Here, I can fully understand the meaning of the sentence "Only fools attend the training courses for junior, intermediate and advanced tea artists". Friends are engaged in professional skill appraisal, and I know something about it. In fact, many people think that they are tea artists who have participated in the so-called tea artist training class and obtained the professional qualification certificate of tea artists. It seems to be in line with the process sequence in theory, but in fact it is completely wrong.
Tea artist's professional qualification certificate is a certificate of rating, not an access card. It is not allowed to be written as "tea artist certificate" or "tea artist qualification certificate" by most tea artist training institutions. This will lead us to think that having a professional qualification certificate as a tea artist is a false image of a tea artist. There is no document to prove that your professional qualification certificate of tea artist is a tea artist, and there is no document to prove that a tea artist must hold a certificate and need a professional qualification certificate of tea artist to be employed.
I believe that anyone who has been engaged in vocational training will know the difference between an admission ticket and a rating certificate. In particular, the skill examination of the professional qualification certificate of tea artists is a set of tea-making process demonstration, also called "tea performance". From my personal point of view, this is not the same thing as a tea artist, because in most tea art competitions, participants don't know anything about tea, and only one teacher who teaches tea art is invited to study for a few hours.
Let a group of people who don't understand tea learn the action performance in the process of making tea, and let them think that this is Chinese tea art, and this is China tea culture. Is China Tea Culture a Performance? Is Chinese tea art a performance? I once talked with an international student who participated in the tea ceremony exchange between China, Japan and South Korea on behalf of the Japanese tea ceremony. Yes, they all despise the Chinese Tea Art Team very much, because they chose junior students from chayuan to perform. Although she is a student of tea department, she doesn't know much about tea. She just performed the process of making tea formally, thinking that this is the image given to her by Chinese tea art.
In the final analysis, it is still education. Judging from the cultivation of tea artists, it is the industry of tea artists training. If you don't learn and understand tea, you shouldn't like tea, because you don't even know what you like about tea. Learning tea is superficial, or simply over the ground. This is not to learn tea, not to learn tea, not to understand tea, not to love tea, not to make tea according to the nature of tea, not to brew tea soup with good color, fragrance and taste, and not to let tea play its best role. Where did you get the courage and temperament to perform the tea-making process on stage? That is ignorance, childishness, childishness.
From the internet, the training of tea artists who don't learn tea, or can speak tea a little, has a feature, that is, there are junior tea artist training courses, intermediate tea artist training courses, senior tea artist training courses and so on. And there are few training courses for tea artists and technicians and senior technicians for tea artists. It is generally believed that a senior tea artist is the highest level. This is a disaster brought by the "professional qualification certificate" of tea artists to the whole tea art training industry.
According to the rules, the tea artist training class is to train tea artists. It is to train tea artists to have professional, systematic and practical knowledge and skills in tea science, to know tea, to know the essence of tea and to make tea scientifically, to know tea from friends and to drink tea healthily, to show professionalism when making tea, and not to ask about tea. Only in this way can we become a qualified tea artist, a tea artist who really understands tea and an envied tea artist.
However, this is no longer the case. Instead, the definition of a tea artist is taught according to the professional qualification certificate of a tea artist, and the skill level of the tea artist is assessed by the performance process, rather than whether the tea soup brewed by the tea artist is up to standard. Just like the chef does not test the color and flavor of the fried dishes, but the performance of the chef when cooking, how ridiculous it is.
Strictly speaking, this so-called "tea artist training class" can't be written as a tea artist training class, but a pre-test remedial class with a professional qualification certificate for tea artists. However, if it is written as a tea artist training class, everyone will pay the bill. The reason is that everyone didn't understand tea art before coming to the training. Some don't even know about tea in the training institutions of tea artists themselves. A big table, a piece of cloth and several sets of tea sets set up a "tea artist training class". The biggest difference between the tea training class for cultivating tea artists and the pre-test remedial class for tea artists' professional qualification certificate is that the pre-test remedial class for tea artists' professional qualification certificate is divided into primary, intermediate and advanced classes, and the training fee and the license fee are included together.
It is no wonder that the phrase "only fools attend the primary, intermediate and advanced training courses for tea artists" has stirred up a thousand waves, but it has calmed down. Perhaps, many people have thought deeply after reading this sentence, or many people have experienced the deception of the junior, intermediate and senior professional qualification certificates of tea artists. Certificates can never replace anything, so that you can learn tea well, use tea correctly and drink tea scientifically and healthily.