Can the Chinese Tea Ceremony Cultivate the Body and Nurture the Mind? What is the introductory knowledge?

The Tea Ceremony is the way to appreciate the beauty of tea. Tea ceremony is also regarded as a kind of art of cooking tea and drinking tea, a kind of tea as the medium of life rituals, a kind of tea to cultivate the way of life. It is a very useful and beautiful ceremony to enhance friendship, cultivate virtue, learn etiquette and appreciate traditional virtues through making tea, enjoying tea, smelling tea and drinking tea. Drinking tea can calm the mind and spirit, which helps to cultivate sentiment and remove distractions. The spirit of the tea ceremony is the core of tea culture. Making tea is a very simple thing, as simple as two actions: putting tea leaves and pouring water. But in the tea ceremony, that set of rituals is too complicated or too elaborate, let's take a look at the process

1, wash the tea: pour boiling water into the pot, and then quickly poured out.

2, brewing: boiling water into the pot again, pouring water in the process of the pot mouth "nodding" three times, the so-called "phoenix three nodding", to the guests to show respect. "Spring breeze": the water should be higher than the mouth of the pot, with the lid of the pot to brush off the end of the tea.

3, seal the pot: cover the lid, pour boiling water over the pot.

4. Separate the cups: Use tea clips to group the scenting cups and tasting cups together and place them on the tea tray. "Jade liquid back to the pot": pour the tea from the pot into the fairway cup, so that everyone can taste the same color, aroma and taste of tea.

5, split the pot: pour the tea broth into the smelling cup respectively, tea pouring seven minutes full.

6, serving tea: serving tea to guests.

7, smell: the guest will be poured into the tea cup, smell the remaining fragrance in the cup.

8, tasting tea: guests with three fingers to take the tasting tea cup, divided into three mouth sipping slowly in the guzheng accompaniment, the main bubble fire smoked incense. Clean hands, first guide tea people lotus, invite guests to enjoy the tea, and then is to appreciate the utensils: tea tasting pay attention to the use of Jing porcelain Yitao - Jingdezhen porcelain. Yixing purple sand pot. Hot cups and warm pots are boiling water poured into zisha pots, fairway cups, smelling cups, tasting cups, cleanware to raise the temperature. "Oolong into the palace": oolong tea into the teapot.

Drinking Tea, Tasting Tea, and the Highest Level of Tea Ceremony - The Tea Ceremony

Drinking Tea: Tea as a beverage to quench your thirst.

Tasting tea: focusing on the color and flavor of tea, paying attention to the quality of water and tea utensils, and drinking and savoring.

Tea art: pay attention to the environment, atmosphere, music, brewing skills and interpersonal relations.

The highest level--Tea Ceremony: incorporating philosophy, ethics and morality into tea activities, cultivating one's body, savoring one's life and achieving spiritual enjoyment through tea tasting.

The Tea Ceremony should follow certain laws. In the Tang Dynasty, there were nine difficulties to overcome, namely, to make, not to make, to use, to use, to use, to use, to use, to use, to use, to use, to use, to use, to use, to use, to use. Song Dynasty for the three points and three not tea, "three points" for the new tea, sweet springs, clean equipment for one, the weather is good for one, the flow of Confucianism and elegance, the smell of a good guest for one; on the other hand, it is the "three not". Ming Dynasty for thirteen appropriate and seven taboos. "Thirteen desirable" for one thing, two good guests, three sitting alone, four poetry, five waving Han, six wandering, seven sleep, eight sleep wake up, nine clean offerings, ten houses, eleven will be heart, twelve appreciation, thirteen boys; "seven taboos" for a less than the law, the two evil with three hosts and guests do not rhyme, Four crowns and garments of harsh rituals, five meat, food and drink, six busy redundant, seven walls of the desk more evil.

The Chinese Tea Ceremony, in terms of its constituent elements, there are four major elements of the environment, etiquette, tea ceremony, practice. China's tea ceremony appeared very early, but unfortunately, although China put forward the concept of "tea ceremony" very early, but also in the field of continuous practice and exploration, but did not have the ability to flag clearly in the name of the "tea ceremony" to develop the cause, but also did not standardize the tea ceremony etiquette of traditional significance. Tea ceremony etiquette of traditional significance. The Chinese tea ceremony can be said to emphasize spirit over form. Some scholars believe that the necessary ceremonies on the "tea ceremony" banner is more important, no ceremony light claiming to have a "tea ceremony", although it can not be said that can not be made to have tea can be called Tao, that seems to generalize, and ultimately also "Road can be Road, very Road".