering the tea hills, the steep road until the autumn when wild sunflowers bloom yellow, where my grandparents and my parents once plowed the land...". Long bowed his head and covered his face, remembering a distant time...
Green tea tree in front of the house
For Nguyen My Hoa, who graduated with an MBA in the US and then became Deputy CEO of a large company in the US, her family only drank green tea during her childhood until they settled abroad. She shared: "I really like the old saying of the teacher: first water, second tea, third brewing, fourth drinking, fifth brothers; in which brothers are the main ones. Because these are knowledgeable people with the same stream of consciousness, they all have gentle sayings, deep feelings, and respect for each other in the ups and downs of life. Green tea is not only a rustic drink but also preserves philosophical stories that beautify life for partners, especially in the time of integration, communication and negotiation; people need 3 foreign things: foreign language, appearance and diplomacy. Every time I come back to visit the teacher with an old cup of green tea with the gentle request to give us a pot of fragrant green tea, I imagine a time when I and my friends cycled through the green tea hills at the foot of Dai Binh mountain, which carries the soul of the homeland and the nostalgia of people far away from home...".
Source: https://thanhnien.vn/xu-tra-blao-noi-mang-hon-que-va-noi-nho-185250127222541524.htm
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