Chapter 333: Tea Ceremony
Tea was used for medicinal purposes in the past, but later it was widely drunk by the people, and it was mostly believed that it was beneficial to the body. Tea has the function of refreshing and quenching thirst, so the Taoist temple advocates drinking tea, planting tea trees around the moss courtyard, formulating tea ceremonies, setting up tea halls, selecting tea heads, and presenting tea activities.
Tea has the medicinal effect of fitness and disease, and it is full of appreciation and can cultivate sentiment. Tea drinking began in China, tea brewed with boiling water, conforming to nature, drinking elegantly, seeking the inherent taste of tea, focusing on the artistic conception, which is the characteristic of tea tasting. For the same quality of tea, if the water is different, the tea set is different, or the brewing technology is different, the brewed tea soup will have different effects. Since ancient times, Huaxia has paid great attention to the brewing of tea and has accumulated rich experience. To make good tea, it is necessary to understand the characteristics of various types of tea, master the scientific brewing technology, so that the inherent quality of tea can be fully expressed. The formation and development of tea culture has a very long history. In the later period of the primitive commune, tea became an item of exchange for goods. The Chinese people love to drink tea, tea and national cultural life combined, the formation of their own national characteristics of tea ceremony, tea art, tea drinking customs and festive weddings, based on the national tea drinking mode, through artistic processing and tempering and the formation of various ethnic tea art, more rich in life and culture, showing the diversity of tea drinking and colorful life interest. Famous tea, famous mountains, famous water, celebrities, famous places, and give birth to regional tea culture with its own characteristics. The vast area of China, with a wide variety of tea flowers and colors, different tea drinking customs, coupled with the historical, cultural, living and economic differences in various places, has formed a tea culture with local characteristics. In the large towns with economic and cultural centers, with their unique advantages and rich connotations, they have also formed a unique tea culture.
In the long river of history, the Chinese nation has continuously transformed nature to create material wealth, and at the same time, it has also created a brilliant culture, which has made great contributions to the progress and development of mankind in the world, which is of far-reaching significance. Tea culture is an important part of Chinese culture and education, and its connotation is extremely rich, including all aspects of tea production and consumption and its impact on people's spiritual life. The expression and existence of tea culture education are both material and spiritual. It is manifested in material form, such as the historical relics and relics of tea, various famous teas, tea houses, tea sets, tea songs and dances and tea art performances, etc. It is manifested in the form of spirituality, such as tea virtue, tea ceremony spirit, tea hospitality, tea integrity, tea cultivation, etc. Because the connotation of tea culture is extremely rich, both material and spiritual, the social functions and roles played by tea culture in the process of development must be multifaceted. The relationship between traditional tea culture and people's social life has always been very close, and tea is indispensable in the lives of ordinary people. The development of tea culture has made the social function of tea more prominent, and there are many important aspects of it, such as meeting friends with tea, showing gifts with tea, substituting wine with tea, advocating honesty with tea, expressing virtue with tea, nourishing nature with tea, using tea as a medium, offering sacrifices with tea, cooking with tea, eating with tea, setting up banquets with tea, exercising with tea, and making medicines with tea......
Meeting friends with tea is one of the most extensive social functions of tea culture. Through tea tasting, friends get together, exchange information, exchange feelings, enhance understanding, communicate friendship, talk and laugh at will, recall life, and enjoy the fun of life again. Therefore, there is a saying that "guests come to tea as wine on cold nights", and the traditional virtues are embodied in tea instead of wine, which is in line with the virtues and requirements of strict economy and curbing extravagance and waste.
Tea culture is an elegant culture that celebrities are willing to participate in, and tea culture is also a popular culture in which the public participates extensively. Tea culture covers the people and affects the whole world.
The role of tea culture in the world is mainly in several aspects:
First, the tea culture is centered on tea morality, attaches importance to the group value of people, advocates selfless dedication, and opposes forgetting righteousness and profit-seeking. It advocates that righteousness is more important than profit, pays attention to coordinating the mutual relationship between people, advocates respect for people, attaches importance to cultivating life and cultivating morality, which is conducive to the balance of people's mentality, solves people's spiritual confusion, and improves people's cultural quality.
Second, tea culture is a good friend to deal with the challenges of life. In the fierce competition, intense work, socializing, complex interpersonal relationships, and all kinds of pressure attached to people, it is not light. Participating in the tea culture allows you to relax mentally and physically and mentally to cope with life's challenges.
