Knowledge about tea, cultural knowledge of tea

Green tea is also known as unfermented tea. It is made of suitable tea tree shoots as raw materials, and is made by typical processes such as killing, rolling, and drying. According to its drying and finishing methods, it is generally divided into fried green, roasted, sun-dried and steamed green tea, and green tea has formed the characteristics of "clear soup and green leaves, strong taste astringency".

Green tea is the earliest tea in history, more than 3,000 years ago, and it is also the largest tea in China, and the production areas are mainly distributed in Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi and other provinces.

The representative teas are West Lake Longjing, Xinyang Maojian, and Biluochun.

Black tea is also known as fermented tea. It is made from the new sprouts and leaves of the tea tree suitable for making this product as raw materials, and is refined by typical processes such as withering, rolling, fermentation, and drying. The color of the soup is mainly red, hence the name.

Black tea can be divided into small black tea, gongfu black tea and black broken tea, which is the second largest tea category in China.

Representative teas include Yunnan red and Yixing black tea.

Oolong tea is also known as green tea, semi-fermented tea. It is a tea category with distinctive characteristics among several major tea categories in China. Oolong tea is a combination of green tea and black tea, and its quality is between green tea and black tea, with the strong umami taste of black tea, the fragrance of green tea, and the reputation of green leaves and red borders.

The pharmacological effects of oolong tea are highlighted in the decomposition of fat, bodybuilding and other aspects. In Japan, it is called beauty tea, bodybuilding tea.

The representative teas include Wenshan Baochong Tea, Anxi Tieguanyin, Frozen Oolong Tea, and Wuyi Dahongpao.

The cultural knowledge of tea includes tea ceremony, tea morality, tea spirit, tea couplet, tea painting, tea utensils, etc.

1. Tea ceremony

The tea ceremony is the way to appreciate the beauty of Buyu tea. It is also regarded as a kind of life art of cooking tea and drinking tea, a life etiquette with tea as a medium, and a way of life with tea for self-cultivation. It is a very beneficial ritual of harmony and beauty to cultivate virtues, learn etiquette, and appreciate traditional virtues by making tea, appreciating tea, smelling tea, drinking tea, enhancing friendship, cultivating virtues, learning etiquette, and appreciating traditional virtues.

2. Tea virtue

Tea virtue refers to the virtues of tea itself. The so-called "tea virtue", in short, refers to the moral requirements of tea drinkers. Further, it is to elevate the external expression of tea art to a deep-seated, high-grade philosophical thought category, and pursue the realm of truth, goodness and beauty.

There are eight virtues in tea, which are health, music, sweetness, fragrance, harmony, purity, respect and beauty.

3. The spirit of tea

The spirit of tea generally refers to the spirit of the tea people. Tea people refer to the image, sentiment, demeanor and spiritual outlook of people closely related to tea such as tea scientific research, teaching, production and sales, and the moral demeanor derived from the style of tea trees and tea character.

4. Tea union

Tea couplets, tea shop couplets, tea house couplets, tea culture couplets, tea house couplets, tea house couplets, etc., are all tea couplets. Couplets with tea as the theme have a long history.

5. Tea painting

Tea painting, in the Chinese tea culture has a unique artistic charm of limb and emptiness, favored by the majority of tea people, from the expression of the traditional Chinese ink painting, but from the content of the subdivision, can also be attributed to the literati painting.

6. Tea set

The "tea utensils" referred to by modern people mainly refer to teapots, teacups, teaspoons and other such tea-drinking utensils. The tea set is not only an essential tool for making tea, but also a spiritual enjoyment in the process of tea tasting. Having a set of high-quality tea utensils can make the beauty and quality of tea fully displayed when tasting tea.