The difference between tea ceremony and tea ceremony

Tea art is a part of tea ceremony culture, which has developed for thousands of years. However, although people like drinking tea now, they know very little about tea art. Let me introduce the knowledge of tea art to you!

First, about tea art.

Tea art originated in the Tang Dynasty, developed in the Song Dynasty, reformed in the Ming Dynasty and flourished in the Qing Dynasty. It can be said that it has a considerable historical origin and is self-contained.

At first, monks used tea to concentrate their thoughts, but in the Tang Dynasty, Zhao Zhou invited scholars by "drinking tea". Later it became a ceremony of sharing tea.

In the Tang Dynasty, ginger and salt were used to enhance the taste of tea, which was internationally called ginger salt tea. The poet Xue Neng's Tea Poetry said: "Salt damage should be combined with constant warning, and ginger should be cooked more yellow." Ordering tea was very popular in the early Song Dynasty. Tea leaves are ground into fine powder and the tea soup is as white as milk. According to Guan Hua, Su Shi liked the spring water in Fengxiang Yudong in the Northern Song Dynasty. Every time he went, he took two bottles home to make tea. Su Shi has a poem "Tea with Jiang Kui": "The old couple didn't know it, and they were half fried by ginger and salt." . Su Shi himself attaches great importance to the health care function of tea, and gargling with strong tea after meals can relieve boredom.

Making tea became popular in the Ming Dynasty.

China's nationality is natural, modest and does not emphasize form. Therefore, whether it is the tea classics in the Tang Dynasty, the grand view of tea in the Song Dynasty or the tea sparseness in the Ming Dynasty, the article only talks in general terms. Ordinary people integrate tea into their lives without any ritual or religious color. Tea is a necessity of life, and they can drink it at will. We pay attention to the interest in drinking tea, such as "tired of singing", "talking in the middle of the night", "painting a boat in a small bridge" and "burning incense in a small courtyard", which are the best environment and opportunities for drinking tea. The realm of "tea is wine for guests on a cold night" not only shows the harmony and joy between host and guest, but also contains an elegant feeling.

Where China people live, they have the habit of drinking tea; Han people first discovered tea, and they are an ancient people who drink tea. When you come to Taiwan Province Province, a treasure island, you may see three or three old people sitting leisurely around a fist-sized and pleasing teapot with a cup in each hand, which is a traditional tea for the elderly in China. You may also see teahouses with tea signs hanging on the busy streets of Taipei metropolis, and a natural aroma of tea comes to your nose. If you are interested in stopping to have a taste, someone will tell you how to make a pot of easy-to-learn kungfu tea.

Second, the significance

Chen said that tea ceremony has seven meanings and one heart, and tea art is one of its seven meanings.

Tea art is a sub-concept under the general concept of tea ceremony, which refers to all tea-centered operation forms in tea activities. Tea art can be summarized as "the expression method of tea ceremony;" Tea art can be limited to "Kung Fu Tea Art" or "Green Tea Art" and so on.

Tea art is a beautiful artistic conception in the whole process of tea tasting, including the appreciation of tea tasting techniques and artistic operation means, as well as the beautiful appreciation of tea tasting environment, and its process embodies the mutual unity of form and spirit. As far as form is concerned, tea art includes a series of contents such as tea selection, water selection, tea brewing technology, tea art, environmental selection and creation. When tasting tea, you should first choose whether the pot and cup are simple and elegant or luxurious and noble. In addition, tea tasting should also pay attention to the harmony between personality and environment, literati emphasize quietness and elegance, and dignitaries pursue luxury and nobility.

Generally speaking, traditional tea tasting needs a variety of interests and artistic conception, such as the breeze and bright moon, the song and bamboo rhyme, the plum blossom falling snow and so on. In a word, tea art is a perfect combination of form and spirit, which contains aesthetics and human spiritual sustenance. Traditional tea art uses dialectical and unified view of nature and people's own experience to identify related problems from the feeling of interaction between soul and body, so the techniques contain the simple dialectical materialism in ancient China, as well as people's subjective aesthetic taste and spiritual sustenance.

