The way of drinking tea, if the number of people, there are a few kinds of drinking, drinking, drinking and gathering.
What is it like to drink alone? Li Bai's "Drinking Alone Under the Moon" wrote: "A pot of wine between flowers, drinking alone without relatives. I'd like to raise my glass to the moon, and then I'd like to be alone with my friends," he said. The moon does not understand the drink, and the shadow follows me. The moon is my companion for the time being, and I must enjoy myself until spring. I sing to the moon, I dance to the shadows. When I wake up, we have fun together, but when we get drunk, we are scattered. We will be together forever, and we will be together in the clouds and the sky. Wine failed to make the "Drunken Immortal" known as Li Bai serenity and calmness, anti-stimulation of madness, even for the hallucinations driven by the moon and the shadow of the drink, and song and dance. This is the way of wine, wine is a manic thing, can make people hallucinate, lose normal. If Li Bai were to replace wine with tea and drink alone under the moon, would he do so? This will never be the case.
Lu Tong, a poet of the Middle Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem entitled Walking to Thank Meng Jianji for Sending New Tea, which reads:
The sun is five feet high and the sleep is thick, and the generals are beating on the door to frighten the Lord of the Zhou.
Mouth cloud admonition to send letters, white silk oblique seal three seals.
Opening the letter, I saw the face of the counselor, and read the 300 pieces of the moon ball in my hand.
We heard that the New Year has come to the mountains, and the stinging insects are stirring up the spring wind.
The emperor must taste the tea of Yangxian, and the plants dare not blossom first.
The winds of benevolence are dark, and the buds of gold are drawn out before the spring.
The tea is freshly picked and roasted, and then sealed and wrapped, and it is the most refined and the best, and it is not extravagant.
The most important thing is to be able to meet the king, and to be able to go to the house of the mountain.
The door is closed and there are no guests, and the head is covered with a hat and the head is fried. The winds are blowing in the blue clouds, and the white flowers are floating on the surface of the bowl.
One bowl to moisten the throat, two bowls to break the loneliness; three bowls to search the withered intestines, but the text of five thousand volumes. Four bowls of light sweat, life is not peaceful, all to the pores scattered; five bowls of light, six bowls through the immortal spirit; seven bowls can not eat, but feel the two viscera Xi Xi wind. Tang Dynasty tea cakes with molds made of square, round, bird-shaped, palm-shaped, and flake-shaped, written in the poem is one of the tribute tribute tea, moon bud flake-shaped. Yang Xian tea is a famous tea in the Tang Dynasty, many poems in praise of Yang Xian tea. Yangxian is today's Yixing, Yixing to tea and purple ou famous at home and abroad.
"Walking" is one of the best tea poems, if you want to run the tea poetry grand prix, the gold medal winner is not this poem. The whole poem 31 lines, the line is natural and free, one breath, the pleasure of drinking tea is written through and through. The poet is sleeping soundly, excited and grateful to see the tea. Tea has its own a true love, see tea as see friends face. Tea is not ordinary things, is the carrier of feelings. Tea in the king's way: "the son of heaven must taste Yang envy tea, grass dare not blossom first", the king's way and very overbearing. But the crime is not in the tea, tea is elegant. The poet closed the door, tea alone, with a joyful mood to appreciate the steam when the tea, appreciate the tea bowl white soup surface, and a highly sensitive nerve to perceive the effect of drinking tea: a bowl of moistening the throat, the second bowl of refreshing the spirit, three bowls of literature, four bowls of broad-minded, five bowls of light bones, six bowls of hand-eye, seven bowls of even drifting... ...The function of drinking tea is not only to quench the thirst of the body, or high-level spiritual enjoyment: refreshing, enlightening the mind, to clear the guide and ...... the pleasure of it is like going to heaven. This is the way of tea. Tea so that Lu Tong quiet and indifferent, extraordinary, God traveled to fairyland; wine but make Li Bai upside down crazy, Romantic, drunk into the fantasy world. The way of tea and the way of wine is antagonistic and not unified, "tea instead of wine", "drinking tea to relieve the effect of drink" is the victory of the way of tea, and ultimately, the way of tea conquered the way of wine.
