Tea culture is an important part of China traditional culture. With the development and progress of society, tea not only plays a very good role in economy and becomes a necessity of people's life, but also gradually forms a dazzling tea culture and becomes a pearl of social spiritual civilization.
The emergence of tea culture has brought human spirit and wisdom to a higher level. The relationship between tea and culture is deep, involving a wide range and rich in content. It embodies both spiritual civilization and ideological extension. Undoubtedly, it is conducive to improving people's cultural literacy and artistic appreciation.
Tea Book: China's long history of tea industry has created tea science and technology for mankind, and also accumulated the richest historical documents of tea industry for the world. In the vast number of cultural classics, there are not only books devoted to tea, but also a lot of contents about tea, tea history, tea making methods and tea making techniques in historical records, local chronicles, notes, miscellaneous examinations and ancient books.
Tea and wedding: The relationship between tea and wedding is simply to apply and absorb tea or tea culture as a part of etiquette in the wedding. In fact, the penetration or absorption of tea culture into weddings is related to China's tea drinking custom and the etiquette of entertaining guests with tea. Because the wedding is not only a form of announcing or asking the society to recognize the marriage relationship, but also a kind of "reception" for the bride and groom to recognize their relatives and worship their friends through the banquet. Therefore, the wedding day is usually a day when two close relatives and friends get together and guests come to worship tea. In this way, the wedding naturally has an indissoluble bond with tea. Therefore, from this perspective, the connection between tea and weddings can be traced back to the time when drinking tea became popular in China. However, what I want to say here is not to treat guests with tea in the wedding process, but to use tea directly as a ceremony in the wedding.
Tea and Sacrifice: When tea was used as a sacrifice, our ancestors did not conduct special research. It is generally believed that the utilization of tea is from medicinal to drinking, and then a series of tea culture phenomena are derived from drinking. That is to say, tea will be gradually used or absorbed into ceremonies in China, including funerals, only after it becomes a daily commodity. China's funerary objects, called "funerary objects" in Shi Ming, are mainly objects that help the living to die and cherish the past. As for the sacrificial ceremony, as Ruan said in his elegy in the Eastern Han Dynasty, "Fine dishes are not royal, and the cup is full of wine", which are the most enjoyable and favorite things of the deceased before his death. As can be seen from the poems quoted above, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, at least in the north at this time, tea was not offered as a sacrifice.
Tea and Poetry: China is both "the motherland of tea" and "the country of poetry". Therefore, tea has penetrated into poetry for a long time. From the earliest tea poems (such as Zuo Si's "Poem of a charming girl") to the present, it has lasted for 1700 years, and many poets and writers have created many beautiful tea poems.
Tea and Opera: China is the pioneer of tea culture, and it is also the only country in the world that produces an independent drama-"Tea Picking Opera" from the development of tea affairs. The so-called tea-picking opera is a kind of opera popular in Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi provinces. The popular areas in each province are different, and they are distinguished by land names. For example, tea-picking opera in northern Guangdong, Yangxin tea-picking opera in Hubei, Huangmei tea-picking opera, Qichun tea-picking opera and so on. This kind of drama, especially in Jiangxi, is more common, and there are many kinds of dramas. For example, Jiangxi tea-picking operas include Gannan tea-picking opera, Fuzhou tea-picking opera, Nanchang tea-picking opera, Wuning tea-picking opera and Ji 'an tea-picking opera. Although these operas have various names, they were formed from the middle to the end of the Qing Dynasty.
Tea and Art: Art is a kind of "plastic arts", which is an art to create visual images by means of composition, modeling and coloring. Therefore, its scope or content includes not only painting and sculpture, but also architecture.
Tea Proverbs: Tea Proverbs are another cultural phenomenon derived from the development of tea culture in China. The so-called "proverb", in the words of Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi, "proverb: rumor is also"; In other words, it refers to an easy-to-say, easy-to-remember and philosophical proverb passed down from mouth to mouth among the masses. Tea proverbs, in terms of their content or nature, generally belong to two categories: drinking tea and making tea. In other words, tea proverbs mainly come from the practice of tea production, and are the summary or expression of tea production experience, which can be preserved and circulated through proverbs. Therefore, tea proverbs are not only the precious heritage of China tea science or tea culture, but also a wonderful flower in Chinese folk literature from the perspective of creation or literature. □ Kevin