How has Chinese tea culture evolved? What is the tea culture in China?

Chinese tea culture is the culture of making and drinking tea in China. China is the homeland of tea, and the discovery and use of tea by Chinese is said to have begun in the Shennong era, to say the least, more than 4,700 years. Until now, the Han people still have the custom of replacing gifts with tea.

As a classical school of Chinese tea culture, Chaozhou Gongfu tea concentrates the essence of Chinese tea ceremony culture and has been selected as a national intangible cultural heritage as a representative of Chinese tea ceremony. The sencha ceremony in Japan and the brewing tea ceremony in Taiwan, China are all ** Gongfu tea in Chaozhou, Guangdong, China.

Chinese drink tea and pay attention to the word "taste". "Tea tasting" is not only to identify the advantages and disadvantages of tea, but also to carry the meaning of reverie and appreciation of tea drinking. Brewing a pot of strong tea in the midst of your busy schedule, choosing an elegant and quiet place, and pouring yourself a drink, you can eliminate fatigue, cleanse your troubles, and invigorate your spirits, or you can sip slowly to achieve the enjoyment of beauty, and sublimate the spiritual world to a noble artistic realm.

The environment for tea tasting is generally composed of buildings, gardens, furnishings, tea sets and other factors. Drinking tea requires quiet, fresh, comfortable and clean. Chinese gardens are world-famous, and the landscapes are innumerable.

Use gardens or natural landscapes to make pavilions and stools out of wood, and set up tea rooms, giving people a poetic feeling. For people to take a rest, they can't help but be full of fun.

China is the homeland of tea, is the world's first discovery of Chinese tea trees, the use of Chinese tea and the cultivation of Chinese tea plants, China is also the world's tea ceremony suzerain, any country influenced by Chinese tea culture can not deny that China is the status of the tea ceremony suzerain, otherwise it violates the basic civilization of the tea ceremony. The origin of the tea plant is at least sixty or seventy thousand years old. Tea has been discovered and utilized by humans for about four or five thousand years.

Chinese tea culture originated from the Shennong clan in ancient times, and it was used as a drink during the Lu Zhou Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty gradually became popular, and the tea culture in the Song Dynasty entered a prosperous period, and continued to develop and innovate during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and tea is mainly divided into six types, namely green tea, black tea, yellow tea, oolong tea, black tea and white tea.

An introduction to the origins of Chinese tea culture

1. Introduction to the origin

Chinese tea culture originated in the ancient period of Shennong's, in the ancient literature there is a record of "Shennong taste a hundred herbs, the day encounters twelve poisons, get tea and solve it", and the use of tea as a drink, appeared in the Lu Zhou Gong period, after entering the Tang Dynasty, the habit of drinking tea gradually became popular, to the Song Dynasty into the prosperous period.

2. Development status

The original tea in China was used for medicinal purposes, because its taste is bitter, and it has a certain inhibitory effect on toxins, but during the Lu Zhou Dynasty, people gradually used tea as a daily drink, thus giving birth to modern tea drinking habits.

3. Main classifications

According to the degree of roasting, tea can be divided into green tea, black tea, oolong tea, white tea, black tea, yellow tea six kinds, according to history can be divided into traditional tea, historical tea, new tea three kinds, if the tea is classified according to the season, there are four kinds of spring tea, summer tea, autumn tea, winter tea.

Tea culture is very important in the lives of Chinese. King Wu fell, and tea was used as a tribute to pay tribute. In the later years of the original commune, tea became an item of exchange of goods. In the Warring States period, tea had a certain scale.

The "Book of Songs" of the pre-Qin period has a record of tea. As in the Han Dynasty, tea has become a special tonic for Buddhism. In the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, there was a wind of drinking tea. In the Sui Dynasty, it became a common phenomenon for the public to drink tea.

In the Tang Dynasty, the tea industry flourished, and tea became "no one can live without a day". Tea houses, tea parties, tea appearances, inviting guests to tea. In the Song Dynasty, the popular tea fight, tribute tea.

Tea drinking in China began in the Han Dynasty and flourished in the Tang Dynasty. Before the Tang Dynasty, Lu Yu's "Book of Tea" volume "Six Tea Drinks" is generalized, saying: "Tea is drinking, originating from Shennong's, smelling in Lu Zhougong, Qi has Yan Ying, Han has Yangxiong, Sima Xiangru, Wu has Wei Yao, Jin has Liu Kun, Zhang Zai, Yuanzuna, Xie An, Zuo Si's disciples, all drink.

