Origin and development of tea culture:

The development of tea culture in historical records began in the Wei and Jin dynasties. During the period of Wei Jin and North and South Dynasties, the gate system has been formed, not only the emperor, aristocrats convergence into the wind, the general officials and even the scholar to boast of the rich and proud, and more effect of the paste Liang thick flavor. In this case, some insightful people raised the issue of "raising honesty". Thus, the emergence of Lu Na, Huan Wen tea instead of wine.

In Lu Na, Huan Wen, Qi Wu Di, drinking tea is not only to refresh the thirst, it began to produce social functions, become a tea hospitality, used to worship and express a spirit, sentiment means. Drinking tea is not entirely its natural use value for people, but into the spiritual realm, with significant social and cultural functions, the first signs of Chinese tea culture.

Development:

In the Han Dynasty, people began to gradually form a standardized and complex tea drinking process. When people drank tea in the Han Dynasty, they first made the tea into cakes similar to Pu'er tea cakes, and then put the tea cakes on the fire to roast and crisp. Immediately after the tea cake in the pottery pounded. Finally, it was filled with boiling water and flavored with onions and ginger. This unique tea-drinking custom was practiced until the Tang Dynasty.

During the Tang Dynasty, China's tea culture began to flourish. Lu Yu of the Tang Dynasty wrote "Tea Classic" became the world's first tea monograph; coupled with the prevalence of Buddhism, Zen tea values also accelerated the prosperity of tea culture.

The Song Dynasty was an era of the development of Chinese tea culture, but also this era of another kind of tea - tea cream is also gradually prevalent in the royal family. Tea paste first originated in the Spring and Autumn period, to the Song Dynasty tea paste became a royal tribute, Song Huizong's "Daguan tea theory" and even a detailed account of the production method of tea paste. Tea paste with water directly to drink tea than other tea in the Song Dynasty is also much simpler.

By the Ming Dynasty, people began to drink black and black tea due to the invention of fermentation, and tea developed by leaps and bounds.

The Qing Dynasty teahouses began to rise widely, tea began to really become a "national drink". Yongzheng period of the Qing dynasty, the Yongzheng emperor set up an imperial teahouse with jade mountain spring water and pear wood for carbon after 72 days 186 procedures to make tea cream, for the prosperity of the tea culture added a beautiful one.

Knowledge of Chinese Tea Culture

The Tea Ceremony

The Tea Ceremony is the way to appreciate the beauty of tea. Tea ceremony is also regarded as a kind of art of life of cooking and drinking tea, a kind of life etiquette with tea as a medium, and a kind of life style of cultivating oneself with tea. It is through the tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, promote friendship, beauty and morality, learning etiquette, appreciate the traditional virtues, is a very useful and beautiful ceremony.

Tea virtues

Tea virtues refers to the virtues of tea itself. Tea has eight virtues - Kang, Joy, Sweetness, Fragrance, Harmony, Clarity, Respect and Beauty. The concept of "Tea Virtues" has spread from China to Japan and Korea since the Tang Dynasty, enriching the tea culture of these countries.

The spirit of tea (tea ceremony spirit)

Contemporary Chinese tea thought or because of the different positions, or because the object of appeal is different, or because of the difference in philosophy, so the interest is very different, I would like to cite four slightly illustrate the spirit of the tea ceremony in China: China Tea Fellowship Association, "quiet, beautiful"; Republic of China Tea Association, "clear, respect, pleasure, true".