Historical Phenomenon of Tea Culture —— Enlightenment of Tea Culture before Three Kingdoms
Many books set the discovery time of tea as 2737-2697 BC, and its history can be traced back to the Three Emperors and Five Emperors. In Hua Tuo's Book of Food in the Eastern Han Dynasty:? Bitter tea for a long time. . Recorded the medicinal value of tea. The western Han dynasty named the tea-producing county? Chaling? , namely Chaling, Hunan. In the Wei Dynasty of the Three Kingdoms, Guangya first recorded the making method and drinking method of cake tea: picking leaves between Jing and Ba to make cakes, and the old man made cakes out of leaves and made them with rice paste. Tea appears in the form of substance and permeates other cultures to form tea culture.
The germination of tea culture in the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties
With the rise of literati drinking tea, poems and songs about tea are coming out day by day. As a common form, tea has been separated from the cultural circle of eating and staying, and it plays a certain spiritual and social role.
The Formation of Tea Culture in Tang Dynasty
In 780, Lu Yu wrote Tea Classic, which was the symbol of the formation of tea culture in Tang Dynasty. It summarizes the dual contents of tea's nature and humanity, discusses the art of drinking tea, integrates Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism into drinking tea, and creates the spirit of China Tea Ceremony. Later, a large number of tea books and poems appeared, including Tea Narration, brew tea, Tea Picking and Sixteen Soups. The formation of tea culture in Tang Dynasty was related to the rise of Zen Buddhism. Because tea has the function of refreshing the brain, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, temples advocate drinking tea, planting tea trees around the temples, making tea ceremonies, setting up tea halls, selecting tea heads and holding tea events specially. China tea ceremony was formed in the Tang Dynasty, which is divided into court tea ceremony, temple tea ceremony and literati tea ceremony.
The Prosperity of Tea Culture in Song Dynasty
The tea industry in Song Dynasty developed greatly, which promoted the development of tea culture. Among the literati, there appeared a professional tea club composed of officials. Tangshe? , believe in Buddhism? Fuck the people's club and so on. Zhao Kuangyin of Song Taizu is a tea drinker. He set up a tea hall in the imperial court, and the tea used in the imperial court has been graded. Tea ceremony has become a ritual system, giving tea has become an important means for the emperor to win over ministers and take care of relatives as soon as possible, and it is also an important means to paint portraits of foreign envoys. As for the lower class, tea culture is more lively. Some people move, but neighbors want it? Offer tea? If you have guests, do you respect them? Yuanbao tea? When you get engaged, you should:? Tea? When you got married? Order tea? When sharing a room? Tea? . The rise of folk tea fighting has brought about a series of changes in cooking points.
Popularization of tea culture in Ming and Qing Dynasties
At this time, there have been steamed green, fried green, baked green and other tea leaves, and the drinking of tea has also been changed? Bubble pinch method? In the Ming Dynasty, many literati left their masterpieces handed down from generation to generation, such as Tang Bohu's Tea Making Map, Tea Tasting Map, Wen Weiming's Huishan Tea Party, Lu Yu's Tea Cooking Map and Tea Tasting Map. With the increase of tea, the skills of making tea are also different, and the styles, textures and patterns of tea sets are also diverse. By the Qing Dynasty, tea export had become a formal industry, and there were countless tea books, tea events and tea poems.
The Development of Modern Tea Culture
After the founding of New China, the output of tea in China increased from 7,500 tons in 1949 to more than 600,000 tons in 1998. The substantial increase of tea material wealth has provided a solid foundation for the development of tea culture in China. 1982 The first social group Tea People's Home, which aims at promoting tea culture, was established in Hangzhou. Hubei was founded in 1983? Lu Yu Tea Culture Research Association? , 1990? China Friendship Association? Established in Beijing, 1993? China International Tea Culture Research Association? The China Tea Museum, established in Kangzhou, officially opened in Hangzhou West Lake Township on 199 1. 1998 China international peaceful tea culture exchange hall was built. With the rise of tea culture, there are more and more teahouses all over the country. The fifth International Symposium on Tea Culture has been held, attracting Japanese, Korean, American, Sri Lankan, Hongkong and Taiwan Province. Provinces, cities and tea-producing counties have held it in succession? Tea Festival? For example, the Rock Tea Festival in Wuyishan, Fujian, the Pu 'er Tea Festival in Yunnan, and the tea festivals in Xinchang, Taishun, Zhejiang, Yingshan, Hubei and Xinyang, Henan are too numerous to mention. They all use tea as a carrier to promote the all-round development of economy and trade.
