The difference between coffee and tea is that both coffee and tea are refreshing.
The difference between coffee and tea is that coffee is exciting and tea is sobering.
Coffee, like life, can enjoy the pleasure of suffering without sugar. If sugar is boring, will you try it? Partner? There will be no regrets about insufficient seasoning. But? Partner? But not too much, otherwise you are not tasting coffee, but just drinking? Partner? It's hard to avoid boredom.
Tea is like life. When you brew green tea in a glass, you will unconsciously fall into infinite reverie through the rising water vapor like fog. A piece of insignificant tea is so delicate. Once it is integrated with water, it will contribute all its essence without reservation. Tea will not be helpless because it is dissolved in clear water, but will only remain fragrant in the world. Life is like tea, tea is like life.
The advantage of tea is that you can keep drinking, soaking and smelling. Coffee can't be made!
But tea can also boil tea eggs, make iced green tea and become various flavors. Coffee is only made of candy and ice cream, and it can never be separated from the original flavor.
Used tea leaves can also be planted with flowers, and when dried, they can also be used as pillows to clear fire. Coffee lags far behind.
? Put a handful of tea leaves in the cup, then pour in boiling water, and you will see a faint color in the cup, that is, the color of tea leaves. Every drop of water in the cup moistens the fragrance of tea. It is released from every piece of tea and dissolved in a cup of fragrant tea.
We never think about the difference between each piece of tea, and we often don't care that a cup of tea is made of hundreds of pieces of tea.
In a cup of tea, maybe it doesn't matter which piece of tea is missing. It's still a cup of tea. But every piece of tea has its special meaning, because every drop of tea contains the fragrance of every piece of tea.
When drinking tea, people never praise the fragrance of a piece of tea. A piece of tea is devoted to only one fragrance. A piece of tea, without a good name and reward, naturally contains the meaning of its life.
The difference between tea and coffee is compared. Tea, coffee and cola are called the three major drinks in the world, and the consumption of tea and coffee is the largest. Coffee plays an irreplaceable role in the life of westerners. No matter in school, company, shopping mall or at home, everyone can enjoy it without holding a coffee cup. Tea is deeply rooted in people's life in China. It is not only a drink, but also carries the culture of China. Tea and coffee represent two different cultures of China and the West.
(1) The history of tea culture and coffee culture
From the end of Shang Dynasty to the beginning of Zhou Dynasty, Bashu people began to drink tea after tasting herbal tea in Shennong. BC 1066, the King of Wu cut rice and made tea a tribute. In the late primitive commune, tea became a commodity exchange. During the Warring States period, tea had a certain scale. In the Han dynasty, tea became Buddhism? Meditate? Children's special tonic. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, tea was based on the Yangtze River and spread to the north, and the wind of drinking tea spread. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the whole people generally drank tea, and the tea industry flourished. Teahouses, tea banquets and tea parties appeared to encourage guests to offer tea. At this time, the world's first monograph on tea culture, Tea Classic, was also born. At the beginning of the Song Dynasty and the end of the Ming Dynasty, tea culture reached its peak, and fighting tea, offering tea and giving tea became popular all over the world. In the Qing Dynasty, tea culture developed further, and operas and Quyi all entered teahouses to perform. Tea has always been in a super position in foreign trade in Qing Dynasty. With the development of history, people constantly enrich and develop tea culture in various tea tasting activities.
Comparatively speaking, coffee beans were not boiled in boiling water for the first time until around 1000. Yemen began to grow coffee in about15th century. Venetian merchants first brought coffee to Europe in 16 15. By 1683, the first coffee shop in Europe opened in Venice, and the most famous one was Cafe Florence. 1720 opened in St. Kyle's Square. In the process of foreign colonization, the Dutch planted coffee in Malaba, India, and brought coffee to Java, Indonesia on 1699. Coffee entered the United States on 1668. As a fashionable drink, it became popular in South America, and then cafes appeared in new york, Philadelphia, Boston and other North American cities. Coffee entered Taiwan Province province of China on 1884. This shows that China tea culture has a longer history than western coffee culture.
(2) Moderation of tea culture and rationality of coffee culture.
