Tea flourished in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty, how popular was it during the

Almost every family will have it, because tea has the effect of curing diseases, Lu Yu of the Tang Dynasty pointed out in the "Book of Tea": "Tea is drinking, originating from Shennong's family, smelling in Lu Zhougong." ”

It is sought after by many people and is an indispensable thing every day, and the whole country has a soft spot for tea.

Tea flourished in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty". Tea was discovered by Emperor Yan Shennong, and it is known to people during the reign of the Duke of Lu and Zhou (Zhou Dynasty), and it (was widely used) arose in the Tang Dynasty and prevailed in the Song Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty was an important period for the great development of tea culture.

The development of the tribute tea craft and the tea addiction of the royal family and the upper class of society made the style of tea drinking more popular. Unlike the Tang Dynasty cake tea, the Song Dynasty tribute tea, the Dragon and Phoenix Tuan Tea, was made from a model engraved with a dragon and phoenix pattern. The harvesting technique is also more refined and exquisite.

Zhao Ji of Song Huizong also conducted in-depth research on tea, and wrote a tea monograph "Daguan Tea Treatise", which has a detailed discussion on the production, cooking and quality of tea, and also promoted the prevalence of tea drinking. Tea has become a necessity in people's daily lives.

The forms of tea that began to appear in the Song Dynasty include slice tea, loose tea, and flower tea.

1. Slice tea, because it is autoclaved into pieces, it is called slice tea; Because the surface of the tea is coated with a layer of wax, it is also called wax noodle tea and wax tea. Also known as "Tuan Cha", "Cake Tea", "Tuan Cake Tea", it is a dough or cake-shaped tea in the Tang and Song dynasties.

2. The shape of loose tea before being pressed is scattered and one by one, which is essentially a large-leaf green tea similar to green tea. Loose tea can be directly taken out and brewed without decomposition with a tea knife, and there are grades in loose tea, usually the higher the grade of loose tea buds, the more delicate the texture of the raw materials.

3. Flower tea does not belong to the six major tea categories, it is a kind of reprocessed tea, usually made of herbaceous flowers, leaves or fruits as the basic raw materials, and then uses the characteristics of tea that are easy to absorb other odors.

The way of drinking tea in the Song Dynasty

The Song Dynasty is a tea and tea bucket as the characteristics of the way of drinking, the Song Dynasty tea and tea fighting tea drinking method corresponding, in the tasting of color, fragrance, taste, shape, tea needs a series of utensils that can give full play to the characteristics of tea, the tea set of the Song Dynasty also developed with the development. Each type of tea has its own corresponding tea set.

In the early Northern Song Dynasty, sencha was not mainly consumed, but the method has been simplified compared with sencha, such as moxibustion tea before tea milling, which was not as emphasized as in the Tang Dynasty, and advocated depending on the tea. Later, the use of sencha to drink tea was gradually abandoned by the Song people, and the method of ordering tea became the main method at that time.

The method of ordering tea in the Song Dynasty was developed compared to that of the Tang Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, the method of "ordering tea" was to put the finely ground tea in the tea cup, first pour in a little boiling water to brew, mix the tea powder evenly, and then slowly pour boiling water, use a tea whisk (special bamboo silk broom) to whisk, mix the tea evenly and then drink.

Tea drinking in the Song Dynasty paid attention to appreciating the original taste of the tea itself, and no longer added spices and condiments to the tea soup, which was the beginning of entering the way of drinking.

In the Song Dynasty, in order to evaluate the quality of tea, the wind of "tea fighting" arose, which was most prevalent in northern Fujian at that time. The Song Dynasty poet Fan Zhongyan's "Song of Engaging in Tea Fighting with Zhang Min" vividly describes the grand occasion of tea fighting at that time: "Beiyuan will offer the Son of Heaven in the future, and the heroes under the forest will fight for beauty first." If you can't climb to the immortals, you will be shameless if you lose and surrender.

At the same time, tea fighting has also promoted the increasingly perfect way of drinking tea. In order to achieve the best effect of tea fighting, the Song Dynasty paid more attention to the selection of tea sets. The Tang people admired the Yue kiln celadon tea bowl, while the Song people admired the black glaze to build the tea bowl, such as the bucket tea cup (there are water marks on the inner wall of the bowl).

Because the black glaze is suitable for tea fighting, it is favored by tea fighters.

It is because the people in the Song Dynasty reformed the tea drinking culture of the Tang Dynasty, and many people in the Song Dynasty were leisurely and elegant and could have time to taste tea.

It is because this culture began to rise in the Tang Dynasty, and then slowly developed into the Song Dynasty, a hidden culture became more and more extensive and profound, and even the culture of ordering tea appeared. A lot of celebrities are vying to follow suit.

During the Song Dynasty, literati and writers liked to taste tea, and the economic and cultural development at that time was unprecedentedly prosperous, which made the tea ceremony have been unprecedentedly developed, and tea paintings and tea operas appeared.