The Historical Origin of Tea Culture China Tea originated in the mountainous areas of central and western China. In the Tang Dynasty, Lu Yu's Tea Classic said: Tea drinkers, originated in Shennong, heard of Duke Zhou of Lu? . ? Tea drinkers, the southern lady Jia, are one foot, two feet or even dozens of feet. Their Bashan Gorge and Sichuan (now west of Chongqing and west of Hubei, which is now Shennongjia area) are all cut down by two people. Therefore, it is indisputable that the birthplace of tea is in China. In Britain, some people say that the habit of drinking tea was not invented by China, but by Indians. The fact is this: 1823, a major of the British invading army discovered the so-called wild tea tree in India, and some people began to think that tea originated in India. But these tea trees are actually Indian, and they were stolen from China? In the history of tea for thousands of years, India has never found wild tea trees, and no one has made tea locally. They all made a basic logical mistake. Other plants, including tea trees, have always existed, even longer than human history. It cannot be said that where there are tea trees, there is the birthplace of tea making and drinking. The earliest records of human tea making and drinking are all in China, and the earliest tea products are also in China. Tea is the national drink of the Chinese nation. It originated in Shennong and was found in Duke Zhou of Lu. It began in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. China tea culture is a unique combination of Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism in China, and a wonderful flower in China culture!
China has a vast tea area, which can be divided into three levels, namely, the first-level tea area (represented by southwest and Jiangnan areas), the second-level tea area (represented by northwest and Jiangbei areas) and the third-level tea area (represented by South China areas). Of course, there are wild tea trees in China, and they are even older. An ancient tea tree 6000 years ago was unearthed at Tianluoshan site in Yuyao, Zhejiang. At present, China's wild tea trees are mainly concentrated in Yunnan and other places, including parts of Gansu, Hunan and Hubei.
The spread of tea in China reached its peak in the Tang Dynasty. The most famous Japanese tea ceremony originated in China. The fashion of drinking tea in Japan can be traced back to the Nara era 1200 years ago. It was brought to Japan by Jian Zhen, a monk from the Tang Dynasty in China, and Zu Yishi, a teacher studying in Japan, and soon spread among Japanese upper class.
/kloc-at the beginning of the 5th century, the famous monk Zhuguang Murata (1423- 1502) adopted it? Send tea? The popular form of. Absorb? How much tea to send? Tea tasting demonstration and appreciation of tea sets are combined with the solemn ceremony of Buddhism. Created the art of tea ceremony Advocating the integration of tea and Zen aims at clearing the heart. Later, Zen gradually became popular among the people, forming more than 20 schools. Such as internal stream, music stream, trickle stream, weaving stream, Nanyin stream, longitudinal stream, Song Weiliu, Zhou Shi stream, etc. /kloc-Mori no Rikyū, a tea ceremony monk in Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the late 6th century, was a master of tea ceremony. Created the most popular? Tea ceremony? Also called? Thousand tea ceremony? Later, Mori no Rikyū' s descendants were divided into three branches, also known as? Three thousand? . ? Tea ceremony? It has the largest circulation and the deepest influence in Japan. Morino is also honored as a master of tea ceremony by the Japanese.
The so-called tea ceremony is the etiquette of making tea and drinking tea, which has a whole set of forms to cultivate the soul, enhance friendship and learn etiquette. Mori no Rikyū put forward the fundamental spirit of tea ceremony? Peace, respect, purity and silence? . Weighing? Four laws? This is the purpose of the tea ceremony.
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