Composition material: drinking tea in Mid-Autumn Festival

The history of Mid-Autumn Festival means the history of drinking tea. If the Millennium is regarded as a long river, the tradition of Mid-Autumn Festival is a wooden boat, while Chaze is a sail on the boat, and they go hand in hand and cross the distant history.

Since the Tang Dynasty, there has been the custom of cooking and drinking group tea. In Song Dynasty, Longfeng tea in Beiyuan, Jian 'ou, Fujian was used as tribute tea. The best group tea, "its cake is absolutely fine, worth two taels of gold." Group tea is also called "Moon Group". On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, group tea represents reunion, and it is a perfect match to enjoy the moon and drink group tea.

Since the strike of group tea in Ming Taizu, tea is mainly loose tea, and tea tasting has become the current brewing method. The bright moon has not changed, and there are many teas. At that time, the group tea as a tribute could only be boiled and drunk in the royal courtyard, and then the loose tea spread in thousands of courtyards like moonlight.

Many people think that the Mid-Autumn Festival lacks poetry, as if the dust in the city covered the moonlight. We should know that tea can purify our hearts and eyes at this time. Drinking tea and enjoying the moon is the most poetic Mid-Autumn Festival.

Three reasons for drinking tea in Mid-Autumn Festival:

1, cultural reasons: drinking tea is spiritual.

In people's impression, the moon in Mid-Autumn Festival is elegant. In this sense, the only thing that can best compare with the moon is tea. Drinking tea is the most elegant content of Mid-Autumn Festival.

The only thing that can transcend and leave this world should be tea. The most classic tea-drinking song in the Tang Dynasty is "one bowl moistens the throat, two bowls are lonely and boring, three bowls search for the poor heart, but five thousand words, four bowls sweat lightly, life is unequal, the pores are scattered all over, five bowls are clear, six bowls are fairy-like, seven bowls are not allowed to eat, and the air under your armpits is fresh." It is said that during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the ancients would hum softly when enjoying the moon. After drinking tea at this time, it looks like a fairy, comparable to Chang 'e in Guanghan Palace.

2. Realistic reason: Tea will never make people tired.

Every new year, people nowadays seem to feel too tired to eat.

On the other hand, tea is different. Like a lover who is in love forever. It tastes fresh, with interest and poetry written on it. It has always been a new favorite and will never get tired of it.

There is a faint scent of tea in the faint moonlight. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, there are only moon cakes, which is too lacking in passion. Tea is a comfort to join in time.

3. Health reasons: Dress for moon cakes and Tang suit for tea.

Long gowns are very cold-resistant. Since ancient times, people have to prepare one for communication. Just as since ancient times, moon cakes have been regarded as the best products to keep fit. But today, the "three highs" dietary structure with high calorie, high fat and high cholesterol in people's lives has been overwhelming. Then, nutritionists say that the calories of a Cantonese-style moon cake are as high as 850 calories, which is equivalent to the calories of three bowls of white rice. It has also been suggested that eating too many sweet moon cakes will increase the burden on the spleen and stomach ... The traditional sweet moon cakes are like a gown, and some of them are out of place.

For modern people who pursue health, tea is always the most popular Tang suit, giving people good hope and encouragement; Tea has rich connotations; There is a value that nature can't estimate, and tea has a sky-high price. The tea under the moon looks so elegant.

Tea tasting and drinking customs in China.

The article on tea custom of China people tasting tea and drinking tea introduces the difference between China people tasting tea and drinking tea!

People in China drink tea, which is called tea drinking and tea tasting.

Tea tasting and drinking are not only different in quantity but also in quality. Drinking tea is mainly to quench thirst and meet the physiological needs of human body for water. Therefore, drinking tea focuses on quantity and is often in a hurry.

Tea tasting focuses on artistic conception, and tea drinking is regarded as an artistic appreciation and spiritual enjoyment. Everyone likes to work hard on the word "quality", so we should sip carefully and observe slowly. By observing its shape, observing its color, smelling its fragrance and tasting its taste, drinkers can cultivate their feelings in the wonder of color, fragrance, taste and shape. This method of drinking tea that emphasizes "spirit" is unspeakable, but it is also understandable. However, it is this unspeakable but understandable interest that has formed the tea culture that has been circulating in China for two thousand years.

Tea drinkers drink tea, and in the process of watching, smelling, making and tasting tea, they gain aesthetic feeling and trigger various associations. Some compare tea to fine wine, "the old spectrum is the most delicious, and manna is better than manna"; Some compare tea to fragrant flowers, saying, "As soon as you enter the mountains, you will fly everywhere, and Biluochun will be drunk"; Some compare tea to a bosom friend, saying that "the fragrance in the piano is green water, and the old tea is Mengshan"; Some compare tea to the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon's elixir, "A cup of spring dew stays for a while, and a cool breeze blows and you want to become immortal"; Some people want nothing but tea, such as "nothing in life, a cup of tea in the mountains" and so on. Therefore, in a sense, tea tasting is the embodiment of the noble, elegant and fashionable Chinese nation.

