Japanese tea ceremony appreciation articles for a while, the first issue 1 for a while
? One issue, one issue? Originated from the tea ceremony, the first issue is a Buddhist term, which means? A person's life? ; A moment is a ritual in Buddhism, which literally means? People only meet once in their lives? .
I have been studying tea ceremony for two and a half years. Since "One Taiwan, One Meeting" originated from tea, I will write what I understand through the familiar matcha road? One issue, one issue? .
I. Origin
I first entered the teahouse in the summer of more than two years ago. Miss M stayed in my house for three months, when she had been studying tea for more than a year. She studied Urasenke, the first-class tea ceremony in Japan, and the delicate and rich soup foam is the best. When you pass me the tea, turn the tea bowl 90 degrees clockwise. Later, I learned that the tea set in the tea ceremony is divided into "front" and "back". No matter the host or the guest, anyone should hand out what he has in his hand, and remember to show it to others in front of them to show his respect.
M went to her teacher's house to learn tea and dragged me there.
The end of July is a hot summer, and the air in summer is very clear. The first time I met Teacher Tanaka, she wore thick glasses and kimono iromuji. She is a famous tea teacher in America. Nearly eighty years old, my body is still strong and I am doing it myself.
She changed a room at home into a tea room and built a tea room outside. In the room, tall trees are towering, and there is a corner pavilion next to the wood. From the corner pavilion, she entered the teahouse. Midway Island is made of stone. There is a stone washing bowl on the side of the stone road. At every formal tea party, tea drinkers wait in the pavilion at first, and then enter the room through the stone road to attend the meeting. Before entering the teahouse, you need to wash your hands and rinse your mouth, and then wash your hands to purify your body and mind.
In addition to tea, teachers in the field also have a special liking for camellias. At its peak, 96 kinds of camellias were planted in the court. In the south of the stadium, two Yoshino cherry trees are unobtrusive. However, every warm day in March, the Xuan Hao Cang flying all over the sky is a magnificent scenery.
There is no doubt that the tea ceremony originated in China. Zhisheng, and Yu Song, Hangzhou Jingshan Temple? Jingshan tea banquet? In most cases.
What kind of scene is the Jingshan tea banquet?
Monks sit around and talk about scriptures and buddhas. Outside the Yueming Hall built by Hui Zong, Chihiro Cuiling and Bailiu Hengpo. The tea party is very grand. There are guests around the monks who serve tea according to the lights, and the monks pour water into the tea in turn. After that, the host and guest exchanged greetings, each holding a cup, sipping tea with a half suffix and making a rustling sound. This action is called. Tea? . After the tea ceremony, monks can drink tea, discuss things, recite scriptures and give sentences. This tea banquet is clear and rigorous, with its established etiquette of brewing, handing over, greeting and drinking, and the tea set is also very exquisite.
During the Kaiyuan period of the Southern Song Dynasty (1259), Nanpu Zhaoming, a disciple of Longmen Road, a Japanese monk, went to the Song Dynasty to seek dharma and moved to Jingshan Temple, where he lived in seclusion for five years. In the third year of Xianheng (1267), Zhaoming returned to China and brought it back to the Song Dynasty? Order tea? , tea table, tea classics named after seven? Jingshan tea banquet? . From Zhaoming to Zhaoming, the tea ceremony of Zen Temple was completely introduced to Japan. After a lapse of 300 years, Morino Rixiong expounded his new ideas and put forward? Peace, respect, purity and silence? I thought that I would eventually become a Japanese tea ceremony master.
Second, a bowl of thin tea.
The first meaning of "one session" is "a rare side that the world should cherish".
I have been studying tea for more than two years, and what I remember most is the thin tea made by Yamazaki Mari.
Mari, like me, studied tea with Teacher Tanaka. She is a traditional Japanese housewife, gentle and virtuous. She can cook delicious snacks, sew and make all kinds of handicrafts. She is the mother of a four-year-old girl, almost forty years old. At first glance, he is in his early twenties. She has an oval face and almond eyes in Zhang greatly, and she takes advantage of her appearance. In fact, she is a very gentle and careful woman, which can be seen from the way she makes tea.
