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1、Chinese tea cultureAbstract: Chinese tea culture has a long history, extensive and profound, as the quintessence of the Chinese nation. Chinese tea industry, initially is popular in bashu, then gradually spread to the east and south, so that throughout the country. In the tang dynasty, and spread to
2、 Japan and Korea, after the 16th century were introduced in the west. On Chinas tea industrys contribution to the human, the main is the earliest discovered tea and use this kind of plant, and its form and development for our country and the east and the world of a kind of unique tea culture. Core o
3、f tea culture to the tea ceremony, Chinese material culture can rise to the level of the only tea culture, tea is tea and the way of integration and sublimation. To tea culture explanation helps us to deeply understand, better for our profound grasp and carry forward the Chinese traditional culture.
4、China is the homeland of tea. Of the three major beverages of the world- tea, coffee and cocoa- tea is consumed by the largest number of people in the world. China has tea-shrubs as early as five to six thousand years ago, and human cultivation of tea plants dates back two thousand years. Tea from C
5、hina, along with her silk and porcelain, began to be known the world over more than a thousand years ago and has since always been an important Chinese export. The Chinese tea ceremony, also called the Chinese Way of Tea, is a Chinese cultural activity involving the ceremonial preparation and presen
6、tation of tea leaf. The manner in which it is performed, or the art of its performance is shown in the tea ceremony. Taoism has also been an influence in the development of the tea ceremony. The elements of the Chinese tea ceremony is the harmony of nature and enjoying tea in an informal and formal
7、setting. Tea ceremonies are now being revived in Chinas new fast-paced culture, and continuing in the long tradition of intangible Chinese art. Tea has had a major influence on the development of Chinese culture. Chinese traditional culture is closely connected with Chinese tea. Tea is often associa
8、ted with literature, arts, and philosophy. Tea is connected closely with Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism. Roughly, since Tang Dynasty, drinking tea is a must for self-cultivation. Chinese Chan (or Japanese Zen) philosophy is also linked with drinking tea.Tea can be classified into five types：Green
9、 tea，Black tea，Wulong tea，Compressed tea，Scented tea.Green tea is the variety which keeps the original colour of the tea leaves without fermentation during processing. This category consists mainly of Longjing tea of Zhejiang Province, Maofeng of Huangshan Mountain in Anhui Province and Biluochun pr
10、oduced in Jiangsu.Black tea, known as “red tea“ (hong cha) in China, is the category which is fermented before baking; it is a later variety developed on the basis of the green tea. The best brands of black tea are Qihong of Anhui , Dianhong of Yunnan, Suhong of Jiangsu, Chuanhong of Sichuan and Huh
11、ong of Hunan. This represents a variety half way between the green and the black teas, being made after partial fermentation. It is a specialty from the provinces on Chinas southeast coast: Fujian, Guangdong and Taiwan. This is the kind of tea which is compressed and hardened into a certain shape. I
12、t is good for transport and storage and is mainly supplied to the ethnic minorities living in the border areas of the country. As compressed tea is black in color in its commercial form, so it is also known in China as “black tea“. Most of the compressed tea is in the form of bricks; it is, therefor
13、e, generally called “brick tea“, though it is sometimes also in the form of cakes and bowls. It is mainly produced in Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces. This kind of tea is made by mixing fragrant flowers in the tea leaves in the course of processing. The flowers commonly used for this purp
14、ose are jasmine and magnolia among others. The Chinese tea ceremony can be roughly divided into four big tea: peirce zen secular tea ceremony, tea ceremony, tea ceremony, aristocratic tea ceremony. Tea ceremony in ancient China, taxi and tea an article, can say no ancient taxi then does not have the
15、 Chinese tea ceremony. Dining is the tea ceremony has become a climate genre of Chinese tea ceremony. Was mainly tea ancient intellectuals to led “officials“ subject, and also includes have leds, we have a certain cultural artistic accomplishment of the house because of the show, art scene playactor
16、, etc.For tea, mainly not thirst, xiaoshi, refreshing, and care guidance of the spirit into the otherworldly realm, in make love refined tea realize something. Tea landscape between the intention of people care about, care about pretty, care between poetry, care about fame and wealth, hope to find and be reposing, somewhat forgotten. “Ya“ reflects in the following several aspects: one is the tea of two is a tea to help young three in four elegance tea is tea party friend because of litera
