Chinese tea culture has a long history and a profound spirit, which is closely related to the promotion and inheritance of tea culture through tea books. If you want to learn tea well, you must read more books. Join me today and get this book list!
1. "Collection of Ancient Chinese Tea Books" Author: Zhu Zizhen/Shen Dongmei/Zengqin Introduction: This book contains nearly 120 kinds of tea books from all dynasties (including Tang and Five Dynasties, Song and Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties) (including lost editions), which is the largest collection so far
This is the most complete inventory, identification, collection and annotation of Chinese tea book heritage to date.
No more trips to the library!
2. "Tea Fun" Author: Wang Congren Introduction: This book is a "little classic" of tea culture.
It is said to be "small" because it only has 170,000 words; it is said to be "dian" because it covers almost all aspects of tea culture. Tea anecdotes and interesting stories about tea are gurgling out, which is wonderful.
3. Author of "The Book of Tea": Lu Yu Introduction: The spirit of tea has since penetrated the court and society, and penetrated deeply into Chinese poetry, painting, calligraphy, religion, and medicine.
Over the past thousands of years, China has not only accumulated a large amount of material culture about tea, but also a rich spiritual culture about tea.
4. "Tea Matters of Sichuan" Author: Chen Jin Introduction: This book uses pictures and texts to explain the historical reasons for the emergence of Sichuan tea shops from both vertical and horizontal aspects, sort out the context of its formation and development, and display profound humanistic connotations.
The writing is smooth and contains a large number of precious, vivid and detailed pictures, which fully demonstrate the cultural characteristics of Sichuan tea shops and the traditional life of Sichuan people.
5. "The Encyclopedia of Tea" Author: (American) William Ux Introduction: The first encyclopedia of tea from a Western perspective, covering various aspects such as history, technology, science, business, society, art, etc.
It is one of the three major tea book classics in the world, together with Lu Yu's "The Classic of Tea" and Japanese monk Eisai's "Tea and Health Care".
6. "The Beginning of the Tea Ceremony" Author: Original work by Lu Yu/Introduction by Zheng Peikai/Illustrated by Mitu No. 8 Introduction: "The Beginning of the Tea Ceremony" is an alternative explanation of the tea classic "Tea Classic" by Taiwanese professor Zheng Peiji in the form of interjections, with pictures and texts.
To explain the monograph, the vivid images are easy to understand and are very suitable for beginners.
7. "Daguan Tea Theory" Author: Zhao Ji (Huizong of Song Dynasty) Introduction: There are 20 chapters in the book, which provide detailed descriptions of the origin, collection, cooking and testing, quality, and tea fighting customs of steamed green tea in the Northern Song Dynasty.
The "Ordering Tea" section is the essence of the book, and it is a precious historical document that we now use to understand the tea ceremony of the Song Dynasty.
8. "Tea Man Tea Talk" Author: Chen Pingyuan Introduction: The selected authors in this book are essays and essays by 54 modern and contemporary Chinese writers and scholars, including Zhou Zuoren, Lin Yutang, Wang Zengqi, Tang Lusun, Huang Shang, Dong Qiao, Ge Zhaoguang, etc.
***70 essays.
You will always find your "soulmate" among them.
9. "Explanation of Thousand Questions on Chinese Tea Knowledge" Author: Liu Zusheng, Liu Yueyun Introduction: The whole book uses a question and answer method to interpret more than a thousand knowledge points about tea, covering ancient and modern tea culture, tea appreciation, tea
All aspects of health care and tea production knowledge.
10. "Every Day is a Good Day" Author: Noriko Morishita Introduction: This book uses the author's 25 years of tea ceremony learning experience and physical and mental growth to describe in detail the beauty and Zen of the tea ceremony - tea ceremony, tea distribution, bowls
The aesthetics of tea making, passing cups, and clearing the pot.
11. "Twenty-one Lectures on Tea and Tea Culture" Author: Cheng Qikun/Yao Guokun/Zhang Liying Content introduction: A very detailed and in-depth book on tea culture.
This book covers everything from history, classification, utensils, literature, religion, industry, ancient books, customs, etc. It not only comprehensively introduces the historical process of the formation and development of Chinese tea culture, but also discusses its evolution from technique to art from a philosophical level.
The core spirit of Taoism through art.
12. "Ordinary Tea Is Extraordinary" Author: Lin Qingxuan Content introduction: Elegant words, classical artistic conception, and the wisdom of Buddhist Zen.
This is a collection of essays on Zen tea culture. The author seems to talk about it casually, but there is a profound meaning in it.
13. "Essentials for Tasting Tea" Author: (Song Dynasty) Huang Ru Introduction: Huang Ru felt that Lu Yu's "The Book of Tea" neglected to taste Jian'an tea, so he specifically described the identification standards for tea appreciation when drinking tea.
And listed ten shortcomings that make the taste of tea lose its color due to wrong picking and processing methods.
14. "Chinese Tea Culture" Author: Xu Xiaocun Introduction: Tea, as a material beverage, can connect with the spiritual world of the Chinese people and become a spiritual nourishment. "Chinese Tea Culture" is about tea.
A culture formed by the connection between drinks and the spiritual world of the Chinese people.
15. "Research on British Tea Culture from a Multidimensional Perspective" Author: Ma Xiaoli Introduction: The pioneering and innovative significance of this book is self-evident.