Tea history

Tea history
Shen Nong have crystal belly, Dharma eyelids become tea, Chinese tea originated guess: the origin of Chinese people drink tea, and some think that since the ancient times, some believe that in the weeks since, from the Han, Three Kingdoms, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Tang Dynasty The argument also has resulted in widely divergent views of the main reasons is because before the Tang Dynasty no "tea" word, but only "Tu" word records until after tea, Lu Yu, author of a square will be a painting by Tu and written the word "tea "Therefore, there are tea originated in the Tang Dynasty view. Others are still originated in the Shen Nong, originated in the Han and other phrases, so the tea farmers a great deal.
Shen Nong said
Tang. Lu Yu, "Tea": "tea to drink, motivated Shennongshi.", In Chinese culture, history, and agriculture often is everything, and things related to the origin of plants ultimately attributed to Shen Nong. Tea originated in China Shen Nong's argument arising due to the folklore of different view. Some people think that tea is the Shen Nong in the wild, pot to kettle water, just a few leaves floated into the pot, cooked in water, the color yellow, the entrance in the sweet thirst-quenching drink, refreshing, to Shen Nong tasted a hundred herbs in the past experiences, to judge it is a drug and found that this is the origin of the most popular tea in China say.
Another said,
Another argument is to be stained from the voice on, say there Shennong crystal belly, by the appearance of food available to see in gastrointestinal motility in the case, when he tasted tea, and found that flow around tea bottle it, check to check to, the stomach was washed clean, the Shen Nong said the plant as a "search" and then transferred into a "tea", which became the origin of tea.
Definition of culture
Tea is a labor and production materials, is a beverage. Tea and tea culture is as a carrier and transmitted through a carrier of culture, is the organic integration of tea and culture, which contains and reflects a certain period of material and spiritual civilization.
Tea and tea culture is a combination of spirit and expression through the spirit of tea. Xing Tang Dynasty in China, flourished in the Song, Ming, and declined in the Qing Dynasty. Chinese tea ceremony five main elements of stress throughout the United States, that is, tea, tea, degree of heating, tea set, the environment.
Tea culture to follow certain rules. Tang nine difficult to overcome, that is made, do, devices, fire, water, sunburn, the end of cooking and drinking. Song for the three points with three no tea, "three" for the new tea, Oasis, cleaning devices for the weather as a good, romantic and refined, tastes and temperament Jiake one.
The specific form of the Chinese tea ceremony, there are three:
Brewing tea: the tea powder and water into a boiling pot. Tang, brewing tea, is the artistic taste of the earliest form of tea.
Bucket of tea: ancient literati to bring tea and water all through the soup than tea flowers and tea tasting to appreciate the merits of a tea set Art. The Big Dipper, also known as Thea sinensis tea war, rising in the late Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Song Dynasty. The first popular in the area of Fujian statehood. Tea is the ancient art of fighting the highest form of tea.
Kung Fu Tea: popular in some areas since the Qing Dynasty kung fu tea is from the Tang dynasty fashions of art since the tea aftertaste. Kung Fu Qing Fujian tea popular Tingzhou, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and Chaozhou in Guangdong. Kung Fu Kung Fu tea and pay attention to drink.
Tea content
Tea culture is the Chinese traditional culture part of the content is rich, involving education, culture, arts, medical care, history, archeology, economy and trade, and hospitality industry and the press and other disciplines and sectors, including tea, monographs, tea journal, tea with poetry, tea dance, tea and novels, tea art, tea and weddings, tea ceremonies, tea and Zen teaching, tea and couplets, tea and proverbs, anecdotes tea things, tea and stories, tea customs, tea ceremony, ceramic tea sets, tea restaurant, brewing techniques, treatment of tea cakes and sweetmeats, tea and tea things Expo twenty one aspect of tourism and other things.