Lu Yu's "Book of Tea" thought that drinking tea began with Shennong's, but "The Book of Food" was a fake book, which was well known to everyone and was not enough evidence. "Erya" has the sentence of "bitter", the world takes "Erya" as the work of Zhou Gongshi, and mistakenly thinks that drinking tea has started since Zhou Gong, and I don't know that "Erya" is not made in Zhou Gong.

The connotation of Chinese tea culture is a specific expression, and tea culture must be combined with Chinese culture. China is known as the state of etiquette, and the spiritual connotation of tea culture is a cultural phenomenon with distinctive Chinese cultural characteristics formed through the combination of habits such as making tea, appreciating tea, smelling tea, drinking tea, and tasting tea with Chinese cultural connotations, and it can also be said to be a phenomenon of etiquette. In ancient China, etiquette was used to determine relatives and alienation, to resolve suspicions, to distinguish between similarities and differences, and to distinguish between right and wrong.

In the long-term historical development, etiquette, as the moral norm and life norm of Chinese society, has played an important role in the cultivation of the spiritual quality of the Chinese nation. At the same time, with the change and development of society, rituals have been constantly given new contents, and some habits and forms of Chinese life have been integrated, forming various cultural phenomena with Chinese characteristics. For example, tea culture has gradually been formed by drinking tea and treating others, dining etiquette has developed into food culture, jade culture has been formed by playing jade and appreciating jade, and local folk culture has been formed by integrating with regional habits. Therefore, tea culture is a habit of making tea, appreciating tea, smelling tea, drinking tea, and tasting tea for a long time, which has gradually become a cultural phenomenon within the scope of Chinese culture.

Tea culture belongs to the category of Chinese culture, that is, it is a kind of artistic conception that is standardized in all details of tea tasting with etiquette, and pays attention to tea, tea, heat, tea utensils, environment, and the cultivation and emotions of drinkers.

The origin and development of Chinese tea culture is as follows:

Chinese tea culture originated from the Shennong clan in ancient times, and it was used as a drink during the Lu Zhou Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty gradually became popular, and the tea culture in the Song Dynasty entered a prosperous period, and continued to develop and innovate during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and tea is mainly divided into six types, namely green tea, black tea, yellow tea, oolong tea, black tea and white tea.

The significance of Chinese tea culture

1. Tea culture is centered on morality, attaches importance to people's group values, advocates selfless dedication, and opposes forgetting righteousness and profit-seeking. It advocates that righteousness is more important than profit, pays attention to coordinating the mutual relationship between people, advocates respect for people, attaches importance to cultivating life and cultivating morality, which is conducive to the balance of people's mentality, solves the spiritual confusion of modern people, and improves people's cultural quality.

Tea tasting as an artistic accomplishment, pay attention to peace of mind, and harmony is peace and softness. In the tea tasting, the taste, reason, morality, and life are enjoyed, and the beauty of self-cultivation and quiet soul is enjoyed. The highest state of tea tasting is the harmony and unity between man and nature, and between people.

2. Tea culture is a good friend to cope with the challenges of life. In the fierce social competition and market competition environment, intense work, entertainment, complex interpersonal relationships, and all kinds of pressure attached to people are greater. Tea culture activities can relax the mind and body to cope with life's various challenges.

3. The development and inheritance of tea culture is conducive to the construction of a civilized and harmonious society. The economy has gone up, but the culture must not be backward, the social atmosphere must not be polluted, and the morality must not be degenerate and ugly. The development and dissemination of tea culture plays an important role in changing social improper consumption activities, creating spiritual civilization, and promoting social development and progress.

4. The development of tea culture plays an important role in improving people's quality of life and enriching people's spiritual and cultural life. Tea culture is intellectual, interesting and recreational, tasting famous tea, tea sets, refreshments, tea customs, tea art, can give people a kind of beauty enjoyment. The purpose of the tea ceremony is not to drink tea to quench thirst, nor to identify the quality of tea, but to achieve the purpose of pursuing tranquility, cultivating people's aesthetic and moral concepts, and cultivating sentiment through some procedures and rituals.

5. The development and inheritance of tea culture is conducive to promoting openness and promoting international cultural exchanges. The frequent exchanges of international tea culture have made tea culture transcend national boundaries and become the common spiritual wealth of human civilization. Tea itself, as well as the things that surround it, are all art forms that promote a more harmonious life between people and between people and things, and its promotion will surely contribute to the peace and happiness of mankind.

Chinese tea culture is a unique cultural model and norm that has evolved over thousands of years, and is a multi-ethnic, multi-social structure, and multi-level cultural integration system, which is broad and profound, and contains China's political, economic, social and many other aspects. The long historical accumulation makes the Chinese tea culture so deep and dignified, and it is difficult to estimate the heavy weight in the face of its vastness and infinite richness.