How did Chinese tea culture come about?

Lu Xun said: There is no road on the ground, and when there are more people walking, it becomes a road.

There was no tea culture in China, and when there were more people drinking tea, it became a tea culture. There were more people drinking tea, and everyone began to discuss and compare the quality of tea, which made tea culture. Why is there no tea culture in the West?

Because there are few tea drinkers. In addition, in order to improve something, the Chinese added the word culture to the end, which accelerated the formation of tea culture.

There are many coffee drinkers in the West, which has also contributed to the coffee culture, and without coffee in China, there is no coffee culture.

Everyone drank it slowly...

The origin of the Tang Dynasty, I forgot what the book was called.

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.

The origin of tea culture began in the period of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, and then began to sprout in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and there were literati who began to drink tea, and in the Song Dynasty, tea had a huge development, and a professional tea tasting institution was established, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were tea making arts such as fried green and steamed green, which gradually became popular in a large area.

Tea culture gradually flourished in the Song Dynasty, and tea in the Song Dynasty has gradually differentiated into grades, and professional tea tasting institutions have been established among the literati, and tea is not only the patent of princes and nobles, but also the style of tea fighting in the middle and lower classes of society.

Tea culture has a long history in China.

Tea first appeared as a medicinal material, legend has it that in ancient times, Shennong's "Tu" to relieve a hundred poisons, Tu is tea.

Tea has long been in the category of medicinal materials, I don't know when, the ancient Chinese working people invented a tea-making process - sencha method, Tang Dynasty Lu Yu "Tea Classic" detailed record. The Japanese tea ceremony is an example of the sencha method.

Therefore, in the film and television films, it was wrong for the people of the Tang Dynasty to make tea and drink it, and it was a manifestation of no culture.

In the Ming Dynasty, because the sencha method could not be popularized in large quantities among the people, and by the will of Zhu Yuanzhang, a more concise and convenient tea drinking method was developed - the tea brewing method. This is what we often call kung fu tea now.

In the Qing Dynasty, due to the entry of the Manchus, gaiwan tea began to be popular, and rock sugar, red dates and other objects were added to the tea.

After that, the basic stereotype.

After the reform and opening up, European tea bags began to flow into the country.

Branches of other tea cultures.

Japanese Tea Ceremony: Originating from the sencha method of the Tang Dynasty in China, Sen no Rikyu, a famous tea man during the Momoyama period of Azuchi, completed the specification of the Japanese tea ceremony.

Mongolian Milk Tea: A popular dairy product of the Mongolian ethnic group. It is made from brick tea and has a salty taste. Drinking this kind of milk tea is a traditional food custom of the Mongolian people. In addition to quenching thirst, it is also a major way to replenish human nutrition.

Butter tea: Popular in Tibetan areas, butter tea is a medicinal diet made of ghee, brick tea, and salt.

European-style black tea: The tea drinking method passed down by European aristocrats, generally using black tea, adding milk and sugar cubes to the tea, and accompanied by refreshments such as biscuits.

The origin of Chinese tea culture can be traced back to ancient times, and according to legend, the first person to discover that tea can be used as a toxin to remove toxins from the body was Emperor Yan of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, who brought China's tea drinking culture into the medicinal age.

Tea culture originated from the folk at the earliest, when the working people were tired of work, they would pull a few leaves, chew them to refresh their minds, make themselves more spiritual, and slowly developed into a variety of leaves to soak in water, and then a variety of fried and various methods of making tea.

Origin of Chinese Tea Culture:

Tea has been discovered and used by humans for about four to five thousand years, and the use of tea was originally carried out in primitive wild gathering activities.

Lu Yu was the first in his "Book of Tea" to ** the origin of tea, he believes that according to the "Shennong Food Classic", "Tea is served for a long time, which makes people powerful and pleasant" and "Shennong tastes a hundred herbs, encounters twelve poisons every day, and has to solve them." "The tea affair should have started with Shennong, and this statement is currently quite controversial. Academics agree that tea production began in Sichuan.

Tea culture is very important in the life of the Han people. King Wu fell, and tea has been used as a tribute. In the later period of the primitive commune, tea became an item of exchange for goods.

In the Warring States period, tea has a certain scale. The pre-Qin "Book of Songs" collection has a record of tea, and in the Han Dynasty, tea has become a special tonic for Buddhist "zazen".

In the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, there was already a trend of drinking tea; In the Sui Dynasty, the whole people generally drank tea; In the Tang Dynasty, the tea industry flourished, and tea became "no one can live without it for a day", and teahouses, tea banquets, and tea parties appeared, advocating guests to come to serve tea; In the Song Dynasty, it was popular to fight tea, tribute tea and give tea and so on.

Chinese tea culture is the culture of making and drinking tea in 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. Over the past few thousand 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, which belongs to the category of cultural studies.

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.