Third, how to understand tea art

1. Simplicity is the organic combination of "tea" and "art". Tea art is the habit of tea drinkers to drink tea every day. According to the rules of tea ceremony, through artistic processing, tea drinkers and guests are shown the skills of making tea, making tea and drinking tea, which leads daily tea drinking to artistry, enhances the realm of tea drinking and endows tea with stronger spirituality and beauty.

Second, tea art is an art of life. Tea art is colorful and full of life interest, which is a positive way to enrich our lives and improve our life taste.

Third, tea art is a stage art. To show the charm of tea art, we need to rely on the close cooperation and reasonable arrangement of characters, props, stage, lighting, sound, calligraphy and painting, flowers and plants to give tea drinkers noble and beautiful enjoyment and bring vitality to the performance.

Fourth, tea art is an art of life. Life is like tea. When busy, make a pot of good tea, savor it carefully, enter the inner cultivation process through tea tasting, experience the ups and downs of life, and purify the soul.

Fifth, tea art is a kind of culture. On the basis of integrating the excellent culture of the Han nationality, tea art widely absorbs and draws lessons from other art forms, and extends to literature, art and other fields, forming a tea culture of the Han nationality with strong national characteristics.

Sixth, tea art is an aesthetic and demanding art of life [3]. Only by in-depth study and classification, continuous development and innovation, can tea art step off the stage of performance and enter thousands of households, becoming a healthy, poetic and fashionable lifestyle that contemporary people are willing to accept.

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No matter whether you drink tea or not, no matter how much you know about tea art, you must have heard of tea art performances, but most people know little about tea art performances even after watching them. Let me introduce the classification and performance knowledge of tea art performances in detail.

Since the concept of "tea art" was put forward by tea people in Taiwan Province Province in 1970s, the cause of tea culture has sprung up. Teahouses with regional characteristics and large and small tea culture festivals provide a platform for the emergence of tea art performances. After more than ten years' practice, tea art, as the carrier of the spirit of tea culture, has developed into an extraordinary art form, which has gradually attracted people's attention.

Classification of performances

Throughout all kinds of tea performances, it can be roughly divided into three categories.

Folk tea ceremony performance

Based on specific folk customs, folk customs and tea drinking habits, it mainly reflects folk culture, and is refined and processed by art, with tea as the main body. Such as West Lake Tea Ceremony, Taiwan Province Oolong Tea Exhibition, Gannan Tea, Baisan Tea and Mung Bean Tea.

Antique tea performance

Based on historical data, through artistic refining and processing, it roughly reflects the original appearance of history as the main body. Such as "Gongliuzi Zhuquan Tea Ceremony", "Tang Dynasty Palace Tea Ceremony" and "Korean Antique Tea Ceremony".

Other tea performances

Based on specific cultural content, through artistic refining and processing, with specific cultural connotation as the main body and tea as the carrier, such as "Zen Tea Show", "Tang Huo Tea Love" and "Bride Tea".

Performance knowledge

Performance conditions

There are many basic conditions for tea performance, such as clothing, venues, stereos, tea sets, tea leaves, assistive devices, water and so on.

Performance clothing

There are various styles of costumes, but they should be consistent with the theme of the performance. Clothes should be decent, dignified and generous, in line with aesthetic requirements. For example, "Tang Dynasty court tea ceremony performance", the costumes of the performers should be Tang Dynasty court costumes; For example, the "Three Tea Performances of Bai Nationality" is based on the national characteristics of Bai nationality; "Zen Tea" performance is suitable for Zen clothes.

Performance environment

The selection and layout of the performance environment of tea art is an important link. The performance environment should be clean, neat, bright and clean, and the outdoor environment should also be clean. The environment should be tea or refreshing, or under the turquoise spring. We should also prepare places for watching movies, chairs and drinking tea. For example, the Japanese tea ceremony should sweep the courtyard before the tea party, hang simple and thought-provoking calligraphy and painting, arrange flowers and decorate small flowers. Indoor, so as to facilitate the tea performance, let you enter the artistic creation of tea performance.

Performing music

Music should match the theme of tea ceremony. Just like clothes and tea ceremony have the same theme.

