Lincang people of all ethnic groups in the long years of history has created a brilliant tea culture, it is a Chinese tea culture in a strange flower. Here is my carefully organized for you to take a look at the history of the development of tea culture in Lincang.
History of the development of tea culture in Lincang
Tea and the rise and fall of the central empire
? Chai, rice, oil, salt, soy, vinegar and tea? , in Chinese-style discourse, tea comes in last place. But this tea, which is both light and thin, is implicated in major historical processes.
Tea and its derivatives of tea culture are out of China, from Shennong, heard in Lu Zhougong, emerging in the Tang Dynasty, flourishing in the Song Dynasty, a thousand years of flame. Through trade, religious and cultural exchanges, this small leaf carrying the Chinese civilization has not only conquered the world's large and small nationalities, but also contributed to the birth of the United States, promoting the rise of the British Empire, accelerated the decline of the Qing Empire.
It can be said that the road of tea is the road of dissemination of Chinese culture. Tea, has become a symbol of this tea empire of China?
Tea as a national drink, born between the mountains and water, the essence of heaven and earth, Confucianism to raise clean, Taoism to seek quiet, Buddhism to help Zen. The cultural connotation of tea has exceeded its own material level. In general, the center of tea culture has been in the South, not only because of the origin of tea in the South, but also because of the Five Husband Rebellion after China's economic and cultural development of the region has been moved from the Yellow River basin to the Yangtze River basin?
Born in the south of China's tea in the south
Lu Yu, "Tea Classic" said: "Tea is the drink of the gods. Tea for drinking, from the Shennong clan. The legendary Emperor Shennong was the discoverer of tea, and he was also the legendary inventor of medicines to cure diseases.
Shennong's in order to identify the pharmacological effects of grass, once tasted a hundred herbs. Once when he was resting in a wild place, he used a kettle pot to boil water, and it happened that a few leaves drifted down, making the water in the pot turn yellowish-green. Shennong did not think, drank a little of the soup, but was surprised to find that the yellow-green water tasted fragrant, but is a rare medicinal herbs. With the passage of time, Shen Nong's came to the conclusion that this plant can quench the thirst of the body, refresh the mind and diuretic detoxification effect.
As for ? tea? s name comes from, it is also related to Shennong. Legend has it that Shennong's, with a glass-like transparent stomach, but all the food eaten into the stomach can see clearly, and therefore can know the advantages and disadvantages of this food for the body, which is the reason why he was poisoned many times and did not die. After he drank the yellowish-green water, he saw that this water flowed in his stomach, and wherever it went, it scrubbed his intestines and stomach clean. So he called this plant ? Wipe? which was later transformed into "tea". Tea? which was later transformed into the pronunciation of "tea".
The first records from Ba Shu
When King Wu of Zhou was fighting against the Shang Dynasty, the tribes of Ba Shu and other small southern states that participated in the war offered tea as a tribute to King Wu of Zhou. As recorded in Hua Yang Guo Zhi (华阳国志), written by Chang Qu (常璩) of the Jin Dynasty (晋常璩), tea was offered as tribute to King Wu of Zhou. When King Wu of Zhou conquered the Zhou Dynasty, he actually obtained the division of Ba Shu. Tea and Honey The tea and honey were all paid as tribute. The time of King Wu's attack on Zhou was around 1066 BC, which shows that China has a clear record of tea activities at least 3,000 years of history.
The earliest and most reliable record of tea in the literature that can be seen now is the "Boys' Testament" written by Wang Bao in the Han Dynasty. This article was written in the third year of Emperor Xuandi's Shenjue (59 BC), is an important document in the history of tea. Among them? Cooking tea with all the utensils? The tea is a great delicacy, and the tea is a great source of flavor for the people. Wuyang buy tea? The tea is a very important document in the history of tea science. Tea? has become a social diet at that time, and is used to treat the guests of the expensive things, tea has begun to popular in the middle class.
