The emphasis on "Zen tea blindly" is that "Zen" is the understanding of the heart, "tea" is the spiritual bud of the material, and "blindly" is the communication between the heart and tea, and between the heart and the heart.
The tea culture spirit of China Zen can be summarized as "integrity, purity, harmony and elegance". The Zen tea culture of "tea and Zen blindly" is a unique phenomenon in the history of traditional culture in China, and it is also a great contribution of China to world civilization. Tea and Zen are two cultures, which contact each other in their long historical development, gradually penetrate and influence each other, and finally merge into a new cultural form, namely Zen tea culture.
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Since Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, the history of China tea has been widely known. After Buddhism spread to the east, monks who practiced tea ceremony thought it was refreshing and helpful to practice, so some monks began to combine tea ceremony with Buddhism and Taoism.
After the Tang and Song Dynasties, the habit of drinking tea became popular in large and small temples. According to ancient books, there were "tea halls" or "tea houses" in the temples in the Tang and Song Dynasties, where monks discussed Buddhism, Zen and tea, and hung "tea drums" outside the tea halls to beat drums to attract monks to drink tea and discuss Buddhism.
The spirit of tea permeates the court and society, and goes deep into the life of China people. For thousands of years, China has not only accumulated a great deal of material culture of tea planting and production, but also accumulated rich spiritual culture of tea, which is a unique tea culture in China.