Chinese drinking tea can be said to have a long history, as early as thousands of years ago, Chinese have formed an indissoluble bond with tea. As a kind of Chinese culture, tea culture can also reflect the connotation of Chinese culture, it can help people cultivate themselves, and reflects the etiquette culture of Chinese people to treat people, so it is extremely elegant; However, tea culture is also carried forward with the market, and it is often accompanied by folk culture such as storytelling and singing, so it is also "vulgar", and the tea culture of vulgarity and elegance is broad and profound, so let's take a look at it today.
China is the homeland of tea, so it is also the birthplace of tea culture, and China has been discovering tea and using tea for four or five thousand years. According to legend, Chinese tea drinking began in Shennong, was promoted by Lu Zhougong, flourished during the Tang and Song dynasties, and became popular during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Tea culture integrates the ideas of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and claims to be one, which is a wonderful flower in Chinese culture. Tea culture refers to a cultural characteristic formed and embodied in tea drinking activities, including tea ceremony, tea morality, tea spirit, tea union, tea book, tea set, tea recipe, tea poetry, tea painting, tea science, tea story, tea art, etc., with many very interesting knowledge.
The indiscriminate use of tea provides a material premise for the development of tea culture, and the participation of literati constitutes the core of tea culture. Lu Yu of the Tang Dynasty played a very important role in the development of tea culture, his book "The Book of Tea" systematically summarized the production of tea, and also put forward the tea ceremony culture of "fine practice and frugality", he and a group of other literati carried forward the spirit of tea and the moral norms of tea drinking, and innovated and upgraded the technology of making tea, tea utensils, etc., and also blended tea culture with Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, thus laying the foundation of tea culture.
During the Song Dynasty, tea culture developed and became a very important part of "popular culture". In the Song Dynasty, due to the development of the commodity economy, there were entertainment venues such as tea shops and bookstores, and many forms of entertainment that were popular with the public appeared along with tea. Since the Song Dynasty, tea culture has changed from the elegant culture of the literati to the national culture of elegance and vulgarity, and it has also become closer to people's lives and has been loved by everyone.
Today, tea culture has more innovative development, has become an artistic way to cultivate sentiment, and has also spread to home and abroad, becoming a unique symbol of Chinese culture. The knowledge about tea culture is worth doing more and more in-depth understanding.