Drinking tea in the South
When China began to popularize tea, everyone said different, no one is sure. Only generally can be said to start in the Han, and prevalent in the Tang. Drinking tea before the Tang Dynasty, Lu Yu, "Tea Classic" Volume VI Tea Drinking "in general," said: "Tea for drinking, from the gods. Tea for drinking, from Shennong's, heard in Lu Zhougong, Qi have Yan Ying, Han have Yang Xiong, Sima Xiangru, Wu have Wei Yao, Jin have Liu Kun, Zhang Zai, far Zuna, Xie An, Zuo Si's disciples, are drinking. But more non-historical facts. Even if it is a historical fact, non-explanatory, but also not easy to understand. Tea scripture" cloud: Shennong "food scripture"? Tea and tea for a long time, powerful and pleasant? (Liu Yuan long "tea history" Volume I). Lu Yu "Tea Classic" that tea from Shennong's, but the "food scripture" for the pseudo-books, as far as anyone knows, not enough to be based on. "Er Ya" has? Bitter Tantalum? The sentence, the world to "Er Ya" for the Zhou Gong works, fallacy that tea since the Zhou Gong, I do not know "Er Ya" is not made in the Zhou Gong. It is not enough to prove the beginning of tea drinking.
"Yanzi Chunqiu? Yanzi phase Qi, clothing ten liters of cloth, food off the corn food, five eggs, moss and vegetables only? I thought that drinking tea (i.e., tea) began in the Spring and Autumn Period. However, "Yanzi Spring and Autumn Annals" is not made by Yan Ying Qi, it is difficult to establish. And Wan Weiting collection of "learning from the poor and the collection of evidence" Volume VIII under the cloud:? (Samuel press) this book "Yanzi Chunqiu? The internal part of the miscellaneous under the" as three Eagle five d moss vegetables, examining the "Imperial Review" volume eight hundred and sixty-seven cited as Ming tea, loaded into the Ming thing, although for Ming, but both said that the Ming tea, I'm afraid that is not the Ming drink of the Ming. Therefore, the matter of tea drinking is not seen in the scriptures. The world is also in the poem? Who is bitter for tea? The world also uses the poem "Who is Bitter for Tea?" as a proof of tea drinking, not knowing that this tea is a bitter dish of tea, not a bitter dish of tea. The tea of the bitter dishes, not the bitter dishes of the bitter dishes. The tea, can not Zhang Guan Li Dai. Like this Spring and Autumn and Warring States fear that the wind of drinking tea, so the "Zhouli? Heavenly officials? Home Zai the first "said pulp people for the king's six drinks, one said water, two day pulp, three said sweet, four said cool, five said medical, six said you ①. Have not yet seen drinking tea. ...... Since the Han, drinking tea records, heard from time to time, the Three Kingdoms, Wu Sun Hao every drink group of ministers wine, rate to seven liters for the limit, Wei Yao but two liters, or for the cut, or give tea tea when the wine ("Three Kingdoms")? Wu Zhi? Wei Yao biography "), to the time tea tea, fear has been used to entertain guests, otherwise, the banquet, why tea? Jin Zhang Hua said? Drinking real tea, people less sleep? (Zhang Hua "Museum"), is also the wind of tea, so the tea tea, from a long time ago, Song Pei Han "Tea" said: "Tea started in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the prevalence of tea in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the prevalence of tea in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the prevalence of tea in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Tea started in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, full of today's dynasty (Song Dynasty). The Luoyang Galaxy Records" said that tea drinking began in the Southern Dynasty, Liang Wu Di Tian Jian years. The so-called tea drinking style, began in the Hanwei can, prevalent in the Hanwei is not. Because the North and South Dynasties, this wind is still only popular in the South, the North Dynasty has not yet to be strange, what about the Hanwei, off this "tea history of miscellany" cited two anecdotes as follows:
Qi Wang Xiao first entered the Wei, do not eat mutton pastry paste, often meal fresh fish soup, thirsty for drinking tea juice, the Beijing Shi Shi Zi, see the Xiao drink a bucket, the number of leakage of the goblet, after the meeting with Gaozu eat mutton and cheese gruel, Gaozu strange question, the right, the goat is the Zong of the land animals, the fish is a long time of the aquatic community He said, "I'm not sure what I'm talking about, but I'm not sure what I'm talking about," he said. Only Ming not in, and cheese as a slave, Gaozu laughed, because the number of Ming drink for the cheese slave, his day Peng Chenggong King dig dedication said Xiao said: qing tomorrow Gu I set up for qing tianju meal (i.e., fish) also have cheese slave.
