大约两年前,有位著名学者将普洱茶与昆曲、书法并称为当今中国“极端之美”的三项传统文化极品。“极端之美”又可理解为美中之美,极致之美。这就不能不涉及普洱茶有别于其他茶品而独有的美学品格。这显然是一个足以引起长篇大论的题目,但有限于每期卷首语的篇幅,于是想起浅说,以短小的文字,权当作一次抛砖引玉罢。我赞成普洱茶近年来的兴起是由于世界“生态文明”的兴起,并代表着未来的这一说法。因而,首先她“粗枝大叶,野蛮生长”的生态之美是最为基础的认识:那条被称为“幸福之母”的东方大河“澜沧江—湄 About two years ago, a famous scholar called the Pu-erh Tea and the Kunqu Opera the calligraphy of the three traditional cultures of today’s ”extreme beauty.“ ”Extreme beauty “ can be understood as the beauty of the United States, the ultimate beauty. This can not but relate to Pu’er tea different from other tea products and unique aesthetic character. Obviously, this was a topic that was enough to cause a long story, but limited to the length of each opening quotation, so I remembered that we should use short sentences as a starting point. I agree that the rise of Pu’er tea in recent years is due to the rise of ”ecological civilization“ in the world and represents this future statement. Thus, first of all, her ecological beauty of ”crude and savage growth“ is based on the most basic understanding: that the eastern river, called the ”mother of happiness,“ ”the Lancang-Mae