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On Tea Culture and Tea Ceremony

Tea culture and tea art are important components of traditional culture in China, and they are also one of the windows for countries all over the world to understand China culture. Tea culture refers to a series of cultural phenomena surrounding tea, including tea tasting, tea tasting, tea making and tea ceremony. Tea art is an important embodiment of tea culture, and it is a comprehensive skill integrating tea production, tasting, appreciation and culture.

In China, tea culture has a long history. As early as the Tang and Song Dynasties, tea has become a hobby of literati and a part of their daily life. With the passage of time, tea culture has gradually moved from the aristocratic class to the ordinary people, and has been integrated into various aspects such as society, culture and politics, and has become a unique landscape of China culture.

The tradition of Chinese tea art is summarized and gradually formed from the aspects of offering sacrifices to tea gods and making drinks. Tea art requires that the process of making tea should be dignified and quiet. Making tea, making tea, tasting tea, pouring tea, props, scenery and culture should be organically integrated to achieve harmony with tea rhyme and people, and to show the profound connotation and humanistic feelings of Chinese culture.

Nowadays, China tea culture and tea art have become an important cognition and inheritance of traditional culture for many people, and attracted more and more Chinese and foreign friends to learn and appreciate it. The drinking process of tea contains many factors such as interest, cultivation, aesthetic feeling, philosophy and so on, which brings people a sweet, comfortable and quiet feeling. Tea art is not only a performance art, but also a way of life and thinking, which embodies people's attitude towards life and philosophy of being a man.