What are the characteristics of China's tea culture?

Tea culture is a general term for the relevant culture formed by tea as a carrier, including tea art, tea ballads and so on, which is an important part of China's traditional culture. China's tea culture is characterized by history, era, nationality, region and internationality.

1, historical. China's tea culture has a very long history, in the period of Zhou Wuwang's conquest of Zhou B.C., tea has appeared as a tribute. Thereafter, tea has become a commodity for the exchange of goods. By the period of Wei Jin and North and South Dynasties, the wind of tea drinking began to appear. By the Tang Dynasty, tea culture was further developed, and a large number of teahouses, tea banquets and tea parties appeared. With the development of society, tea culture and other traditional Chinese cultures gradually integrated together.

2, the times. Culture is the concentrated reflection of a certain period of spiritual and material civilization, tea culture is no exception. With the economic and social development, tea culture has been injected with new connotations and vitality, and the connotations and expressions of tea culture have been extended and expanded. In addition, people's way of drinking tea and tea-making process is also improving.

3, ethnicity. All along, China is a multi-ethnic country, due to the different ethnic living environment, food culture are different, but also lead to China's tea culture has obvious ethnic characteristics. Different nationalities have different ways of drinking tea, tea ceremony, tea ceremony and so on.

4, regional. China's vast territory, the degree of economic development of different tea culture in China has formed a regional character. One side of the feng shui nourishes one side of the people, based on different natural environments and history and culture, different regions of China's tea types, tea production process, tea drinking methods are different. Take Shanghai as an example, as an economically developed region in China, Shanghai has formed a unique urban tea culture.

5, international. The world is a whole, people in different countries inevitably need to carry out economic and cultural interactions. In this process, also let our tea culture out of the country, in the world to have an important impact. Under the influence of China's tea culture, Japan, South Korea, Britain and other countries have formed a tea culture with their own characteristics. China will also organize some international tea culture exchange activities, so that more foreigners understand our traditional culture.