On "Tea Ceremony".

Tea ceremony is an artistic creation of China people and a treasure of oriental culture!

It is universally acknowledged that China is the hometown of tea. Tea was discovered and utilized by humans for about 4000 years to 10000 years.

Tea ceremony Tea ceremony, tea carries Tao, and "Tao" resides in drinking tea. Therefore, there are two necessary conditions for the formation of tea ceremony: one is the widespread cultivation of tea, and the other is the widespread drinking of tea.

The history of tea cultivation in China is the earliest in the world. As early as the Bashu era, tea was planted artificially in the garden. Tea was planted not later than the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it has been around 2700 years.

China Tea Ceremony was brewed before the Sui Dynasty, formed in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song and Ming Dynasties. Lu Yu founded the China Tea Ceremony. For more than 1000 years, tea literature has flourished for a long time, with excellent works constantly; There are more than 100 monographs on tea science, which can be said to be well prepared. Tea ceremony is the crystallization of tea culture. China Tea Ceremony is deeply rooted in China culture and has strong national characteristics. We not only attach importance to the artistic ability of drinking tea, but also attach importance to the natural environment, interpersonal relationship and the mentality of tea drinkers when drinking tea. It takes China's ancient philosophy as the guiding ideology and the national traditional virtue as the pursuit goal.

China tea culture was introduced to Japan in Han Dynasty, and China tea ceremony took root in Japan in Tang and Song Dynasties. The cleverness of Japanese people lies in creatively learning China Tea Ceremony and integrating it into Japanese culture to form a unique Japanese tea ceremony. Not only neighboring Asian countries, but also many countries in the world have borrowed from China Tea Ceremony, thus forming a tea-drinking custom with national characteristics.

Numerous ancient tea ceremony monographs, although different in age and genre, have a * * * synchronization in brewing techniques, that is, all external performances are to reflect the natural beauty of tea and the "freshness, fragrance and alcohol" of tea, rather than performing for performance. Therefore, China tea ceremony requires:

1 Tea set must be cleaned;

2. Advocate to use light and clear water to decoct tea, use spring water conditionally, and even use snow in river water and snow water in plum blossoms to decoct tea;

3. Pay attention to moderate boiling water. Liu Yuxi said in a poem about frying tea: "The shower dispersed the wind into the tripod, and white clouds blossomed." Tea is ready. Su Dongpo wrote more vividly: "The crab's eye has passed the fish's eye and wants to whistle" (the crab's eye describes the small bubbles when the water is boiling, and the fish's eye refers to the larger bubbles that appear later);

It is required to use expensive and high-quality tea sets, and it is stipulated that tea bowls should be heated or baked first to fully promote the aroma of tea soup.

The above four items are the basic elements of tea ceremony. If none of these points can be achieved, we will talk about tea ceremony. Another thing to note is that since the tea ceremony pays attention to the beauty of nature, we should try our best to avoid all people and things that are deliberately unnatural, otherwise it will violate the tea ceremony.

The late Professor Zhuang Wan Fang, a tea expert at Zhejiang Agricultural University, proposed that the tea ceremony in China should be "sincerity, beauty, harmony and respect" and interpreted it as: frugality and virtue, beauty and true recreation, sincerity and sincerity, and love for people.

The characteristics of tea ceremony culture itself are exactly what Laozi said: "Tao can be Tao, which is extraordinary." The name can be named. It's very famous. At the same time, Buddhism also believes that "Tao is realized by the heart". "If we must define the tea ceremony as a fixed and rigid concept, we will lose the mystery of the tea ceremony, and at the same time limit the imagination of tea people and dilute the mystery when we realize the Tao through our hearts.

In a word, the spirit of tea ceremony is the core, soul and highest criterion of tea culture activities.