Zhang Yuan in 1595 around the time of the "Tea Record" narrative tea experience and insights, Gu Daqu preface said: its hidden in the valley, nothing to do, the day to study and recite the words of the hundred schools of thought. Every time the exposition of the leisure, draw spring boiled tea, in order to enjoy themselves, no time between summer and winter, after thirty years, exhaustion, not to study the tea of the reference not to be. This "hermit" has nothing to do, deep in the mountains, if not to "drink alone to entertain themselves", he can insist on 30 years? I am afraid not. Ancient literati are often books as friends, tea as a companion, "qin, chess, calligraphy and painting" should add a word: "tea". Because of the extensive participation of the literati, more than a thousand years, so that the tea has a strong cultural color.
Lu You's "Night Drawing Well Water to Make Tea" and Yang Wanli's "Boat Mooring in Wujiang River" are both about the fun of drawing water for natural tea, and at the same time expressing their own feelings.
Under the moon in front of the window, sipping tea alone, comforting loneliness, beneficial to the mind, can get the charm of tea, but after all, there is no rich tea drinking interest. I'd like to say that I've got something to say, and I'd like to say that I'd like to say that I'd like to say it to the moon. Speak to the shadow? That want to drink, drink drunk, in order to drift off into a trance, into the imaginary, crazy ideas. Tea is a "realism" drink, the more you drink, the more sober, virtual and real, yin and yang, clear, never blur the boundaries.
If it is a cold winter night, embracing the stove drinking alone, although you can understand the charm of tea, but ultimately some cold. At this moment, an old friend came unexpectedly, can not help but be overjoyed, and then sit on their knees, *** with the boiler and tea, outdoor snow, the house fire jumping, kettle tea drums, white gas curls, the fragrance overflowing, this situation can be into the poem, the scene can be into the picture. Song Dynasty poet Du Lai's "cold night" on the performance of the snowy night to drink tea fun. The original poem is: cold night guests tea as wine, bamboo stove soup boiling fire red. The moon in front of the window is the same as usual, but the plum blossom is different. The author regarded "cold night tea" and "moon in front of the window" and "plum in the snow" as the same elegant thing. Cold night tea with friends ***, is in line with the Ming Feng Kobin in the "Jiaoxian tea paper" in the "tea" of the "nothing", "good guests", "secluded sitting", "poetry", "fine house", "will be mindful of", "appreciation of" and other items. If only to quench the thirst and drink, it is not interesting. Literati is through the tea to cultivate their own, Yiyu nourish calm and elegant, courteous gentleman style.
Three people, three people drinking tea is the meaning of the word "Pin"." Pin" character shape is three "mouth" character composition, is that the three people drinking is the best combination. Drinking alone is too cold, drinking although there is interest, two people talk to each other, as singing duo, either you say is that I sing, not a moment of respite, but the three **** drink added a lot of warmth, open the Dragon Gate Front topics such as stream flow, will not be interrupted abruptly, relatively speaking, but also more leisure and relaxation, that the tea is naturally more flavorful!
Multiple people get together to drink (refers to more than three people) is another scene, such as tea banquets, tea parties, teahouses, tea stalls. Especially the teahouse, south to the north, the dignitaries, peddlers, Zhang Wang Li Zhao, five mixed, tea people come to quench their thirst, and quench their thirst to go, it seems that there is no tea ceremony can be said! But compared to the downtown thoroughfares, compared to the stores and markets, compared to the restaurants and taverns, this is a quiet place. Things gathered, people divided into groups, three or five confidants *** a tea table, can still be quiet downtown sucking tea, get relaxed and leisurely spiritual enjoyment. In particular, the rhythm of modern life is tense, eight hours away from finding a heart teahouse, about one or two good friends, called on a pot of tea, while drinking and chatting, lying on bamboo chairs stilts tripod code, the nerves at once relaxed, feel very comfortable. Although there are many people, but each head of a side of the sky, who does not get in the way of anyone. If you are drinking, boxing, noise ear-splitting, once the drunkenness out of shape, the trouble fighting, not only impede the public **** order, but also detrimental to personal health. To build a civilized city, congregate drinking can not, congregate drinking tea should be strongly encouraged. Drinking tea on the gathering of words is not as good as drinking alone, drinking, drinking, but because of the tea moral noble, is a civilized beverage, its benefits are not comparable to congregate drinking.
