For the Spring Festival of the Chinese, tea is indispensable. "Tea" and "ceremony" are inseparable, and "ceremony" is embodied by "tea". "Paying homage with tea" has been a habit for Chinese since ancient times.
Since ancient times, China has had the habit of "guests come to offer tea". In important festivals such as the Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, tea has become a gift for each other; Later, tea was popularized as a etiquette norm and behavior for the whole people to treat people and get married.
Over thousands of years of history, tea has evolved into a specific symbol of Chinese festival culture. The tea ceremony has also become a cautious expression of the traditional cultural "ceremony".
The true meaning of the year starts with a cup of tea
In China, the country of tea, the historical habit of drinking tea during the Spring Festival began in the Southern Song Dynasty. In the Lin'an area, the big families at that time took Yuanbao tea as a must-have tea for receiving people and entertaining guests during the Spring Festival. It means to wish the guests good luck and good fortune in the new year.
But it is obviously one-sided to explain the connotation of tea in this way.
In the more distant Western Zhou Dynasty, tea was used as a sacrifice. Tea is very valuable, the ancients in respect of the heavens, respect for the earth, worship the Buddha, worship ancestors and other important matters and occasions, all put tea on the table, in order to reflect piety, admiration.
From the Han Dynasty to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the style of drinking tea gradually became popular in Xishu and Jiangnan, and in the Tang Dynasty, tea drinking has become a trend and has become a necessity of life.
It is also from Lu Yu's "Book of Tea" in the Tang Dynasty that the material tea began to be elevated to the spiritual way of drinking tea, and the matter of drinking tea entered the metaphysical level from the metaphysical. In the way of tea, it is people's perception of life and awe of nature that has become a light to see the subtleties of people's hearts.
Tea was used as a gift, and literati gave tea gifts to each other
The ancients had a precedent for using tea as a gift and expressing emotions. Tea is a drink, flourishing in the Tang Dynasty, flourishing in the Song Dynasty, and then followed by successive dynasties.
Tea is noble and elegant, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are quite favored, and literati are especially loved, often to exchange tea gifts to express admiration and friendship, and through poetry to record the mutual gift of tea to the elegant affair.
A great talent of the Tang DynastyBai JuyiAfter being demoted from Beijing to Jiangzhou, Jiangxi, he was depressed and bored. In order to comfort and relieve Bai Juyi's inner depression, his friend Li Liulang specially sent this spring's new tea from the land of Sichuan and Shu
"Xie Li Liulang sent Xinshu tea".
The old love Zhou turned to the relatives, and the new tea was separated and sick.
A letter after a book on red paper, ten green shoots before the spring.
Add a spoon of water to fry the fish eyes in the soup, and stir the dust with a knife at the end.
If you don't send someone else, send me first, because I am a tea person.
There is a preference for flavored tea in the light, and the love of a cup of tea is more real. Although tea is silent, people can know it. A cup of tea made Bai Juyi feel the sincere friendship of his friends, and also made the closed door of his heart squeak open, and the refreshing breeze blew in the mountains.
The world only knows the "poet immortal" Li Bai, but they don't know that there is another "tea fairy" Lu Tong。Lu Tong, a poet of the Tang Dynasty who lived in seclusion in Shaomu Mountain, received a new tea from Meng Zhiyi, a friend of the then Changzhou Thorn History, and left a poem that has been praised for thousands of years"Writing Xie Meng's Advice to Send New Tea".This poem is also known as "Seven Bowls of Tea Song".
The general content is: Meng Jiyi sent to deliver the letter and new tea, and he brought a pack of new tea sealed with white silk and three mud marks. Sealed and stamped to see the importance and sincerity of Meng's advice, the sincere friendship of mutual respect between the two is overflowing between the lines.
Tea, bay leaves, young buds. Mu Shike, love monks. "A well-known tea monk and poet monk in the Tang DynastyKyaukranElegant and good tea, after drinking, the interest comes, often write poems to express the inner emotions, it's"Drinking Tea and Singing Cui Shi Envoy".Writes:
The Yue people left me to cut the brook tea, and picked the gold tooth and the golden tripod.
Plain porcelain snow color ethereal fragrance, how like the immortal qiongrui syrup.
Taste the famous tea of Yanxi given by the people of Yuezhou together with the history of Huzhou Cui Thorn, the tea after cooking, served in the white tea bowl, the tea fragrance is curling, light and elegant, sip a few lightly, the aftertaste is long, better than the elixir jade dew drunk by the immortals in the sky.
As the old saying goes, "tea has ten virtues", in addition to tea as a healthy drink, tea can also "use tea to benefit benevolence, tea to show respect, tea to walk, tea to Yazhi".
Tea ceremony is the perfect combination of traditional Chinese culture, tea culture and ritual culture. A tea ceremony contains the deepest emotional connection。Tea is a gift, although the ceremony is light, but the meaning is profound, and the meaning is far-reaching.