Tea culture is the sum of material wealth and spiritual wealth about tea created in the process of social and historical development. Tea culture takes material as the carrier and reflects clear spiritual content, which is the product of a high degree of harmony between material civilization and spiritual civilization. Tea culture contains a wide range of contents, such as the historical development of tea, the cultural environment in tea areas, tea science and technology, tea, tea sets, tea drinking customs, tea ceremony, tea books, tea paintings, tea poems and other cultural and artistic forms, as well as the spirit of tea ceremony, cha de and the influence of tea on social life.

Tea culture system includes three levels: material culture, institutional culture and spiritual culture:

① The material form of tea culture is represented by tea historical relics, relics, tea books, tea paintings, various famous teas, teahouses, tea sets, tea songs and dances, tea drinking skills and tea performances.

② The spiritual forms of tea culture are cha de, the spirit of tea ceremony, entertaining guests with tea, keeping honest with tea, keeping healthy with tea, and blindly practicing tea.

③ The institutional cultural level of tea culture includes tea policy, tea law, etiquette and customs.

Tea culture plays an important role in individual perfection and even the harmonious development of the whole society.