In the teahouse in March, there is a fishing pot hanging above the ground stove. It was Yamazaki Mari's farewell tea party. She's going back to Japan and won't be back for a short time. Well, I've known her for less than a year.
Fishing pots are stoves for boiling water. The kettle is small and long, with copper rings on both sides and hooks. A long chain is tied to the hook, which hangs from the ceiling and hangs the copper kettle on the square stove. The tea ceremony emphasizes the season, and the summer monsoon furnace, winter ground furnace, wind furnace and ground furnace are different according to the change of months. The strangest thing is that in March of the year, only fishing pots are used. Take water from the fishing pot and test the skill of the tea man. At the best time, holding a ladle to scoop water, the pot body shakes without chaos, full of quaint spring interest.
The farewell tea party in Mali is divided into three parts, first charcoal (adding charcoal to the ground stove), then strong tea, and finally thin tea. I made a thick tea road, while the light Chaze was finished by Kobayashi Zonghe. She has studied tea for the longest time, about seventeen years. In the name, Kobayashi is the surname and Zonghe is the tea name (after the tea ceremony is completed, the teacher will apply for a tea name for the students from Li Qianjia's headquarters, and add the word "Zonghe". Getting a tea name doesn't mean learning, just knowing the moves. Reaching the temperature is often a long process. )
At that time, tea drinkers surrounded the stove, the water in the room was boiling, and the white sandalwood was low and long. Last year was a warm spring, and Pak Lei and cherry blossoms blossomed early. The charcoal fire in the furnace cracked. It was probably the charcoal that made the teahouse too warm. A guest opened the door in the east corner. As soon as it opened, the east wind came in with spring scenery, and the bright lights shone on the cool seats. Birds are singing in the branches in spring, which reminds me of March when I first met her. One rainy morning, it was just me, her and three teachers in Hotan.
It's just a very ordinary tea class. Because of the rain, the room is cold and bright. Yamazaki wants to make me a bowl of thin tea.
I remember that she put it into a tea bowl in a depressed and faint color and started the ceremony of thin tea.
Although it was raining, she wore a kimono with a small cherry pattern, without makeup, and only rubbed a thin layer of pink glaze on her lips. Seen from a distance, the beauty is amazing.
That day, she chose a pink five-petal cherry blossom bowl, which was similar in color to kimono. There is a tea towel in the bowl, the tea basket (tea brush) is placed obliquely in front of the towel, and the tea spoon on the bowl is upside down. After kneeling for a few steps, she put all the tea sets away, then took out the silk gauze (handkerchief for cleaning tea sets) and folded it carefully, and solemnly wiped the thin container with matcha (tea pot with matcha powder) and bamboo tea ladle.
I sat in the opposite guest seat and saw a piece of white tea on the wall. Maria tilted her head to have a look, and then widened her eyes. On weekdays, tea classes are very casual. As long as the teachers from other places have no opinions, everyone can come with their own wishes. Mari nodded in praise and took the folded silk thread to lift the lid of the kettle. At that time, the water in the kettle boiled like spring water, the lid was lifted and a burst of white smoke filled the air. After the white smoke is over, take out the handle ladle and scoop half a ladle of water from the pot, and then slowly pour it on the tea bowl. At the moment, the room is full of silence, only the murmuring sound of running water, like the vernal equinox in March, sprinkles snowflakes on a clear stream, breaking a touch of Chun-Li in this faint color.
People are easily pleased by small things, at least I am. When I heard the sound of water, I was inexplicably happy when I saw her bending down, concentrating on cleaning tea baskets and bowls.
