The customs of tobacco, wine and tea in China, what kind of culture is the culture of tobacco, alcoh

The connotation of tea culture Tea culture is an integral part of the traditional Chinese culture, its content is very rich, involving science and technology education, culture and art, medical and health care, history and archaeology, economy, catering tourism and press and publishing and other disciplines and industries, including tea monographs, tea periodicals, tea and poetry, tea and song and dance, tea and **, tea and art, tea and wedding, tea and sacrifice, tea and Zen teaching, tea and couplets, tea and proverbs, tea stories, tea and stories, tea drinking customs, tea performances, ceramic tea sets, tea houses and tea houses, Brewing skills, tea food and tea therapy, tea expo and tea tourism and other twenty-one aspects.

Overview of the tea ceremony. The rich and colorful tea ceremony culture can be summarized as tea fun, tea virtue, and tea Zen. Tea Fun is the pleasure of drinking tea, including material pleasure and spiritual pleasure. Good tea, clear spring, tea set, good day, beautiful land.

Bosom friends, get together to drink, and appreciate the elegance and vulgarity. There is a distinction between elegance and vulgarity, and there is no difference between high and low. Tea virtue is the merit of tea.

Lu Yu's contemporary, Liu Zhenliang"Tea Ten Virtues"Taste the taste with tea, nourish the body with tea, drive away the fishy gas with tea, prevent illness with tea, maintain health with tea, disperse stuffiness with tea, benefit benevolence with tea, pay tribute with tea, and use tea to be elegant, and tea can be the way. Tea Zen is to explain the close relationship between tea and Buddhism.

1. The origin of tea.

There is a long record of tea drinking in Chinese history, and it is impossible to find out exactly what age it was, but there is a theory about the approximate era. And evidence can also be found.

It is true that the habit of drinking tea in many parts of the world came from China. Therefore, many people think that tea drinking is the first creation of Chinese, tea drinking habits in other parts of the world.

The habit of growing tea was passed down directly or indirectly from China.

But there are also people who can find evidence that the habit of drinking tea was not only invented by the Chinese, but also in some other parts of the world, such as India and Africa.

continents, etc. In 1823, a major of the British invading army discovered a large tea tree in the wild in India, and some people began to believe that the birthplace of tea was in India, or at least in India. Middle.

Of course, there are also records of wild tea trees in China, all of which are concentrated in the southwest region, and the records also include individual areas of Gansu and Hunan. Tea tree is a very old dicot plant, with people.

Our lives are closely related.

In China, there is also a debate about the earliest origin of the tea plant, and there are several theories. Today, many people believe that in Yunnan, there is a scholar who asserts after careful study and research that Yunnan.

Xishuangbanna is the origin of the tea plant. The earliest written record of the artificial cultivation of tea trees began with Mengshan tea in the Western Han Dynasty. This is contained in the "Sichuan Tongzhi".

In fact, it doesn't matter to us tea drinkers right now. Maybe culturally significant. Let's start by looking at some of the arguments in academia:

The origin of things is ultimately attributed to Shennong's. Once you get here, you can't push it up again. It is precisely because of this that Shennong has become the god of agriculture.

2 Western Zhou Dynasty: Jin Changxuan "Huayang Guozhi Ba Zhi":"King Wu of Zhou fell, and he was the ,.. of Bashu's divisionTea honey. All of them are tribute. "This account is indicated in the Zhou Dynasty.

When King Wu conquered, Ba had already paid tribute to King Wu of Zhou with tea and other precious products. It is also recorded in the "Huayang National Chronicles" that there were artificially cultivated tea gardens at that time.

3 Qin and Han dynasties: Western Han Dynasty. Wang Bao's "Servant Covenant":"Cooking utensils"，"Wuyang buys", after the examination of the tea is today's tea. In recent years, in the Western Han Dynasty tomb of Mawangdui in Changsha, it was found that there was a funeral list.

Tea is the most important and common daily drink in traditional Chinese society, and it is also the national drink of China. When drinking tea in China, people not only pay attention to the color, fragrance, ambiguity and shape of the tea itself, but also equip it with scientific, practical and artistic tea utensils. For the appreciation and selection of tea utensils, including:

Types, textures, origins, ages, sizes, weights, thicknesses, forms, colors, colors, luster, sounds, calligraphy, texts, pictures, enamels, supporting and other aspects are a comprehensive science. For many years, people have often engraved the five words "also, can, to, clear and heart" on the lid of the teapot. Many people don't know the mystery.

In fact, this is a palindrome style, as long as it is clockwise, no matter which word you start reading, it can be formed into a sentence, and the meaning is exactly the same, which explains the benefits of drinking tea.

Due to the large number of tea varieties, different categories, and different tastes, the way of brewing and drinking is also different. As a result, the custom of drinking tea is also colorful and distinctive. For example, people in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei and other areas love to drink green tea; Sichuan people drink more flower tea and Tuo tea; while Cantonese and Fujian people love to drink black tea and oolong tea; In Chaozhou and southern Fujian, people are popular to drink "kung fu tea", paying attention to the exquisite tea utensils and workmanship.

China's ethnic minorities also have a lot of tea drinking, such as the Bai and Tujia people living in the southwest region have the habit of drinking roasted tea, and treat guests with roasted tea; The Dai and Yi people have the habit of drinking simmered tea; The Dong people take "oil tea" (the main raw materials are tea, peanuts, crisp soybeans or fried peanuts, pig water, water balls or glutinous rice, green onions, etc.) as the second staple food; In addition, the Dong girls are ingenious, and the tea drinking customs and carving skills are cleverly combined to make "play with tea": the Hui people in the northwest region love to drink gaiwan tea, and one of its major features is that it is rich in ingredients, which can be made into "three-spiced" gaiwan tea and "five-spiced" gaiwan tea, and drinking tea pays attention to "scraping bowls"; The Tibetan people like to drink butter tea the most, and together with the tsampa constitute the unique food culture of the Tibetan people, there are also two popular sayings in the Tibetan people: "rice can not be eaten for a day, but tea can not be drunk for a day", "tea in the tent is more happy".

The milk tea invented and created by the Mongolian people has become an indispensable drink for the local people, and is loved by people of Kazakh, Uygur, Uzbek, Tatar, Kirghiz and other ethnic groups, and there is a saying that "if there is no tea, you will be sick".

Eating tobacco is harmful to health, but it also has its benefits, smokers are troubled with relief, wine is good but don't get drunk to drink, drink too much hurts the body, tea is also very real for us, and it can relieve drinking is also a must-have for me early, but people with cold stomachs can't drink.

All material and spiritual phenomena created by human beings are called cultures. The meaning of tobacco, alcohol and tea culture should include the spiritual connotation of the material production and circulation activities of the tobacco, alcohol and tea industry, including the material and spiritual aspects of the tobacco, wine and tea field. Some scholars believe that the culture of tobacco, alcohol and tea is a collection of material culture, institutional culture and spiritual culture with the theme of tobacco, wine and tea.

The cultural nature of tobacco, alcohol and tea.

Since the culture of tobacco, alcohol and tea contains two aspects of tobacco, wine and tea as a carrier, and the various conceptual forms of human beings who use tobacco and wine tea because of tobacco, wine and tea, it must have the form and connotation of its natural attributes and social attributes. That is, a series of material, spiritual, customary, psychological, and behavioral phenomena generated by people surrounding and using other people all belong to the category of tobacco, alcohol and tea culture.

The traditional culture of each country.