Drama Teahouse Teahouse is a paradise for tea lovers, and also a place for people to rest, entertain and communicate. Tracing back to its history is very long. As early as the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, there were shops selling fried tea in towns and villages, which were the primary form of "teahouse". Teahouses in China have a long history. According to records, there were teahouses in the Jin Dynasty. Since ancient times, there have been many names for tea tasting places, and the name of teahouse is more common in the Yangtze River basin. Guangdong and Guangxi are often called tea houses; Beijing and Tianjin are often called tea kiosks. In addition, there are tea houses, tea houses, tea houses, tea houses, tea houses and so on. Teahouses and tea stalls are dedicated to drinking tea. However, compared with tea stalls, teahouses have different business sizes and different ways of drinking tea. Teahouses have fixed places where people can have tea and have a rest. Tea stalls have no fixed place, but are seasonal and mobile, mainly to provide convenience for passers-by to quench their thirst. The following is a rough description of the development and evolution of regional characteristics of contemporary teahouses, taking several regional teahouses with distinctive traditional characteristics as examples. Under the influence of Bashu culture, which is characterized by the closed and static agricultural civilization, Chengdu Teahouse is a type with outstanding regional characteristics. According to historical records, the earliest teahouse in China originated in Sichuan. As early as the early Republic of China, there were 454 teahouses in Chengdu, ranking the highest in Sichuan and the city with the largest number of teahouses in history. Chengdu Teahouse has its own distinctive features in terms of spatial pattern and service mode. Since the reform and opening up, Chengdu Teahouses have undergone considerable changes, and their development has undergone three stages of changes: since the 1951s, the number of teahouses in Chengdu has obviously decreased, but the habit of people soaking in teahouses in Chengdu has not changed much, and the number of tea customers in teahouses has never shrunk. The recovery period of Chengdu Teahouses began in the 1981s. At first, a large number of traditional old teahouses opened their doors to welcome guests. Soon, the number of teahouses recovered to more than 611. In this period, the spatial pattern of Chengdu Teahouses continued the old tradition of "street shop", "temple in the alley", "shed by the river" and "land among trees" in the early teahouses. In the teahouse, the most representative furnishings are bamboo chairs, small square tables, "three-piece" bowls, copper pots and tiger stoves. The waiters who serve in the teahouse are all "Dr. Tea" who mix tea, each with unique skills, which is the most distinctive service form of Chengdu teahouse. In the teahouse, what is provided is a single scented tea. In Sichuan, urban teahouses with commercial functions began in the mid-1991s. Around 1995, a number of teahouses, such as Sentosa, Gengdu Garden and Lvming, opened in Chengdu. In 1996, when Sichuan Tea Culture Association was established in Chengdu, there were nearly 111 modern teahouses in Chengdu. Different from the traditional teahouses, these teahouses entered the room from the open air, instead of continuing the open style of teahouses, they were paved as teahouses, and the interior decoration changed from the simplicity of traditional teahouses to luxury, with western-style furnishings. In addition to French rattan chairs, many teahouses were equipped with pianos. The tea provided by the teahouse is no longer limited to scented tea. At this time, tea performances began to appear in Chengdu. Chengdu has also set up a tea art team to perform in major teahouses, and the style of tea art is prevalent. However, the good times did not last long. In the following two or three years, traditional mahjong swept through almost all Chengdu teahouses, and tea art tended to be silent in teahouses. At the end of the 21th century, with the development of real estate, the introduction of foreign capital and the rise of hotels and restaurants, the development of teahouses in Chengdu began to tend to be diversified. Some theme cultures suitable for teahouse management, such as salt culture, Tibetan culture and stamp collecting culture, have entered the teahouse. At the same time, chess and cards, foot bath, sauna and other business projects have also been introduced into the teahouse. In 2111, Sichuan Tea Culture Association began to plan activities with the theme of tea art and tea culture. Through the tea art competition and teahouse selection, we can explore and popularize tea culture, guide the development of teahouses, resist bad phenomena, and promote the benign development of teahouses. In 2118, the number of teahouses in Chengdu doubled compared with that in 2111, reaching 6,111, of which 31% were teahouses selling tea and nearly 41% were chess teahouses. Under the influence of Lingnan culture, Guangdong Teahouses started early in Guangzhou, which is the representative of teahouses in southern coastal areas. Guangzhou's local characteristics of "mercantilism, openness, compatibility and pluralism" have left a deep imprint on the teahouse. Different from other regions, Guangzhou Teahouses are often called teahouses, and snacks and refreshments are sold upstairs and downstairs in teahouses. The typical feature is that "there is tea in tea and tea in rice", and catering is combined. The embryonic form of contemporary Guangzhou Teahouse is the "Erli Pavilion" in the Qing Dynasty. Its original function was to relax and dine, and to provide guests with a place to stop and chat and eat snacks. People in Guangzhou have always had the custom of drinking tea, especially "drinking morning tea". Since the reform and opening up, with the frequent economic activities and social exchanges, drinking morning tea has become an important part of people's lives in the economically developed coastal areas of Guangdong Province, and the government and many enterprises and units also regard it as a way to receive guests. At the beginning of the reform and opening up, "going into the sea to do business and start a business" was the main theme of Guangzhou people's life. As a traditional dining and leisure place, the teahouse encountered an unprecedented period of "no leisure" for the public. In this "gap period", a music teahouse mainly listening to songs and drinking tea and midnight snack emerged in Guangzhou. In the middle and late 1991s, with the development of economy, people's living standards improved rapidly, and social life showed a diversified trend. Leisure and entertainment became a public expectation after fast-paced work. Traditional tea culture has been paid attention to again, and a number of professional teahouses such as "Tea Paradise" and "Liuhua Tea City" came into being. These teahouses have changed greatly from layout and decoration to background, music, tea cakes and other auxiliary services. The display of purple sand tea sets and traditional