() (also known as tea Baekju and Shui Danqing) is a skill popularized in the Song Dynasty with the nature of a game.

Tea Baekju (also known as Tea Baekju and Shui Danqing) is a skill with a playful nature popularized in the Song Dynasty.

This art form is based on the point of tea painting with water, the formation of patterns in the tea broth and the point of tea when the bubble of the tea broth has a close relationship.

During the Song Dynasty, people drank tea by crushing tea leaves and drinking them with the tea broth. As a result, an art form similar to today's coffee pulling came into being, namely the "Tea Baichang", which is also known as "Shui Danqing". The designs in the tea baeksu were as ephemeral and beautiful as ink drawings, and they passed quickly, making it a popular entertainment among the literati at the time.

Ancient books have clear records of the "Tea Hundred Operas", and the source of the Tea Hundred Operas is Tao Gu in Thea Sinensis Ming Records of the Northern Song Dynasty, which states that the Tea Hundred Operas are made by the method of "transporting daggers in soup" (i.e., injecting the soup and stirring the teaspoon), making the "water veins in the soup" and the "water veins in the soup". The Tea Pak Opera is a unique art form that uses the method of "running the dagger under the soup" (i.e. injecting the soup and stirring the teaspoon) to make the "water veins in the soup" change to form patterns. This art form was very prevalent in the Song Dynasty, people put the tea opera and qin, chess, books, and become the scholarly class loved and revered a cultural activity. In Fujian Province, this traditional art form has been included in the list of intangible cultural heritage.

The history of tea culture is:

The Tang Dynasty was the heyday of tea culture, Lu Yu wrote the "Tea Scripture", which systematically summarized the knowledge of tea production, processing, and drinking, laying the foundation of the Chinese tea ceremony. In the Song Dynasty, the tea ceremony was further developed, and many famous tea sets and tea ceremony schools appeared. Ming Dynasty, the main tea brewing kung fu tea became the mainstream, tea utensils are more beautifully made. In the Qing Dynasty, there were many different kinds of tea, and the tea ceremony was even richer and more diverse.

Since modern times, with the exchange and cooperation of the world, Chinese tea culture has gradually gone global. in the middle of the 19th century, tea began to be exported to Europe and the United States, etc., and was widely welcomed. at the beginning of the 20th century, the status of Chinese tea in the world market was gradually established. Nowadays, Chinese tea has spread all over the world and become an important carrier of China's foreign cultural exchanges.

In traditional Chinese culture, tea is not only a beverage, but also a spiritual symbol. The Tea Ceremony emphasizes the spiritual connotations of "harmony, respect, clarity and silence", reflecting people's pursuit of nature, harmony and serenity. At the same time, tea culture also emphasizes the interaction and communication between people, and meeting friends with tea has become a wonderful way of socializing.

In short, tea culture is an important part of the long history and splendid civilization of the Chinese nation. It not only embodies the Chinese people's love and pursuit of life, but also demonstrates the wisdom and creativity of the Chinese nation. In the future, tea culture will continue to be inherited and carried forward, contributing to the diversity of world culture.