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Aesthetic pictures of the tea ceremony

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1) Confucianism and Chinese Tea Ceremony

The basic feature of Confucianism of Confucius, Mencius and Xunshi is an atheistic worldview and a positive outlook on life towards real life. It takes the combination of psychology and ethics as its core and foundation, emphasizing Combining emotions and reason, using reason and restraint, pursuing social and ethical psychological feelings and satisfaction, rather than ascetic sensory suppression. Although tea stimulates and excites people, people are happy but not confused about it, and they are addicted to it and respect it. When drinking tea, you need a peaceful and quiet state of mind, an elegant and simple environment, a harmonious tea lover, and exquisite and coordinated tea sets. It is the traditional etiquette of the Chinese nation to offer tea to guests and treat guests to guests with tea. Respect the king, value courtesy, respect the old and love the young, be honest and thrifty, cultivate virtue, and treat others kindly. Benevolence, justice, propriety and trust are Confucian moral concepts. The golden mean is the Ru family’s creed in life. Liu Zhenliang in the Tang Dynasty taught that tea has ten virtues: tea can dispel depression, tea can drive away sleepiness, tea can drive away disease, tea can nourish qi, tea can taste, tea can teach you, tea can cultivate your body, and tea can help you. Yazhi, express respect with tea, and honor benevolence with tea trees. Among them, the four virtues of self-cultivation, elegance, respect, and courtesy and benevolence are to develop the principle of moderation and coordinate interpersonal relationships. The spirit of Chinese tea ceremony is frugality, purity, harmony, respect and tranquility. That is, being honest, thrifty and simple, having a pure heart, living in harmony, being sincere, and respecting others. These are all consistent with Confucianism. Confucianism has influenced China for more than 2,000 years and has always been the basic principle for our people to treat others and behave in society. This is also an important reason why Confucianism runs through tea culture, always occupies a core position, and determines the development of tea culture.

Tea Ceremony 2), Taoist Thought and Chinese Tea Ceremony

The Tao of Lao and Zhuangzi emphasizes nature, transcendence, passionate expression of emotions and the pursuit of expression of unique personality. Desire for immortality, change and soaring, do not believe in destiny, do not believe in the industry, take life as pleasure, in quiet observation, be quiet and do nothing, sit still and forget the humility, and use simple human nature to naturally fit with the nature of all things. Taoism abstains from drinking and killing, and requires sitting quietly to rest the mind without thinking or worrying. Tea has the power to break sleep, and Taoism cannot do without tea. Taoism was developed in Bashu. During its formation period, the custom of drinking tea in Bashu had been widely spread, so tea became the elixir for immortality. The Western Han Dynasty Hu layman said in "Food Taboo": "Bitter tea, long-term consumption will lead to immortality." Tao Hongjing, a Taoist figure in the Qi and Liang Dynasties in the Southern Dynasties, said in his "Miscellaneous Records": "Ku Tu has lightened his body and changed his bones, just like Dan Qiuzi and Huangshan Qi." Danqiuzi is an immortal. Lu Tong's poem about seven bowls of tea: "You can't eat seven bowls, but you can feel the breeze blowing under your armpits", which illustrates the relationship between tea and Taoism. After drinking seven bowls of tea, you can fly to the sky and transform into an immortal. The Chinese people have this concept of immortality that other ethnic groups do not have. Reflected in tea culture, the spirit of "Lesheng" is unique to the Chinese. Emphasizing nature is a Taoist thought. There are no strict standards for Chinese tea ceremony, and this is why. Because the way of nature is the way of change, the mind is connected with nature, making the nature wonderful, the sound loud, the elephant invisible, the law lawless, and the disorder of life. When drinking tea, you forget the existence of tea. You are happy and self-sufficient. Making tea is not restricted to rules, and drinking tea is not restricted to a specific environment. Everything depends on the situation. One of the basic spirits of the Chinese tea ceremony is purity and blandness, which requires the mind to be free of distracting thoughts, forget about the existence of oneself and the real world, pursue the ethereal dream of bliss, be indifferent to life, and pursue nothing, in order to escape the suffering of the world. This light spirit is derived from Taoist thought. Tea is born between heaven and earth, absorbing the aura of heaven and earth, absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon. It comes from nature. In addition, the water for making tea is spring water, mountain water, and a cup in hand gives people a sense of tranquility. A feeling of dissolving oneself into the beautiful mountains and rivers, where heaven and man are one. Feeling elated. The nature of tea is light and elegant, which is very close to Taoist thought. Therefore, Taoists love tea very much, and planting tea and drinking tea has naturally become a daily pleasure for Taoist priests. At the same time, Taoist priests in Gongguan not only enjoyed drinking tea themselves, but also advocated using tea to entertain guests, and then used tea as offerings for prayers, sacrifices, and fasting.

