What is the significance of tea ceremony?
The Significance of Tea Ceremony Mr. Wu Juenong thinks: What is the tea ceremony? Tea is regarded as a precious and noble drink, because tea is a kind of spiritual enjoyment, an art, or a means of self-cultivation. ?
Mr. Zhuang Wanfang believes that tea ceremony is a ceremony to educate people on etiquette and morality through drinking tea. Mr. Zhuang Wanfang also summarized the basic spirit of China Tea Ceremony as: honesty, beauty, harmony and respect? He explained:? Thrift, Xiu De, beauty, honesty, honesty, love. ?
Mr. Chen believes that China tea ceremony includes seven principles: tea ceremony, cha de, tea ceremony, tea theory, tea sentiment, tea theory and tea ceremony guidance, and the core of China tea ceremony spirit is harmony. China Tea Ceremony is a way to guide individuals to complete character cultivation in the process of enjoying beauty through tea being a process, so as to realize the harmony and happiness of all mankind. Mr. Chen's tea ceremony theory can be abbreviated as:? Seven arts and one heart? .
Mr. Zhou Zuoren is more casual. His understanding of tea ceremony is:? The significance of tea ceremony, in ordinary words, can be called taking time off from work, having fun in hardships, enjoying a little beauty and harmony in the incomplete reality and experiencing eternity in an instant. ?
Mr. Liu, a scholar in Taiwan Province, put forward that the so-called tea ceremony refers to the method and artistic conception of tea tasting. ?
1977, in the book Tea Ceremony Aesthetics, Mr. Tanikawa Sanji defined the tea ceremony as an art performed through body movements. It includes four factors: artistic factors, social factors, etiquette factors and practical factors.
Mr Kumatsu Machi, on the other hand, thinks that tea ceremony culture is a comprehensive cultural system with tea as an opportunity, which is comprehensive, unified and inclusive. It includes art, morality, philosophy, religion and culture, and its core is Zen.
Mr. Xiong Cang Kung Fu proposed from a historical perspective that tea ceremony is an indoor art function. Art can make people-oriented culture a unique art group, and through the cultivation of human body, it can achieve the purpose of cultivating sentiment and perfecting personality.
On the other hand, Mr. Yukiyama Kurazawa of the Institute of Humanities Tea and Soup Culture believes that the profound philosophy of the Eleventh Tea Ceremony is the ideological background, and the comprehensive life culture is the essence of oriental culture. He believes it, too? Tao is the road to life, tea ceremony is the road to heart, and it is the road from heart to tea.
Tea drinking, tea tasting, tea art and the highest realm? tea ceremony
Drink tea: use tea as a drink to quench your thirst.
Tea tasting: pay attention to the color and fragrance of tea leaves, pay attention to the quality of tea sets, and savor them carefully when drinking.
Tea art: Pay attention to environment, atmosphere, music, brewing skills and interpersonal relationships.
The highest state? Tea ceremony: integrate philosophy, ethics and morality into tea activities, cultivate self-cultivation and taste life through tea tasting, and achieve spiritual enjoyment.
Buddhism and tea Buddhism and tea became attached as early as the Jin Dynasty. According to legend, Huineng, a famous monk in Jin Dynasty, once entertained his friend Tao Yuanming with homemade tea at Tuolin Temple in Lushan Mountain, Jiangxi Province. Talking about tea and poetry, telling classics, staying up all night? . The connection between Buddhism and tea has made indelible contributions to the popularity of tea drinking fashion, to the elegant realm and even to the establishment of tea ceremony. In the late Eastern Jin Dynasty, Hui Yuan, a Buddhist leader, tried his best to communicate Confucian feudal ethics with Buddhist karma, and advocated filial piety to the monarch, which was in line with the theory of karma. And ask directly? Buddhism, Confucianism and Ming? . Some Buddhist sects in Sui and Tang Dynasties were founded by combining China's traditional thoughts. Hua Yanzong scholar Zong Mi used Zhouyi? Four virtues? (Yuan, Heng, Li, Zhen) Harmonize the Buddha's body? Four virtues? Chang, Le, Me, Jing. With what? P5？ (benevolence, righteousness, courtesy and wisdom) tone? Five precepts? (Don't kill, don't steal, don't drink, don't worry) Trying to combine the two, the trend of Taiwan Province's Confucianism is getting stronger and stronger. During the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, more attention was paid to the integration of China's traditional thoughts. Tiantai Sect scholar in the Northern Song Dynasty is far-reaching, preaching? Without Zhong Ni's teaching, there would be no state rule, no family peace and no physical safety? . And then what? The country is incurable, the family is uneasy, and the body is uneasy. How to explain family? He also suggested? Cultivate one's morality with Confucianism and treat one's mind with Buddhism? Confucianism and Buddhism are superficial and superficial, so it has developed into a religion with China national characteristics.
The penetration of Buddhism into tea ceremony is recorded in historical materials, including Danqiu in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and Hui Yuan in the Eastern Jin Dynasty did not like tea. Visible? Tea Zen blindly? It has a long history. However, the author believes that the formation of climate began in the middle Tang Dynasty. From the above poems, we can appreciate the fragrance and richness of tea in the temple. Monks can't worship God, meditate, recite scriptures and make friends all day. Zen tea ceremony embodies the atmosphere of kindness, simplicity, self-cultivation, self-cultivation and understanding, and also integrates the thoughts and feelings of Confucianism and Taoism. The Tang Xizong gold and silver series tea set hidden in the underground palace of Famen Temple, the highest royal etiquette, is more convincing from the aspects of design, modeling and decoration (placed in the back room with Buddhist relics)? Tea Zen blindly? The real meaning. Zen tea ceremony reached its peak in the Song Dynasty and spread to Japan, South Korea and other countries. Now it has spread to the western world and made efforts to promote cultural exchanges between countries. Buddhism was founded in ancient India from the 6th century BC to the 5th century BC, and was introduced to China during the Han Dynasty in June. After the spread and development of Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, it reached its peak in the Tang Dynasty. Tea flourished in Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty. Lu Yu, a tea sage who founded the China Tea Ceremony, was adopted by Zen Master Zhiji when he was free, and studied literacy and recited Buddhist scriptures at Longgai Temple in Jingling. Later, in the Tang Dynasty, the poet Jiao Ran and the monk became friends. In Lu Yu's autobiography and tea classics, there are praises to Buddhism, and there are also records that monks love tea. It can be said that the tea ceremony in China is inextricably linked with Buddhism from the beginning, among which both monks and customs are talked about, and Zen tea is well known.
Since ancient times, monks have loved and loved tea, and take tea as a companion for self-cultivation and sit tight. In order to meet the daily drinking and hospitality needs of monks, many temples have their own tea gardens. At the same time, in ancient times, only temples had the best conditions to study and develop tea-making technology and tea culture. There is a saying in China that "tea has been famous in the famous temple since ancient times". According to the Supplement to the National History of the Tang Dynasty, famous teas such as Fangshan Bud in Fuzhou, Mengding Shihua in Jiannan, Jiong Lake with Frost in Yuezhou and Xishan Bailu in Hongzhou were all produced in temples. The demand of monks for tea objectively promoted the development of tea production and provided a material basis for tea ceremony. In addition, the contribution of Buddhism to the development of tea ceremony mainly includes three aspects.