China is the birthplace of tea ceremony, which has a history of thousands of years in China. Do you know what should be paid attention to in China tea ceremony etiquette? Today, I will introduce you to tea ceremony etiquette and tell you what is the correct tea drinking posture. Let's take a look at it with interested tea friends.

What is the correct drinking posture? 1 1, drinking posture

sitting position

When drinking tea, the tea drinker should sit in the middle of the stool or chair, not just on the edge of the stool; Keep your body center of gravity stable, and keep your legs and knees together. Seen from the front, the legs are closed. Women can put their hands on their legs or put their left hands on their right hands. Men should put their hands on their legs.

When drinking tea, men and women are not allowed to separate their legs, cross their legs, put their hands on their chests, hold their chests or lie prone on the coffee table. When drinking tea on your knees, women had better not wear skirts. After sitting down, you need to sit with your heels straight and not move.

The posture of serving tea

When serving tea to the guests, we need to kneel on one leg and bend the left knee at right angles to the left leg. Right leg knees on the ground, toes lightly on the ground, waist straight, shoulders relaxed. Tea can also be served with one leg bent, and the left knee bent against the belly of the right leg, showing a semi-squatting posture. A woman's skirt can't be exposed.

Waiting for tea

When kneeling, you need to kneel on the cushion with your knees together and your feet behind your back. Stay straight from the waist up, with your hands crossed on your legs. You can sit cross-legged with your hands on your knees. Men use this posture more, and women need to wear pants instead of skirts when using it.

standing position

Legs together, body upright, eyes staring at the front calmly, shoulders relaxed, hands drooping naturally, women can naturally put their hands in front of their abdomen (hands crossed and overlapped, left hand down). Male legs slightly apart, tall and straight. After standing, the man is very straight; After a woman stands, there is a clear curve on her side.

attitude

Both men and women need to walk softly, with their feet in a line, their hands not swaying, and their hands holding cups are parallel to the ground and cannot shake. Women can't hear the sound of soles when they walk, and neither men nor women can move too much when they walk. If you face the guests sideways, you need to turn your body straight. If two people face to face, you need to let the guests go first.

Women's walking posture is based on standing posture. When walking, they move their feet, exert their strength with their legs, and keep their upper bodies still. Relax your shoulders and look straight ahead. Men's walking posture is also subject to standing posture, and the upper body remains motionless. When turning, turn right with your right foot first and left with your left foot first. When you turn around, take two steps back in front of the guests before turning around.

Second, drinking tea also pays attention to four time periods. Never drink tea.

Fasting time

Because tea contains caffeine and other alkaloids, drinking tea on an empty stomach is easy to make the intestine absorb too much caffeine, which will cause some people to have hyperthyroidism symptoms such as palpitation, dizziness, weakness of hands and feet and trance. People who don't drink tea often, especially those who drink tea on an empty stomach in the morning, are more likely to have the above symptoms.

It's called being drunk. Once you get drunk, you can take candy or drink some sugar water to relieve it. Compared with young people, the stomach of the elderly is more fragile, and middle-aged and elderly people with gastric and duodenal ulcers are even less suitable for drinking tea on an empty stomach, especially strong tea. Because too much tannic acid will stimulate the gastrointestinal mucosa, leading to aggravation of the disease, and some will also cause indigestion or constipation.

When drunk

Tea has the function of exciting the nerve center, and drinking strong tea after drunkenness will increase the burden on the heart. For the elderly with poor heart and kidney function, it is especially forbidden to drink a lot of strong tea after drinking; Eating a lot of fruit or sipping vinegar can be used to speed up human metabolism and relieve drunkenness.

Before going to bed

Theophylline and other substances in tea have obvious exciting effect on the central nervous system after being absorbed by the human body. Drinking tea will excite the spirit, affect sleep and even lead to insomnia, especially the newly picked green tea, which has a more obvious effect. Moreover, tea has diuretic effect, and drinking tea before going to bed can easily make the elderly urinate frequently at night, affecting the quality of sleep.