The most spectacular scale of drinking is probably the end of the Qing dynasty Tibetan Lamaism a tea party. In the Kharwin Bamu Grand Lama Temple organized a tea party, gathered more than 4,000 monks in all directions, the monk with tea hospitality to all the monks. The tea ceremony is: lama arranged in rows, wearing vestments sitting quietly, solemn, young monks lift out of the tea kettle tea, to be the water boiling into the high-quality brick tea, this tea has been crushed, the value of the 5 brick tea is worth 1 two silver; to be the tea boiled aroma, by the young monks discretionary tea, and divided into Shi to the monks; giver worship ambush on the ground, singing praises; the monk's tea with additional snacks or cow cheese, and together with the tea. The ceremony was completed.
This tea party is said to drink two cups of tea per person, *** 8000 cups, the cost of silver 50 two. This is seen in the second year of Xianfeng (1852) Portuguese clergyman Kuk by the "China Tibet Travels". Similar accounts are also found in the British soldier Charles Bauer wrote the book "Tibetan people".
The Tibetan Lamaist Tea Party of the late Qing Dynasty set at least two world records: first, 4,000 people drinking tea together, and second, the tea kettle was huge.
The ancients believed that drinking tea was a matter of one person getting the spirit, two getting the fun, three getting the flavor, and seven or eight being given the tea. The first three sentences are correct, the last sentence is unfair, should be changed to "many people get benefit", get some of what benefit? A benefit to quench their thirst, the second benefit of a nap, the third benefit of socializing, the fourth benefit of access to information. Today's politics, business, industry and even the civilian population like to get together to drink, tea is today's social "public relations drinks". It is today's literati living in today's information age, to essay on the need to enter the public society, get together to drink is a good place to understand the current situation of today's society of the masses, if the one-flavored effect of the ancients, "drinking alone under the moon", even if the drink to the sky, but also will become an anachronisms, and the era of the segregation of the creative source will be dried up, there is no text can be made. Point to send tea - tea - fighting tea Song Dynasty urban economic prosperity, the tea ceremony to the folk, entertainment development. The tea ceremony developed into a folkloric and entertaining event. The tea ceremony is a folk tea custom, and the tea ceremony is a game of tea ceremony.
Compared with the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty tea more cultural connotations. In terms of ancient tea, the Tang Dynasty, frugal, pragmatic Ming Dynasty, but the Song Dynasty fancy. Song Wu Zimu "dream beam record" Volume 16 "tea house" said: the streets and neighborhoods, have their own tea bottles along the door point tea, or the first day of the new year, such as the case of good and bad things, point to send the neighbors tea, and please send to and from the word. There is also a first-class Street Division Nga Bing Baiji people, to tea point sent to the door store, begging for money, called "dirty tea". Monks and Taoists want to perform the inscription, the first tea sent along the door point, as a step into the body. This text describes the Southern Song Dynasty capital city of Lin'an (Hangzhou) folk tea. The text tells of three cases: one is to carry the tea bottle. Tea bottle is the Song Dynasty tea utensils, Cai Xiang "tea record" cloud: bottle, to be small, easy to wait for the soup; and point tea, note soup has quasi, gold for the top, the earth to silver, iron or porcelain, stone for the. Tea bottle has a mouth and handle, compared to the Tang Dynasty publisher and bowl a step forward. Tea is to the tea soup into the boiling water, at the same time with the "tea brush" "hit brush", that is, with a bamboo brush to stir the thick tea soup, requiring the soup surface flowers and tea marigold side walls do not leave water marks. Carrying a tea bottle shuttle in the streets and neighborhoods probably send a good point of tea, rather than boiling water, because the Song people are not fried water tea, water to "Lianzhu" will be put into the tea powder, and then burned for a while, to the "drum waves" when it became "tea paste", and then injected into the boiling water, you can drink. Tea bottles along the door of the tea, so that neighbors do not have to work, you can immediately enjoy the fun of tea. Cooking tea in the Song Dynasty is not so easy, there is tea and water but also have to be free, it is possible to operate the tea with patience. Along the door to send tea this custom is very beautiful, rich community culture, will be welcomed by the public, as today's citizens welcome fast food in general. Tea bottles are one of the seventy-two lines, professional tea waiter, is it unpaid service? There is no way to prove it.
The tea bottles along the door point to send tea in the "Shuo Wang Day" appears to be the most important, Shuo Day is the first day of the month, Wang Day is the 15th of the month, is the morning and evening of three incense burners to sacrifice to the gods of the family days, tea in the Western Zhou Dynasty has been used as a sacrificial offering, the Southern Song Dynasty, the people of Lin'an, perhaps tea instead of wine, is the ancient style still exists? To be examined. Tea bottles point to send tea to meet the street wedding and funeral events also played a "to and from the language" role, the Northern Song Dynasty Meng Yuan Lao wrote "Tokyo Dreaming Records," Volume V "Folklore" contains: more tea bottles of people, daily neighbors, each other, supporting tea, ask each other about the movement, wherever possible, the house of luck and misfortune, people are all full of doors.
