When it comes to tea rooms, everyone always thinks of the words Japanese tea room and new Chinese tea room. However, when these tea rooms are moved into their own homes, it is often difficult to coordinate with the overall home.

So does a tea room really have a specific style? How can you create a tea room that suits your own home in a small apartment?

As for style, we have mentioned it many times before. It is closely related to the material culture, spiritual culture and cultural landscape of a region. Based on the tea culture, the specific style of the teahouse also exists distinctly.

However, under the guidance of some online media and pictures, it seems that in a dark central hall, with dim lights and thick and heavy solid wood furniture, putting tea sets on it is called a Chinese tea room, and adding tatami mats to the floor Putting a few futons on the table is called a Japanese teahouse.

Obviously, these are very different from the real Chinese and Japanese styles. Chinese style does not mean obscure and dark, and Japanese style does not mean simply adding tatami mats to the floor.

What exactly is Chinese-Japanese style?

▏Chinese-style teahouse▕

Everyone knows that tea culture originated in China and first became popular in the Tang Dynasty. It was mainly influenced by Favored by poets, monks and literati. Therefore, Chinese tea ceremony cannot be separated from the inner influence of Buddhism and culture.

What’s interesting is that on the other hand, China’s tea culture is actually very close to the people. Whether they are literati or laymen, everyone loves to drink tea.

When drinking tea, literati pay attention to tea techniques, tea utensils, tea water, temperature, etc. One way is to be willing to spend time savoring the taste of tea. For ordinary people, drinking tea is to clear away heat and quench thirst, but after drinking it, you can also feel the charm of the tea itself as the fragrance lingers on your lips and teeth after drinking it.

So although the Chinese also value the aesthetics of tea, what they ultimately pursue is the taste of the tea itself.

When it comes to building teahouses, ancient people were more casual and natural. They did not deliberately pursue the bedroom, but paid more attention to the fit between the state of mind and the natural environment.

If you want to understand the Chinese teahouse, you might as well seek inspiration from ancient paintings.

Most ancient people liked to set up tea banquets beside pines, willows, springs and rocks. One table, one stove, and one teapot can be used alone or in a small gathering of three or five people.

Or in the monastery cottage, facing the bamboo forest and banana trees outside the window, then drink tea and listen to the rain.

It can be seen that the Chinese teahouse should be called a seat rather than a teahouse. When drinking tea, it is the aesthetic pursuit of the ancients to emphasize the tea mat rather than the living room, or even give up the living room completely.

▏New Chinese style tea room▕

In recent years, New Chinese style has always been a hot spot in the home furnishing industry.

Maybe many people are vague about the concept of New Chinese Style and don’t understand what is new about it.

The so-called New Chinese Style actually consists of two parts. One is the transformation of traditional Chinese style to make it suitable for modern society; the other is contemporary design based on a full understanding of contemporary Chinese culture.

The former is often more majestic and calm, and the quality of designers varies. Good works are mostly found in luxury houses, while the latter is still innovating and has unlimited future potential.

Japanese-style teahouse

Tea culture was spread to Japan by Chinese monks in the Song Dynasty. Therefore, Japanese tea ceremony culture is closely connected with religion, emphasizing Zen and pursuing white space. , dry and silent. Therefore, many people like Japanese tea ceremony and are obsessed with this Zen feeling.

Different from traditional Chinese tea drinking, which is free and natural, Japan attaches great importance to the use of forms to emphasize and maintain the etiquette and order of tea drinking.

The entrance to Japanese teahouses is much shorter than normal doors, requiring people to walk knee-deep to enter. This unconventional doorway design symbolizes the Japanese teahouse’s indifference to the world, and also shows the humility of tea drinkers. and respect for the owner. On the other hand, the small door allows people to enter and exit and minimizes the impact on indoor light.