During medication

Some elderly people with chronic diseases need to take medicine for a long time, and many drugs should not drink tea during taking. Such as sedative and hypnotic drugs and antiarrhythmic drugs. Theophylline can reduce the analgesic effect of some drugs, so it is not advisable to drink tea when taking analgesic drugs. It can be said that poor tea drinking not only fails to play a health care role, but also may lead to stomach cold diarrhea, insomnia and other adverse effects.

After reading the above introduction, do you know more about tea ceremony etiquette? Drinking tea has many benefits. We can drink tea in our daily life to keep healthy, but we should pay attention to the relevant precautions when drinking tea. Sometimes it is not suitable for drinking tea. I hope today's introduction will be helpful to everyone.

What is the correct posture for drinking tea? 2. Tea etiquette story:

The story I'm telling you here today is familiar to people who know how to drink tea, and it is also the origin of the "hand-tapping ceremony" or "finger-tapping ceremony".

Legend 1: Emperor Qianlong came to Songjiang traveling incognito and took two eunuchs to a teahouse for tea. The owner of the tea shop raised a mouthful of long-billed tea to make tea and picked up the teacup. The teapot was poured three times in a row, and there happened to be a shallow cup in the teacup, and no water overflowed from it.

Emperor Qianlong didn't know what it meant, so he asked, "Boss, why don't you pour tea three times?" The boss smiled and replied, "guest officer, this is the rule of our teahouse." This is called' Phoenix Three Nods'. " Hearing this, Emperor Qianlong grabbed the boss's water crane and picked up the teacup, trying to imitate the Phoenix Three Nods.

This cup belongs to the eunuch. The emperor poured tea for the eunuch. This is not a gift. In the palace, eunuchs should kneel down and shout three times, long live, long live. But revealing your identity in this messy teahouse and restaurant is a matter of life and death! Of course, eunuchs are not stupid. They just use their quick wits to knock on the table with their fingers, which means "knocking hands" rather than "kowtowing". This action of "knocking by hand" has spread to this day, expressing gratitude to others for offering tea.

Legend 2: Gan Long went to a teahouse for tea while traveling incognito. The local county magistrate accidentally learned of this situation and went to the teahouse incognito to escort him, fearing that something would be too much for him. When I arrived at the teahouse, I sat in the last seat opposite the emperor. The emperor knew it well and did not expose it. He has heard his name for a long time, pretending to say hello.

The emperor is the master, and it is inevitable to bring a teapot to pour tea for the magistrate. The magistrate was frightened, but it was not good to kneel on the ground immediately to thank the Lord for his kindness. So he had a brainwave, bent his index finger, middle finger and ring finger, tapped on the table three times, and took the right to perform the ceremony of three kneeling and nine knocking. So this custom has been handed down.

Nowadays, many people who drink tea know etiquette. But people who know the tea ceremony will know each other's "depth" when they look at this "finger-hugging ceremony". You see, some people casually put out two fingers and click twice, some put their thumbs, forefinger and middle finger together and peck like a chicken pecking rice, and some "grind" the desktop with forefinger and middle finger ... Wang Siqi, a etiquette lecturer, said that the formal fist-clenching ceremony (a gift for a specific guest) is like this:

Make a fist with your right hand, because it is a gift, even a left-handed person should use his right hand. Point the tip of thumb to the second knuckle of index finger, straighten the flexed index finger and middle finger, and tap the surface of the second knuckle of index finger and middle finger on the table in front of you for three times, remember! ! !

Note: from the side, the index finger and middle finger are like the legs of a kneeling person. Stand up and click with your second finger, which means "three kneeling and nine knocking". Nowadays, no one intends to kneel down to anyone who respects or condescends, but you can really see the guests' tea ceremony skills from the "finger-hugging ceremony". In addition, every time the host makes tea for the guests, the guests have to give a "finger-buttoning ceremony" as a return gift.

Etiquette during tea drinking:

First of all, before drinking tea.

