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Ancient Chinese tea drinking customs and changes?
China is the hometown of tea, is the origin of tea, in China, tea is known as the "national drink". Chinese people are familiar with tea, up to the emperor and generals, literati, the hundred schools, down to the picker and peddler of bamboo, the common people, all to tea for good." Literati seven treasures, qin, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine and tea", tea through the six arts, is the carrier of China's traditional culture and art.

The beginning of tea culture was generated by the Confucian idea of positive entry into the world began. In the Northern Dynasties of the two Jin Dynasty, some visionary politicians put forward the "tea to raise honesty" to fight against the wind of luxury at that time. Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the world was in turmoil, and the literati were unable to help the world, so they gradually developed a light and simple style. These people talk all day long, there must be something to help, so more exciting feasts, so the initial light family more drinkers. For example: the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove. Later, the development of the light of the wind to the general literati, but can drink all day long not drunk is, after all, a small number of tea can be long drink and always stay sober, so the light of the family turned to good tea. So the late emergence of many tea people.

Chinese tea culture is a unique cultural model and norms evolved over thousands of years of development, is multi-ethnic, multi-social structure, multi-level cultural integration system. Chinese tea culture is profound and profound, encompassing Chinese politics, economy, society, life and other aspects, involving Chinese philosophy, sociology, literature, religion and other disciplines.

After a thousand years of history, the Chinese tea culture, with all its cultural codes, is spread out in front of us. Since China, but also the world's first "Tea Classic" came out, so far, according to incomplete statistics, China's current 2 known ancient tea book has 124 kinds, can be described as a wide range of beautiful. Among them, there are both difficult theoretical monographs, and easy-to-understand popular readings; both rigorous and practical science and technology books, but also to introduce the fascinating cultural readings; both systematic and comprehensive comprehensive works, but also a matter of thematic exposition. There are a large number of canonical documents on tea culture, which are scattered in various general collections, special collections and single-line documents, and in various genres such as poetry, prose, novels, operas, and so on, whose quantity is so large that it is difficult for even the tea books to match it. The long footprints of Chinese tea culture have been printed between the lines of the Chinese pre-Qin canonical books. Although these sporadic records, due to the change of the times, changes in terminology, different understanding, but also in the academic community caused controversy. But experts and scholars unanimously respected, and has an unshakeable position in the world of tea history of the Tang Dynasty Lu Yu "tea scripture", the pre-Qin tea is the first. After the North and South Dynasties, the record of tea gradually increased, especially about the different customs of tea drinking in the North and South, the pursuit of tea anecdotes, with more cultural meaning and value.

The magnificent, magnificent stage of the Tang Dynasty, is the stereotypical period of Chinese tea culture canonical literature.

The Tang Dynasty became the stereotypical period of tea culture literature, which is marked by Lu Yu in the middle of the Tang Dynasty wrote the "Tea Scriptures" came out, China and the world has the first tea monograph. The book of "tea scripture" time is divided, but most scholars believe that engraved in the first year of the Tang Jianzhong (Gong 780 years). The book *** three volumes of ten chapters, only 7,000 words, but a comprehensive and systematic summary of the Tang Dynasty and its previous knowledge and experience of tea, vivid and specific description of the production of tea, tea, tea, words about the meaning of the deepening and improving the deep aesthetics of tea drinking and cultural connotations. After Lu Yu, the Tang Dynasty tea books continue to appear, but most of them are a thematic exposition. In addition, articles about tea also continued to appear. It is worth noting that Tang poetry, as the literature of a generation, also integrated more tea culture content, reflecting a broader picture of life. Not only Lu Yu, Jiao Ran, Lu Tong and other lifelong tea drinkers have a lot of tea poems, even the literary world of great poets Li Bai, Bai Juyi, Pi Rixiu and other tea poems have tea poetry. This style of legacy, the influence of the subsequent.

The following is our group's understanding and analysis of tea:

I. Definition of tea culture Tea is a labor production, a beverage. Tea culture is to tea as a carrier, and through this carrier to spread a variety of culture, is the organic integration of tea and culture , which contains and reflects a certain period of material civilization and spiritual civilization.

