Where did the use of tea sets first originate?

When it comes to tea and tea tasting, people naturally think of various tea sets. For modern people, common tea sets refer to: tea cups, teapots, tea bowls, tea cups, saucers, tea trays and other tea drinking utensils; Due to different materials and origins, it can be divided into pottery tea sets, porcelain tea sets, lacquer tea sets, glass tea sets, metal tea sets and bamboo tea sets.

In ancient times, the classification of tea sets was much richer. In various ancient books, we can also see: tea ding, tea ou, tea mill, tea mortar, tea cabinet, tea press, tea trough, tea constitution, tea cage, tea basket, tea board, tea cup, tea bag, tea spoon, teaspoon and so on. How many kinds of tea sets are there? According to "Friends of Cloud Creek", "Twenty-four things Lu Yu made tea sets." According to Ten Teasets and Friends of Yunxi, writers of the Tang Dynasty, there were at least 24 kinds of ancient tea sets.

For the tea set that people have been using since ancient times, which generation did it originate from? According to the data, the word "tea set" first appeared in the Han Dynasty, and Wang Bao, a poet in the Western Han Dynasty, said that "there are all kinds of things in making tea, and the cape has been covered", which is the earliest historical data that mentioned "tea set" in China. In the Tang Dynasty, the word "tea set" can be seen everywhere in Tang poetry, such as the collection of Lingling Zong by Lu Guimeng, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi's "Tea after Sleeping" "This disposal rope bed has a tea washer next to it."

For modern people, although there are not so many kinds of tea sets in ancient times, people have made a lot of explorations in the use function of tea sets and increasing cultural elements. For example, the tea brewed by a familiar teapot has a special fragrance; Jingdezhen produces all kinds of exquisite teapots, teacups and other utensils, adding all kinds of exquisite patterns and many cultural elements; In order to meet the needs of modern people's fast-paced and frequent outdoor life, people have made many tea cups with heat preservation function, which can keep the temperature unchanged for several hours after making tea. In addition to the heat preservation function, there are also advanced teacups that can release trace elements beneficial to the human body. I believe that in the future, there will be more tea sets with more functions and higher cultural taste.