On Tea Culture and Its Cultural Connotation

Tea culture is a cultural form with a long history and one of the unique cultural representatives in China. As a traditional drink in China, tea is recognized as one of the healthy drinks in the world. It is not only a drink, but also a culture, a way of life and an idea. Tea culture takes tea as the main carrier, including tea planting, picking, processing and tasting, tea set and tea ceremony etiquette. The inheritance and development of tea culture represents the inheritance and development of China national culture.

In ancient China, tea was divided into seven grades, and the production technology of tea was perfect. Many tea-making techniques have not been replaced by some traditional impressions. In Confucianism, tea is regarded as a kind of "moral" food as a part of sacrifice. Tea should exist in various cultural plots, such as poetry, painting, music, literati class, and even ordinary people's lives. For a long time, many poets and literati at home and abroad have used tea as a carrier to express their feelings, create and embody the humanistic spirit in their poems and articles.

Tea culture is rich in connotation. It is not only material culture, but also spiritual culture. Taoism in China advocates inaction, and tea ceremony is the representative of inaction. If the tea ceremony pursues the way of nature, it will not deliberately pick out the good and the bad. Life is like dew, heaven and earth are impermanent, and everything is illusory. We just need to treat it indifferently. In the process of tea tasting, people are meticulous about drinking tea, making tea and pouring tea. This meticulous humanistic heritage has made tea culture more deeply rooted in people's hearts and become an important part of world tea culture.

In a word, tea culture has strong local cultural characteristics. With the development of China culture, it has become an important part of China culture, which has exerted a wide and far-reaching influence on people's lives and emotions in philosophy, art, religion and science. Therefore, the inheritance and development of tea culture is of great significance.