The same is true of the performance of Korean tea art, which helps people to affirm and recognize the performance effect. For example, the "West Lake Tea Ceremony" uses the music of Jiangnan silk and bamboo; Zen Tea uses Buddhist music; "Gong Liuzi Zhuquan Tea Ceremony" uses guzheng music.

Tea ceremony etiquette

Tea ceremony, as its name implies, is a requirement and norm in tea ceremony. The reason why tea ceremony is so attractive is inseparable from tea ceremony etiquette. Let me introduce the principles and basic gestures of tea ceremony etiquette to you!

The principle of etiquette

Etiquette refers to politeness and understanding. Etiquette is a comprehensive behavioral science, which refers to the complete behavior of self-discipline and respect for others in interpersonal communication according to certain and established procedures and methods from beginning to end. It is a systematic and complete process of showing politeness. Principles of summarizing tea ceremony etiquette.

1, observe the principle of self-discipline.

In tea activities, every participant should consciously abide by etiquette, use etiquette to regulate his words and deeds, and also demand and restrain himself.

2. The principle of respect for others and tolerance

Don't disrespect others, don't disrespect the dignity of Shanghainese, don't insult anti-personality, and always respect others; After a meal, be strict with yourself and be lenient with others. Be more funny and tolerant of others, and don't pursue perfection.

Basic posture of tea ceremony etiquette

As a tea artist, one should have a good cultural accomplishment, behave appropriately, be familiar with and master tea culture knowledge and tea-making skills, and be moved by spirit, emotion and skills. In other words, there are higher requirements in appearance, manners and even temperament.

1, appropriate dress

The nature of tea is quiet and peaceful. Therefore, the clothes of tea makers should be neat and generous, not too bright. Women should avoid heavy makeup and bold exposure, and men should also avoid strange shapes, such as long hair and beggar clothes. In a word, both men and women should be neat and dignified, match the environment and tea set, speak appropriately and politely, and reflect their inner cultural accomplishment.

2, neat hairstyle

In principle, the hairstyle should be based on one's own face, suitable for one's own temperament, giving people a very comfortable, neat and generous feeling. If you can't recognize the length, comb it as required when making tea.

3. Beautiful hand shape

As a tea artist, you should first have a pair of slender and delicate hands, pay attention to timely maintenance at ordinary times, and keep them clean and tidy.

4, good face

Tea tasting performance is an elegant thing. Don't wear too much makeup on your face, and don't spray strong perfume, otherwise the tea will smell bad and the feeling of tea tasting will be destroyed.

Step 5 behave gracefully

A person's personality is easily revealed in the process of making tea, and a person's mood can also be subtly influenced by the correction of posture and movements. When making tea, we should pay attention to two points: one is to show the rhythm of each action combination, and the other is to integrate the action of making tea into the communication with guests.

The benefits of tea

1, which helps to delay aging. Tea polyphenols have strong oxidation resistance and physiological activity, and are scavengers of human free radicals. According to the research of relevant departments, the effect of 1 mg tea polyphenols on eliminating excessive free radicals harmful to human body is equivalent to 9 micrograms of superoxide dismutase (SOD), which is much higher than other similar substances. Tea polyphenols can block lipid peroxidation and remove active enzymes.

2, help to inhibit cardiovascular disease. Tea polyphenols play an important role in human fat metabolism. The human body has cardiovascular diseases such as high cholesterol and triglycerides, such as fat deposition on the inner wall of blood vessels and atherosclerotic plaques formed after vascular smooth muscle cells proliferate. Tea polyphenols, especially catechins ECG and EGC in tea polyphenols and its oxidation products theaflavins, are helpful to inhibit this mottled proliferation, reduce the formation of fibrinogen that enhances coagulation viscosity, make coagulation clear, and thus inhibit atherosclerosis.

3, help to prevent and fight cancer. Tea polyphenols can block the synthesis of carcinogens such as ammonium nitrite in the body, which can directly kill cancer cells and improve the immunity of the body. According to relevant data, tea polyphenols (mainly catechins) in tea are beneficial to the prevention and adjuvant treatment of cancers such as gastric cancer and intestinal cancer.