Deng Zhicheng's note: the tea bottle that is, while going to fill the tea and wine people. It is not unusual to see the month of Dan Wang, daily with people to pass the word back and forth, perhaps set of humane molecules. It seems that the tea bottles to use the opportunity to send tea, in the community to pass the information, such as the death of an old man, a young man died, a family married daughter, a family married daughter-in-law, a family birthday, a family housewarming ...... These community events rely on the tea bottles to "pass the word to and fro", and sometimes when the "molecule head", she money to collectively send a gift. Tea bottles point to send tea not only to thousands of households to send tea, but also to send the spirit of tea: to clear guide and. In liaison with the feelings, and the heart of the **** Jinji greatly beneficial.
The Tokyo mentioned above, that is, Kaifeng, then the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty. Tea bottles point to send tea as early as the Northern Song Dynasty has been.
Points to send tea another way is "dirty tea", send tea is "Street Division Nga Bing hundred Division people", the status is not noble, but than the ordinary people is the upstairs pavement sun mat - higher than a gimlet. Just because there is so little power, they will be able to take the opportunity to send tea, knocking the market merchants. Monks and Taoist priests also point to send tea, in order to make good karma, reputation, and take the opportunity to open the "business" (for people to do things), as a step forward.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, there is another point to send tea. Diners boarded the floor seated, there will be running the "bottle offering tea", to be treated as a gift, unique is added to the marigold seasonal flowers to increase the aroma of tea, known as the "point of the flower tea".
Dot send tea is a combination of tea ceremony and folklore, rich in folk colors. Song Dynasty literati, dignitaries, the floating children on the one hand inherited the Tang Dynasty drinking art, but on the other hand, but abandoned the basic spirit of the Tang Dynasty Tea Ceremony, tea into a play tea, tea, tea is their boredom of the creation of the fight.
Split tea game began in the late Northern Song Dynasty, Cai Jing with "Yanfu Palace Qu Banquet Records" describes a thing: the Northern Song Dynasty Xuanhe two years (1120) in December of dibutyl sebacate, Emperor Emperor Huizong called Zaijiajie Prince and other Qu Banquet at the Yanfu Palace, above the banquet, Huizong showed a hand: to make a servant take the tea utensils, personally boiled water and fried tea, injection of soup to hit the whisk, and the techniques of its wonderful in a different way from the general point of the tea, the lamp surface milky white, illusory "sparse stars," the moon. This is a weird and tricky way to make tea. This is the odd and tricky game of tea distribution. Requirements after striking the surface of the soup lines of water veins, colorful tea hues, rich changes in the curling hot air, by the tea man's imagination, the combination of a picture of a hazy picture, like landscape and clouds, like flowers, birds, insects and fish, like the shade of the grass house ...... called "water Danqing". It is said that the monk Fuquan is best at this, he can even tea soup into a poem, if the same time point four, will get four poems, and coherent into a stanza. This tea-distributing expert was so famous that some monks often asked him to perform for their enjoyment. Fuquan proudly chanted: generate the water in the lamp Danqing, skillful efforts to learn not, but laughed at the time Lu Hongjian, fried tea to win a good reputation. This monk thinks highly of himself, not even the tea God Lu Yu to the eye. The social climate is so, it is no wonder that the monk boasted.
Song Dynasty poets chanted tea games have Lu You's "Lin'an spring rain early clearing": "short low diagonal line idle as grass, clear window fine milk play tea", Yang Wanli's "Tanyan seat on the Guanxian tea," the most vividly evocative of the poem:
Share the tea is like a good decoction, decoction does not seem to be a tea trick.
Steam water old Zen get spring sound, Longxing Yuanchun new jade claw.
The two of them are together with the rabbit ou face, weird and strange really good fantasy.
They are like broken flakes traveling in space, and the shadows fall on the cold river, which can be changed in a million ways.