Tea Science System
Tea History: the origin of tea, find and use, tea culture, development, evolution, characteristics and expressions
Tea Cultural Sociology: tea culture influence every aspect of society, social development and progress of the role of the tea culture and tea all walks of life and cultural relations
Tea Folklore: History and modern, all regional and ethnic, urban and rural drinking customs
Tea Aesthetics: tea product shape design, tea named, tea packaging design and promotional advertising
Tea Culture Studies: international and domestic seminars, tea culture exhibition, tea ceremony, children's tea, tea, tea history, culture and events tourism Expo; tea culture school functions: tea cultural resources, features, history of tea culture and tea culture in the new period, tea culture function , tea culture of modern society and the role of spiritual civilization
Tea literature: through poetry, prose, fiction and other forms of performance out of the literary form of tea culture
Tea Tea Properties
Historic
The formation and development of tea culture of its long history. King Wu, tea has been as a tribute. Late primitive, tea became an exchange of goods items. Warring States, tea has a certain scale. Qin, "The Book of Songs," recorded in the total collection have tea.
Han, tea became the Buddhist "meditation" special tonic. Wei, have tea in the breeze. Sui Dynasty, tea drinking all the people in general. Tang Dynasty, tea prosperity, tea as "people not get along without tea", there tea, tea party, tea parties, to promote tourism to offer tea. Song, popular struggle tea, tea and give tribute tea.
Qing, folk art into the teahouse, tea development of foreign trade. Tea culture is accompanied by the emergence of commodity economy and the formation of urban culture nurtured the birth. Focus on the history of tea culture and cultural ideology, to elegant mainly focus on the performance of poetry books, paintings and tea dancing. Tea Culture in the formation and development, melt Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism's philosophy of color, and evolved into the customs of various ethnic groups, as part of the fine traditional culture and a unique cultural pattern.
Times
The development of material civilization and spiritual civilization, to the tea culture into a new meaning and vitality in this new era, content and form of tea culture is widening, extension, innovation and development. New tea culture to dissolve in modern science and technology, modern media and the essence of a market economy, so that tea is more obvious function of cultural values, to further enhance the role of modern society. The value of tea is a tea culture to further the establishment of core consciousness, become increasingly frequent international exchanges. New forms of tea culture, mode of transmission, was large, modern, social and international trend. The rapid expansion of its content, expand its influence as the world's attention.
Nationality
The national love for tea, tea with the culture of life, and formed their own national characteristics of the tea ceremony, tea, tea drinking customs and festive wedding, to form the basis of national tea, tempered by the artistic process and the formation of the national tea more full of life and cultural, showing the diversity and richness of tea delight of life. Tibetan, Tujia, Wa, Lahu, Naxi, Kazak, Xibe, Baoan, Achang, Blang, De'ang, Jino, Salar, Bai, Ken Mi family and other tea and festive wedding Yugur , demonstrating the tea culture in China.
Regional
Tea, mountain, name of water, celebrities, famous, and carries out individual regional tea culture. China's vast area, tea color range, different tea customs, plus parts of history, culture, life and economic differences, the formation of the tea culture with local characteristics. In the economic and cultural center of the city, with its own unique advantages and rich contents, the city has also created unique tea culture. Shanghai since 1994, have been held for fourth International Tea Culture Festival to show the characteristics of urban tea culture and charm.
International
The ancient Chinese traditional tea culture and various historical, cultural, economic and human integration, evolved into the British tea culture and tea culture in Japan, Korea Tea Culture, Russia, Morocco, tea culture and tea culture. In Britain, tea became part of life, is a British performance of gentlemanly manners, is also the Queen of England lives in the procedures necessary and important instrument of social activities necessary process. Japanese tea ceremony from China. Japanese tea ceremony in Japan is rich in ethnic customs and the formation of a unique tea system, schools and rituals. Koreans believe that tea culture is the root of Korean culture, May 24 each year for the National Tea Day. Chinese tea culture, tea culture, the cradle of all countries. Tea person, regardless of national boundaries, race and religion, tea and tea culture can unite the world at large tea, academic exchanges and economic and trade talks. (This is the city of Beijing is set up the International Tea)
Social Function
The social function of tea culture in carrying forward the traditional virtues mainly to show arts and culture, self-cultivation, strive to promote national unity, social progress and development performance of the economy and trade. After several years of traditional virtues are being accumulated by people admired the beautiful ancient moral, mental and social habits of the nation's expression. Tea culture has a tradition of mainly love the motherland, dedication, perseverance, modesty, politeness, hard work and frugality owe respect to each other. Mr. Wu Juenong and Hunan Xian-and, for the tea business had spared no efforts, both patriots, but also an outstanding representative of contemporary tea.