Second, the connotation of tea culture Tea culture is an integral part of the Chinese traditional culture, its content is very rich, involving science and technology education, culture and art, medical care, history and archaeology, economy and trade, catering and tourism, and news and publishing and other disciplines and industries, including tea monographs, tea journals, tea and poetry, tea and song and dance, tea and novels, tea and fine arts, tea and weddings, tea and worship, tea and Zen teachings, tea and couplets, tea and poetry, tea and dance, tea and novels, tea and art, tea and wedding, tea and worship, tea and Zen teaching, tea and couplets, tea and Zen teaching. Tea and couplets, tea and proverbs, tea, tea and stories, tea drinking customs, tea performances, ceramic tea sets, teahouse teahouse, brewing techniques, tea food tea therapy, tea expo and tea tourism and so on twenty-one aspects.

Third, the tea culture system tea historiography: the origin, discovery and utilization of tea, tea culture formation, development, evolution, characteristics and manifestations;

Tea culture sociology: the impact of tea culture on all aspects of society, social development and progress on the role of tea culture and the relationship between the various strata of society and the culture of tea;

Tea Folklore: history and modernity, the various regions and ethnic groups.

Tea aesthetics: finished tea shape design, famous tea name, tea packaging design and publicity and advertising;

Tea culture communication: international and domestic seminars, tea culture, tea culture show, tea performances, children's tea, tea history and culture exhibition and tea tourism; tea culture function: tea culture resources, characteristics, history of tea culture and tea culture in the new period, the function of tea culture, tea culture on modern society and the tea culture Functions, tea culture of modern society and the role of spiritual civilization building.

Fourth, the characteristics of tea culture historical: the formation and development of tea culture has a very long history. King Wu of Zhou, tea has been used as tribute. Late primitive commune, tea has become an item of goods exchange. Warring States, tea has a certain scale. Pre-qin "poetry" general collection of tea records.

Han Dynasty, tea became a Buddhist "meditation" special tonic. Wei Jin and North and South Dynasties, there has been the wind of drinking tea. Sui Dynasty, universal tea drinking. Tang Dynasty, the tea industry flourished, tea has become "people can not be one day without", the emergence of teahouse, tea banquets, tea, advocating guests to tea. Song Dynasty, popular tea, tribute tea and tea.

The Qing Dynasty, opera into the teahouse, the development of foreign trade in tea. Tea culture is accompanied by the emergence of the commodity economy and the formation of urban culture was born. Historical tea culture focuses on cultural ideology, mainly elegant, focusing on the performance of poetry, calligraphy and painting, tea singing and dancing. Tea culture in the formation and development, the melting of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism philosophical color, and evolved into the rituals and customs of the various ethnic groups, and become a part of the excellent traditional culture and a unique cultural model.

Periodicity: the development of material civilization and spiritual civilization, tea culture has injected new connotations and vitality, in this new period, the connotation and expression of tea culture is constantly expanding, extending, innovation and development. In this new period, tea culture is constantly expanding, extending, innovating and developing in its connotations and manifestations. Tea culture in the new period has dissolved into modern science and technology, modern news media and the essence of market economy, which has made the value and function of tea culture more significant and further enhanced its role in modernized society. The value of tea is the core of tea culture consciousness is further established, international exchanges are increasingly frequent. The ways and forms of tea culture dissemination in the new period show a trend of large-scale, modernization, socialization and internationalization. Its connotation is rapidly expanding, expanding the influence of the world's attention.

Ethnicity: all ethnic groups love tea, tea and national cultural life combined to form their own national characteristics of tea ceremony, tea ceremony, tea ceremony, tea drinking customs and festive weddings, based on the national tea drinking style, the artistic processing and refinement of the formation of the national tea ceremony, more rich in life and culture, showing the diversity of tea drinking and a rich and colorful interest in life. Tibetan, Tujia, Wa, Lahu, Naxi, Kazakh, Xibo, Bao'an, Achang, Brown, De'ang, Geno, Salar, Bai, Kemi and Yugu tea and celebratory weddings, but also fully demonstrates the ethnicity of tea culture.

Regional: famous tea, mountains, water, celebrities, attractions, breeding a distinctive regional tea culture. China's vast area, a wide variety of tea, tea drinking customs are different, coupled with the history, culture, life and economic differences, the formation of tea culture with local characteristics. In the economic and cultural centers of big cities, with their unique advantages and rich connotations, a unique urban tea culture is also formed. Since 1994, Shanghai has held four consecutive International Tea Culture Festival, showing the characteristics and charm of urban tea culture.