The Changes of Tea-drinking Custom in Ancient China!

China was the first country to collect and drink tea. Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica once described the legend of Emperor Yan, a tauren, that "Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, and when he encountered seventy-two poisons every day, he got naphthalene to solve it" (naphthalene is tea).

Shu area in Cuba was the first place to grow tea trees and drink tea. China's earliest local chronicles, Eight Records of Huayang Country, recorded that Shu State in Cuba planted tea trees and paid tribute to the emperor 3000 years ago.

morning tea

At first, primitive people ate tea as a vegetable. Later, people found that tea has the function of quenching thirst, refreshing and treating some diseases, so they cooked tea into vegetable soup separately and then boiled tea as a drink. During the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, this habit of eating tea was inherited and developed. The bitterness of tea is sweet, with sweetness in bitterness and endless aftertaste, which is widely loved by ordinary people and nobles. At this time, the tea production in Bashu area has reached a certain scale, and excellent varieties have been presented to the central court. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, tea spread to the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. By the end of the Warring States period, tea drinking was popular in the Yellow River basin.

In the ancient historical materials of China, there are many names about tea, such as tea, tea, bitter tea, tea, Gao Lu, tea and so on. Tea is the most commonly used word, and it became a common name after the Tang Dynasty.

In the Han Dynasty, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, drinking tea became a common practice in southern China.

In the Han Dynasty, the health care function of tea was paid more and more attention, and a special tea market appeared, and tea became a commodity that people needed every day.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the wind of drinking tea spread to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and tea became a daily drink, used for feasting, entertaining guests and offering sacrifices. Literati like drinking tea, and there are poems reflecting tea events.

The unique tea drinking custom in Andaman seaside

On the Indo-China Peninsula in Southeast Asia, there are two beautiful countries on the Andaman coast: one is Myanmar and the other is Thailand. At present, it is generally believed that Burmese and Thais went south from Chinese mainland and entered Indochina Peninsula. As early as prehistoric times, these ethnic groups had deep contacts with residents of all ethnic groups in southern and southwestern China, including the Han nationality. Because of this, these two countries have been influenced by China tea culture for a long time and formed their own unique tea drinking customs.

China's tea tree, Indian, is a kind of Assam, which is subspecies related to China's tea tree. This is a tall tea tree. The original inhabitants of this area made a kind of "chewing tea", which was called "Lebe" or "Mien". In Myanmar and Thailand, Burmese, Shan and Lao? Youan and other ethnic groups in Thailand are the main consumers of chewing tea. The edible method of chewing tea is to steam the tender leaves of tea tree first, then marinate them with salt, and finally mix a small amount of seasoning and chew them in your mouth. This method of drinking tea is quite similar to kimchi made by ethnic minorities in Yunnan, China. It is chewed and enjoyed slowly.

Of course, Thailand and Myanmar also have different tea drinking habits. In Thailand, people especially like to drink iced tea. When visiting a Thai home, the host should bring a cup of iced tea or iced juice to the guest. Before eating in a restaurant, the waiter will bring hot tea, then a plate or goblet filled with ice cubes, and put the ice cubes into the hot tea. After a while, the steaming tea cooled down and people sipped it comfortably. Not only do Thai people drink tea with ice, but they also drink other drinks, such as Coca-Cola, orange juice, beer and coffee with ice. Eat fruits such as watermelon or pineapple with ice, salt water or pepper.

There are also some tea-related customs in Myanmar's wedding customs. For example, "bitter tea treats guests"; Young men and women in Burma can fall in love freely, and at night, boys will visit their beloved girls' homes to chat. After arriving at the girl's home, the young man asked the girl to chew betel nuts, while the girl entertained the guests with bitter tea. Gossip must get the consent of the woman, not rashly, not for too long. About an hour or so, the young man will be excused. In Myanmar, the Luo nationality has the custom of "drinking tea for divorce". When the husband and wife divorce, the elders in the village will come forward to mediate first. If mediation fails, both parties will have tea in the same house, and then consider divorce after paying for the tea. The disposal methods of property after divorce are generally: personal property is returned to its original owner; * * * The same property is divided equally between men and women, or the divorce party voluntarily gives up the property and leaves the family. Children often follow their mothers, but they can also follow their fathers with their mothers' consent.

What is the general etiquette for drinking tea?

China is a country of etiquette. What's the etiquette for drinking tea? Neither the host nor the guests should gulp tea or drink loudly. You should taste it slowly and carefully. When you meet tea leaves floating on the water, you can brush them off with a teacup cover or gently blow them away. Never take your hand out of the cup and throw it on the ground, and don't drink tea.

