The History Of Chinese Tea Culture Resource And Spread Abroad

With a statement like this in China: open the door with seven matters, firewood,rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea. A large amount of historical data show that, China isthe world’s first country who have discovered and used tea in the world. It has five tosix thousand years of history so far. The people who is the first one to find the tea’smagical effects, Yan emperor, Shen Nong, the father of the Chinese nation. In the Handynasty 《Shen Nong’s herbal classic》 has such records:"Shen Nong tasted grasses,bitter springs of water, to know what should the people avoid, as this, in seventy-two, aday met the tea and solution."In Han dynasty, the Tea turned medicine into drinks, from the6century early7thcentury, the Chinese directly or indirectly spread their own tea art to every corner of theworld. People said, wherever there is a crowd can almost see the shadow of Chinese teaculture. The world famous historian of science and technology Joseph Needham put thetea culture after the China’s four great inventions (gunpowder, paper-making, thecompass, printing), the fifth major contribution to mankind.From the beginning, the Chinese has made the tea and the tea drinking as a kind ofculture, It is tightly connected with our ancient civilized country’s historical process,and has played an irreplaceable role to the prosperity of the Chinese nation. At the sametime, Chinese tea culture, the traditional Confucianism, Buddhism and the Taoism,merge each other, promote each other, become an integral part of each other.China’s tea culture spread to the whole world with the local culture of mutualpenetration and integration, formed the unique national tea culture, for example, tea wasintroduced into Japan, their rich ethnic customs integrated into the tea ceremony. Theirtea ceremony system, genre and etiquette is unique; Tea culture was introduced into theUK, and has brought a huge impact to the British society, and formed its own uniquestyle, have changed their diet structure, enhanced the national constitution, or evenpushed the British’s democratization of political life...Tea, has the qualities of strong culture in the modern life, playing an increasinglyimportant role, it has become an inalienable part of popular culture. At the same time,the "tea" make our nation more self-respect, self-confidence, pride, is the pride ofChina.