Tea art is part of the tea ceremony culture, the development of which has been thousands of years of history, but nowadays, although people like to drink tea, but the understanding of the tea art is very little, the following I'll introduce you to the knowledge of the tea art!
One of the tea ceremony
The tea ceremony, sprouted in the Tang Dynasty, carried forward in the Song Dynasty, reformed in the Ming Dynasty, and flourished in the Qing Dynasty, can be said to have considerable historical origins, a system of its own.
Originally, monks used tea to concentrate their thoughts, and Zen Master Zhaozhou from the chenming once used "eat tea to go" to guide the scholars; only later did it become a ritual of sharing tea.
The Tang Dynasty tea, more ginger and salt to add flavor, known as ginger and salt tea, the poet Xue Neng, "tea poetry" cloud: "salt loss often add caution, ginger should be cooked more yellow." Early Song popular tea method, the tea leaves crushed into fine powder, rushed out of the tea soup should be white as milk, "Guanlin Poetry", the Northern Song Dynasty, Su Shi like Fengxiang Yumen Cave spring water, every time you go, have to take two bottles to bring back to cook tea. Su Shi has "and Jiang Kui send tea" a poem: "old wife and children do not know love, half has been into the ginger salt fried." Su Shi himself paid much attention to the health of tea. Su Shi himself is very focused on the health effects of tea, gargling with strong tea after eating, can lift the annoyance.
The Ming Dynasty began to popularize tea
Chinese national nature, natural modesty, not form. So whether it is the Tang Dynasty Tea Classic, the Song Dynasty Daguan on tea, or Ming Dynasty tea sparse, the text is only a general theory, the general people will drink tea into a part of life, there is no ceremony, without any religious color, tea is a necessity of life, happy how to drink, how to drink. Drinking tea is concerned about the interest, such as "Phi Wing tired", "late at night *** language", "small bridge and boat", "small courtyard incense", are the best environment and time to taste tea, "cold night guests tea as wine" realm, not only reveals the harmony and pleasure between the guests and hosts, but also implies a kind of elegant sentiment.
Wherever the Chinese landed, they brought the habit of drinking tea; the Han Chinese were the first to discover tea, and are the ancient nation of tea drinkers. When you come to the treasure island of Taiwan, you may be in an old street in the temple, see three or two old people, leisurely sitting around a fist-sized and ancient kosher teapot, a cup of manpower, while talking and drinking, that is the traditional Chinese tea for the elderly. You may also see a tea ceremony hall with a signboard on a busy street in Taipei metropolis, where the natural aroma of tea hits your nose, and if you're interested in stopping to sip it, there's a demonstration of how to make a pot of easy-to-learn kung fu tea.
Two, meaning
Chen Xiangbai said that the tea ceremony has 'seven righteousness and one heart', the tea ceremony is one of its seven righteousness.
The tea ceremony is a universal concept of the tea ceremony under the sub-concept, it refers to the tea activities in the tea as the center of all the operational forms of the general term. Tea ceremony can be summarized as "the expression of the tea ceremony; tea ceremony can be limited to" Gongfu tea ceremony "or" green tea tea ceremony "and so on.
The tea art is including tea tasting techniques and art means of appreciation as well as the appreciation of the beautiful environment of the tea tasting process, such as the beautiful mood, the process of reflecting the form and the spirit of the unity of each other. As far as form is concerned, tea art includes: choosing tea, choosing water, tea cooking technology, tea utensils art, creating a series of environmental choices and so on. Tea, first to choose, pay attention to pots and cups of simple and elegant, or luxury Zhuanggui. In addition, tea should also pay attention to the character, the coordination of the environment, literati and elegant people seek quiet and elegant, the pursuit of luxury and noble officials and aristocrats.
General traditional tea, the environmental requirements are more than the breeze, the moon, pine, bamboo, bamboo rhyme, plum, snow and other kinds of fun and mood. In short, the tea ceremony is a perfect combination of form and spirit, which contains the aesthetic point of view and the human spirit. The traditional tea ceremony, is a dialectical unity of nature and human experience, from the spirit and the flesh of the interactive feelings to identify the relevant issues, so in the technique, that contains the ancient Chinese simple dialectical materialism, but also contains the people's subjective aesthetic interest and spiritual support.