In the west, tea parties are often used as a form of entertaining guests. Tea party usually starts around 4 pm in the living room. Just prepare the seat and coffee table, there is no need to arrange the seating. Besides drinking tea, you can also serve some snacks or flavor snacks at the tea party. At present, China sometimes entertains foreign guests with tea parties.

In the old days of China, tea was repeatedly invited as a way to remind guests that they should leave. Therefore, when entertaining the elderly or overseas Chinese, we should be careful not to persuade them to drink tea again and again.

Although many countries have the habit of drinking tea, the stress on drinking tea is very strange. The Japanese advocate that tea ceremony is an art that cultivates people's souls. It is very important to entertain guests with tea ceremony and render the atmosphere. As for Chaze, everyone has a small bowl, or all participants take turns to drink one bowl, so you can't drink one bowl after another.

More and more foreign guests visit China Teahouse to learn about folk customs. When you meet foreign guests drinking tea at the same table in a teahouse, you should treat them with courtesy. Neither too cold nor too enthusiastic, just be modest.

Tea drinking culture in Qing dynasty

Old people from Beijing come to Qi to talk about drinking tea, all of which are fragrant tablets. Actually, it's jasmine tea. Like the old Beijing in Laoshe Teahouse, the rich drink "jasmine with small leaves". The so-called "second fumigation of jasmine leaves" is made by tea merchants from Jiangsu, Anhui and Fujian who transport green tea from the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to Beijing, and then sealed by the Beijing Tea Bureau, steamed with jasmine, and the high-grade tea is selected from tender spring buds and fumigated with jasmine twice.

The poor can only drink "high-end". The so-called "high powder" is just screened tea powder. In order to save face, the down-and-out disciples of the flag bearer came out to the teahouse for entertainment, which was called "the end of high school". It's like Nadulun, the protagonist in Deng Youmei's novel Wu Na, who eats pickles for three meals a day and tells people that this pickle needs sesame oil. You should pay attention to a "score" in everything.

In the old days, flag-bearers paid attention to drinking tea when they were full and then making a pot of hot tea. This kind of tea must be brewed with boiling water, and it must be stuffy for a while before drinking. Open the lid to see the color, pay attention to a jiaozi. It's like many Beijingers still like to use tea to relieve their hangover. Without tea, it will certainly affect the "curative effect".

Manchu entered the customs, and Aixinjue Roche entered Beijing. Most of the eating habits brought from customs come from Northeast China and Inner Mongolia. People on horseback are mainly beef, mutton and dairy products. When drinking tea, they like to drink strong tea and strong tea to help digestion. Black tea and Pu 'er tea are just what they want. At that time, people in Beijing drank well water, and the groundwater quality in the north was very hard. I'm afraid it's not wise to soak Longjing, flag gun and melon slices in such water quality. Besides, drinking green tea after eating greasy food in cold weather may cause diarrhea.

The spread of tea culture in China can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty. The complete set of pure gold tea sets unearthed in the underground palace of Famen Temple in Shaanxi Province can confirm that the Tea Classic written by Lu Yu in Cha Sheng in the Tang Dynasty still affects us today. Tea fighting and simple tea sets in Song Dynasty promoted tea culture to a metaphysical height. Tea affair reached its peak in Ming Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, tea returned to its original functional level. In the 1970s and 1980s, the influence of kungfu tea in Fujian and Zhejiang could only reach the south of the Yangtze River, while tea drinking in most northern areas still inherited the tradition of the Qing Dynasty. After the reform and opening up, Beijing talents gradually came into contact with green tea, black tea and Pu 'er tea.

Speaking of the market of Pu 'er tea in the past two years, it's like riding a rocket. This result surprised many old tea drinkers. This achievement should be thanked to our compatriots in Hong Kong. The century-old tea-horse ancient road, which served Tibetan compatriots in those days, spread all the way south to Xiangjiang River. 1997, some Hong Kong tea merchants were afraid that the low-priced Pu 'er tea they tried in the past would fall into their hands, so they fooled their counterparts in Taiwan Province Province on the efficacy of Pu 'er tea. In recent years, they also caught up with the economic prosperity of Taiwan Province Province, and ordinary people hitchhiked to hyperlipidemia, hypertension and obesity. In this way, the effect of digestion and oil removal of Pu 'er tea is deified, and it is too late for Taiwan Province compatriots to understand it again. As a result, Taiwan Province compatriots made persistent efforts and fooled the newly rich mainland compatriots. Now the scene is that Pu 'er tea has become an investment tool for people, just as good as real estate speculation and stock trading.

Now people meet and ask Hou Yu, "Dude, what kind of tea did you drink today? Ha ha! Not Pu 'er tea, is it? "