One bud is called lotus seed, the second bud is called flag gun, and the third bud is called sparrow tongue. Among them, it not only contains the truth of natural science, but also includes people's feelings and aesthetic artistic conception of nature such as heaven and earth, mountains and rivers. Water, spring water, river water, well water and even natural rain and dew are called rootless water, which also requires the harmony between nature and spirit. Tea set is not only technical, but also contains many cultural meanings. The process of making tea is also artistic. People observe its color, smell its taste, and appreciate the subtle mystery of the coordination and mutual transformation of the five elements from the combination of fire and water and material transformation. As for the process of drinking, we should pay more attention to how to order tea, what etiquette to do, the feeling of host and guest, and the friendship of tea friends. Therefore, we should pay great attention to the environment of drinking tea, whether by the green river, in a quiet teahouse, at a tea banquet in the imperial court, in a city teahouse or in a roadside tea shop. Drinking tea in different bad environments will produce different artistic conception and effects. This process is called tea art, in other words, it is to look at drinking tea from an aesthetic point of view.
When people in China drink tea, they should not only pursue the enjoyment of beauty, but also use tea to cultivate and cultivate their own spiritual morality. In all kinds of tea drinking activities, we should not only coordinate international relations, seek self-purification and introspection of our own thoughts, but also communicate each other's feelings. Make friends with tea and respect guests with tea. All fall into this category. Through drinking tea, Buddhist meditation, Taoist meditation, Confucian moderation and harmony can gradually penetrate into it. Through long-term practice, people express these processes of thinking and enlightenment with certain rituals, which are tea ceremony and tea ceremony.
Tea art is integrated into the spiritual content and etiquette form of tea drinking, so that tea drinkers can learn and understand the truth and seek the road of harmony and unity between subjective and objective, spirit and material, individual and group, man and nature, and universe. This is what people in China call the tea ceremony. China people don't talk easily, and they call for tea. In other words, they have realized its mechanism and essence. After reading this, some people may say: you make tea mysterious, how can there be such profound things? However, if you can read this book carefully and truly understand the spirit of tea culture in China's history, you will find that the author's theory is not exaggerated.
Tea ceremony is not only good, but also goes deep into people's lives in all walks of life. As a result, there have been court tea culture, scholar-bureaucrat tea culture, Taoist tea culture, Buddhist tea culture, citizen tea culture and various tea folk customs. Although the forms of expression are different, they all contain the basic spirit of China Tea Ceremony.
Tea is combined with other cultures, resulting in many cultures related to tea. Tea law, tea monopoly and tea-horse exchange have appeared in tea trading, including both law and economy. Scholars drink tea, recite poems and paint; Tea songs and teamo appeared in folk tea picking; Stories and legends about tea also came into being. So tea combined with literature and art, and tea literature and art appeared. With the emergence of various tea shops, teahouses, teahouses and teahouses, tea architecture has also become a specialized knowledge. In all kinds of tea ceremony, tea ceremony is accompanied by ritual system and even politics. Tea has become an important social means for China people. You can look at drinking tea from the perspective of psychology and sociology. Tea going to the world is also an important part of international economic and cultural exchanges.
Taken together, this is the tea culture in China. It includes the etiquette and spirit of tea art, tea ceremony and tea, as well as its performance among people from all walks of life and many cultural phenomena related to tea.