Lu Yu, "Tea", the ancient tea study hard, study hard, painstaking quest, indomitable spirit of the crystal. Serving of tea, tea instead of wine, "Love is a cup of tea" is the Chinese people cherish the fruits of labor, hard work a true reflection of insurance section. Lured by tea and tea culture, social functions arranged in a "tea Siyuan, serving of tea to tea friends, friendship tea, honest tea, tea and educating people, drinking tea instead of wine, tea fitness to tea in the poems to tea into the arts, tea art, tea dance, tea song whisper, Xingwen tea, tea making ceremony, with tea and agriculture, to promote tea trade and tea rich. Tea is the pride of the Chinese nation self-esteem, confidence and pride. tea can think of its source. the world's leading science and technology historian Dr. Joseph Needham, the Chinese tea as China's four inventions (gunpowder, paper, the compass and the printing press), the fifth of the human major contribution.
Lu Yu Tang Dynasty "Tea" is the world's first tea book. Chinese tea culture a significant impact on the world function. Friends of tea is a tea culture, one of the most extensive social functions. Live in today's market economy, competition, survival of the fittest, about the interests, and efficiency. But the human is more cold and indifferent relationships become. Through restaurants, tea houses or tea tea, friends gather together, exchange information, share feelings, mutual understanding, friendship and communication. Friends gathered at the old tea house, the random jokes, memories of life, enjoy life's pleasures. Ancient times, "Cold Night off to tea when the wine" is said to embody the traditional virtues of tea on behalf of the liquor in line with today's central austerity advocated by the provisions of the Suppression of extravagance and waste requirements. Educational tea tea culture bred out of the new era of new social functions. Shanghai Children's tea by yourself, learning tea science, carry forward traditional culture, to accept education in patriotism. In the Tea Ceremony, the show of respect toward elders, filial piety to their parents, and students respect.
Modern role
Modern society rely on high technology and information, and create more social wealth, material wealth will be more and more lives will be richer. East Asian countries in the implementation process of industrialization, in the west of the outstanding technology and process technology, while the decadent Western cultural values, customs, and erosion of the social, the resulting moral crisis, money worship and extreme individualism and other tendencies. Social development, experience has shown that modernization is not the only target, corresponding to modern society's spiritual needs, need to explore the excellent traditional culture and spiritual support. Tea culture has a historical, cultural factors and the times reasonable factors in modern society has been and is playing an active role in their own. Tea culture is high culture, celebrities and dignitaries prepared to participate. Tea culture is mass culture, the wide public participation. Tea Culture universal coverage, affecting the entire community.
Tea culture on the role of modern society, there are five aspects:
First, to Germany as the center of tea culture, attention to the value of people's groups, advocacy and selfless dedication, against the venality and profiteering. Advocating justice is more important than profits, focusing on coordination of the relationship between people, promote human respect and attention to repair nourishes Tak, help balance the mentality of people to address the spirit of modern confusion and enhance the cultural quality;
Second, the tea culture is a helpful friend to meet the challenges of life. In the fierce social competition, market competition, intense work, entertainment, complex relationships, as well as various types of pressure dependence in people who do not light. Participate in tea culture, spirit and body and mind can relax about it, to meet the challenges of life, our restaurant of this role is very significant;
Thirdly, it is conducive to building a civilized community. Up the economy, but culture is not backward society can not be dirty, morality can not decay and ugly. After reform and opening up the dissemination of tea culture that tea culture is to change the social activities of improper spending, create spiritual civilization and promote the role of social progress;
Fourth, enhancing people's quality of life, the role of a rich cultural life significantly. Tea culture is informative, fun and recreational sex, tasting tea, tea, tea, watch Tea in Tea, give a beauty to enjoy;
Fifth, to promote openness, and promote international cultural exchange. Zhabei District, Shanghai International Tea Culture Festival held four consecutive expanded internal and external visibility of Zhabei District, Zhabei Tea Culture Festival 区四套班子 unanimously decided to have gone out of existence, and invest in tea culture Zhabei Park construction sites, in order to build Grand View Garden Tea Culture.
The frequent exchange of international tea culture, tea culture to make cross-border, make the world a common spiritual wealth of human civilization.