Art is a kind of "plastic art", which creates visual images by means of composition, modeling and coloring. Therefore, its scope or content includes not only painting and sculpture, but also architecture. Sculpture techniques in tea culture mainly focus on the modeling and decoration of tea sets, group teas and cake teas. For example, in the Song Dynasty, the dragon and phoenix tribute tea in Beiyuan, with exquisite patterns, was frequently updated. There is also an activity in the palace to add other decorations to tribute tea, which is called "embroidered tea".
Tea and wedding: the relationship between tea and wedding, in short, is to regard tea as a part of etiquette in the wedding. When did it start? It has been 1300 years since Princess Wencheng entered Tibet in the fifteenth year of Zhenguan of Emperor Taizong and served tea and water according to her own national etiquette. In the Tang Dynasty, tea was very popular and expensive in society, so tea became an indispensable gift for marriage. In the Song Dynasty, the bride price of a woman's marriage evolved into a dowry for a man to propose to a woman. In the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, "tea ceremony" was almost synonymous with marriage. When a woman is hired to drink tea, she is called a "tea drinker". It is an ethical marriage for girls to accept tea gifts. The concept of tea ceremony was still retained in Qing dynasty. There is a saying that "a good woman doesn't eat two or two teas". Because the nature of tea is unchangeable, the seeds are still there when the flowers bloom. This is called mother-child meeting, which shows loyalty. For example, in A Dream of Red Mansions, after making tea for Lin Daiyu, Wang Xifeng said humorously, "Since you ate my tea, why don't you be my wife?" At present, many rural areas in China still call the engagement marriage "tea collection" and "tea eating", the engagement deposit "tea gold" and the bride price "tea gift".
Lu Yu (733-804) was born in Jingling, Fuzhou, Tang Dynasty (now Tianmen, Hubei Province), Donggangzi and Sangzhuweng. He loved tea all his life and was good at tea ceremony. He is famous for the world's first tea monograph "Tea Classic", which has made outstanding contributions to the development of China tea industry and the world tea industry, and is known as ".