The importance of the tea artist’s own qualities in making tea

Introduction: As a tea artist, you should have high cultural accomplishment, decent behavior and behavior. Tea masters must not only be familiar with tea culture knowledge, but also must master proficient tea making skills. Because tea art performance is an important daily work of tea artists, tea artists must have standardized grade requirements in terms of appearance, behavior and even temperament.

1. The current situation of tea culture in Xuzhou;

Xuzhou is located at the junction of Shandong, Shandong, Henan and Anhui. It is known as the thoroughfare of five provinces. It belongs to the central and eastern region and is a non-tea-producing city. According to Incomplete statistics show that Xuzhou's total tea consumption reached 2 billion in 2013, and there were more than 3,000 teahouses and tea shops in the city. There are endless tea lovers and tea merchants who love tea, study tea, and are good at tasting tea.

In the past, due to the generally low living standards of local people, Xuzhou only had Lao Tongchang Tea Shop and some small tea shops. People’s lives were still subsistence, and most people liked to drink jasmine generously. , jasmine tea, and jasmine tea foam called "high foam". At that time, tea culture had not yet been formed, and people's demand for tea was just to quench their thirst.

Now, with the overall improvement of people's living standards, people are paying more and more attention to health preservation, and their taste in drinking tea has been greatly improved. It has developed from "quenching thirst" to "tasting tea". Longjing, Biluochun, Anji white tea, Wuyi rock tea, Tieguanyin, etc. have become the mainstream of mass consumption, and black tea and Jin Junmei have become the favorites of high-end ladies. They used tea to nourish their health, use tea to nourish their nature, and use tea to enlighten themselves. Tea culture gradually and quietly emerged in Xuzhou, forming an atmosphere of tea culture. But for a big city with a population of nearly 10 million, people do not know enough about tea culture knowledge, which requires some professionals to engage in the promotion of tea culture knowledge. Therefore, tea experts play an important role. How can tea masters better promote tea culture in the process of making tea? This article will use this as an entry point to conduct a superficial analysis and discussion.

2. Discussion of tea culture;

"Talk about Art" in "Chinese Tea Culture Series" points out: Culture, to put it bluntly, is the way of life, and culture permeates life. . To put it simply, tea culture refers to people’s ways and customs of drinking tea, as well as their taste and perception [1]. Tea culture is an integral part of traditional Chinese culture and has a history of thousands of years. It uses tea as a carrier and spreads various cultures through this carrier. It is an organic integration of tea and culture, which includes and embodies the material civilization of a certain period. and spiritual civilization. Tea culture is the combination of tea art and spirit, and expresses the spirit of the tea ceremony through tea art. Thousands of years ago, history has already recorded that Shen Nong tasted hundreds of herbs, encountered seventy-two poisons every day, and solved them when he encountered tea. Shennong discovered the tea tree, tasted the tea leaves, and accurately determined that the tea leaves were rich in medicinal properties. Tea comes from tea, and comes out of its simple medicinal properties. From the primitive herbs to relieve all kinds of poisons to the way of quenching thirst and killing time in ordinary people's homes, after hundreds of years, the medicinal properties of tea are still there, and the medicinal properties have increased to? Psychiatric efficacy?. However, I am afraid even he never thought that thousands of years later, after his death, tea drinking has developed into tea culture, and its spiritual content has spread beyond the basic purpose of curing diseases and saving lives when he discovered tea, and has become a part of traditional Chinese culture. a mainstream.

In today’s society, with the rapid development of material civilization and spiritual civilization, people have injected new connotation and vitality into tea culture. In this new period, the connotation and expression of tea culture are constantly expanding, extending, and Innovation and development, the content is rich and colorful, involving science and technology education, culture and art, medicine and health care, history and archeology, economics and trade, catering and tourism, news and publishing and other subjects and industries, including tea monographs, tea journals, tea and poetry, tea and singing and dancing, tea and novels, tea and art, tea and weddings, tea and sacrifices, tea and Zen, tea and couplets, tea and proverbs, tea anecdotes, tea and stories, tea drinking customs, tea art performances, ceramic tea sets, teahouses, brewing Twenty-one aspects include skills, tea, food and tea therapy, tea expo and tea tourism. In the new era, tea culture has been integrated into the essence of modern science and technology, modern news media and market economy, making the value function of tea culture more significant and its role in modern society further enhanced.

