What is the significance of promoting tea culture?

Chinese culture is profound and profound, and the 5,000-year history of civilization exudes tea fragrance everywhere. Culture depends on a series of lifestyles, and tea culture carries a very textured lifestyle, especially in the era of peace and well-being. In China culture, tea is a unique and truly civilized beverage. Tea art is the artistic crystallization of tea drinking customs and tea tasting skills, which has a profound cultural heritage of the Chinese nation. Scholars played an important role from early medicinal use to later tea drinking. After the Tang Dynasty, literati attached great importance to cultural taste and regarded tea drinking as an elegant fashion, which made tea drinking not only an elegant thing, but also an elegant and interesting thing that literati accompanied day and night. There are many tea poems, tea paintings, tea classics and many people are addicted to drinking tea. As the saying goes, "three points to quench thirst, seven points to taste." Of course, the ratio of quenching thirst to taste changes with the development of social civilization and culture. The more the society develops, the higher the level of tea drinkers and the greater the ingredients of taste. Generally speaking, the purport of tea comes from the coincidence and unity of the mood and tea nature of tea drinkers, and only true tea lovers can obtain the charm and fun of tea. The ancients regarded tea tasting as an artistic accomplishment, which emphasized calmness and harmony. In tea tasting, you can enjoy the beauty of self-cultivation, meditation and "living in the world". The highest level of tea tasting is the harmony and unity between man and nature and between people.

First, the significance of tea culture to modern life:

Tea is a kind of thing with good color, fragrance, taste and shape, which conforms to the spirit of people's pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty and transcendence. The spirit of "harmony, quietness, purity and frugality" in tea ceremony just meets the requirements of sustainable social development and all-round human development. Therefore, it is of positive and far-reaching significance to popularize tea ceremony in modern society.

3,000-year-old orthodoxy has played an extremely important role in the history of China, and it has also been thoroughly spurned under the impact of modern western rationalism. However, with the development of society and the increasing number of contradictions, the problem of harmony between heaven and earth has become a major issue that needs to be solved urgently.

Human society is in a period of great change, unprecedented opportunities and crises coexist, and the living conditions of human beings are in sharp contradiction: on the one hand, the new scientific and technological revolution has enabled human beings to have great ability to conquer nature, accumulated more material wealth than the sum of previous centuries, and showed a very attractive development prospect. On the other hand, the alienation of human beings is increasing day by day, and the material force created by modern civilization has reached the point where it can destroy human beings in an instant, which is the "external crisis"; At the same time, various alien forces formed by modern civilization are also destroying people's minds, leading to alienation, "distracting people from their real goals" and "hindering people's growth", which is an "internal crisis". Therefore, the pursuit of "sustainable development" in harmony with economic growth, all-round development of human beings and social progress has gradually become the knowledge of the world. The mission of mankind is not only to seek to dominate the world materially. In the sense of improving the quality of human life, material growth is not the purpose of progress, but only the premise of future progress. Through the use of this means, human beings can dominate themselves spiritually and achieve the harmonious unity of spirit and matter.

The spirit of transcendence, harmony and frugality contained in tea ceremony deserves our vigorous promotion. The core of the theory of sustainable development is "harmony", that is, to seek the coordinated development of economy, society and natural environment, to maintain a new balance and coordinated development, that is, to upgrade from the deep-rooted animal, possessive and one-sided concept of existence to concern about the meaning of existence and quality of life, and to emphasize the all-round coordinated development of man, society and nature, so as to have the mechanism and effect of self-reflection, restraint and adjustment, and to achieve harmonious development in all aspects and keep pace. We should combine current development with future development, combine the interests of the present generation with those of future generations, and combine economic development with the rational use of natural resources and environmental protection, so that our future generations can continue to develop and live and work in peace and contentment.

"Tian Xingjian, the gentleman is constantly striving for self-improvement; The terrain is Kun, and the gentleman carries things with morality. " "Self-improvement" and "respecting morality and carrying things" are the traditional spirits of the Chinese nation, which complement each other. People not only need brave, vigorous, rough and bold masculinity, but also need gentle, quiet, quiet, simple and thrifty female characteristics. The coexistence of yin and yang, combining rigidity with softness, is conducive to the cultivation of sound personality. Wine is yang, drinking helps pride, tea is yin, and tea tastes elegant. A chivalrous man, a recluse, a warm man and a calm person, so tea has a unique value for the perfection of human nature.