Third, it is conducive to advocating civilization, the atmosphere of the world cannot be polluted, morality cannot be degenerate and ugly, and tea culture is conducive to promoting spiritual civilization.
Fourth, it plays an obvious role in improving the quality of life of the people and enriching cultural life. Tea culture is intellectual, interesting and recreational, and tasting famous tea gives people a kind of beautiful enjoyment.
The cultural phenomenon formed in the process of drinking tea has a long origin, a long history, a profound cultural heritage, and is associated with religion. Tea art includes: tea selection, water selection, tea cooking technology, tea set art, environmental selection and creation, etc. The background of tea art is an important means to set off the theme idea, which renders the pure, elegant and simple temperament of tea and enhances the artistic appeal. Different styles of tea art have different background requirements, and only by choosing the right background can we better understand the taste of tea.
The unique rock rhyme of "live, sweet, clear and fragrant" of tea leaves a fragrance on the teeth and cheeks after drinking, the fragrance is high and long-lasting; the bottom of the throat is sweet, the taste is mellow and clear; the green leaves are red bordered, and the seven bubbles have an after-fragrance, which makes people feel refreshed and happy. Its noble qualities and virtues are manifested in the following: first, it can give people the enjoyment of quenching thirst, curing diseases, and fitness materials, and second, it can give people pleasant physical, mental, and spiritual enjoyment.
When brewing tea, it should be light and fast, and it can be full for eight minutes. After brewing, politely say to the guest, "Please use tea." "Guests should also express their gratitude, and after a cup of tea, they can enjoy the tea. When tasting tea, if you use a teacup, you should hold the cup handle with your right hand and open the lid with your left hand; if you use a cup, you should use your thumb, middle finger and index finger to hold the cup, and your ring finger and little finger will support the bottom; if you use a bowl, you should hold the cup with your right hand and open the lid with your left hand, and the guests can remove the tea leaves on the tea soup and drink it slowly. If you feel that the tea is too hot, you should put it on the coffee table to cool it before drinking, and do not blow it by mouth to cool down.
People drink real tea, can quench thirst and eliminate food, remove phlegm and sleep less, benefit waterways, brighten the eyes and benefit thinking, remove annoyance and get tired, people can not go without tea for a day.
Tea can invigorate people's spirits and enhance their thinking and memory skills. It can eliminate fatigue, promote metabolism, and maintain the normal functions of the heart, blood vessels, and gastrointestinal tract. Drinking tea has great benefits for the prevention of tooth decay. Tea contains a lot of trace elements that are beneficial to the human body. Tea has the effect of inhibiting malignant tumors, and drinking tea can significantly inhibit the growth of cancer cells. Drinking tea can inhibit cell aging and prolong people's life. It can stimulate the central nervous system, enhance exercise ability, have good weight loss and beauty effects, prevent senile cataracts, protect human hematopoietic function, and prevent heatstroke and cool down.
Tea is virtuous, and tea drinkers have tea virtue. Its taste is better than the luscious Daigo, the aroma is better than the fragrant orchid Zhi, and the frugality and lightness of the tea, thus quoting "Ruzhi prolongs life, picks the rose to maintain health, and a sip of the spiritual buds of the fairy mountain, it will change the body and bones, and float like a fairy". Tea has the virtues of "purity, harmony, tranquility and tranquility". The gentlemen, the likes of Webb, bath ointment, edification and deification, sheng Yashangtui, engaged in tea drinking. The people of the world, inspirational and innocent, do not break the jade and gold, sip the English chew Hua, and are ashamed not to store tea, which can be described as the Qing Shang of the prosperous age.
The teacup is as small as a walnut, and the pot is as small as a citron. Smell the fragrance first, then try the taste, chew it slowly and considerately. Sure enough, Qingfen was puffy, and the tongue was sweet. After one glass, try two more glasses, which is relieving and calm, pleasant. Although the dragon well is clear and thin, although the yang envy is good and the rhyme is inferior, there is a difference between the quality of jade and crystal. Huaxia tea virtue is: cheap, beautiful, harmonious, respectful four words, it is a product of nature, deep natural temperament. Zhong Lingyu is beautiful, creating excellent tea virtues. Tea is frugal, bitter and sweet, its frugality, light, quiet, fitness temperament, just with the Chinese people advocating bitter first and then sweet, gentle and humble, quiet and indifferent, abide by the idea of duty, deeply won the love of people.