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Chapter 745 Tea Ceremony
Zhao Ji, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, was a lover of tea. He believed that the fragrant taste of tea can make people leisurely and tranquil, and have endless fun: "As for tea, it is a thing, good at the elegance of Ou and Min, the aura of Zhongshan and River, and the beauty of the mountains and rivers. To remove stagnation and bring about clarity and harmony, no mediocre person can understand it; to dilute simplicity, high rhyme leads to tranquility..."

In the second year of Shaoxi in the Southern Song Dynasty, the Japanese monk Rong Xi brought tea seeds back to Japan from China. From then on, tea began to be planted all over Japan.

At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zen Master Zhaoming of Nanpu in Japan came to Jingshan Temple in Yuhang County, ZJ Province, my country to learn Buddhist scriptures. He exchanged the tea banquet rituals of the temple and introduced Chinese tea ceremony to Japan for the first time, becoming the earliest disseminator of Chinese tea ceremony in Japan.

There is a clear record of this in the Japanese "Leiju Mingwu Kao": "The tea ceremony began in the Zhengyuan Dynasty when Chongfu Temple was built in front of the mountain and Nanpu Zhaoming was introduced from the Song Dynasty."

The Japanese "Biography of Eminent Monks of the Dynasty" also has a description: "Nanpu Zhaoming returned from the Song Dynasty and brought the tea table and tea utensils to Chongfu Temple."

It was not until the time of Toyotomi Hideyoshi in Japan that Sen no Rikyu became an eminent Japanese tea ceremony monk, and then he raised the banner of "tea ceremony" high and summarized the four rules of tea ceremony based on the "Book of Songs": "harmony, respect, purity, and silence". Obviously, This basic theory was formed under the influence of the essence of Chinese tea ceremony, and its main ritual framework and specifications still originated from China.

The tea ceremony in China appeared very early, but unfortunately, although China proposed the concept of "tea ceremony" very early and continued to practice and explore in this field, it was not able to develop this cause in the name of "tea ceremony" with a clear-cut stand. There is no standard tea ceremony etiquette with traditional significance.

The Chinese tea ceremony can be said to emphasize the spirit but not the form.Some people think that necessary rituals are more important to the banner of "tea ceremony". If there are no rituals, just claiming to have "tea ceremony", although it cannot be said that it is impossible, if tea can be praised, it seems to be generalized. In the end It is also "the Tao can be Tao, but it is very Tao".

Making tea is a very simple matter. It only requires two actions: put the tea leaves and pour the water.

But in the tea ceremony, the set of rituals is too complicated or too elaborate. Ordinary people will definitely not make this small daily thing so complicated.

In fact, the Chinese tea ceremony is not just satisfied with the invention and ritual standards of cultivating the body and soul with tea, but is more boldly exploring the true meaning of tea on human health.

The Chinese Tea Ceremony creatively combines tea with traditional Chinese medicine and other natural raw materials, which greatly enhances the role of tea in medical care and gives it a greater development space. This is the most practical Chinese Tea Ceremony. The aspect of value is also the charm that has been valued and loved by people for thousands of years.

The way of drinking tea in the Tang Dynasty and the tea soup in the Tang Dynasty are completely different from our concepts today.

To drink tea in the Tang Dynasty, tea cakes were chopped and ground into powder, sieved and then added to boiling water to cook into a paste. At the same time, salt, green onions, ginger, orange peel, mint, etc. were also added to it, which was similar to a terrible " Soup with Pepper".

The tea ceremony of the Tang Dynasty was passed down to later generations, and after 100 years of rule by the Yuan Dynasty, it was completely annihilated on the land of China.On the contrary, the Japanese tea ceremony retains part of the content of the tea ceremony of the Tang Dynasty.

The tea ceremony is a performance art that expresses certain etiquette, character, artistic conception, aesthetic views and spiritual thoughts through tea tasting activities.