calligraphy and painting has become one of the new functions explored by teahouses, and teahouses have been selected as performance venues for various cultural activities. After 2111, all kinds of teahouses in Guangzhou and its surrounding areas have mushroomed, and the number of teahouses has exceeded 1,111, which are widely distributed and dense in parks, lakes, streets, large communities, hotels and fitness and leisure clubs. Many high-standard teahouses are equipped with professional tea artists, violinists and tea critics, and the tea sold covers all kinds of famous teas in Fujian, Guangdong, Yunnan and Zhejiang. The mainstream teahouse in Guangzhou has completely got rid of the traditional management mode of combining catering with tea and become a real teahouse. Since the beginning of the 21th century, the tea house industry in Guangzhou has experienced unprecedented prosperity. The prominent feature of its business model is that traditional tea houses and modern tea houses coexist, and their development gradually diverges, with significant differences in their management connotations and styles. The service items and contents of modern teahouses are increasingly diversified, and tea training is introduced as a business project. In 2112, Guangzhou Liuhua Tea Art City established Guangzhou Liuhua Tea Art Vocational Skills Training Center, and successively held training courses for tea artists and tea critics in cooperation with industry associations to provide professional talents for the tea house industry. However, the traditional teahouse still maintains the business model of "one cup and two pieces" in Guangdong. The main characteristics of Beijing tea culture in Beijing Teahouse are: long history, rich connotation, complex levels and complete functions. Under its influence, Beijing teahouse industry has these characteristics. For a long time, as the political, economic and cultural center of the whole country, Beijing Teahouse has always had the characteristics of diversity. There are not only high-grade tea houses and teahouses with elegant environment, but also popular street tea sheds with big bowls of tea as the main feature. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there have been famous big tea houses, Qing tea houses, book tea houses, tea restaurants, so-called wild tea houses and chess tea houses, and there are many seasonal tea sheds. Teahouse is an important window of Beijing people's social, economic and cultural life. Teahouse culture is an important aspect of Beijing flavor culture. Mr. Lao She's drama Teahouse can help people understand the social customs and people's feelings in Beijing in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. There are many tea drinkers in Beijing, from emperors, nobles, dignitaries to ordinary people, who all have the habit of drinking tea. Naturally, different classes of drinkers have different tea customs, which makes Beijing's tea culture have distinct characteristics of multi-level diversity. Citizen tea culture, literati tea culture and court tea culture are isomorphic to form Beijing tea culture. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, especially the ten-year "Cultural Revolution", great changes have taken place in Beijing's tea culture and teahouse industry. The arrival of the new historical period of reform and development has brought the development of Beijing tea industry into a "golden period". At the beginning of the reform and opening-up, the teahouse popularized by the citizens was the first to be restored. In 1979, the Big Bowl Tea Youth Tea Club in Qianmen opened, which was an outstanding representative. At this time, the teahouses opened one after another continued the function of the early seasonal tea shed. Subsequently, the government departments organized the restoration of the park teahouse that prevailed in the 1931s. During this period, there were less than 11 large-scale teahouses in Beijing and its surrounding areas, with single function and difficult operation. In 1988, Laoshe Teahouse opened, which was a landmark event that Beijing Teahouse industry entered a new stage. On the basis of its predecessor's big bowl of tea, which aimed at quenching the thirst of the public, it improved the service level, increased the content of tea culture, and added a stage to display national traditional culture, which became a representative of the inheritance and innovation of Beijing-style tea culture. Since then, with the introduction of Taiwan Province tea art, Beijing teahouses have started to develop just like teahouses all over the world. Literati tea culture and court tea culture were particularly valued in teahouses in this period. In the early 1991s, the first Five Blessingg Tea House named after "Tea House" in Beijing opened, which changed the simplicity and liveliness of the traditional Beijing-style teahouse, with exquisite decoration and quiet environment. Tea performance became one of the main services of the teahouse. The appearance of tea house makes the style and characteristics of Beijing teahouse more colorful. A large number of teahouses that opened one after another followed this approach. This emerging teahouse was quickly recognized by consumers and became a leisure fashion in Beijing. Generally speaking, it is in good operating condition. After entering the 21th century, the style and form of Beijing Teahouses are more diversified, and the style and characteristics of teahouses from all over the world can be found in Beijing. At the same time, business function and foreign culture are also reflected in Beijing Teahouse. Laoshe Teahouse has become an important place for foreign tourists to learn about China culture with its lively gongs and drums and rich performances. The "Friends come first to respect" which highlights the characteristics of western Hunan, the "Wutong Hall" which mainly promotes business functions, and the "Minghui chayuan" which combines gardens, temples and tea culture all show their charm and attract their target people. Under the influence of Wu and Yue culture, Hangzhou Teahouse is the most developed and advanced representative of the tea house industry in China. In terms of geographical environment and natural resources, the West Lake and the "West Lake"-Longjing Tea and Tiger Running Water are the unique advantages of Hangzhou Teahouse. At the beginning of the founding of New China, the number of teahouses in Hangzhou was less than half that in Chengdu, but the types of teahouses in Hangzhou were richer and the functions were more complete. The service functions and business types of teahouses in contemporary places have basically not exceeded the scope of Hangzhou Teahouses. In 1999, Hangzhou Teahouses began the third round of changes, and brand awareness became the driving force for the development of teahouses in this period. At this time, a large number of new teahouses have emerged, and many old teahouses have been reopened. In the early stage, the investment in the teahouse was obviously increased, the scale was expanded, and the environmental layout was more exquisite. The self-service business model is inheriting the foundation of the original model.