When cleaning the tea basket, Mary frowned. After a long time, she took off the broken tip of the tea basket with her index finger. And cleaning the tea bowl is slow and careful. Wipe the tea set one by one properly, then open the thinner, take two spoonfuls of tea powder with a tea spoon and put it in the bowl, and knock the end on the wall of the bowl, making a very light sound. At this time, the water is just boiled, so put it back into the thin container and tea spoon, take the handle spoon to the deepest part of the kettle, take a spoonful of boiling water and pour it into the tea bowl.
Her action of brushing tea is lovely, her face is red, and there is a serious competition. The tea basket in my hand rustled in the bowl because of mixing. The rhythm is extremely fast, like the spring tide with rain, coming late and the wind is urgent. Pour less, the tea foam in the bowl began to form, and the sound of brushing tea gradually slowed down. At this time, brushing tea, just like a boudoir woman sweeping Emei, slowly goes back and forth several times, with the aim of leveling the tea foam evenly.
I was also impressed, because the rain stopped, probably when she was brushing tea, she had her own light and the sliding door filed in. At first, the light was only in the corner of the tea mat, and then it jumped onto the plain wall and climbed up the white tea that opened late. In a short time, let the originally dark teahouse light up. Unable to resist, I turned around and pushed the sliding door open a crack. After the rain, spring scenery roared in, and I took the tea bowl from Mary. I just feel that there is a strong sense of spring, and it is still full after a few blows.
Indeed, it is the best bowl of thin tea I have ever drunk.
This situation can't be copied, and it can only be remembered occasionally in the future.
Teacher Tanaka said that life comes and goes in a hurry, but tea lasts forever. In this eternity, 10 thousand kinds of accidental variables are born, and they are met when they meet. It is the most primitive explanation of "one phase for a while".
Third, a bowl of strong tea.
When I came to strong tea, I had another understanding of "one phase at a time".
Strong tea has complicated etiquette and is much more solemn than light tea. It was the basis of the later advanced tea ceremony.
There is an unspeakable truth in tea ceremony, that is, making tea a thousand times has its own meaning. For example, Tanaka has been making tea for decades, and he is nearly eighty years old. No matter how complicated the tea ceremony is, he can be a professor in class. She said that beauty is not the brain, but the body. Physical memory comes from perception. What to do at the moment, what to do next, and the steps of tea ceremony may be forgotten when others ask, but once you kneel on the tea mat and get close to the pot, water, bowl and spoon, everything will flow like a spring in a crevice, and beauty will naturally show up.
Thin tea bowls can be plain and colorful. Black music bowl is the most commonly used in strong tea.
At that time, Mori no Rikyū directed Jiro, the first generation music teacup, to make the first black music teacup. Later generations think that this tea bowl is simple and natural, which can best represent Li Xiu's tea ceremony thought. In terms of manufacturing technology, Heile tea bowls are handmade, and there is no runner for burning pottery, so each tea bowl is unique in the world. It coincides with the concept of "chinese odyssey" in tea ceremony.
There is a great difference between strong tea and weak tea, which means "tea is there" (a jar filled with strong tea powder). Wiping is a process of dust removal. The dust in the tea set is also in my heart. (The picture on the left shows the ordinary strong tea ceremony "entering tea", and the picture on the right shows the intermediate Tang utensils ceremony "entering tea". )
The specific wiping method is to take out the silk thread (... handkerchief used to wipe various tea sets in tea ceremony) and unfold it, hold its two corners and fold it slightly in front of you before unfolding it. Move two corners to the left, fold them in half, then unfold them, and change them four times in turn according to this procedure. The fifth time, according to the folding method of silk yarn in thin tea, put it in the palm of your hand and start to wipe the tea.
I remember when I first learned strong tea, many of them were just shapes. Once I hosted a cherry blossom festival tea party. When I made this brush, Tanaka explained it to the tea drinkers. She said that this 60% discount exhibition has special significance. 10% off, for parents, brush the worries. 20% off, in order to make friends with friends, dust off their confusion. 30% off, worried about the people who drink tea here. 60% off, for yourself, concentrate, brush away all the dust in the world, kneel on the tea mat, leaving only compassion and meditation, and enter the tea garden with three points of spring scenery.
