Comparative Study Of Tea Culture Of China And Russia

China is the homeland of tea and the country which found and used tea earliest with the history of several thousand years .Tea, one of the four major drinkings, who became the envoy of friendship has been exported to the world with warmly welcome all over the world including Russians. What's more, as the model of beverage, it is also enriched with spiritual intension and cultural connotation, and made indelible contributions to the development of international culture.Tea was used in medicine, sacrifice, food, and finally as drink. Tea was discovered from the forest of Yu Nan, Gui Zhou, Si Chuan to all the south and north, east and west of china, and spread all the way to other countries throughout the world. From the material form of tea, spiritual connotation was evolved. The tea culture mixed Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism. It has its own special system and become the exotic flower in Chinese culture. Tea played an important role in people's daily life in both material and spirit. As the medium of friendship, tea had been traded between China and Russia as early as the 16th century, which became the origin and prerequisite of the culture interaction between the two countries.All the countries in the world that consume tea are affected by China directly or indirectly. Tea leaves, as the medium of civilization, has been spread to many counties in the world.The tea culture stems from the thought of participating in the material world by Confucianism. For politicians, tea is the tool for advocating being honest and clean and fighting against corruption. For poets, tea is the tool to develop a good mood and productive thinking. For Buddhists, tea is the necessity to sit in meditation. Lu Yu of the Tang Dynasty and his tea science, tea art, tea ceremony, and Book of Tea, are the milestone which formed the basis of Chinese tea culture. As an important part of Chinese long history, tea culture has merged with cultures of different countries during thousands of years and developed into the glorious tea culture of the human beings.The tea culture of Russia also has developed through hundreds of years. Form the plant of tea trees in the tsar era to becoming the production country of tea, the love of tea by Russian people has always been the driving force of the development of tea culture. Compared with that of China, the Russian tea culture has its own characteristics. But the two cultures also share common areas. As the interaction between the cultures of two countries, the tea culture has enhanced the friendship between the two nations, and boosted the understanding. The tea culture of the two countries will become spectacular part of the world literary history.