China is located in the east of Eurasia, facing the sea, with a vast territory and rich products. China culture grows in a relatively closed and very broad geographical space, and its cultural tradition is influenced by semi-closed, temperate continental geographical environment and self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy. Family and country are one? Decided by the patriarchal society. For thousands of years, the mainstream ideology of China society bears the brunt of the traditional Confucian ideology and culture with the small-scale peasant economy as the background. What are its characteristics? Mean? 、? Ordinary? 、? Balance? 、? Symmetry? . Confucianism? Mean? Introduction of ideas in China tea culture. Tea is born in the mountains, moistened by manna, and tastes bitter and sweet. Drinking it can make people clear, calm and clear-headed. These characteristics of tea are consistent with the golden mean advocated by Confucianism. Tea is a clean thing. By drinking tea, you can save people by introspection, and you can also cultivate your self-cultivation, giving tea a clean and noble character. Confucianism believes that drinking tea can communicate ideas, create a harmonious atmosphere, enhance mutual friendship, coordinate interpersonal relationships and promote harmony. Confucian thought of harmony comes from the golden mean. In Confucian eyes, harmony is the golden mean, harmony is appropriate, harmony is appropriate, and harmony means everything is just right, and nothing is beyond it. In tea culture, harmonious thoughts permeate a whole set of tea activities, such as picking tea, making tea, cooking tea, ordering tea, making tea and drinking. When making tea, you should be harmonious in ups and downs, and master the right amount of relaxation? ; When entertaining guests? Those who honor their elders with tea as a gift prepare tea to show their affection? ; At tea? After drinking a good cup of tea, you will know the depth and admire that it is grass. ; What is the environment and mood of tea tasting? Ordinary accidents, elegant and vain, quiet and profound and secret. . These all reflect the Confucian doctrine of the mean, bright theory, modesty and frugality.
Western culture was born and developed in a relatively open geographical environment, and there is no typical agricultural area like China that can always influence the whole cultural trend. The birthplace of western culture is ancient Greece, Rome, islands and peninsulas on the northern shore of the Mediterranean. Island culture is not developed by agriculture, but by competitive commerce. The development of commodity economy and the open marine geographical environment make westerners outgoing and active. They have independent and uninhibited personality, pioneering spirit and trading concept. Western countries exist in the process of war, competition and struggle. Geographical environment and abnormal development of productivity do not allow westerners? Think twice before you act? We must make a decisive judgment and take action. European countries' territory is relatively narrow, so they can't form self-sufficient and long-term isolated natural and economic conditions like ancient China. The change of national boundaries, the migration of ethnic groups and the consistency of ancient customs, myths and folklore have laid a solid foundation for their cultural exchanges and mutual exchanges, and also created the spirit of cultural openness.
Western philosophers regard rationality as the fundamental symbol that distinguishes people from animals, which lays the foundation for western cultural rationality. Western culture is a rationalist culture, aiming at constructing an abstract conceptual world in self-consciousness, taking those abstract subjective laws as the essence of the world, and then realizing the rational alienation of the world. This is also reflected in the coffee culture. Coffee brewing has strict requirements from grinding coffee beans to utensils to water temperature ratio. The brewed coffee is fragrant and full of flavor. If fresh water is boiled, it will contain a proper amount of carbon dioxide, which can increase the aroma of coffee. However, if the water is boiled continuously, the evaporation of carbon dioxide will be reduced, so the optimal water temperature is 95℃. If the water temperature is too low, the taste of coffee will not be completely released. If the water temperature is too high, the coffee ingredients will deteriorate, too much or too little is not good. Another example is a person, weak coffee 8g, strong coffee 12g, water 120cc. All these reflect the rationalism of coffee culture.
(3) Heaven and man are integrated in tea culture, and heaven and man are divided in coffee culture.
