Chinese Tea

About Chinese tea in the Tang Dynasty, together with the spread of Buddhism in the Korean peninsula and the Japanese archipelago. to imagine as the first tea in Japan, is Japan’s monks.AD 1168, the Japanese Zen master and study by many Guorong West to China to Buddhism, while difficult to “tea” research, that had a strong interest in the Chinese tea ceremony.

West Wing return home if a large number of types of Chinese tea back to Japan with Buddhist scriptures, in Buddhism firmly “planted to tea-ceremony, complimentary drinks and Chinese tea seeds. The use of tea when he was the Kamakura shogunate healed the general trend, the source of the diabetes, but also the author of “tea-health in the eye” to the magic of tea to promote the book, said the tea is the “gift God “is” health Yao Xian, disease of the wonderful trick. “ West Wing, which was always as Japan’s “revered grandfather of tea.”

As Tang and Song dynasties, Chinese tea and tea drinking habits of the art ﹑ Buddhist temple in Japan after the introduction, then gradually spread to the majority of the population so that the custom of tea in the lives of Japanese civilians, and increasingly prosperous.

Theಏth Century, the famous Japanese Zen master Ikkyu up, Murata Pearl’s first “four half-Hermitage tea shop” called, and Japan’s “beauty tea” (that is, Tuo tea) of the ancestors. The so-called “Tuo”, is the tea-ceremony of the jargon, that is the quest for a better ideal. That basic Pearl Tea is a pure heart, clean heart of the “Zen Way” center. He tea ceremony from the simple “pleasure” in “abstinence”, embodies the self-cultivation is central to Zen.

Later, on the Japanese tea ceremony by Wu Shao-gull achieve further advance the field of tea in the Zen, “” Tea Zen one, “the mood. The Seagull height, Shao ﹑ known to enjoy tea genius Sen no Rikyu, the 16th again Century Zen Road will be developed, the Centre a “beauty tea” from the implementation of “mutual benefit” of profits from the tea ceremony, tea ceremony, a new civilian-oriented in that basis with a “clear and ﹑ ﹑ ﹑ Death King “for the purposes of the Japanese tea ceremony (” and “lines,” respect “that the quality concluded,” clear “to his residence,” Silence “record keeping), it was the Japanese tea ceremony.

The spiritual essence of the Japanese tea ceremony, the pursuit of love and equality between people of high degree of harmony between man and nature, and follow Qing Ji ﹑ Anya in life, pay attention to etiquette, by the Japanese as a ritual of self-cultivation ﹑ ﹑ study conducted an interpersonal effectively.

Japanese Tea Ceremony develop and deepen the Tang and Song Dynasty “Tea Party”, “tea fight” in the spirit of cultural preservation, education, a strong national character and style of the national culture, but also inevitably shows the traditional Chinese virtues of the deep sense the enormous impact on the tea culture.