Introduction to Beijing Tea Ceremony Hall Beijing is the political center of the Qing Dynasty, with concentrated teahouses and complete grades. Many royalty, bureaucrats, nobles and children of the Eight Banners spend all day in teahouses. The history of Beijing Teahouse in Qing Dynasty is the epitome of the history of Qing Dynasty. During the Northern Warlords and the Republic of China, Beijing Teahouse was a place where politicians and bureaucrats went in and out.
Teahouses mostly serve scented tea, black tea and green tea. Tea sets are mostly simple bowls and cups. The teahouse has prepared chess, riddles and so on. Tea drinkers entertain themselves. A big teahouse has a stage, and there are performances of Peking Opera, storytelling and drum sets in the afternoon and evening. Many actors started from teahouses. Beijing in the late Qing Dynasty? Book teahouse? Up to over 60.
Teahouses in Beijing once declined for some time. Due to the resurgence of tea culture, there are now more than 170 teahouses in Beijing, which can be roughly divided into three types. One is the traditional tea house, such as Laoshe Tea House, Huguang Club Tea House and Tianqiaole Tea Garden. The teahouse is decorated with tables and chairs of the Eight Immortals and covered with bowls of scented tea. It truly embodies the combination of tea custom and folk custom and the local characteristics of Beijing.
Laoshe Teahouse can best reflect the local characteristics of Beijing. Writer Lao She's drama Teahouse reflects the rise and fall of the teahouse in old Beijing for decades. Now? Laoshe Teahouse? Carved beams and painted buildings, checkered wooden windows, celebrity calligraphy and paintings hanging on the walls, gorgeous palace lanterns, tables and chairs in the late Qing Dynasty, elegant environment, showing the characteristics of traditional Beijing-style teahouses.
There is also a private room in the corridor on the side of Laoshe Teahouse. There are 36 mahogany square tables in the middle of the hall, and there is a small stage in front. The waiter in Laoshe Teahouse is wearing a gown, and the waitress is wearing a cheongsam. In the teahouse, she poured water with a kettle and served tea. She was very busy. Laoshe Teahouse has folk art performances such as Beijing School Qin Shu, Jingyun Drum, ventriloquism, folk music and Allegro. Tea drinkers there have group reservations and individual visits. Tea drinkers not only come from China, but also many foreign guests come to experience the charm of Beijing Teahouse every day. The second kind of teahouse is a modern style teahouse, such as Five Blessingg Teahouse, which is characterized by tables and chairs, small pots and bowls of light fermented oolong tea.
Five Blessingg Teahouse takes business activities and training as its main functions. For example, the branch of Five Blessingg Tea House in Guangxi Gate of Xibahe River is divided into three floors and beautifully decorated. All kinds of famous teas and tea sets are displayed on the first floor. On the second floor is a private room with unique style, such as Zen Teahouse full of Buddhist flavor; Japanese teahouse covered with tatami; European teahouse with fireplace; Business teahouse integrating Chinese and western cultures; China traditional teahouse, palace lanterns hung high. On the third floor, there are two private rooms, which are used for friends gathering and couples talking, and the environment is quiet.
The third type is a comprehensive style tea house, such as Minghui Tea House, Baicaoyuan Tea House and Xiaoxiao Tea House. The decorative styles of comprehensive style teahouses are rich and varied. There are also Korean Tea Ceremony Hall and Japanese Tea Ceremony Hall, which are quite exotic.
In Beijing, the political center of the Qing Dynasty, teahouses were concentrated in various grades. Children of the Eight Banners who eat vegetables but don't work soak in it all day. The teahouse in Beijing in Qing Dynasty is the epitome of the history of the last dynasty. In the era of Northern Warlords and Kuomintang, it was also a place where politicians and bureaucrats came and went. The teahouse serves scented scented tea and red and green tea. Tea sets are mostly antique cups. There are also chess and riddles in the teahouse for people to entertain. The bigger teahouse also has a stage, and there are performances such as Peking Opera, storytelling and drum set in the afternoon and evening. Some famous actors sang red from the teahouse. Some high-end teahouses in modern Beijing are luxuriously decorated, with all-in-one mahogany tables, celebrity calligraphy and painting hanging on them, and waitresses wearing cheongsam. People who drink tea can not only drink high-grade famous tea, but also taste Beijing-style refreshments and snacks, and at the same time, they can enjoy Beijing Opera, Quyi and other plays performed on a small stage. The teahouse in Beijing is full of China traditional culture.
The main body of China tea culture is people, tea exists as the object of people, and tea exists for people. China tea culture is called the philosophy of beauty. There are five reasons:
1. The roots of China's tea culture aesthetics can be traced back to the pre-Qin, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. The master who laid the foundation of China's classical aesthetic theory is a great philosopher;
2. Its theoretical basis stems from some philosophical propositions;
3. In the development process, China tea culture aesthetics mainly absorbed the philosophical theories of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, and benefited from the promotion of a large number of thinkers and philosophers;
4. China's tea culture aesthetics emphasizes the unity of man and nature, exploring the mystery of the universe from a small teapot and appreciating the taste of life from a light tea soup;
5. China's tea culture aesthetics has a profound and extensive influence on tea people from a philosophical point of view, especially in thinking mode, aesthetic taste, artistic imagination and personality formation.
In a word, the aesthetic thoughts in China's classical philosophy sneaked into the night with the wind, silently nourishing the wonderful flower of China tea culture. In China's tea culture, there are both the ethereal beauty of Buddhism, the mysterious and broad-minded beauty of Taoism and the elegant and implicit beauty of Confucianism.
To sum up, some people draw the following conclusions:
The development of tea culture in China is from bottom to top, so its characteristic is breadth, which is the so-called tea culture, and it has an indissoluble bond with Confucianism. It can be said that it is unrealistic to separate China's tea culture from Confucianism. It is precisely because of the free and easy literati in China that China's tea culture is in a state of letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend. Because in China culture? Tao? This is a very sacred and serious matter. So, China just called tea in general? Tea culture? Or? Tea art? Dare not say it? Tea ceremony? .
The form of tea ceremony ① decoct tea. Put the tea powder into the pot and add water to boil. Boiling tea in Tang Dynasty was the earliest art form of tea tasting.
2 fight tea. Ancient literati each carried tea and water, and judged the quality of tea by comparing tea noodles with soup flowers and tasting tea soup. Doucha, also known as Doucha, flourished in the late Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty. It was first popular in Jianzhou, Fujian. Fighting tea is the highest expression of ancient tea tasting art, and its ultimate goal is to taste tea, especially to absorb the soup flowers on the tea surface. Finally, tea drinkers must taste the tea soup, so that the color, fragrance and taste are all good, which is the final victory of the tea war.
③ congou tea. Kung fu tea, popular in some areas since the Qing Dynasty, is the charm of tea tasting art since the Tang and Song Dynasties. In the Qing Dynasty, congou tea was popular in Tingzhou, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and Chaozhou, Guangdong. Kung fu tea pays attention to drinking time. There are two kinds of drinking congou: self-frying and self-tasting, and entertaining guests, especially guests.