What is the tea ceremony and tea art

What is the tea ceremony and the art of tea

Introduction: Tea was originally the southern China Jia Mu, tea as a famous health drink, it is the ancient people of southern China's contribution to China's food culture, but also the Chinese people's contribution to the world's food culture. Three Emperors and Five Emperors era of Shennong has a tea detoxification stories circulated, the Yellow Emperor was surnamed Ji name Tuan, Tuan that is the ancient word tea.

Tea ceremony, tea ceremony is both the form of tea culture is also the core of tea culture, the tea ceremony, tea ceremony to form some kind of program, as the practice of tea people's operating procedures, with the function of facilitating the learning and dissemination, such as the work of the tea, Longjing tea ceremony, the White Three Roads to Tea, etc., the core of which is in which they express the content, the spirit of the realm.

1 tea ceremony

What is the tea ceremony? Refers to the reason, method of drinking tea and the rules that should be followed. Ancient tea to entertain guests formed by a set of etiquette or ceremony, the tea ceremony is the development of tea culture to a certain stage of secondary cultural phenomena.

1 .1 Etymology of the tea ceremony

The term "tea ceremony" first appeared in the Tang Dynasty, the poet monk Kyaw Ran has a miscellaneous ancient poem "Drinking Tea Song? The cynical Cui Shi envoy" cloud? The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of a long journey, and it was the first time I was in the middle of a long journey. The first time you drink it, you'll be able to get rid of your sleep, and then you'll be able to enjoy your life to the fullest. Drinking it again clears my mind, and suddenly it is like flying rain sprinkling light dust. If I drink it three times, I will attain the way of Taoism, so I don't need to break my worries through hard work. The world knows nothing about the purity of this drink, and the world is often deceived by its own drinking. In the fall, I watched the night between the urns of Bi Zhuo, and laughed at the time when Tao Qian was under the fence. Cui Hou sipped his heart, and sang a song that was amazing to the ear. Who knows that the tea ceremony is all true, but only Danqiu can do so? Another "Feng's Witness Records" cloud? Because of Hongjian's theory embellishment, so the tea ceremony, princes and courtiers, no not drink tea.

Feng Yan is the Tang Tianbao to Zhenyuan years of scholars, this is the world's first appearance of the term tea ceremony.

Before the Tang, as the late Tang poet Pi Rixiu said, the tea drinker ? and the man who boiled vegetables and sipped no different?

Before the Tang Dynasty, as the late Tang poet Pi Rixiu said, tea drinkers? To the middle of the Tang Dynasty, since Lu Yu, "Tea Classic" came out, such as Feng Yan, "Wenshi Ji" recorded, Hong Gradient for the "Tea Classic", said the efficacy of tea and tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, twenty-four devices,? So the tea ceremony was popular? Tang Dynasty monks through the planting of tea, tea and tea and tea art, the scholars are creative play, the tea knowledge of art, theorizing. At that time, the tea ceremony thought set Confucianism, Buddhism and the spirit of the schools, advocating tea to repair virtue. Tea drinkers should be? The person who drinks tea should be a person who is thrifty and virtuous? (The opening chapter of the "Tea Classic"), through the harmony, mediocrity, indifferent to the content of the idea, emphasizing tea introspection self-cultivation. This is the tea ceremony of the Tang Dynasty. Later, the tea ceremony was inherited, spread abroad, after the East Japan, in Japan and Japanese culture combined to form the Japanese tea ceremony.

1 .2 The concept of the tea ceremony

Many scholars study the culture of the tea ceremony, Professor Chen Xiangbai of the Department of History, Chaozhou Normal University, believes that the tea ceremony is to ? The tea ceremony is the crystallization of the art of tea drinking, which is the main focus of the tea ceremony. The crystallization of the art of tea drinking, which shows elegance, express etiquette, symbolize friendship, reflect the quality, performance of self, the formation of the tea ceremony in the Sheng Tang Dynasty. Mr. Cai Rongzhang of Taiwan Lu Yu Tea Art Center believes that the tea ceremony refers to the method of tasting tea, its function and its mood. Tea culture expert Mr. Ding Wen in the "Chinese Tea Ceremony" in summary: the tea ceremony is the crystallization of tea culture. Chinese tea ceremony is y rooted in Chinese culture, has a strong national characteristics, not only focus on the art of drinking tea, but also on the natural environment, interpersonal relationships and tea drinking mentality; it is the ancient Chinese philosophy as the guiding ideology to the pursuit of traditional national virtues as the goal.