In the new era, tea culture communication methods and forms have shown a trend of large-scale, modernization, socialization and internationalization. Its connotation expanded rapidly, its influence expanded, and it attracted the attention of the world. Our country has a vast territory, a wide variety of tea varieties, and different tea-drinking customs. In addition, the differences in history, culture, life and economy of various places have formed tea cultures with local characteristics. All ethnic groups love to drink tea. Tea is combined with ethnic cultural life to form tea ceremonies, tea art, tea drinking customs and festive weddings with their own ethnic characteristics. Based on ethnic tea drinking methods, various ethnic tea arts are formed through artistic processing and refinement. , more life-like and cultural, showing the diversity of tea drinking and the colorful life interests. Famous teas, famous mountains, famous waters, celebrities, and scenic spots have given birth to regional tea cultures with unique characteristics. The social functions of tea culture are mainly reflected in carrying forward traditional virtues, displaying culture and art, cultivating moral character, cultivating sentiments, promoting national unity, expressing social progress and developing economic and trade. The spirit of the tea ceremony is "harmony, respect, purity, and silence", and its spiritual connotation is modesty and politeness, mutual respect and mutual accommodation, tranquility and self-preservation, and solitude in doing nothing.

The ancient Chinese traditional tea culture is the cradle of tea culture in various countries. It is combined with the history, culture, economy and humanities of various countries and has evolved into the tea culture of many countries. Tea people do not distinguish between national boundaries, races and beliefs. Tea culture can unite tea people all over the world to learn from each other about tea art, conduct academic exchanges and hold economic and trade negotiations with each other in various ways.

The market economy we live in today is fiercely competitive, survival of the fittest, and emphasis on interests and efficiency. But there is no doubt that due to various reasons, interpersonal relationships tend to become indifferent. However, through teahouses and teahouses, or watching and exchanging tea arts, friends can gather together, put down their work, relax their tense nerves, and relax themselves from being imprisoned. mood. ?Stealing a half-day of leisure? It is also a rare thing for friends to gather together in an antique teahouse to chat casually, exchange information, exchange feelings, enhance understanding, communicate friendship, reminisce about life, and regain the fun of enjoying a beautiful life. A winning way of life. In ancient times, there was a saying that "guests come for tea and wine on a cold night". Using tea instead of wine embodies traditional virtues. Tea culture is an elegant culture, and celebrities and celebrities are willing to participate. Tea culture is also a popular culture, with widespread public participation. Tea culture covers all people and affects the entire society and mankind. According to relevant data, residents in more than 100 countries and regions around the world love drinking tea. In some places, tea drinking is promoted as an artistic enjoyment.

3. The professional quality of tea masters;

The article "Tea Ceremony Xuanyou" points out: Tea house is the name of modern tea house, which originated from tea house in Taiwan. In fact, as early as the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, there was a teahouse, which was called Mingpu at that time [2]. Tea masters are full-time technical personnel in the tea industry who have comprehensive qualities such as tea professional knowledge and tea art performance, service, and management skills. In layman's terms, tea art refers to the skills of making and drinking tea. What makes tea connoisseurs better than other non-professionals is that their understanding of tea does not just stay on a perceptual basis, but has a profound rational understanding of it, that is, they have a full understanding of the spirit of tea culture, and tea The focus of culture is tea art.

A gentleman in ancient times was required to have four arts: chess, calligraphy and painting. The four arts are connected. As a disseminator of tea culture or a tea artist, in addition to some basic Chinese studies, you also need to have artistic accomplishment. In the article "Tea People, Tea Matters, Dialectics of Tea Culture", it is written: Anything in the world that can enter the Tao through art, can be played with, can be studied deeply, and can be sublimated into a theory, must have considerable skills, must have A skill that can be mastered must have a way to explore [3]. Tea masters need to have a profound foundation in Chinese studies or a love for Chinese studies. In tea banquet design, some poetic names from Tang poetry and Song lyrics are often used as the title of the proposition. Some copywriting can be reflected in ancient poems and poems in modern style, showing the unique narrative of ancient tea art. The tone of expression can be more ups and downs. Nowadays, the proposition and copywriting of tea art can be written in vernacular. There are many forms of copywriting: modern poetry, prose, etc. to describe it.