The head of the silver bottle is still under the coccyx high, injection of soup for the word potential whoring Yao. Song people are not satisfied with the actual boil water, hit the whisk, and the tea will be sublimated into a strange incredible artistic creation and art appreciation, from the tea, "divided" out of a not in the history of art art category. The man on the show was quite attained at that time "share tea artist", skillful hands hit the flick, even in the calabash surface to form such a picture: the high sky traveling clouds, floating, floating, wandering; ten thousand trees, the river shadows change, elusive. Pouring bottle point tea, lines of dashing, the surface of the calabash is like a wild grass, the font robust and robust. Let's just call it "tea painting", there are today's abstract paintings, but short-lived; there are today's hazy poetry, but can not be printed in type. The Song people's game of life is not desirable, but their spirituality of art is admirable. Perhaps they lacked the grandeur of the artists of the Tang Dynasty, but their rich imagination and delicate artistic sensibilities were not inferior to those of their predecessors.
The sharing of tea was perhaps too elegant and not popular in the Song Dynasty. It was a social trend for the whole society to fight for tea.
The tea fight is also called "Ming war", "point tea", "point test", is the tea ceremony in the "Jing technology project". The main competition decoction tea, point tea and hit after the whisking effect: a ratio of the color and uniformity of the surface of the tea soup. Soup flower surface to fresh white for the top, like white rice porridge condensed into a block after the surface of the form and color is good, called "cold porridge surface". Tea powder in the tea soup surface distribution uniformity, the formation of "porridge surface corn lines"; two than the soup flower and the marigold wall connection with no water marks. Soup flower close to the wall of the calendars and retreat called "bite calendars", not good; soup in the retreat in the calendars after leaving water marks on the wall of the calendars called "cloud foot lax chaos", also not good. The second one is the most important of the two criteria. The rules of the game is generally three games and two wins, who first appeared in the water marks will be called the loss of "a water". Su Dongpo's poem: "Shaxi Beiyuan strong respectively, the water foot a line who compete first." Another additional criterion is to compare the color, aroma and taste of the tea broth. The color is pure white, greenish white, grayish white, yellowish white. In order to facilitate the comparison of color, the popular color of tea calendars to black is good, the universal use of black rabbit hair Jianjian.
The poems describing the tea fight, such as the Northern Song dynasty chao chongzhi's "fight for the new fight to try to exaggerate the hit whisk, the custom of moving people can be a deep pain," on the one hand, lamented that the world is going down the drain, on the one hand, but also can not be stopped to follow the current, in the "Lu Yuanjun Zai sends the day to note the tea," wrote: "the old man is sick and thirsty, the hands of frying, and hobbies are also from the crowd." The great writer Su Dongpo was not happy, "West River Moon" word chanting: Dragon roasting this year's best product. It is a precious spring in the Valley Curtain, and the snow buds and wells are scattered by the immortals, and the descendants of the Miao people come from the North Garden. The soup is cloud-colored and white, and the flowers and milk are light and round; who on earth would dare to compete with each other for the beauty of the red window? After Su Dongpo's embellishment, the tea fight became a poetic and elegant event.
Tea fighting originated in the previous dynasty, the rise of the Song Dynasty, the reason: a developed urban economy due to the Song Dynasty, the rich material life stimulated people to further explore the art of tea, so the tea ceremony socialization, popularization, and become a recreational art. Tea fighting was introduced to Japan, Japanese monks to go to its side of the game of life, given a solemn and serious theme. The almost verbose program was redesigned, thus transforming it into today's Japanese tea ceremony. It has been discussed earlier in this book. Moreover, the Song Dynasty politics do not focus on openness, but rather on "internal repair", the focus of the country's governance on things within the country's borders. Although there were external and internal conflicts, most of the time was "peaceful years". Economic prosperity, social stability, peace and forget about danger, even the emperor Song Huizong also have the leisure to the "Daguan Tea Theory", to tea as a pleasure, not to mention the general public people? Therefore, at that time, as far as the emperors and generals, dignitaries, literati, down to the floating wave of song children, the townspeople, all to fight tea as a good thing.
