The History of the Formation of the Tea Ceremony

The history of the formation of the tea ceremony

Tea ceremony, which has a long origin, a long history, a deep cultural heritage, and religious ties. The following is my organization of the history of the formation of the tea ceremony, welcome to read!

The tea ceremony sprouted in the Tang Dynasty, carried forward in the Song Dynasty, reformed in the Ming Dynasty, and flourished in the Qing Dynasty, which can be said to have considerable historical origins, forming a system of its own. The traditional tea ceremony, is a dialectical unity of nature and human experience, from the spirit and the flesh of the interactive feelings to identify the relevant issues, so in the technology, that contains the simple dialectical materialism of ancient China's thinking, but also contains the people's subjective aesthetic interest and spiritual support.

In ancient China, the literati used tea to stimulate literary ideas; Taoists used to cultivate the mind; Buddhists used to help Zen sleep, etc., the combination of material and spiritual, people in the spirit of the level of feeling a kind of beautiful inculcation. In the process of tea, people and natural landscape as a whole, accept the earth's dew; reconcile the human strife; seek to return to nature's special interest.

Tea art background in a broad sense refers to the whole background of tea culture, in a narrow sense refers to the tea place scenery and set off the main thing of the scenery. Tea art background is an important means of setting off the theme of thought, it renders the tea pure, elegant, simple temperament, enhance the artistic infectivity.

Tasting tea as an art, the requirements of tea tasting techniques, etiquette, environment and other coordination, different tea tasting methods and environment should have a harmonious aesthetic mood. In the downtown area, the chanting of self-pouring, not show elegance; study in the incense sipping, singing some slang song is not appropriate. Tea art and tea art background style unity, different styles of 'tea art has different background requirements. So in the tea ceremony background selection of the creation, should be based on different tea ceremony style, designed to meet the requirements of the background.

Tea art is including tea tasting techniques and artistic means of appreciation of the means of operation, as well as the appreciation of the beautiful environment of the tea tasting process, such as the beautiful mood, the process of reflecting the form and the spirit of mutual unity.

In terms of form, the tea ceremony includes: choosing tea, choosing water, cooking tea technology, tea art, environmental choice to create a series of content. Tea, first to choose, pay attention to pots and cups of simple and elegant, or luxury Zhuanggui. In addition, tea should also pay attention to the character, the coordination of the environment, the literati and elegant people seek quiet and elegant, the pursuit of luxury and nobility of the aristocracy. General traditional tea, the environmental requirements of the breeze, the moon, pine Yin, bamboo rhyme, plum open, snow and other kinds of interest and mood. In short, the tea ceremony is a perfect combination of form and spirit, which contains the aesthetic point of view and the human spirit.

Tea art is the tea people to people's daily habits of drinking tea, through artistic processing, to tea drinkers and guests to show the tea brewing, brewing, drinking skills, the daily drinking of tea to the art of enhancing the realm of drinking, giving tea to a stronger sense of spirituality and beauty.