Tea culture flourished in China in the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Song and Ming Dynasties, and declined in the Qing Dynasty. So what is the historical origin of tea culture? The following is the historical origin of tea culture I compiled for you, I hope it will be useful to you. The historical origin of tea culture
People in China pay attention to one thing when drinking tea. Product? Words, where guests come, the etiquette of making tea and offering tea is essential. When a guest visits, you can ask for advice and choose the best tea set that best suits the guest's taste. It is also necessary to mix tea properly when offering tea to guests. When drinking tea with guests, the host should pay attention to the residual amount of tea in the guest's cup and pot. Generally, tea is made in a teacup. If half of it has been drunk, boiling water should be added, so that the concentration of tea is basically consistent and the water temperature is appropriate. When drinking tea, it can also be properly accompanied by tea, candy, dishes, etc., to achieve the effect of regulating taste and snacks.
tea culture is very important in China people's life. Tea has been used as a tribute to the king of Wu. In the later period of primitive commune, tea became an exchange of goods. In the Warring States period, tea had a certain scale. Tea is recorded in the Book of Songs in the pre-Qin period. Another example is that in the Han Dynasty, tea has become Buddhism? Meditation? A special tonic for children. In Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, there was a trend of drinking tea. In the Sui Dynasty, the whole people generally drank tea. In the Tang dynasty, the tea industry flourished, and tea became? People can't live without a day? Teahouses, tea banquets and tea parties have appeared to encourage guests to worship tea. Song dynasty, popular fighting tea, tribute tea and gift tea, etc.
When did China start drinking tea? Everyone has different opinions. Only in general, it can be said that it began in Han Dynasty and prevailed in Tang Dynasty. Before the Tang Dynasty, when drinking tea, Lu Yu's "Tea Classics" rolled down "Drink of Six Teas". Tea for drinking, originated in Shennong, heard in Duke Zhou of Lu, Yan Ying in Qi, Yang Xiong, Sima Xiangru in Han, Wei Yao in Wu, Liu Kun, Zhang Zai, Yuan Zuna, Xie An and Zuo Si in Jin, all drank. ? But many are not historical facts. It is a historical fact, and it is not easy to understand without representation. "Tea Classic" cloud: Shennong's "Food Classic"? Tea is served for a long time, and it is powerful and pleasing? (Liu Yuanchang's History of Tea, Volume 1). Lu Yu's "Tea Classic" thought that drinking tea originated from Shennong's family, but "Food Classic" is a fake book, which is well known and not enough. There is "Erya"? Bitter tea? In other words, the world took Erya as the work of the Duke of Zhou, but it was a mistake to think that tea drinking began with the Duke of Zhou, but I don't know that Erya was not written by the Duke of Zhou. Insufficient evidence for the beginning of tea drinking.
The roots unearthed from the Tianluo Mountain site in Yuyao, Zhejiang Province are preliminarily judged to be tea plants, and the history of the earliest tea planting in China may be rewritten. The pronunciation of tea originated from Banan people, and Bayu is the birthplace of tea culture.
In many parts of the world, the habit of drinking tea was passed down from China. Therefore, many people think that drinking tea was initiated by China people, and the habits of drinking tea and growing tea in other parts of the world were directly or indirectly passed down from China.
(1) Shennong period: Tang dynasty? Lu Yu's Tea Classic:? Tea is for drinking, and it originated from Shennong. ? In the history of China's cultural development, the origin of all things related to agriculture and plants is always attributed to Shennong. After returning here, you can't push it up any more. It is precisely because of this that Shennong became the god of agriculture.
(2) Western Zhou Dynasty: Jin? Chang Qu's "Huayang National Records? Ba zhi:? When King Wu of Zhou conquered Zhou, he was really a teacher of Bashu, and all the tea and honey were paid tribute. ? This record shows that when the King Wu of Zhou Dynasty attacked Zhou, Pakistan had already paid tribute to Zhou Wuwang with tea and other precious products. It is also recorded in Huayang National Records that there were already artificially cultivated tea gardens at that time.
(3) Qin and Han Dynasties: Western Han Dynasty. Wang Bao's contract:? Do you have all the tea? ，? Wuyang buys tea? After the test, the tea is now tea. In the tomb of the Western Han Dynasty in Mawangdui, Changsha, it was found that there was "? A barnyard grass "and? "Bamboo slips and woodcuts have been verified"? "That is, the variant of" Yun "shows that tea drinking was quite extensive in Hunan at that time. We still drink the same drinks as our very old ancestors, such as Jiang Taigong, which is really exciting. Can give us a lot of reverie.
