? Japanese tea ceremony is a tea art culture that pays great attention to ritual. The focus of Japanese tea ceremony is not drinking tea but enjoying the process. Tea can make people meditate and have a soothing effect, and the Japanese tea ceremony seems to focus on strengthening this effect of tea, rather than just improving the taste of the tea. Therefore, the red tape of Japanese tea ceremony is inevitable.
? The Japanese tea ceremony is different from the Chinese Kung Fu tea. The Chinese Kung Fu tea emphasizes the beauty of making tea, with more graceful movements and a larger range of movements, while the Japanese tea ceremony emphasizes the sense of ritual and requires a quiet look. Be solemn, dress dignified, and behave steadily. The Japanese tea ceremony seems to be combined with Japanese Shinto and has become a tea art culture like a religious ceremony. Since it is a religious ceremony, it naturally requires people to be in awe, and the actions are naturally complicated and complicated.
? Nowadays, many people go out to learn Japanese tea ceremony culture. I think their purpose is not just to satisfy their curiosity, but more to invite their souls to "drink tea" . The Japanese tea ceremony brings people not only the fragrance of tea, but also the baptism of the soul by the tea ceremony.
? I think the red tape of Japanese tea ceremony is worth promoting. The complicated and seemingly meaningless tea ceremony movements are actually a good medicine to heal our souls. Modern people are too pursuing utilitarianism, and their fast-paced lifestyle makes their souls too hungry. Even music for self-cultivation has become utilitarian, leaving only arts such as the Japanese tea ceremony as a pure land for the soul.
? Marx said that as long as businessmen are given 200% of profits, they dare to ignore the gallows, which fully illustrates the dangers of utilitarianism. It is under this mentality that modern people have gradually given up many things that are beneficial to their psychology, all in order to pursue material enjoyment. Few people are willing to calm down and change their lifestyle to relax their tired souls. The more spiritually empty you are, the more you want to make up for it through material enjoyment. The more you make up for it, the more empty you will be. Then, morality and rationality will continue to collapse and be annihilated, and utilitarianism will be pursued without a bottom line until the collapse of human society. This outcome is foreseeable, so in order to avoid it, we need a slow-paced method that can calm the mind and purify the mind away from utilitarianism.
? Therefore, the development of Japanese tea ceremony is basically inevitable, and what makes Japanese tea ceremony flourish is obviously not the tea leaves that are readily available or the tea sets that can be wholesale produced, but these red tapes. The sense of solemnity brought by the Japanese tea ceremony seems to be the real essence of the Japanese tea ceremony, and tea is a by-product of the Japanese tea ceremony. Only the Japanese tea ceremony with its red tape is the true art of tea technique with soul.
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