3) Buddhist Thought and Chinese Tea Ceremony

Due to Buddhist practice, the emphasis is on the five precepts, namely no killing, no stealing, no sexual misconduct, no lying, and no drinking. In addition, Buddhism requires believers to sit in meditation. , sit quietly and rest your mind, without thoughts or worries, and fall into a semi-sleep state. Because tea has the effect of breaking sleep, some monks advocate "replacing wine with tea" to prevent dozing off by drinking tea. Eventually, tea drinking among monks became a common practice, even reaching the point where "tea is the only thing they seek". Due to the popularity of Buddhism, monks took advantage of others and cooked and drank tea everywhere. As a result, people in the world rushed to imitate, and drinking tea became a custom. By the time of the Tang Dynasty, tea drinking had become a matter of selling fried tea instead of just investing money to drink it, regardless of the customs. It can be seen that Buddhism has played a very important role in promoting the development of tea production and tea culture.

Buddhist thought pursues a pure and harmonious state. If all conditions are eliminated externally and there is no reason in the heart, and the heart is like a wall, one can enter the Tao. ?It is a special biography outside the teaching, without establishing words, it points directly to the original heart, and becomes a Buddha after seeing one's nature? ?The Bodhi tree has no tree, and the mirror is not a stand. There is nothing in the beginning, so where can it cause dust?

The essence of Zen is not to rely on anything, not to pursue anything, not to be sluggish by anything, to directly enter the realm of Zen in an absolute state of tranquility, to concentrate on meditation, and to achieve enlightenment and enlightenment. This kind of thought is very similar to the Taoist thought of China's Laozi and Zhuangzi: "Quiet and inactive, the heart is as gray as death". The nature of tea is simple, light and pure, which is similar to the spirit of Buddhism, so it can be accepted by Buddhism. Buddhism plays an indispensable role in promoting the development of tea production and tea culture, and it is bound to define and influence the spiritual connotation of the Chinese tea ceremony. The Chinese tea ceremony pursues purity, tranquility, harmony and emptiness. It requires the mind to be free of distracting thoughts, to concentrate on meditation, to be pure in mind, and to forget about oneself and reality. These tea ceremony spirits originated from Buddhist thought.

Contents of the Tea Ceremony

The subject of Chinese tea culture is people, tea exists as an object of people, and tea exists for people. Chinese tea culture is called the philosophy of beauty. There are five reasons:

1. The roots of Chinese tea culture aesthetics can be traced back to the Pre-Qin Dynasty and the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. The master who laid the theoretical foundation for Chinese classical aesthetics was a great philosopher;

2. Its theoretical foundation is derived from some philosophical propositions;

3. During the development process, Chinese tea culture aesthetics mainly absorbed It has absorbed the philosophical theories of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, and benefited from the promotion of a large number of thinkers and philosophers;

4. Chinese tea culture aesthetics emphasizes the unity of nature and man, and explores the mysteries of the universe from small teapots , savor all the flavors of life from the light tea soup;

5. Chinese tea culture aesthetics has a wide and profound impact on tea people from a philosophical level, especially in terms of way of thinking, aesthetic taste, artistic imagination and personality of formation.

In short, the aesthetic concepts in classical Chinese philosophy sneak into the night with the wind, moistening things silently and nourishing the wonderful flower of Chinese tea culture. In Chinese tea culture, there is not only the round and ethereal beauty of Buddhism, the mysterious and broad-minded beauty of Taoism, and the elegant and implicit beauty of Confucianism.

To sum up, some people have come to the following conclusion:

The development of Chinese tea culture is bottom-up, so the development is characterized by breadth in order to be broad. , so-called: tea culture, and has an indissoluble bond with Confucianism. It can be said that it is unrealistic to separate the study of Chinese tea culture from the Confucian ideological system. It is precisely for this reason that because of the free and unrestrained Chinese literati, Chinese tea culture has shown a state of a hundred flowers blooming and a hundred schools of thought contending. Because in Chinese culture, Taoism is a very sacred and serious matter. Therefore, China only generally refers to tea as "tea culture" or "tea art", but does not dare to talk about "tea ceremony".