Points to send tea, tea, fighting tea in the Song Dynasty flourished, the scenery of two or three hundred years. Song died in the Yuan, the Mongols dominated the Central Plains, the nomadic steppe culture has not been able to replace the agricultural culture of the Central Plains, but has been as a flood in the Central Plains, the impact of sweeping some of the land. Mongolians also want to drink tea, but that's because they ate sliced beef and mutton, to be boiled to bitter tea juice to food to go fishy, and do not understand the tea ceremony, tea games such as more not cold. Emperor Kublai did not appreciate the tea ceremony was naturally cold. To the Ming Dynasty tea from tea into tea, tea and other games faded. Tea banquets - tea talk - tea party all three of the above by the "pan-fried tea guests" evolved from the way of gathering and drinking. Tea banquets originated in the Wei and Jin dynasties, the rise of the Tang Dynasty, focusing on banquets; tea talk is a tea talk, focusing on a "talk" word, or "small talk"; tea party is a tea party, focusing on socializing; tea party is a combination of the latter two, has been popular in the country, and for the acceptance of the countries around the world.
Tea is one of the virtues of contact, expression of respect, over time, this quality has evolved into the custom of tea hospitality.
According to legend, the early years of Emperor Shenzong of the Song Dynasty, Su Dongpo as Hangzhou Tongjian, visiting a temple, the old monk did not recognize, coldly said "sit", commanded the small monk a "tea"; a few pleasantries, to see the people who came to the extraordinary temperament, enthusiasm, hospitality upgraded to change the mouth to say "please sit", commanded the small monk "to tea"; Su Dongpo said the identity of the old monk enthusiasm doubled, hospitality and then upgraded to say, busy "please take a seat," commanded the small monk "to tea"; Su Dongpo said the identity of the old monk enthusiasm doubled, hospitality again upgraded to busy said "please sit", and "please sit", and "please sit. He said, "Please take a seat", and instructed the young monk to "offer fragrant tea". Farewell to the old monk for ink, Su Dongpo borrowed the soup below the waving joint ridicule, said: sit, please sit, please sit on the seat; tea, tea, tea, tea. Su Dongpo will be the old monk greatly taunted, and left this ancient famous couplet. To be fair, the old monk in etiquette is not a big mistake. The Buddhist temple is a quiet place, you come and go, to all of us as a guest, offer tea, probably who do not have the patience, the temple will not have so much tea. Just the old monk lascivious, hit in the hands of Su Dongpo, fell into the ancient joke.
This couplet also shows that in China, hospitality to tea as the top, if you do not want to treat everyone the same, can be in the tea on the other affinity. Strangers, to get a cup of tea, also counted on the other side of the landlord's friendship.
If you want to get together with your favorite guests, tea is the best form of banquet. When did the tea banquet start? Some people believe that, when pushed up to the Three Kingdoms, Wu Sun Hao banquets full of civil and military, the Minister Wei Yao "open the back door": "Thea sinensis Thea sinensis to wine", so as not to be forced by the situation of drunkenness half dead. But this is just a small episode of a large banquet, not counting the tea banquet.
It should be said that the tea banquet originated in the Wei, Jin, North and South Dynasties, the rise of the Tang and Song dynasties, the "Jin Zhongxing Book": Lu Na for the Wuxing governor, General Xie An often want to visit the Na. Nak's older brother, Bun, blame Nak nothing to prepare, do not dare to ask, is a private savings dozens of people food. When An arrived, the only thing he set up was tea and fruits. But he then presented him with a feast of delicacies. When An left, Lu Na gave him a forty-pound cane and said, "If you can't honor your uncle, why do you want to defile my career? Lu Na's nephew B俶 for the "tea banquet" unauthorized change to "wine banquet" and received 40 big board, which shows that Lu Na to tea and fruit hospitality has been more than one day, called the "vegetarian industry" must have been insisted on for many years. The Book of Jin has a similar record: Huan Wen for Yangzhou pastor, thrifty, every banquet, only under seven plates of tea and fruit only. Huan Wen is an ancient minister, "feast" only seven plates of tea and fruit. Lu Yu advocated the tea ceremony "fine line of thrift", and Huan Wen set up a tea banquet is consistent with the purpose.
The official record of the tea banquet is found in the Middle Tang Dynasty, "Tea Gleanings" has documented that one of the ten geniuses of the Dali Qian Qi, the word Zhongyi, Wuxing, Tianbao ten years (751), a scholar, had a tea banquet with Zhao Ju, the location was selected in the Bamboo Grove, but not like the "Bamboo Grove Seven Sages," such as the wild drinking, but tea instead of wine, so that they can get together to talk about the dusty heart of the clean, the cicadas chirping about the setting sun. In order to remember this event, he wrote a poem entitled "Tea Banquet with Zhao Ju".
