The Yuan Dynasty was founded by the Mongolian Nuerhayi. As nomadic Mongolians, cheese and meat are the main foods, which need to be digested by drinking tea. In addition, the developed transportation at home and abroad and the introduction of foreign tea products make the tea culture in Yuan Dynasty present a colorful situation.
Although the production and drinking of tea in Yuan Dynasty basically followed the Song system, there were some unprecedented new scenes in tea drinking methods and cultural contents.
First of all, the tea drinking custom changed greatly in Yuan Dynasty. Following the matcha method of the Song Dynasty, the upper class likes to add various auxiliary materials when cooking tea.
Secondly, the custom of drinking tea with fragrant flowers and fruits.
In addition, the Yuan Dynasty absorbed some original ways of tungsten tea in the Central Plains and formed tea drinks with Mongolian characteristics. This kind of tea is both edible and drinkable.
There were new varieties of tea in the Yuan Dynasty, including 18 kinds of tea, such as Golden Tea, Fan Dianshuai Tea, Swallowtail Tea, Jade Mill Tea, Stir-fried Tea, Purple Bamboo Shoot Que Tea, Sichuan Tea, Rattan Tea, Fragrant Tea, Orchid Paste and Xifan Tea.
at that time, tea became a kind of life etiquette in the Yuan Dynasty. Tea was given to welcome guests, send tea to farewell parties, and also be given to each other as gifts. People in the Yuan Dynasty are very popular in drinking tea directly with boiling water, and drinking tea is often accompanied by meals, wine, melons and fruits, which can be seen in many poems.
Although the Yuan Dynasty was ruled by ethnic minorities, the cultural heritage of the Chinese nation still existed. Besides the tradition of tea frying, it was also determined to innovate. The tea set used for drinking tea also entered a state of advocating nature and returning to its original state from the Song Dynasty, which opened up a historic channel for ceramic tea sets to become the dominant trend in the tasting market. ? Jasper ou? Gold mill? Jade? Red furnace? Shi Ding? They are all tea sets for cooking tea at the end.
The mural of "The Boy Waits for Tea" unearthed in the mural tomb of Feng Daozhen, a Taoist priest in the Yuan Dynasty, in the western suburbs of Datong, Shanxi, is an important cultural relic evidence reflecting the folk tea drinking custom in the Yuan Dynasty. The mural depicts a boy with a double bun and robes serving tea in the courtyard. On the table on the left behind the lad is a tea set for preparing tea, including stacked porcelain lamps, stacked lamp holders, a big bowl for brewing tea soup, and a cover jar for storing loose tea. This scene is obviously different from the tea preparation pictures in the mural tombs of the Song and Liao Dynasties. The processing and cooking utensils used to be used in the tea rooms of the Song and Liao Dynasties, such as rollers, rollers, air stoves and soup bottles, have disappeared.