Seats: Few people know the status of guest seats now. Although the tea ceremony pays attention to saying that the host and guest follow, but there are more people drinking tea, it is natural to follow this principle. When facing the host, the left hand side of the host is respect! Clockwise rotation, from respect to inferiority, until the owner's right hand side, regardless of the form of the coffee table, this is an immutable iron law.

The order of ranking first is: old people, middle-aged people and people older than themselves. Among them, those who respect teachers and have little age difference will give priority to women.

There is also a special rule on the seat: it is forbidden to sit face to face, that is, sit face to face with the host! Even if it's just you and the host, don't sit in opposite positions. A polite guest should be in a humble position on the host's right. Many people are inevitably on the opposite side. Children should sit in this position.

The first etiquette: the most important etiquette for guests is to return the gift, also called return the gift! The so-called first gift is that the host takes the first sip of tea and asks you to taste it, which is the first gift for the guests.

Formal, formal guests return the gift for the first time like this: when they get up, men and women clench their fists, bend over, sit down, hold the cups in their hands (or hold them in their hands), smell the fragrance first, then slowly replenish a mouthful of tea, put down the cups and praise the host (or tea art, tea fragrance or something).

Note: Fist-huggers, with their right hands clenched and their left hands wrapped, are above the martial arts films in today's TV dramas, and most of them are quite standardized. If you put your hands together, put your palms together. Bow, bow. The lower you bow, the more you respect your master. For the host, elder or younger generation, bow at least 45 degrees.

Second, drink tea.

In the process of drinking tea, guests are the most important. In return, etiquette means snapping your fingers, also called bowing down. Everyone already knows the reason for this etiquette: One day, Gan Long, traveling incognito, somehow picked up a teapot to pour tea for Ji Xiaolan, Fu Heng and others. Everyone was frightened, and the feeling be nasty under, Ji Xiaolan buckled the table with one hand to salute.

Also, don't talk about sex on the coffee table, or tea will be sour. Don't "gulp" or "brighten the bottom of the cup" when drinking tea. There is a difference between us who drink tea and those who drink.

Smoking is forbidden when drinking tea. There is nothing you can do. After drinking five bubbles, you should also ask the owner's opinion, and you can smoke only after obtaining the consent. Smoking while sitting down is considered impolite! Never spit out the first sip of tea soup in front of the host! This is a great faux pas, even the beginning of provocation.

Main points of tea ceremony etiquette:

China is the hometown of tea, with a long history of tea cultivation, strict tea worship etiquette and peculiar tea drinking customs. Tea drinking in China has a history of more than 4,700 years since the Shennong era. The tea ceremony is predestined friends, and the specific ancient tea drinking etiquette is as follows:

1, the custom of taking tea as a gift

Our Han compatriots also have various customs of replacing gifts with tea. Hangzhou, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, every long summer, each family cooks new tea and gives it to relatives and friends with all kinds of fine fruits, which is called seven teas. This custom is to put two olives or kumquat in a teacup, which means good luck in the Spring Festival.

It is very important to taste tea and dress.

Tea is calm and peaceful by nature. Therefore, the etiquette of tea tasting requires neat and generous dress, and women should avoid heavy makeup and bold exposure. Men should also avoid strange shapes, such as long hair and beggar clothes.

3. Pay attention to drinking tea.

Guests come to offer tea, which is the earliest traditional virtue and etiquette of Han compatriots in China. Until now, guests always make a cup of fragrant tea when they get home. Celebrations, but also like to entertain with refreshments. Tea party is simple, economical, elegant and solemn. The so-called friendship between gentlemen is as light as water, and it also refers to tea with pleasant fragrance.

4. Tea culture of engagement between men and women

Folk men and women are engaged with tea as a gift, and the woman accepts the man's betrothal gift, orders tea or tea, some of which are called tea collection, and there is a proverb that they don't eat two teas. At the same time, the etiquette of the whole marriage is always called three teas and six rituals. This is the most respectful etiquette. Of course, these customs are gone now, but the ceremony of offering tea at the wedding is still a habit.

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