Tea culture is a Taoist theory of harmony between man and nature. Taoism believes that heaven and earth are equal, and we must conform to nature and take the initiative to understand the law in order to get the greatest satisfaction. Tea is produced in the forests of Shan Ye. Influenced by the essence of heaven and earth, it bears abundant rain and dew and contains Taoist thought. Indifference? 、? Quiet? 、? Back to the beginning? The charm, namely? People everywhere, the land follows the sky, the sky follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature? . Although China's traditional scholar-officials received Confucian education, when they were frustrated politically, their indifference to fame and fortune and their thought of returning to nature would affect them, so they generally followed a life style. If you are rich, you will help the world, but if you are poor, you will be immune to it. . Scholars borrow tea poems to pursue the ideal realm of harmony with mountains and rivers. Su Dongpo's "Yoshioka Fried Tea": Living water must be fried with living fire, and it is clear from the fish stone. A big ladle stores the moon and spring urn, and a small spoon divides the river and the night bottle. Snow milk has been turned over and fried, and the wind suddenly makes a diarrhea sound. It is easy for a poor heart to ban three bowls, and it is easier to sit in a lonely city for a long time. ? By drinking tea, we can experience the tea ceremony and the unity of man and nature.
Western culture advocates the separation of heaven and man, and the two are opposite. In order to survive, people must obtain material means of life from nature. Westerners advocate individualism, which is reflected in their humanitarian tradition in thought, free competition in action, affirmation of individual personality, value and dignity, respect and advocacy of individual independence. Western philosophy pursues the understanding of nature and the grasp of the law of development of all things. To conquer nature, we must use empirical and rigorous speculative means to clearly distinguish between heaven and man, subject and object, and things and me, so as to achieve an understanding of nature itself. Although Arabia, the earliest coffee drinker in history, had Mocha, the most prosperous port city in the world at that time, it was forbidden to export any coffee seeds. 16 16 The Dutch finally smuggled the surviving coffee trees and seeds to the Netherlands. After understanding the objective process of coffee growth, they began to build an artificial greenhouse suitable for coffee growth in tropical or subtropical climate and successfully cultivated it.
(4) Zen of tea culture and Christian spirit of coffee culture.
The content of Zen practice in Buddhism can be divided into three types: abstinence, determination and wisdom. The so-called determination and wisdom is to ask monks to practice quietly, sit calmly and have no distractions, so as to realize the Tao. Many monks are troubled by dozing off because they are easy to get tired after meditation for a long time, and tea has pharmacological effects of refreshing the brain, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. Therefore, the earliest opportunity for tea to become attached to Buddhism may be its function of relieving sleep. Subsequently, Buddhist monks had a further understanding of tea. They found that tea tastes bitter and slightly sweet, and the tea soup is light and clean, which is very suitable for the silent and indifferent attitude of life advocated by Buddhism. In addition, drinking tea contributes to Zen and enlightenment, so Buddhism's understanding of tea has risen from the material level to the spiritual level. Many famous ancient teas in the history of China were originally planted, picked and processed in monasteries. For example, the most famous tea in the Tang Dynasty? Mengding tea? , produced in Ya 'an, Sichuan, is said to have been planted by Puhui Zen Master of Kanluo Temple in Han Dynasty. It is the earliest artificially cultivated tea tree in China, and it is listed as one of tribute teas because of its excellent quality. Tea is not only planted in Buddhist temples, but also an important part of daily activities in Buddhist temples. In many famous temples, there are tea halls or tea rooms, but? Tea drum? And then what? Tea head? . What is the name of the tea in the temple? Temple tea? . Tea also plays a role in coordinating the relationship between monks and nuns in Buddhist temples, making the feelings between monks and nuns closer. In addition, on the Buddha's Christmas Day, a special person bathes the Buddha with tea soup. Wash Buddha tea? For pilgrims to drink and pray for disaster relief and longevity.
According to the story circulated in the Christian world, in Kafa, Ethiopia, North Africa, there was a shepherd named Caldi who went out to herd sheep as usual one day. Suddenly, he found the sheep jumping and jumping, very active. When he looked carefully, he found that they were eating red fruits on the ground. He estimated that it was these red fruits that made the sheep so excited. So he took these red fruits to a priest in a nearby monastery for advice. After listening to the shepherd's words, the priest became curious and sent some red fruits to his mouth. Soon, the priest became full of energy. From then on, all priests will eat a few red fruits before mass, and later named them Jiaguo, which is the coffee fruit that has been passed down to this day. This shows that western Christians also use coffee to refresh themselves.