Overview of Tea Culture China people pay attention to one thing when drinking tea. Product? Words. ? Tea? It is not only to identify the advantages and disadvantages of tea, but also to ponder and appreciate the taste of tea. Making a pot of strong tea in your busy schedule, choosing a quiet place and taking a sip by yourself can relieve fatigue, relieve boredom, refresh yourself, sip slowly, enjoy beauty and sublimate the spiritual world to a noble artistic realm. The environment for tea tasting is generally composed of buildings, gardens, furnishings, tea sets and other factors. Drinking tea requires quietness, freshness, comfort and cleanliness. China's gardens are world-famous, and the scenery is even more numerous. Using gardens or natural mountains and rivers, using wood as pavilions and stools and setting up tea rooms gives people a poetic feeling. They are not interested in people taking a nap.
China is an ancient civilization and a country of etiquette, which attaches great importance to etiquette. When the guests come, the etiquette of making tea and offering tea is essential. When a guest visits, you can ask for advice and choose the best tea set that suits the guest's taste best. When offering tea to guests, it is also necessary to mix tea properly. When drinking tea with guests, the host should pay attention to the tea residue in the guest's cup and pot. Generally speaking, tea is brewed in a teacup. If you have already drunk half of it, you should add boiling water to make the concentration of tea basically the same and the water temperature appropriate. When drinking tea, it can also be properly accompanied by tea, candy, dishes and so on. To achieve the effect of regulating taste and snacks.
The content of China tea culture is mainly the embodiment of tea in China's spiritual culture, which exceeds? Tea custom? 、? Tea ceremony? The tea culture in China is much wider, which is why it is quite different from Europe, America or Japan.
The Origin of Tea Culture China is the hometown of tea, the first country in the world to discover China tea trees, utilize China tea trees and cultivate China tea trees, and China is also the suzerain of the world tea ceremony. Any country influenced by China's tea culture cannot deny China's status as the suzerain of tea ceremony, otherwise it will violate the basic civilization of tea ceremony. The origin of tea trees is at least 60,000 to 70,000 years old. Tea has been discovered and used by human beings for about four or five thousand years.
The utilization of tea was originally conceived in the field collection activities. According to ancient legends? Shennong is a delicate jade body. Can you see its lungs, liver and five internal organs? , the reason is? If you don't pay attention, you will encounter twelve poisons one day when you taste the medicine. Why can you explain it? Shennong tasted a hundred herbs and encountered twelve poisons every day, so he removed them with tea. ? Although you can't believe both, a faint message is worth noting: tea? In the process of long-term consumption, people pay more and more attention to some of its therapeutic functions? Medicine? Nature of use. This reflects a lost story in the flood era.
According to the book of songs and other related documents, in the early days of history, tea? Generally refers to all kinds of bitter wild plant food raw materials, until the discovery of other values of tea before an independent name? Tea? . In the historical era of the integration of food and medicine, it is not difficult to find the medicinal functions of tea vegetable oil, such as quenching thirst, refreshing, promoting digestion, resolving phlegm and relaxing bowels. But there must be some special factors, that is, some specific needs in people's real life, in order to develop from general drugs to conventional special drinks. Is Bashu area prone to diseases and epidemics? Smoking? Land. ? Fan people live on tea, and they will get sick without tea. ? (Qing? Zhou's Travels of the vassal States (Volume 2) Therefore, Bashu people often eat spicy food, which has been practiced for thousands of years and still exists today. It is this geographical and natural condition and the people's eating habits determined by it that make Bashu people first? Fried tea? Taking it can eliminate miasma and relieve fever and toxicity. After long-term use, the medicinal purpose gradually disappears, and tea becomes a daily drink. When Qin people entered Bashu, they probably regarded this custom of drinking tea as a daily drink.
Tea has changed from medicinal to habitual drink, strictly speaking? Tea? So it came into being. What is its typical symbol? Tea? The appearance of the (Cha) sound. Guo Pu note "erya? Jenny? Hey? Cloud:? The tree is as small as a gardenia and has winter leaves, so it can be cooked as soup. Today, people who pick tea early, people who pick tea late, and people who pick tea late are bitter tea. ? Can you see it, Han Shi? Tea? This word has been used to refer to drinks? Tea? Pronunciation of? Tea? By who? Tea? You left and walked away? Independent? Development path. But? Tea? The emergence of Chinese characters is accompanied by the development of tea affairs and the increasing frequency of commercial activities. Until the middle Tang Dynasty, after new symbols appeared in people's social life, the changes of words were also in line with the law.
There are different opinions about when China started drinking tea. There were official documents about drinking tea in the Western Han Dynasty, and the starting time of drinking tea should be earlier than this. As a cultural phenomenon, tea appeared in the Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.
Tea culture in a broad sense is divided into two aspects: the natural science of tea and the humanistic science of tea, which refers to the sum of material wealth and spiritual wealth related to tea created by human society in historical practice. In a narrow sense, paying attention to the humanity of tea mainly refers to the spiritual function and social function of tea. Because the natural science of tea has formed an independent system, tea culture often focuses on humanities.
Pay attention to the tea-making water in tea culture; China has always attached great importance to tea-making water, believing that water is the basis of tea.
(Ming) Zhang Dafu wrote it in Notes of Meihua Caotang? Tea must be born in water. Eight parts of water meets ten parts of tea, and tea is also ten parts. Eight points of water, ten points of tea and eight points of tea. ?
Emperor Qianlong once said: The foundation of drinking tea must be based on water. Gan Long made a special silver bucket to taste the spring water in China. According to the water quality, Baotu Spring in Jinan ranks first, middle cold spring second, Wuxi Hui Quan third and Hangzhou Tiger Running Spring fourth. (Qianlong: "The First Spring in the World")