Different from thin tea, a bowl of tea is drunk by many people in strong tea. Take two spoonfuls of tea powder for thin tea, three spoonfuls for strong tea first, then put down the spoon, turn the tea leaves over, pour a proper amount of strong tea powder into the bowl, and then take the spoon to flatten the tea powder in the bowl (orange is silk thread).
After that, put a teaspoon into the pot, scoop a spoonful of water and slowly pour it into the bowl. This is water injection, and the water is three-quarters of the finished tea. After water injection, put the tea basket into a bowl and gently stir it evenly. The technique should be calm, aiming at slowly kneading the precipitated tea powder.
2. Water injection: hold the tea basket horizontally in the left hand and the handle ladle in the right hand, then take a ladle, pour boiling water into the ladle, pass through the tea basket, and bring the stagnant tea soup into the bowl to make the last quarter. After that, brush the tea and grind the tea basket slowly as before until the tea is mixed and the soup is thick but not stagnant, smooth but not greasy.
This is the most difficult step, but it is the most exquisite place for strong tea.
A bowl of tea should be shared by several customers, and how much tea powder should be poured is better. How many points should I pour into the water and how many points should I add to the water? All the nuances are measured by the experience of the tea maker. When I first learned strong tea, sometimes there was more tea and less water, and then the tea soup was thick and stagnant, and my throat was dry. Or more water and less tea, thin soup and lack of color. Although admission is easy, it is a bit less solemn and strict.
If others have the heart, they can consider it. To make strong tea is to feel the usefulness of others and their hearts.
Close the sliding door and the teahouse will become an independent world. Outdoor troubles, troubles and leisure troubles have nothing to do with this place. Then bow down to drink tea and look up at the guest of honor. There are five flowers on it, and the next one is boiled. A good tea man stared at it as if a gourd ladle, an altar, a water and a bowl were vividly in his mind. Good tea drinkers also have a good heart. If the tea is beautiful and the water is good, the strong tea is low-brow, and the most beautiful and best thing is to mix it carefully and evenly with a teapot. When a bowl of spring scenery is boundless, I will humbly offer it to others.
Make tea, turn the bowl in your hand twice and pass it. The tea drinker took the first sip, and the tea drinker asked, is this tea still edible? The guest replied, very good.
The longer I study tea, the more I realize another meaning of "for a while": behind a beautiful meeting is a kindness to observe others, thinking less about myself and more about others. Many details in the tea ceremony reflect this point. As a tea drinker, you can feel the thoroughness of talking with things.
Only by being kind to others can we have an unforgettable "one phase for a while" in impermanence. The so-called "the world is rare" means cherishing "fate" and "heart".
Fourth, one tea and one utensil.
It's not just people who meet in the world. Seeing people and things is also a "meeting".
In any tea ceremony, after the host drinks tea, there is a step for the tea drinker to "meet" the tea set, which means "meet" in Japanese. The tea set in thin tea includes "thin container" and "tea spoon" filled with matcha powder. The ceremony of visiting strong tea includes "entering tea", "tea ladle filled with strong tea powder" and "official reply" wrapped in the tea. Of course, after drinking tea, there is also a "visit" step to the tea bowl, which is a very important part of the guest ceremony, but it is not included in the final "visit" link at the end of making tea.
The so-called "encounter" is the encounter between people and things, and it is also the distant encounter between people and the creator at present.
I wonder, who made this tea and what kind of tea was poured today to make a bowl of tea clean and clear?
Who made this tea spoon, and why should it be inscribed?
Who weaved this "official reply" and what kind of flower pattern matches the tea in the package?
I once bought a tea bowl in a tea shop. The owner of the shop is a Kyoto tea man who went to San Francisco to open a tea set shop. I didn't buy a precious tea bowl, but he still asked me to take good care of the wooden box. I don't know who made it, and any tea set has lost its value. The thing itself is worthless, and what people remember is the "ingenuity" of the creator. One tea, one device, one device, one heart and one mind, is spread and used by countless people and things. People don't have to meet each other for a while, but they still have real meaning to convey.