Xiao Zhengde surrendered, Yuan Yi want to set up tea, first asked the Secretary in the water how much Earl, Zhengde do not know its meaning, replied: the next official was born in the water countryside, since the establishment of the body, has not suffered the difficulties of the Yang Hou, the guests laughed.
By the former said, the Northern Dynasties after Wei Beijing Shi Shi, see Qi Wang Xiao drinking tea, cited as strange, the number for the leakage goblet; by the latter said, You raise special desire to prepare tea for the Xiao Zhengde, one for the lesser-known, one is not a common household items, at least enough to prove that it is not ordinary objects, otherwise, not the Northern Dynasties Xianbei tribe, this time to drink tea, fear that it is limited to a certain place, the line of a certain class, is not a universal population, so it can only be described as the beginning of the drinking of tea! period. The tea drinking trend of the rise, began in the Tang Dynasty. Tang Dynasty people drink tea into a fetish. Dong Po's poem: "Zhou Poetry Records of Bitter Tantalum Zhou Poetry remembered the bitter tea, tea drinking out of this world. Is the tea for today's tea. Since Tang, tea to clear the head and eyes, up and down the good, the people drink several bowls, indeed into the wind.
The current development of tea culture in Lincang
? Only know that drinking wine can be drunk, the famous tea is better than wine drunk very much; Lancang River water boiled tea, the host's feelings warm three; a cup is not finished I fell down drunk him three years still do not wake up. This is a poem written by the poet Li Yao in the tea town Fengqing, he portrayed the fun of drinking tea. Lincang people of all ethnic groups in the long history of the years created a brilliant tea culture, it is the Chinese nation tea culture in a strange flower.
The theoretical knowledge of tea, tea cultivation and processing experience is summarized, tea governance and regulations, tea rituals, religion, literature, art, tea, music and dance, product packaging and other aspects of the sea, a vast, beautiful. For example, in the tea customs and drinking, the Han Yi have small clay pots of roasted tea, hundred shaking tea, bamboo tube thunder tea, cold sour tea buds; Wa have fresh leaf tea, fire tea, tea, raw tea, salt tea, tea gel tea; Dai have glutinous rice tea, bamboo tea; Brown have bamboo tea, sour tea, mushy rice tea, bamboo honey tea; 0 Lahu have roasted tea, tea, fire tea, betrothal tea, marriage tea, worship tea. Hui, De'ang, Miao also have their own different tea drinking tea custom. In addition, various ethnic groups also orally created to reflect the tea folk songs, poems, couplets, proverbs and a large number of folk stories, legends. Tea also penetrated into the music, dance, tea, singing tea, dancing tea, tea ceremony, tea ceremony, and so on, but also blossomed. Cloud County in the 1990s had twice participated in the International West Lake Tea Party, brought to perform the tea ceremony, tea ceremony, praise such as clouds. Fengqing created "Dian Hong's hometown" song sung by the famous singer Jiang Dawei, "steam green special honey love incense" song sung by the singer Guan Mucun, the production of the golden discs spread at home and abroad.
The tea songs and dances of Cangyuan Wa Mountain Art Troupe were performed in Beijing, Paris, and Singapore. Lincang City Song and Dance Troupe in 2006 China Lincang Tea Expo performed a large square song and dance "Song of Tea", guests praised the mouth. Lancangjiang Tea Co., Ltd. song and dance troupe choreographed a series of tea songs, tea dance programs, in-depth to all parts of the province touring charity performances, to make friends with the song, to dance to pass on the love. Lincang also built a tea culture garden, the tea culture of various ethnic groups concentrated in a furnace, show tea industry, publicize the tea industry, play a window role. Linxiang, Shuangjiang and other places shaped up Shennong tea ancestor statue, for people to worship and remember Shennong tea ancestor, pray for harmony and well-being. Reflecting the tea culture of writings, CD-ROMs have been published and distributed, such as "China Lincang native tea" album, "China Lincang tea culture" monograph.
Tea manufacturers publish books, sets, albums, folders, widely publicized tea products. Commodity packaging boxes, bags are more varied, beautifully designed and printed, reflecting the development and progress of tea packaging culture. Ancient tea gardens, ancient tea tree museums have also appeared, from another level to show the tea culture of Lincang. Municipal and county governments and enterprises have also utilized information technology to set up tea websites, allowing the world to understand the secret Lincang.
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