(4) Song and Yuan Dynasties: Tea areas continued to expand, and the skills of growing, making and ordering tea were refined. In Song Dynasty, tea culture was developed, and a number of tea works appeared, such as Cai Xiang's Tea Record, Song Zian's Tea Experiment Record in Dongxi, Huang Ru's Tea Tasting Record, especially Song Huizong Zhao Ji's Daguan Tea Theory. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Liu Songnian's "Tea Cooking in Lu Tong" and Zhao Mengfu's "Tea Fighting" were even more artistic treasures of China tea culture. [4]
In ancient historical materials, there were many names for tea, but? Tea? Is the name? Tea? Words were generally written before the middle Tang dynasty? Tea? Word. ? Tea? The word has the property of polysemy, indicating tea, which is one of them. Due to the development of tea production, the popularity of drinking tea is getting higher and higher, and the frequency of using tea characters is getting higher and higher. Therefore, in order to express the meaning of tea more clearly and intuitively, folk writers put? Tea? Subtract a stroke from the word and it becomes what we see? Tea? Word.
? Tea? Word from? Tea? The seeds of simplification originated in the Han dynasty, and some of them were in ancient Chinese and Indian. Tea? The word has been subtracted to become? Tea? The shape of the word. Not only glyphs,? Tea? The pronunciation of ""was established in the Western Han Dynasty. For example, Chaling in Hunan Province was once the territory of Liu Xin in the Western Han Dynasty. Tea? Wangcheng, one of the 13 counties in Changsha at that time, was called? Tea? Lingxian county. In Hanshu? Geography,? Tea? Ling? Tea? Yan Shigu's note is: the sound is extravagant and reversed, and the sound is arrogant and reversed. This reverse phonetic notation, right now? Tea? Pronunciation of words. Judging from this phenomenon, Tea? The establishment of word pronunciation should be earlier than? Tea? The establishment of Chinese characters.
China has a vast territory and abundant resources, and many nationalities, so it is also colorful in language and writing. There are many names for the same thing and many ways to write the same name.
In ancient historical materials, there were many names about tea. By the middle Tang Dynasty, the sound, shape and meaning of tea had tended to be unified. Later, due to the wide spread of Lu Yu's Tea Classic, Tea? The glyph of ""has been further established until today.
In the ancient literature of China, there was a long record about eating tea, and it had different names with different places of origin. China's tea was spread abroad as early as the Western Han Dynasty, and when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent an envoy to zhina Peninsula, India, the items he brought with him included tea besides gold, brocade and silks. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, China tea was exported to Turkey along with silk and porcelain. In Yong Zhenyuan, Tang Shunzong, the most sincere Zen master in Japan returned to China and brought China's tea seeds back to Japan. Since then, tea has spread from China to all parts of the world, making many countries begin to grow tea and have the habit of drinking tea.
But some people can find evidence that the habit of drinking tea was not only invented by China people, but also in other parts of the world, such as India and Africa.
in 1823, a major of a British invading army discovered wild big tea trees in India, so some people began to believe that tea originated in India, at least in India. Of course, there are records of wild tea trees in China, all of which are concentrated in the southwest, and some areas in Gansu and Hunan are also included in the records. Tea tree is a very old dicotyledonous plant, which is closely related to people's lives.
In China, there are also disputes about the earliest origin of tea trees, and there are several opinions. Many people think that in Yunnan, a scholar asserted after careful research that Xishuangbanna in Yunnan is the origin of tea trees. The earliest written record of artificial cultivation of tea trees began with Mengshan tea in the Western Han Dynasty. This is recorded in Sichuan Tongzhi.