Fifth, the first phase will be held for some time.
I'm not sure if I'm right when I say "for a while". Teacher Tanaka didn't mention the essence of "for a while" when learning tea. She didn't say, but it seems to be reflected in many places. For example, this little tea party is signed in, and every time people come, they are different. Some people who left their names are still there, and many are gone. When people leave, they leave their names beside them, or take some old photos, which used to be "one paragraph at a time".
Appreciation of Japanese tea ceremony articles in the first issue.
? The first issue? Refers to a person's life. What happened afterwards? This means that there is only one meeting. One issue, one issue? Included in? How many periods and meetings? Medium. As an important concept of Japanese tea ceremony, it originated from the impermanence view of Buddhism.
Things are impermanent, all behaviors are impermanent, all laws have no self, and all things suffer. ? Impermanence? This is from China's ancient books and Buddhist scriptures. It means that everything in the world is constantly changing and cannot last long.
The Japanese archipelago is far from the mainland and is long and narrow from north to south. Volcano, earthquake, tsunami, typhoon and other natural disasters occur frequently. It is recorded in the abbot:? During the earthquake, people said that life is really illusory and unpredictable. ? This idea has already penetrated into the spiritual life of the Japanese people. At the end of peace, Japanese singer An Ma Changming wrote at the beginning of the abbot? The surging river keeps flowing, but the water now is not the original water. ? Yoshida Kenko, a Japanese hermit writer in the Middle Ages, said in his essay Grass in vain. Beginners of archery should not hold two arrows. ? He warned martial arts students not to think that there would be? Try again? Take chances lightly. In the face of death, once you miss it, everything is irreversible. It is also reflected in Japanese literature, such as Wude story, Yi Shi story, Yamato story, Genji story and Pingchang story. Japanese literature itself is instilling impermanence in people. Ukiyo-e, which was popular in Japan from the end of the shogunate to the Edo period, was influenced by Zen. Life impermanence? Influence, trying to describe young and beautiful ladies, because women's faces will be as short as cherry blossom season and flutter with the wind. Even the parting words can show that the Japanese are deeply influenced by impermanence. What are the parting words of China people? See you later. [Qiao Yuanmeng's "Yangzhou Dream" is the third fold. I am busy with business, so I will see you soon. ? ] With the Japanese? One issue, one issue? Compare them and draw a conclusion, right? See you later. Or? One issue, one issue? ,? Both of them express the meaning of attaching importance to meeting others, but the former focuses on separation and looks forward to meeting again; The latter focuses on the current meeting time. Every meeting between people is only once in a lifetime and needs attention every time. ? Then you can see China's? Are there any regular customers? Strong ideas and Japan? Impermanence? Ideas.
Japanese people have a strong sense of crisis living in such a natural environment, right? Impermanence? Understanding is necessarily negative; But it can also be seen that they have the pursuit of good wishes, and people can still feel the rational power accumulated by this nation. ? One issue, one issue? His tea ceremony thought is a good example.
Appreciation of a Japanese tea ceremony article for a while.
Japanese tea ceremony originated in China and developed continuously in Japan, becoming a comprehensive cultural activity that combines religion, philosophy and aesthetics. Tea ceremony has a strong sense of ceremony. Although it is mainly about tasting tea, its cultural significance has already surpassed tea itself. It can be said that the tea ceremony is not only an activity of tasting tea, but also a way of understanding life.
? One issue, one issue? It is the philosophy of life realized by tea ceremony.
? One issue, one issue? Is a subtle concept, literally: once in a lifetime. Some people say it has something to do with the Japanese? Impermanence? The idea is related, but after thinking about it, I think it is so simple: the tea I drink here and now, what I said, will not appear again. In fact, every minute of our life is unique, and we can never come back after it.
? One issue, one issue? Remind us to cherish every moment in life, or, every cup of tea.