Modern "tea set" mainly refers to tea drinking utensils such as teapot, teacup and teaspoon. The types of tea sets listed in Pi Rixiu's Ten Poems on Tea Sets in Tang Dynasty are "Tea Dock, Tea Man, Tea Shoots, Tea Sticks, Teahouses, Tea Stoves, Tea Bakers, Tea Ding, Tea Ou and Boiled Tea." Among them, "tea dock" refers to the concave land where tea is planted. "Tea man", according to the modern point of view, should not be included in the vessel.
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Delicious food is not as good as exquisite utensils, which is always used by China people. From drinking a lot of soup to slowly drinking tea, human beings have gone through a certain historical stage. Different drinking methods naturally produce corresponding tea sets. Tea set is the most important carrier in the long history of tea culture development, which provides an important physical basis for us to interpret the tea drinking life of the ancients.
Tea originated in Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou in the southwest of China. Sichuan's economy was quite prosperous in Han Dynasty, and drinking tea became increasingly prominent in the life of scholars at that time.
In Tongyue, Wang Bao recorded that "the tea has been cooked and the hole has been covered" and explicitly mentioned the tea set used for making tea. "Guangya" by Zhang Yi of the Three Kingdoms records: "Tea is collected between Beijing and Pakistan, made into cakes, and made of rice paste. If you drink it, you should bake it until the color is red, pound it with porcelain, cover it with soup, and sprinkle it with ginger and onion, indicating that the way to drink tea at that time was to bake the tea cake first, pound it into tea powder, put it in a porcelain bowl, then pour in boiling water, and add some onions and onions when drinking.