Three, how to understand the tea ceremony
First, simply "tea" and "art" of the organic combination. Tea art is the tea people to people's daily tea habits, according to the rules of the tea ceremony, through artistic processing, to tea drinkers and guests to show tea rushing, brewing, drinking skills, the daily tea to the art of tea, enhance the realm of drinking, giving tea to a stronger sense of spirituality and beauty.
Second, the tea ceremony is a kind of art of life. Tea art is colorful, full of life interest, for enriching our lives, improve the taste of life, is a positive way.
Third, tea ceremony is a kind of stage art. To show the charm of tea ceremony, we need to use characters, props, stage, lighting, sound, paintings, flowers and other close cooperation and reasonable choreography, to give tea drinkers a noble, beautiful enjoyment, and bring vitality to the performance.
Fourth, tea ceremony is a kind of life art. Life is like tea, in the nervous and busy, make a pot of good tea, savor, through the tea into the inner cultivation process, feel the bitter, spicy, sour and sweet life, so that the soul is purified.
Fifth, the tea ceremony is a culture. Tea art in the integration of the excellent culture of the Han nationality on the basis of a wide range of absorption and reference to other forms of art, and extended to literature, art and other fields, the formation of a strong national characteristics of the Han tea culture.
Sixth, the tea ceremony is a beautiful art of life[3], only classified in-depth research, continuous development and innovation, the tea ceremony can go off the performance stage, into thousands of households, and become a healthy, poetic, fashionable way of life that the contemporary people are happy to accept.
The tea ceremony
Whether you drink tea or for the tea ceremony how much understanding, then the tea ceremony you must have heard of, but most people even if they have seen the tea ceremony on it is also half-understood, I will introduce you to the classification of the tea ceremony as well as knowledge of the show.
Since the 1970s, Taiwan's tea people put forward the concept of "tea", the tea culture business has risen, with regional characteristics of the Tea House and large and small tea culture event for the emergence of the tea ceremony provides a platform. After more than a decade of practice, the tea ceremony as a carrier of the spirit of tea culture carrier, has developed into an extraordinary performance of the art form, gradually attracted people's attention.
Categorization of performances
Looking at the various tea performances, can be roughly divided into three categories.
Folk tea ceremony
The tea ceremony is based on specific folk customs, folklore, tea drinking habits, to reflect the folk culture and other aspects of the main, through the art of refining and processing, tea as the main body. Such as "West Lake Tea Ceremony", "Taiwan Oolong Tea Ceremony", "Gannan Tea", "White Three Way Tea", "Green Bean Tea", "Green Bean Tea", "Tea Ceremony", "Tea Ceremony", "Tea Ceremony", and "Tea Ceremony".
Ancient Tea Ceremony
The tea ceremony is based on historical information, through artistic refinement and processing, generally reflecting the original historical appearance of the main body. Such as "Gong Liu Zi Zhu Quan Tea Ceremony Performance", "Tang Dynasty Palace Tea Ceremony", "Korean antique tea ceremony".
Other tea performances
Taken from specific cultural content, after artistic refinement and processing, to reflect the specific cultural connotations of the main body, tea as a carrier, such as the "Zen Tea Show", "Fire Pond Tea Love", "Bridal Tea".
Performance knowledge
Performance conditions
The basic conditions of the tea ceremony are many, such as costumes, venues, sound, tea utensils, tea, auxiliary artifacts, water and so on.
Performance costumes
Performance costumes of various styles, styles, but should be consistent with the theme of the performance, the clothing should be decent, dignified, generous, in line with aesthetic requirements. Such as "Tang Dynasty court tea ceremony show", the performer's clothing should be Tang Dynasty court dress; such as the "Bai three tea show" to the Bai ethnic national characteristics of clothing; "Zen Tea" show to the Zen clothes are appropriate.
Performance environment
The tea ceremony environment selection and layout is an important part of the performance environment should be no noise, clean, clean, clean windows, the outdoor area must also be clean, the environment should be a good place for tea or refreshing the spirit of the environment, or under the pine and stone springs. Must also be prepared to watch the place as well as chairs, serving tea premises. Such as the Japanese tea ceremony before the tea party to sweep the courtyard, indoor hanging simple and contemplative calligraphy and painting, flower arrangement, as well as the arrangement of small flower aloe, etc., in order to facilitate the performance of the tea ceremony, so that you enter the tea ceremony in the creation of art.