2 Tea Art

2 .1 Tea Art Etymology

It is reported that Taiwan? The Chinese Folklore Society? The president of the Chinese Folklore Society, Prof. Lou Zou Kuang, headed by a group of folklorists, in order to promote the development of tea culture, and injected with humanism as the main theme, after repeated discussions, in order to avoid the suspicion of imitation of the Japanese tea ceremony, which was created? Tea Ceremony? This new term, the same year Taiwan established the Tea Ceremony Association (1976-1977), at that time in Taiwan appeared? Cultural Roots? The phenomenon.

Taiwan in 1976, Guan Shouling's first tea ceremony hall. Since then, Chinese Kung Fu teahouses have appeared one after another, to 90 years Taiwan has more than 1,000. Chinese teahouse has a long history, but the tea ceremony hall named tea tasting places, Fujian Museum of tea ceremony hall was the first mainland. Currently only Fuzhou City, the tea ceremony hall, tea residence has hundreds of.

2 .2 The concept of tea art

Tea art is a form and spirit of mutual unity of the tea culture, including tasting, appreciation of the art of the means of operation and the beautiful environment of the tea tasting tea throughout the process of tea tasting aesthetic mood. It tends to favor the enjoyment of the art of living, in addition to pay attention to the tea brewing method etiquette and utensils, pay more attention to the different tea 'color, aroma and taste of tasting, as well as in the process of tea cultivation, pay attention to tea in the interpersonal relationship. People often say? Drinking tea? is the tea as a thirst-quenching beverage when called. Tasting tea? Taste tea flavor, tea as an art of life to enjoy when called, and drinking tea has a different meaning, Song Huizong wrote "Daguan tea theory":? Sip Ying Zhui Hua? Competition for the identification of the difference between the cut? with the significance of tea tasting. And? Tea art? Pay attention to the quality of tea, brewing techniques, tea utensils to play, tea environment and interpersonal relationships.

2 .3 The basic types and characteristics of the tea ceremony

China has a long history of tea drinking, from ancient times to the present, the Chinese people taste tea has its own unique features, not only the use of the natural properties of tea, but also to recognize the spiritual attributes of the tea, tea culture has a long history of tea, the traditional types of tea ceremony is varied to its dominant class and the nature of the art to be divided into the literati tea, Zen master tea, rich tea, women's tea, work tea, children's tea and other six types, all types have their specific historical conditions and cultural background of the imprint. There are many ways to drink tea, which can be divided into green tea, black tea, oolong tea, floral tea, pressed tea, etc. The addition of condiments or not can be categorized as green tea, black tea, oolong tea, pressed tea and so on. To add condiments or not can be divided into drinking and drinking, drinking can be tasted the true flavor of the tea, and drinking due to ethnic, regional, customs and different, and different meanings. The modern tea ceremony has two main forms of expression in life, one is leisure tea ceremony, the other is performance tea ceremony, which has different functions in social activities. Leisurely tea ceremony can be found everywhere, through the process of tea ceremony activities, regulating the state of mind, and conveying friendship. Performing tea ceremony is the history, life, tea customs, tea ceremony, tea ceremony or tea ceremony excavation, collection, organization, refining, dissolving into modern technology, so that it has a certain degree of ornamental, and its type can be divided into national, local, court, scribe, temple, children, science and technology type. They all have their own drinking techniques and cultural connotations, and the melody of beauty flows in the process of tea art. Oolong tea is especially exquisite in its drinking techniques. Tea art is the art of tea drinking habits and tea tasting skills crystallization, with the deep meaning of oriental culture, tea taste fragrance, tea art flow rhyme elegance.