The Spring and Autumn Annals
The Spring and Autumn Annals of Yan Zi? What do you mean by "miscellaneous articles" Yan zi is in harmony, wearing ten liters of cloth, eating millet, five eggs, and moss? I thought that drinking tea (that is, tea) began in the Spring and Autumn Period. However, The Spring and Autumn Annals of Yan Zi was not written by Qi Yan Ying, so it is difficult to establish. And Wan Weiting's series "The Collection of Records and Evidence of Sleepy Learning" has eight clouds:? (Huai press) This edition of "Yanzi Chunqiu? "Miscellaneous Internal Articles" is a three-and-five-base moss dish, and 867 volumes of "Yu Lan" are cited as tea. Although it is recorded as tea, it is not a tea to drink. Therefore, the matter of tea drinking is not seen in the classics. The world is poetry? Who is bitter for tea? As a proof of drinking tea, I don't know if this tea is a bitter tea, right? Bitter tea? Tea can't be crowned with pride. It seems that there is no wind of drinking tea in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, so "Zhou Li?" Celestial officer? "Family slaughter first" says that the pulp man provides the king with six drinks, one is water, the other is pulp, the third is water, the fourth is cool, the fifth is medicine, and the sixth is unitary. I haven't seen tea yet
since the Han dynasty, tea drinking has been recorded from time to time. During the Three Kingdoms, Wu Sunhao drank seven liters of wine for each group of ministers, while Wei Yao only drank two liters, either to cut back or to give tea as wine (The History of the Three Kingdoms? Wu zhi? Biography of Wei Yao), with tea, I am afraid it has been used to entertain guests. Otherwise, why is there tea at the banquet? Jin Zhanghua tasted it? Drinking real tea makes people sleep less? (Zhang Hua's "Natural History"), it is also the wind of drinking tea in Jin Dynasty, so tea has a long history. Song Peihan's "Tea Story" says:? Tea originated in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and flourished in the present (Song Dynasty). ? Fixed error. "Luoyang Galand Ji" refers to the period when drinking tea began in Liang Wudi Tianjian in the Southern Dynasties, which is especially wrong. The so-called wind of drinking tea started in the Han and Wei Dynasties, but prevailed in the Han and Wei Dynasties. Because it was not widespread in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, how can we talk about it in the Han and Wei Dynasties? Two anecdotes are as follows:
When Xiao, the king of Qi, first entered Wei Dynasty, he did not eat mutton crisp paste, often ate fresh fish soup, and was thirsty for tea juice. See Xiao drinking a bucket, and the number was leaking. Only the tea failed, and he became a slave to the cheese. Gaozu laughed. Because the tea was called a slave to the cheese, one day King Peng Chengwang dug it up and said to Xiao:? Tomorrow, your mother will take care of me to prepare a tea for you (that is, fish) and there will also be cheese slaves. ?
Huang Xianfan's "A Preliminary Study on the Interpretation of Ancient Books" states:? After the Northern Dynasties, the scholars of Wei Jing, when they saw Xiao drinking tea, were called strange, and the number was Leaky. From the latter point of view, if You Yangte wants to prepare tea for Xiao Zhengde, it is rare and strange, and it is not a household item, which at least proves that it is not an ordinary thing. Otherwise, it is not a thing used by the Xianbei people in the Northern Dynasties. At this time, drinking tea may be limited to a certain place, and it is not popular among the people. Therefore, it can only be called the beginning of drinking tea. The popularity of drinking tea began in the Tang Dynasty. People in the Tang Dynasty became addicted to drinking tea. Dongpo's poem says:? Zhou Shi remembers bitter tea, and tea drinks out of this world. ? It is based on the tea of today. Since the Tang Dynasty, it has become a common practice for ordinary people to drink several bowls every day. ?
When Xiao Zhengde returned to the country, Yuan Yi wanted to make a name for himself. He first asked Qing how much he was in the water, but Zhengde didn't know what he meant. He replied, Xiaguan was born in a water town, and since he was established, he has never suffered from the difficulties of Yang Hou, and the guests laughed.
According to the former saying, the scholars of Wei Jing in the Northern Dynasties saw Qi Wang Xiao drinking tea, which was called weird, and the number was Leaky; From the latter point of view, if You Yangte wants to prepare tea for Xiao Zhengde, it is rare and strange, and it is not a household item, which at least proves that it is not an ordinary thing. Otherwise, it is not a thing used by the Xianbei people in the Northern Dynasties. At this time, drinking tea may be limited to a certain place, and it is not popular among the people. Therefore, it can only be called the beginning of drinking tea. The popularity of drinking tea began in the Tang Dynasty. People in the Tang Dynasty became addicted to drinking tea. Dongpo's poem says:? Zhou Shi remembers bitter tea, and tea drinks out of this world. ? It is based on the tea of today. Since the Tang Dynasty, it has become a common practice for ordinary people to drink several bowls every day.