In the tea art performance, flower arrangement, incense burning, painting hanging, and tea making are required. The tea ceremony, flower arrangement, incense ceremony, and piano art complement each other. During the performance, paintings need to be hung to set off the atmosphere, so the tea master needs to know what paintings to hang to suit this theme of tea events. Therefore, tea masters need to accumulate art for a long time before they can achieve certain aesthetic requirements.

4. Tea art masters should do a good job in promoting tea culture when making tea;

1. Tea art masters need to be trained to have certain professional qualities before they can To reach the level of a professional tea artist, a tea artist is not synonymous with youth and beauty, but a person with temperament, grace and elegance. Performers can be young or old, male or female. In countries such as Japan, Taiwan, or Singapore and Malay, tea masters are not just a skill, but also a disseminator of culture. Therefore, it is usually older people who perform the interpretation. There are children as young as four or five years old, as well as elderly people in their seventies. Tea masters of each age group perform their performances with a serious and rigorous attitude, bringing together their different understandings and feelings about tea. Bring it to people. The article "Exploring the Historical Coordinates of "Xinyang Red"" pointed out: The national tea culture circle has done a lot of work in the past 20 to 30 years, and our tea art team has also gone abroad many times to perform in European and American countries, including the United States and France. Many Chinese tea culture activity weeks and seminars have achieved good results [4].

2. The tea artist is the disseminator of tea culture, a warm and tasteful profession. In 1999, the Ministry of Labor officially listed "tea artist" as one of the 1,800 occupations in the "Occupational Classification Ceremony of the People's Republic of China" and formulated the "National Occupational Standards for Tea Artists". Nowadays, mid-level and high-level tea artist talents are a hot commodity in the market. Major tea companies, teahouses, and foreign-related hotels regard those with tea artist qualifications as an important factor in the further development of enterprises. Tea artist who have received professional training can often win the trust of consumers. , bringing direct economic benefits to the enterprise. Drinking tea is a material need of life, while tea culture is the enjoyment of spiritual life. It has far-reaching connotations and cultural transcendence. Tea culture is a culture that is both refined and popular. Drinking tea is a cultural accomplishment, an art, and an aesthetic.

3. At present, the various teaching points of tea art masters focus on the techniques, while ignoring the importance of artistic conception. The beauty of techniques is not the true meaning of tea art, and fancy techniques are just to highlight the tea art. The master's technique is beautiful and smooth, but the technique does not represent the art of making tea. Only when flower arrangement, tea banquet decoration, copywriting, hanging paintings, costumes, music, performance demeanor, etc. are integrated into the tea art performance and the audience is led into the aesthetic idea, can it be a real tea art performance. The article "Starting from Japan's "National Skills" and "National Essence" writes: I hope that tea art performances should also take into account indoor and outdoor, crowded and sparse environments to achieve the desired results. Our Chinese tea art can be compared with other sisters. The combination of art forms, because cultural diversity is the driving force for cultural progress and development [5].

4. Tea masters must understand the etiquette of tea art performances and receptions, have a basic understanding of tea and tea culture, and know the brewing skills and techniques of various types of tea. You should also have some understanding of tea customs and etiquette at home and abroad, and you should also know a few simple foreign languages ??for receiving foreign guests. Understand the production techniques of various types of tea. Understand the selection of water, utensils and factors for making various teas. And have a certain understanding of the evaluation factors and comments of each tea type. In the tea art performance, you can accurately describe the appearance and inner quality of the brewed tea, and describe the cultural heritage of each type of tea.

5. Senior tea artists also need to learn to design tea banquets, focusing on the creation of artistic conception of tea art. The creation of artistic conception requires the result of many factors. First, there must be a theme. After having the theme, make a proposition. And make a copy description related to the proposition, and make a corresponding tea banquet design to match the theme. There are several major factors in tea banquet design that must conform to the theme: the bedding items in the banquet and the placement. The selection of utensils, flower pots, hanging paintings and incense burners to create an atmosphere should also be consistent with the theme. Clothing, music, etc. are all indispensable factors in the artistic conception, followed by personal appearance, deportment, performance expression and graceful and smooth technique.

Tea art is a perfect art of life. Only through in-depth research and continuous development and innovation can tea art step off the performance stage, enter thousands of households, and become a healthy, poetic and fashionable way that contemporary people are willing to accept. lifestyle. Only through continuous learning, tea masters can improve their own quality and master more tea culture knowledge, can they further promote tea culture in the process of making tea. ;