In the Middle Tang Dynasty, Huzhou's purple shoots and Changzhou's Yangxian tea were listed as tribute, especially Guzhu's purple shoots were rated by Lu Yu as the second most famous tea in the world after Mengding. Every year in early spring picking season, the lake, Changzhou two state governors in Guzhu get together, jointly organized tea banquets, invited to gather celebrities and experts to taste tea, to make identification of the new tea. One year, Bai Juyi was invited, due to illness, failed to meet the event, and finally wrote a poem lamenting the event, the title of the poem is "Night Wen Jia Changzhou Cui Huzhou Tea Mountain Tea Mountain Realm Pavilion Feast", Dao is: distantly heard the realm will be the night of tea mountain, bead and green song bells are around the body. Under the plate, the two states are divided into two boundaries, and the lights cooperate in front of a spring. Qing'e's dance should compete with each other, and the purple bamboo shoots taste each other's newness. Sighing at the flowers under the north window, thin yellow wine to the sick sleeper. This tea banquet is not only for mutual friendship, but also for economic cooperation. The two state governors are from the famous tea country, in order to ensure that the reputation of the famous tea, improve the quality of tribute tea, so that the dragon's heart is very happy, have the need to be in a piece of cut and cut and cut. Tea originated in Yunnan-Guizhou, but more famous tea in Jiangnan, which is related to the efforts of Jiangnan tea farmers and local officials to create a famous brand. Although the tea banquet to seek friendship and cooperation and organized, but not boring, can be tea talk - while sipping tea and chatting, can be singing and dancing to help tea. Such a state of affairs, no wonder Bai Juyi to sickly lying in the north window to sigh.
It should also be mentioned is the middle Tang poet Lu Wen, Shandong Tai'an, Zhenyuan fourteen years (798), and Liu Zongyuan, Liu Yuxi is a good friend. He wrote a "March 3rd Tea Banquet Preface", the text said: March 3rd, the day of the Purification of the Purification of drinking. Sons of the discussion to tea and drink instead. Is to set flowers, love the court shade, the wind by people, the sun color to stay happy. Lying on the green mist, sit and climb the flower branches, heard the warbler near the seat and did not fly, red stamen whisk clothes and not scattered. Was ordered to drink fragrant foam, floating vegetal cup, Yin Ning amber color; not drunk, slightly feel clear thinking; although jade dew syrup, no more. Seat right talent Nanyang Zou Zi, Gao Yang Xu Hou, and two or three son of a few moments for the appreciation of the dust, and where not to say poetry carry on. Literati banquets with tea instead of wine, marking a big change in living customs. Needless to say, the tea banquet was a creation of the Chinese literati, and its creators included both those who had joined the civil service and those who had not. This tea banquet chose the time is good, March 3, bright spring, flowers blooming. The environment is good, "lying on the green mist", "sit and climb the flower branches", "hear the warblers near the seat", "red stamens brush clothes", people have returned to nature. Guests are also good, what "Nanyang Zou Zi", "Gao Yang Xu Hou", are honored scholars rather than white men. Tea decoction of good, good tea utensils, tea also drink out of the charm, "not intoxicating, slightly feel clear thinking", just "poetry". This preface is more vivid than Lu Yu's "Tea Classic" to show the Chinese tea ceremony.
The best way to get together and drink tea is to talk, write "tea sparse" of the Ming people Xu Zixian said: guests and friends, not to be staggered drink; at first meeting with the Panjiahui, only to be often entertainment; but the same tone of mind, each other comfortable, clear and eloquent, to get rid of the skeleton, then you can call the children bonfire, discretionary water point soup. Only tea is worthy of "clear speech and eloquence". If you are drinking alcohol, that can only say "wine words", alcohol disruption of the mind, will certainly go off the deep end, lose their minds, illogical, nonsense. Tea is beneficial to the mind, while drinking and talking quite appropriate, serious can also be relaxed can also. In China, there is "after tea", that is to say that some anecdotes have nothing to do with the purpose of the anecdote so that people can relax. British drinking afternoon tea like gossip, so the novelist Fielding said: "love and rumors are the best tea sugar". Friends, something to discuss, or want to talk about a piece, they will be "to my house to drink tea" invited.
The tea banquet is a feast, the tea conversation is a conversation, and the tea party is a social gathering.
