Chinese tea culture began with when and how to taste tea

Tea culture is the sum of the material and spiritual wealth related to tea created in the process of social and historical development.

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.

Tea drinking was very common in ancient China. Chinese tea culture has a long history, broad and profound, including not only the material culture level, but also the profound spiritual civilization level. The tea scripture of Lu Yu, the tea saint of the Tang Dynasty, sounded the clarion call of Chinese tea culture in history.

Since then, the spirit of tea has permeated the court and society, penetrating into Chinese poetry, painting, calligraphy, religion, and medicine. For thousands of years, China has not only accumulated a large amount of material culture about tea planting and production, but also accumulated a rich spiritual culture about tea, which is China's unique tea culture and belongs to the category of cultural studies.

Tea culture refers to the cultural characteristics formed in the process of tea drinking activities, including tea ceremony, tea morality, tea spirit, tea couplet, tea book, tea set, tea recipe, tea poem, tea painting, tea science, tea story, tea art and so on.

Tea culture originated in China. China is the homeland of tea, and tea drinking in China is said to have started in the Shennong era, to say the least, for more than 4,700 years. Until now, the Han people still have the custom of replacing gifts with tea.

The preparation of tea by the Han people is diverse: there are smoked bean tea from Taihu Lake, fragrant tea from Suzhou, ginger salt tea from Hunan, Xia Jun tea from Shushan, frozen top tea from Taiwan, Longjing tea from Hangzhou, oolong tea from Fujian, Lu'an melon slices from Lu'an, etc. No.

People in more than 100 countries and regions in the world love to taste tea, and the tea culture of each country is different, each with its own merits; Chinese tea culture reflects the long-standing civilization and etiquette of the Chinese nation. China is the homeland of tea and the birthplace of tea culture.

The discovery and utilization of Chinese tea has a history of more than 4,700 years, and it has been prosperous for a long time and spread all over the world. Tea is the national drink of the Chinese nation, originated in Shennong, smelled in Lu Zhougong, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Song Dynasty, and was popularized in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Chinese tea culture is a combination of Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism, which is a unique one, and is a wonderful flower in Chinese culture!

At the same time, tea has also become the most popular, popular and healthy green drink in the world. Tea integrates heaven, earth and people, and advocates that "the world's tea people are one".

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.