International: The ancient Chinese traditional tea culture combined with the history, culture, economy and humanities of various countries, evolved into British tea culture, Japanese tea culture, Korean tea culture, Russian tea culture and Moroccan tea culture, etc. In Britain, tea drinking has become a part of life. In Britain, tea drinking has become a part of life, and it is a kind of etiquette for the British to show their gentlemanly style, as well as an indispensable program in the life of the Queen of England and a necessary ritual in major social activities. The Japanese tea ceremony originated from China. The Japanese Tea Ceremony has a strong Japanese national flavor and has formed a unique tea ceremony system, schools and rituals. Koreans believe that tea culture is the root of Korean national culture, May 24 every year for the National Tea Day. Chinese tea culture is the cradle of tea culture. Tea people regardless of borders, races and beliefs, tea culture can unite the world's tea people, tea, academic exchanges and economic and trade talks.

Fifth, the social function of tea culture is mainly manifested in the promotion of traditional virtues, display of culture and art, cultivation, cultivation, promotion of national unity, social progress and development of economic and trade and so on. Traditional virtues are the good morals that have accumulated over thousands of years and have been respected by people of all generations, and are the embodiment of national spirit and social customs. The traditions of tea culture include love for the motherland, selflessness, perseverance, modesty, courtesy, diligence, thrift and mutual respect. Mr. Wu Juanong and Hunan Liu Xian and, for the cause of tea and dedication, both patriotic, but also an outstanding representative of contemporary tea.

The role of tea culture on the modern society has five main aspects:

First, tea culture is centered on virtue, attaching importance to the value of human groups, advocating selfless dedication, and opposing to see the benefits of forgetting righteousness and profit-seeking. Advocating righteousness over profit, focusing on the coordination of mutual relations between people, advocating respect for others, and attaching importance to cultivating virtue, which is conducive to a balanced state of mind, solving the spiritual confusion of modern people, and improving the quality of human culture;

Secondly, the tea culture is a beneficial friend to cope with the challenges of life. In the fierce social competition, market competition, intense work, socializing, complex interpersonal relationships, and all kinds of dependence on people's body pressure is not light. Participation in tea culture, can make the spirit and body and mind to relax a bit to cope with the challenges of life, Hong Kong teahouse of this role is very significant;

Third, is conducive to the construction of community civilization . The economy has gone up, but the culture can not lag behind, the social atmosphere can not be dirty, morality can not be degraded and ugly. The spread of tea culture after the reform and opening up shows that tea culture is to change the social improper consumption activities, create spiritual civilization, and promote social progress;

Fourth, to improve people's quality of life, enrich the role of cultural life is obvious. Tea culture has knowledge, fun and recreation, tasting tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea and tea. Zhabei District, Shanghai held four consecutive International Tea Culture Festival, expanding the Zhabei District internal and external visibility, Zhabei District, the four sets of team unanimously decided that the Tea Culture Festival should be held, and investment in Zhabei Park to build tea culture attractions, with a view to building a Tea Culture Grand View Garden.

In the Chinese tea culture is increasingly being attached importance to the Chinese tea culture activities are increasing, the Chinese tea culture is spreading more and more strong today, for the tea culture canonical literature to make "non-good that is, evil" absolute judgment or "both the advantages and disadvantages of" the so-called dialectical judgment can not help but flow in the skin. Once the culture has been accumulated in writing, it contains the rationality of the universal welcome over time and space. Tea culture canonical literature is the same, its full significance and full value, it is impossible to a certain period of time a model of judgment to define. Therefore, what we affirm may happen to be what our predecessors denied, and what we despise today may be revered by us in the future.

In the vast history of Chinese civilization, the Chinese tea culture canonical literature of the flow of wide and narrow, sometimes urgent and slow. However, we make a far-reaching tracing, not only for the sake of hanging, not only for the sake of nostalgia, but also for the sake of today and the future. Stepping on the end of the 21st century and the beginning of the future century, our contemplation is derived from this sense of historical mission.

History comes to today, and today goes to the future!

The bounty of tea culture will eventually be showered on the earth!

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