The poet Qian Qi's poem "Tea Party with Mr. Lang at Changsun's House" says: "Even with the resting couple, I forgot to return to the home of the talented. The mysterious talk and algae thought, green tea instead of pomegranate flowers. The conical cap is to watch the clouds roll in, and the hair is to be used for the scenery. If Song Qiao meets this, no longer drunk on the flow of Xia. The poet tasted the sweetness of the tea party, while sipping tea, while talking about literature. Tea is good scenery is also good, scenery to help tea. From then on, the literati to tea instead of wine, "no more drunken Liu Xia".
Song dynasty also have tea party. Zhu Yu (yù) "Pingzhou can talk about" Volume I cloud: too students every road tea party, wheeling day in the lecture hall set tea, no one is not there, in order to ask the township news. This kind of tea party with the nature of hometown meeting, to tea knot hometown of the edge, narrative hometown of friendship, exchange of hometown news. Song Wu Zimu "Dream Liang Record" Volume 19 (Social) section said: more east and north of the city of good friends of the Taoist, built tea will be met in the mountains of the temple will be built to set up fasting, but also the God's Christmas Day, to take the edge of the tea set up for the crowd. Monastery for fasting, rich families to tea to help edge, called tea will be, in fact, quite today's "Foundation", the monastery to help tea as a reason to raise funds for religious activities for daily use. To a few "tea money" than the local Qingpi villains extorting for no reason "to ask for a few wine money" I do not know how many times civilized, because of the ten virtues of tea, tea, the image of the good, so the Song Dynasty to the part-time salary of the officials called "tea money", to the waiter's tip is also called "tea money".
Since then, Chinese tea has gone abroad and been westernized. The second chapter of this book has listed the Cuban tea party, and then look at the actual situation of the British tea party. Zhang Deyi "to make the British miscellany": tea party, dancing will be the prevalence of the annual from March to mid-June. This custom from the most ancient, Europa, Asia and America Rica rate of the two continents are all for the rate. Where people store, usually open rooms in the hall to prepare for the event, if you think that the business of the inevitable also. Western humanity is good at luxury, where the rich and powerful like to make friends, are happy to do so. A person's children, to be its growth, although not able to, but also must be reluctant to support, set up a meeting to make friends, so that children get friends with the exchange. Then men can visit women, women can look for men, marrying and gathering rely on this. Because men and women carefully visit, each get what they want, then the intention to get along with the love, rarely for the song of the fall fan. The cost of each meeting, less than a hundred pounds, more than six or seven hundred pounds, or two thousand four hundred and five hundred taels of silver. This custom "most ancient" will not be earlier than the 16th century. 1607 Dutch fleet from Java to Macao to transport green tea, this time is the Ming Wanli 35 years. 1610 transit Europe, 1650 tea drinking style to the British coffee shop. 1657 a British coffee shop imported green tea priced at 6-10 pounds per pound. At that time in the United Kingdom to run a tea party will not save money than the wine party. Tea parties in China were an elegant event for the literati, with talk and poetry as the main content, while the British took it over and turned it into dancing and marriage, due to the different cultural backgrounds. However, in China, tea and marriage have always been linked, and still have the marriage bride price called "tea ceremony" or "under the tea". Although the tea party has been British, but the basic purpose of the tea ceremony has not changed, tea to make friends is one of the virtues of tea.
The tea party is probably the most spectacular or the end of the Qing Dynasty in Tibet, Kawin Bamu Grand Lama Temple of the monks tea party, 4,000 people attended, drank 8,000 cups.
From the tea party, tea talk evolved into the tea party, its interpretation is: a social gathering with refreshments to entertain guests. It is to drink tea and talk. Tea party with its simplicity and popular nationwide. The festive season, the leaders prepared a cup of tea, invited the democratic parties and personages without party affiliation to talk, *** wishing a good time, mutual wishes, leading to a new situation of unity within and outside the party, *** create the four great cause. The Central Committee and the State Council of China **** introduced the Chinese tea ceremony into political life, advocating honesty and anti-corruption, and led a good start. So the tea party replaced the reception, used in all aspects: *** business is the country, entertaining foreign guests, celebrating festivals, academic discussions, business celebrations, signing the foundation stone, recognizing the advanced, send the old to welcome the new ...... and so on and so forth, purity of the social atmosphere, saving a huge amount of money. This wind into foreign countries, by a wide range of popularity, known as "tea cups and teapots spirit". This is enough to show that, even if mankind into the electronic age, the information age, the age of the universe, the Chinese Tea Ceremony is still the most valuable cultural heritage of mankind, is the spiritual wealth of mankind **** with.