What is the origin of Japanese matcha culture?

The fundamental origin of Japanese matcha culture lies in the tea ceremony culture in China. At first, before the Kamakura era, a Japanese mage named Rongxi was sent to China. During this period, he saw the mage of the Zen Temple in the Song Dynasty making tea, which aroused the curiosity of the mage. I want to combine this tea-making method with its tea-drinking custom and become my own tea culture brand.

In Song Dynasty, tea was a folk game to taste the quality of tea. It is called "final tea" by the techniques of threshing, grinding into fine powder, screening and boiling. This also laid the foundation for Japan's later "matcha". Later, in the Kaiyuan period, Nanpu Shao Ming came to the Song Dynasty again to make tea friends for the continued development of national tea culture. He brought the tea sets and utensils used to make "end tea" and China's tea classics back to Japan, established Dade Temple, and widely spread tea culture.

At this time, although the Japanese tea ceremony culture has not yet formed its own unique style and fun, it has not disappeared, and there are still many reservations. Some Japanese scholars continued to learn from the experience of "serving tea" for monks to enter the Tang and Song Dynasties. Through its production technology, the charm and essence of tea and the perfect decoration inside the tea set, it has achieved unique elegance and classicality, and transformed the "end tea" in the Song Dynasty into a unique "matcha" in Japan.

Matcha culture in Japan has been developed and prospered after the transformation of the tea ceremony room and the research and discussion on the style and art of tea, reaching the peak of tea culture. Now it has become a hospitality, and the welcoming ceremony is quite shocking.