Because the rise and fall of tea is the same as that of other items. The reason why tea flourished in the Song Dynasty was because of the economy. The economic level of the Song Dynasty was relatively high, and there were many street businesses, and the development was also very good, and there were no restrictions, so the tea culture was also developed.

In our country, it is said that tea is "originated in Shennong, smelled in Lu Zhougong, flourished in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty".

The history of tea development in China.

Throughout the history of Chinese tea, Chinese tea has gone through several stages of medicinal use, edible, wine and beverages: Let's experience the changes in the history of tea.

The legend of tea: Legend has it that in 2737 B.C., Shennong went up the mountain to collect medicine, and on that day our medical ancestors tasted it while picking, and unknowingly tasted nearly 72 kinds of Chinese herbs. The poison in the herbs made him feel dry and very uncomfortable, so he sat down under the tree to rest, at this moment, a few leaves fell in front of him, with his usual habits, he picked up the leaves and put them in his mouth to try, but to his surprise, after a while Shennong began to feel comfortable, his mouth was not thirsty, his whole body seemed to be relaxed all of a sudden, and the leaves in his mouth also left him a mouthful of fragrance...

..According to records, tea was first used as a medicine in China. In our country, it is said that tea is "originated in Shennong, smelled in Lu Zhougong, flourished in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty" tea was originally used as medicine, and later developed into a drink.

The "Shennong's Materia Medica" of the Eastern Han Dynasty recorded the above story: "Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, encountered seventy-two poisons every day, and was relieved of the branch".

Tang Dynasty period: tea was mainly flourishing in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, 1. Social environment: its dominant melody is positive, enterprising, and full of self-confidence.

In this favorable social environment, an important figure appeared, Lu Yu, who advocated the Chinese tea ceremony based on the philosophy of "harmony" and laid the foundation. 2. Cultural soil: The cultural and historical background of the Tang Dynasty is manifested in the prosperity of Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism in China, competing with each other, harmonizing with each other and developing together.

In the life of monks and tea affairs, there are such as: (tea for ancestors, tea for the scriptures, tea for health, tea party, writing tea poems) and carefully study the art of making tea branches, which greatly promotes the development of tea culture. Another reason is that the climate at that time was the warmest period, which was conducive to the growth and development of tea, and after the middle of the Tang Dynasty, with the development of the tea industry, tea became a national socio-economic, social culture and an independent culture.

Song Dynasty: After the Tang Dynasty, the Chinese tea ceremony flourished in the Tang Dynasty and reached a lively and extraordinary heyday in the Song Dynasty. The scale and quality of tea production in China reached a new peak during the Song Dynasty.

The development of the theory and practice of the tea ceremony is mainly manifested in three aspects: 1. The "Daguan Tea Treatise" of Song Huizong greatly improved the status of the tea ceremony. The rulers of the Song Dynasty had a special fondness for tea, and the custom of tea in the court strongly promoted the development of tea production and tea culture, so that tea culture ascended to the altar of great dignity, and the tea ceremony became a noble entertainment.

Second, the rise of folk tea fighting. Tea fighting, also known as "tea fighting", is a competition to evaluate the quality of tea. Tea fighting originated in the court of the Tang Dynasty, and became widely popular among the people in the Song Dynasty, and developed into a fashion that princes, nobles and ladies enjoyed tirelessly.

Tea fighting, art competition, water appreciation, and appreciating utensils developed the Chinese tea ceremony from practice, and the art of tea fighting spread to Japan in the late Southern Song Dynasty at the latest. 3. A large number of scribes, tea people, and tea books emerged. There were many famous scribes in the Song Dynasty, such as:

Ding Wei created the dragon and phoenix group tea and wrote three volumes of "Beiyuan Tea Record", the four masters of calligraphy in the Song Dynasty (Su Shi, Cai Xiang, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu), Zhu Xi (1130-1200), the character Yuan Hui, the number of obscure Weng, Jiangxi Wuyuan people spent most of their lives in Wuyi Mountain, Fujian Province, and later generations regarded him as a Confucian master. He sublimated the essence of Jiancha to the philosophical height of "the golden mean" to understand, what is the mean? "The impartial is the middle, the difficult is the mediocre, the middle is the right way in the world, and the mediocre is the most reasonable in the world", "the mediocre is the virtue, and it is the best".

Zhu Zi gave Jiancha, the highest morality of Confucianism, the virtue of the mean, which is his profound understanding and vivid exposition of the Chinese tea ceremony proposed in Lu Yu's "Book of Tea" with "harmony" as the philosophical basis and thrift as the core of morality.

It should be Song.

In addition to tea, there are many items such as silk, porcelain, metalware and so on. Tea was only an important export commodity in the Tang Dynasty, and it was not absolutely dominant. Moreover, the Tang Dynasty used silk as the currency as an intermediary, so the most important thing in the Tang Dynasty was silk.