In the utilitarian life, people will inevitably have negative psychology such as impetuousness, laziness, anxiety and inner conflict. Returning to peace, calmness and cheer up are people's psychological needs. At present, China is transforming from a traditional agricultural society to a modern industrial society, and it is also worth transforming its economic system. People have experienced fierce competition, tense pace of life, alienation between people, and the impulse to return to human nature is particularly urgent. The characteristics of tea, such as frugality, conciseness, quietness and harmony, just meet this psychological demand. Therefore, the content of "tea ceremony" should reflect people's spiritual desire in the realistic social situation, guide people to pursue the spiritual realm of tea tasting, and make tea tasting life a "green habitat" for life journey: tea fragrance wafts away, extravagance is restrained, mind is purified, spirit is inspired, feelings are eliminated, self is integrated and people are encouraged.

Second, the role of tea culture in modern society:

Tea originated in China, and China has the longest history, so it is also the most interesting. Although, in the history of China, a wealthy family lived a life of "tea to reach out, rice to mouth"; Although poor households live a simple life, they cannot do without the word "tea". In short, "with a cup of tea, you can be satisfied with it." China is the origin of tea trees. However, China is not the only origin of tea trees in the world. Local natural tea trees can also be found in other countries in the world. However, it is universally acknowledged that China has made outstanding contributions to mankind in the tea industry, which is mainly due to the earliest discovery and utilization of this plant, which has developed into a splendid and unique tea culture in China and gradually spread to neighboring countries in China and even the whole world.

1. Tea culture takes morality as the center, attaches importance to people's group value, advocates selfless dedication and opposes mercenary. Advocating valuing righteousness over profit, paying attention to coordinating the relationship between people, advocating respect for people and paying attention to self-cultivation is conducive to balancing people's mentality, solving modern people's mental confusion and improving people's cultural quality.

Taking tea tasting as an artistic accomplishment, it is important to be calm, and harmony means peace and softness. In tea tasting, you can enjoy the beauty of self-cultivation, meditation and "living in the world". The highest level of tea tasting is the harmony and unity between man and nature and between people.

2. Tea culture is a good friend to meet the challenges of life. In the fierce social competition and market competition, intense work, entertainment, complicated interpersonal relationships and various pressures attached to people are not light. Participating in tea culture can relax the spirit and body and meet the challenges of life.

3. Conducive to the construction of community civilization. The economy has gone up, but the culture can't lag behind, the social atmosphere can't be dirty, and the morality can't be decadent and ugly. The spread of tea culture after the reform and opening up shows that tea culture has the functions of changing unfair social consumption activities, creating spiritual civilization and promoting social progress.

It plays an obvious role in improving people's quality of life and enriching cultural life. Tea culture is knowledgeable, interesting and entertaining. Tasting famous tea, tea sets and refreshments, and watching tea-folk tea art all give people a beautiful enjoyment. The purpose of tea ceremony is not to quench thirst by drinking tea, nor to identify the quality of tea. However, through complicated procedures and ceremonies, we can pursue quietness, cultivate sentiment and cultivate people's aesthetic and moral concepts.

5. Promote openness and international cultural exchanges. The frequent exchange of international tea culture has made tea culture cross national boundaries and spread to all parts of the world, becoming the spiritual wealth of human civilization. Tea itself, as well as things around it, is an art of life, which promotes more harmony between people and things. Its popularization will certainly contribute to the peace and happiness of mankind.

China tea culture is a unique cultural model and norm, which has developed for thousands of years. It is a multi-ethnic, multi-social structure and multi-level cultural integration system. China tea culture is extensive and profound, including China's politics, economy, society, life and other aspects, involving China's philosophy, sociology, literature and art, religion and other disciplines. After thousands of years of history, China tea culture has all the cultural codes in front of us. The long historical accumulation makes the tea culture in China so profound and dignified. Faced with its vastness and infinite richness, it is difficult for us to estimate its heaviness.