Tea Poems
"Ode to Tea" Wang Xinjian
There are thousands of white clouds, and the copper pot is roasted and fried with firewood. The clay pot is mellow and adds interest to poetry, while the porcelain ou is green and melancholy. Lao Dan enlightened the Tao and raised his ambition, and Yuan Liang talked clearly about getting rid of vulgarity. Without nirvana, how can we keep the source fresh?
"Tea Blossoms" Cai Changzhi
Black and white, red, green, green and yellow, whoever picks tea dances in the air, and after the rain, the sun sets again, and the tea mountain bursts with green, and the tea fragrance floats all over the mountain. Decorating this mall will look better now.
Shennong said
Tang Lu Yu's Tea Classic:? Tea is for drinking, and it originated from Shennong. ? In the history of China's cultural development,
all things related to agriculture and plants are ultimately attributed to Shennong. And the view that China's tea drinking originated from Shennong has different views because of folklore. Some people think that tea was discovered by Shennong when he was boiling water in a cauldron in the wild. The boiled water was yellowish in color, which was sweet and refreshing. Based on Shennong's past experience of tasting herbs, it was found to be a kind of medicine. This is the most common statement about the origin of tea drinking in China.
Another way of saying this is to attach it to the pronunciation. It is said that Shennong has a crystal belly, and the food can be seen crawling in the gastrointestinal tract from its appearance. When he tasted tea, he found that tea flowed everywhere in the stomach, and tea came and went, washing the intestines and stomach cleanly. Therefore, Shennong called this plant? Check? , and then turn into? Tea? Word, and become the origin of tea.
Cultural Innovation
In 22, Ji Hansheng, a famous contemporary folk inventor, lived in Dingshu Town, Yixing for 14 months in order to deeply understand the famous pot-making art since the Ming Dynasty, and decided to create a special work that reflected the history of the Chinese nation and broke through the traditional art of pot-making in Yixing. He devoted nearly ten years of energy and finally created? Chinese dragon pot? , enriching the connotation of world tea culture.
? Chinese dragon pot? The interior adopts a patented structure that can brew two kinds of tea at the same time, symbolizing? One country, two systems? . The whole teapot conveys to people? World peace and the reunification of the motherland? 、? One country, two systems, social harmony? The concept of "Hu Yi" is a great artistic masterpiece in the history of pot art since the Ming Dynasty. ? Chinese dragon pot? Its appearance not only refreshes the history of world tea culture, but also has great historical significance in promoting the peaceful reunification of the motherland and the peaceful development of the world. It has been designated as a gift to national and regional leaders by the organizing committee of a series of activities for overseas Chinese to promote the peaceful reunification of China and the European Association for the Promotion of China's Peaceful Reunification? A token of peace? , and has an inscription by Wang Guangying? Heart is China? Lien Chan? Carry forward the quintessence of Chinese culture? , Chen Dazhang topic? Chinese dragon pot, an artistic treasure? , Bao Zhiqiang topic? Purple sand dragon pot, a masterpiece of art? . This national treasure teapot has been given to many heads of state and regional leaders, and is also known as? Modern national treasure? . Characteristics of tea culture
Historicity
Tea culture has a long history of formation and development. Tea has been used as a tribute to the king of Wu. In the later period of primitive commune, tea became an exchange of goods. In the Warring States period, tea had a certain scale. Tea is recorded in the Book of Songs in the pre-Qin period.
in the Han dynasty, tea became Buddhism? Meditation? A special tonic for children. In Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, there was a trend of drinking tea. In the Sui Dynasty, the whole people generally drank tea. In the Tang dynasty, the tea industry flourished, and tea became? People can't live without tea for a day? Teahouses, tea banquets and tea parties have appeared to encourage guests to worship tea. In Song Dynasty, fighting tea, tribute tea and gift tea were popular.
in the Qing dynasty, Quyi entered the teahouse, and the foreign trade of tea developed. Tea culture was born with the appearance of commodity economy and the formation of urban culture. In history, tea culture paid attention to cultural ideology, focusing on elegance, focusing on expressing poetry, calligraphy and painting, drinking tea, singing and dancing. In the formation and development of tea culture, Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism have been integrated into it, and it has evolved into the manners and customs of all ethnic groups, becoming an integral part of excellent traditional culture and a unique cultural model.
epochal
The development of material civilization and spiritual civilization has injected new connotation and vitality into tea culture. In this new period, the connotation of tea culture and