In the Song Dynasty, tea was the main export commodity, followed by silk and porcelain. In the Song Dynasty, there was a shortage of horses, and the trading with the surrounding ethnic minorities was basically to trade each other's horses with tea, which was the most important "tea and horse market" in the Song Dynasty in ancient times

1. The "rule of Zhenguan" of Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, effectively restored the economy of the Tang Dynasty. As a kind of commodity, tea began in the country.

The internal epidemic gradually began to develop.

2. The Tang Dynasty paid attention to opening up to the outside world and had friendly relations with the surrounding ethnic minorities, and various specialties of our country were able to circulate to the outside world. In China, tea meets people's living needs; In foreign countries, tea has effectively promoted the development of the country's commodity economy. Economic convection makes tea in.

There has been great development both at home and abroad.

3、.The Tang Dynasty had developed transportation, and since Xuanzang traveled west and Jianzhen crossed to the east, there were many roads and far, and they were widely distributed.

4. During the reign of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Lu Yu, a disciple of the imperial examination, wrote the famous book "The Book of Tea", which was greatly appreciated by the masses of the people and the children of bureaucrats. It was also from this time that tea became one of the quintessences of China, Lu Yu.

Therefore, it is also known as the "tea saint".

1. The Anshi Rebellion seriously affected the economy of the north, and the south was relatively stable, and many northerners avoided the chaos and went south, adding labor to the south.

2. The Tang people like to drink tea, and the tea is marketed all over the country, and a large number of tea is grown in many places in the south. The tea tax has also begun to become an important tax in the world.

1.The Tang Dynasty had developed transportation and convenient transportation. This is of great importance to the development of the tea industry.

2.The development of tea also has a lot to do with the development of commerce.

3.The rulers of the Tang Dynasty attached great importance to the development of foreign relations, and had close contacts with the Tang Dynasty, and Silla, Japan, and so on needed the tea industry.

4.The prosperity of the imperial examination system in the Tang Dynasty. The development of Buddhism. As well as the tribute tea and the prohibition of alcohol at that time, it also played a role in promoting the development of the tea industry.

Because the economy of the Tang and Song dynasties was particularly prosperous at that time, and the economic exchanges between various regions were relatively close, so tea was often transported, and eventually the tea culture was widely praised in the Tang and Song dynasties, and Lu Yu invented the drinking of tea, which became prosperous.

The development of the commodity economy in the Song Dynasty promoted the transportation and sales of tea, and there were relevant personnel to summarize the tea, and the book "The Book of Tea" was circulated in the world, and the opening of the Maritime Silk Road in the Song Dynasty provided a broad market for the development of tea.

During the Tang and Song dynasties, the country was rich and the people were strong, everyone lived a relatively wealthy life, tea began to rise, everyone began to like to drink tea and meet friends, and there were many teahouses in the streets and alleys.

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, tea evolved from a medicinal plant to a drink. China is the homeland of tea, and it is the first country in the world to discover tea trees, cultivate tea trees, and use tea leaves. The origin of the tea tree has a history of at least 60,000 or 70,000 years, and tea has been discovered and used by human beings for about four or five thousand years.

The habit of drinking tea had a profound impact on people's lives during the Sui Dynasty. And become a product with neighboring Mongolia **. The Tang Dynasty ushered in the peak of tea development.

In people's daily life, tea has become a more widespread beverage. A large number of tea trees were planted, and the tea culture developed rapidly. The Tang Dynasty was a period of vigorous development of Chinese tea culture.

Tea drinking has not yet become widespread throughout the country. The Anshi Rebellion after the prosperity of the Kaiyuan Dynasty led to serious damage in the north, and the country's economic center was transferred to Nanchang. The temperate climate, abundant rainfall, and fertile soils of the south have been exploited.

The planting area of tea trees has gradually expanded, and it has become the main cash crop in the mountainous areas.

<> Therefore, the tea production area of the Tang Dynasty expanded rapidly, and the maturity of tea-making technology led to the emergence of high-quality famous tea in many production areas. For example, Mongolian top flower, ancient bamboo purple shoots, Hangzhou Lingyin tea. Production areas include Sichuan, Chongqing, Shaanxi, Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Jiangxi, Fujian and Yunnan.

Tea connoisseurs even hold competitions to judge the quality of the tea, including tea leaves, water, and mixtures. Books, poets, and paintings about tea became popular throughout the country, which promoted tea in the Central Plains (middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River) and beyond the Great Wall**. The Song dynasty benefited greatly from the tea tax introduced by the Tang dynasty.

The Book of Tea is the most complete book of tea in ancient China. The history, origin, efficacy, cultivation, production, decoction and drinking of tea are systematically expounded and summarized. The art of drinking tea was discussed.

The integration of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism into the brand of tea drinking has created the spirit of the Chinese tea ceremony. A tea shop under the clouds"Transcript of Fung's Writings"Drink tea"Say. "Since Zou, Qi, Cang, Dai, gradually to the capital, there are many shopkeepers, sencha is sold, regardless of its customs, with money as a drink.

There are also tea pavilions, tea houses, tea houses, tea houses and other facilities for people to drink tea.