The music of the performance
The music should be in line with the theme of the tea ceremony. Just as the clothing and tea ceremony theme is consistent
Korean tea ceremony is the same, will help people to perform the effect of affirmation and recognition. Such as "West Lake Tea Ceremony" with the music of Jiangnan silk and bamboo; "Zen tea" with Buddhist music; "Gong Liu Zi Zhu Quan tea ceremony" with guzheng music and so on.
Tea ceremony etiquette
Tea ceremony etiquette, as the name implies, is in the conduct of the tea ceremony, a requirement, norms, the reason why the tea ceremony is so appealing to the people, and tea ceremony etiquette is inseparable from the following I would like to introduce you to the principle of tea ceremony etiquette and the basic gesture it!
Principles of etiquette
Etiquette when the collective term for politeness, understanding. Etiquette is a comprehensive and strong behavioral science, refers to the interpersonal communication, from beginning to end to a certain, agreed procedures, ways to show the complete behavior of discipline, respect for others, when a performance of politeness of the system and the complete process. Tea etiquette summarizes the principles.
1, abide by the principle of self-discipline
In the tea ceremony, each participant must consciously abide by the etiquette, etiquette to regulate their own words and deeds, but also self-requirement, self-restraint.
2, respect for people in the principle of tolerance
Not to lose respect for people, not to Shanghai other people's dignity, not to insult the opposite personality, respect for the heart of the people to survive; in the tea ceremony after the move not only to be disciplined, but also to be lenient with others. To be more amusing to tolerate others, do not seek to blame.
Tea ceremony etiquette basic posture
As a tea artist, should have the cultural cultivation, decent behavior, familiar with and master the knowledge of tea culture as well as tea skills, to do with the spirit, feelings, skills to move people. In other words, whether in appearance, demeanor and even temperament, there are higher requirements.
1, decent dress
The nature of tea is calm and peaceful, therefore, the tea maker's off dress to neat and generous as well, not too bright, women avoid heavy makeup, bold exposure, men should also avoid the grotesque, such as long hair, wearing a beggar's outfit, etc. In short, whether male or female, should be instrumentation neat and tidy, dignified demeanor, with the environment, tea matching, speech, decent, polite and courteous. Decent, courteous, reflecting the inherent cultural qualities to.
2, neat hairstyle
Requirement of hairstyle principle should be based on their own face, suitable for their own temperament, giving a very comfortable, neat, generous feeling, do not recognize the length of the tea should be combed according to the requirements of the tea.
3, beautiful hand type
As a tea ceremony personnel, first of all, there should be a pair of slender, tender hands, usually pay attention to timely maintenance, along with keeping clean, clean.
4, delicate face
The tea ceremony is a light thing, the face of the make-up is not too thick, and do not spray a strong flavor of perfume, otherwise the tea was bad, destroying the feeling of tea tasting.
5, elegant demeanor
A person's personality is easy to reveal from the process of tea. It can be modified by gestures and movements, and subconsciously change a person's mood. There are two things you should pay attention to when making tea: firstly, the rhythmic expression of the combination of movements, and secondly, the integration of the movements of making tea into the communication with the guests.
The benefits of drinking tea
1, helps to slow down the aging process. Tea polyphenol has a strong antioxidant and physiological activity, is the body's free radical scavenger. According to the relevant departments of the research proved that 1 mg of tea polyphenols to remove harmful excess free radicals in the human body is equivalent to the efficacy of 9 micrograms of superoxide dismutase (SOD), much higher than other substances of the same kind. Tea polyphenols have the effect of blocking lipid peroxidation and removing active enzymes.
2. It helps inhibit cardiovascular disease. Tea polyphenols play an important role in human fat metabolism. The body's cholesterol, triglycerides and other high levels of fat deposits in the lining of blood vessels, vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation after the formation of atherosclerotic plaques and other cardiovascular diseases. Tea polyphenols, especially tea polyphenols in the catechins ECG and EGC and its oxidation products such as theaflavin, help to make this plaque proliferation is inhibited, so that the formation of blood coagulation viscosity enhancement of fibrinogen is reduced, coagulation becomes clearer, thus inhibiting atherosclerosis.
3, help prevent and fight cancer. Tea polyphenols can block ammonium nitrite and other carcinogenic substances synthesized in the body, and has the effect of directly killing cancer cells and improve the body's immune system. According to relevant information, tea polyphenols in tea (mainly catechin compounds), stomach cancer, intestinal cancer and other cancers of the prevention and adjuvant therapy, are beneficial.