China's four major traditional tea ceremony for

China's four major tea ceremony, or tea ceremony, is divided into four main aspects, the aristocratic tea ceremony, also known as the court tea ceremony; elegant tea ceremony, also known as the literati tea ceremony; Zen tea ceremony; folk tea ceremony, also known as the secular tea ceremony.

The aristocratic tea ceremony

From the tribute tea and evolved into the aristocratic tea ceremony, dignitaries, wealthy merchants, a luxury tea, water, fire, equipment, all borrowed from the power side and money to seek their very best, it is contrary to reason, and its intention is to show off the power and wealth. Originated in the Ming and Qing dynasties, Chao Min Fu tea that is the aristocratic tea ceremony, the development of so far gradually popularized.

Tea is a clean product, but when its function is recognized by the people, is classified as tribute, the first to enjoy it naturally is the emperor, the imperial consort and then pushed to the members of the royal family, and then the dignitaries." Chinese society is an imperial society, the good and bad of the royal family can most affect the whole society customs.

In order to tribute to the tea, when this time, men waste plowing, women waste weaving, night shall not rest, day shall not stop. The soul of tea is distorted, Lu Yu founded the tea ceremony gave birth to a deformed aristocratic tea ceremony. Article was loaded with gold and silver, stripped of simplicity; tea has become a pit of people, no longer help the world live.

The aristocratic tea ceremony tea people are dignitaries, wealthy merchants, gentry and gentry of the stream of characters, not poetry, song and song, chess and painting, but one to be expensive, status, two to be rich, there are ten thousand slam home. In the tea art of four "fine tea, real water, live fire, wonderful equipment" without seeking its "high grade", with "power" and "money" to achieve the purpose of showing the rich and noble, it seems that not so damaging to the "supremacy of the royal family", a negative "money first".

The Noble Tea Ceremony has a lot against the back of reason, but because of the deep cultural background, this tea ceremony has become an important school of incense continues, we have to recognize the value of its existence.

The tea ceremony

The ancient "Shi" have access to famous tea, have the conditions to taste tea, they were the first to cultivate a fine sense of tea; tea to help literature, and the first to experience the charm of tea. They are elegant tea and the creation of the elegant tea ceremony. Influenced by its successive formation of the tea ceremony schools. It can be said that there is no Chinese tea ceremony without the ancient Chinese cab.

Tea to help literature, the rise of tea literature, water literature, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea painting, tea songs, tea theater, etc.; and complement each other, so that tea sublimation of spiritual enjoyment, and then the formation of the Chinese Tea Ceremony.

The tea people of the tea ceremony is mainly the ancient intellectuals, "into the" cab as the main body, but also includes the cab has not made a fortune, there is a certain degree of cultural and artistic cultivation of the famous families because of the show, the courtesan, the art of art, and so on. For tea, the main not trying to quench thirst, digestion, refreshing, but care about guiding the human spirit into the realm of the extraordinary, in a farcical taste of tea in the realization of what. Tea people care about between the landscape, care about between the wind and the moon, care about between poetry and literature, care about between fame and fortune, and hope to find something, something to send, something to forget." Elegant" is reflected in the following aspects: First, the interest of tea; tea to help poetry; tea to meet friends; four is elegant tea.

It is because of the participation of the literati to make tea an art, culture. Literati will be this special art and culture, and cultivation, and indoctrination of the close combination of the formation of elegant tea ceremony. Influenced by the formation of several other schools. Therefore, it is said that the Chinese "scholar" created the Chinese tea ceremony, and herein lies the reason.

Zen Tea Ceremony

The monks have a long history of drinking tea, because tea has "three virtues", conducive to jungle practice, from the "virtue of tea" issued by the Zen Tea Ceremony. Monks planted tea, tea, tea and tea and the development of tea, for the development of Chinese tea production, the development of tea, the formation of the tea ceremony set up a world of work. The Japanese Tea Ceremony is basically a Zen Tea Ceremony, which originated in China but is better than the blue.

The history of monks drinking tea has a long history, "Jin Shu - Art Biography" records: Dunhuang people single road open, do not fear the cold and heat, often serving small stones, the medicine served with pine, cinnamon, honey gas, the tea drunk Su only. Ming Dynasty Le Chun "Xuean Qing Shi" and listed the priests "Qing class" has "burning incense, cooking tea, static practice, seeking monks, Buddha, Zen, saying, for the Buddha, turning the scriptures, repentance, letting go of ......", "cooking tea" in the second, listed in the "Buddha", "Zen" before, which is enough to prove that the "tea and Buddha one flavor" is true.

Secular Tea Ceremony

Tea is elegant, but also vulgar. Into the secular society, line in the officialdom, dyeing a few official gas; line in the jianghu, dyeing a few jianghu gas; line in the shopping mall, dyeing a few copper odor; line in the soup, mixed a few powder gas; line in the community, dyeing a few mercenary gas; line in the family, dyeing a few small family gas. Smoke a few points of the fireworks of the world, how can not bring fireworks. This is born from the "flavor of tea" to "enjoy life" for the purpose of the "secular tea ceremony". Secular Tea Ceremony", in which the mass part of the development prospects.