It is a combination of tea art and spirit, and expresses spirit through tea art.It flourished in the Tang Dynasty of China, flourished in the Song and Ming Dynasties, and declined in the Qing Dynasty.

The main content of the Chinese tea ceremony pays attention to the beauty of the five realms, namely tea leaves, tea water, heat, tea sets, and environment, as well as emotional and other conditions, in order to achieve the highest enjoyment of "taste" and "heart".

Known as an aesthetic religion, the Japanese tea ceremony, which takes harmony, respect, purity, and silence as its basic spirits, inherits the legacy of the Tang and Song Dynasties.

Tea culture belongs to the category of Chinese culture, which means that every detail of tea tasting is regulated by etiquette and pays attention to tea leaves, tea water, heat, tea sets, environment, and the beauty of the artistic conception formed by the drinker's cultivation and emotions.

The connotation of tea culture is actually a concrete expression of the connotation of Chinese culture. When discussing tea culture, we must combine it with traditional Chinese culture.

The spiritual connotation of tea culture is a cultural phenomenon with distinctive Chinese cultural characteristics formed through the combination of tea making, tea appreciation, tea smelling, tea drinking, tea tasting and other customs and Chinese cultural connotations and etiquette. It can also be said that It is a etiquette phenomenon.China is the hometown of tea, with a long history of growing tea, strict etiquette for serving tea, and a unique custom of eating and drinking tea.Our country has been drinking tea for at least 700 years since the Shennong era.

The tea ceremony has a predestined relationship and has existed since ancient times.

Offering tea to guests is the earliest traditional virtue and etiquette of hospitality among the Han people.Until now, when guests come home, they always want to make a cup of fragrant tea.Festive events are also celebrated with refreshments.

Holding a tea party is both simple and economical, yet elegant and solemn.The so-called friendship between gentlemen is as light as water also refers to tea with a pleasant fragrance.

The Han people also have various customs of using tea as a substitute for gifts.In Hangzhou, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, every family cooked new tea at the beginning of summer, paired with various fruits, and presented it to relatives and friends nearby. It was called Qijia Tea.

This custom is to put two green fruits, namely olives or kumquats, in the teacup, implying good luck in the New Year.

The tea ceremony is still a grand etiquette in ancient Chinese weddings.Xu Cishu of the Ming Dynasty said in "The Textual Research on Tea": Tea does not move the root, but the plant will produce offspring.

The ancients regarded tea as a symbol of their marriage. They believed that tea trees can only sprout from seeds and cannot be transplanted, otherwise they will wither. Therefore, tea is regarded as a symbol of true nature.

Therefore, among the people, tea is used as a gift when men and women get engaged. When the woman accepts the betrothal gift from the man, it is called tea or tea.

At the same time, the entire marriage etiquette is also collectively referred to as three teas and six etiquettes.The three teas are tea when getting engaged, tea when getting married, and tea together when having sex.

Tea is also known as men's tea and women's wine. That is, when getting engaged, the groom's family will not only send Ruyi stamps but also several jars of Shaoxing wine.

During the wedding, there are three tea ceremonies.For three courses of tea, the first cup is fruit, the second cup is lotus seeds and dates, and the third cup is tea.

The way to eat is to take the cup, hold it in both hands, bow deeply, and then touch it to your lips, and then your family will take it away.

The same goes for the second way.

The third way is to bow before drinking. This is the most respectful etiquette.

These traditional customs have disappeared today, but the ceremony of serving tea at weddings is still a custom.

After hearing what Ye Feng said, Zhao Licheng nodded repeatedly, and then asked: "Dr. Ye, do you know the procedure for making tea?"

Ye Feng nodded and replied: "The first step is to wash the pot, pour the boiling water into the pot, and then pour it out quickly; the second step is to brew, and the boiling water is put into the pot again, and the spout 'nods' three times during the pouring process, that is, The so-called 'Phoenix Three. Nodding' means that the water should be higher than the spout of the pot, and the tea leaves should be brushed off with the lid."

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