Social functions of tea culture

When we understand the various levels of culture and its core parts, we can understand that tea culture is very different from the general food culture, that is, in addition to meeting people's physiological needs, but more importantly to meet people's psychological needs.

So, what are the social functions of tea culture? Many of the aforementioned tea ceremony, the tea virtues of the discussion, including this aspect, that is to say, those tea virtues required to do, is the social function of tea culture, is the contribution of tea culture to society.

The social function of tea culture is mainly manifested in the promotion of traditional virtues, display of culture and art, cultivation, cultivation, promote national unity, social progress and development of economic and trade. Traditional virtues are the good morals that have accumulated over thousands of years and have been respected by people of all generations, and they are the embodiment of national spirit and social customs. Tea culture has the tradition of love for the motherland, selfless dedication, perseverance, modesty and politeness, diligence and thrift and respect for each other.

Chinese tea culture has a significant impact on the world. Tea to meet friends is one of the most extensive social functions of tea culture. Today in the market economy, fierce competition, survival of the fittest, speaking of interests and benefits. But the human condition is more indifferent, interpersonal relations tend to be indifferent.

Tea to educate people is a new period of tea culture bred out of the new social functions. Shanghai children's tea art through their own hands, learning the science of tea, to promote the excellent traditional culture, accept the patriotism education. In the tea toast, show respect for elders, filial piety to parents, and respect for classmates.

The modern role of tea culture

Modern society relies on high technology and information to create more social wealth, material wealth will be more and more, life will be more affluent. In the process of industrialization in some East Asian countries, while absorbing the excellent science and technology and craftsmanship of the West, the decadent cultural values, customs and habits of the West have also eroded into the society, with the consequent tendencies of moral crisis, money worship and extreme individualism. The experience of social development shows that modernization is not the only goal, but a modernized society needs a spiritual civilization that is compatible with it, and needs to explore the spiritual resources of the excellent traditional culture. Tea culture, with its historical, epochal cultural and rational factors, has played and is playing its own positive role in modern society. Tea culture is an elegant culture, which social celebrities and well-known people are happy to participate in. Tea culture is also a popular culture, widely participated by the public. Tea culture covers the whole population and affects the whole society.

Tea culture mainly has these five aspects:

One is the tea culture centered on tea virtues, attaching importance to the value of the human group, advocating selfless dedication, and opposing to see the benefits of forgetting the righteousness and profit-seeking. Advocating righteousness over profit, focusing on the coordination of mutual relations between people, advocating respect for people, and attaching importance to the cultivation of morality, which is conducive to the balance of human mind, solving the spiritual confusion of modern people, and improving the quality of human culture;

The second is that 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, as well as all kinds of dependent 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 went 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 there to change the social improper consumption activities, create spiritual civilization, and promote social progress;

Fourth, it is obvious to improve the quality of people's lives and enrich the role of cultural life.