Basic knowledge of tea art?
1. tea
It is a beautiful artistic conception in the whole process of tea tasting, including the appreciation of tea tasting techniques and artistic operation means, as well as the appreciation of the beautiful environment of tea tasting, and its process embodies the mutual unity of form and spirit.
As far as form is concerned, tea art includes a series of contents such as tea selection, water selection, tea brewing technology, tea art, environmental selection and creation. When tasting tea, you should first choose whether the pot and cup are simple and elegant or luxurious and noble. In addition, tea tasting should also pay attention to the harmony between personality and environment, literati emphasize quietness and elegance, and dignitaries pursue luxury and nobility. Generally speaking, traditional tea tasting needs a variety of interests and artistic conception, such as the breeze and bright moon, the song and bamboo rhyme, the plum blossom falling snow and so on. In a word, tea art is a perfect combination of form and spirit, which contains aesthetics and human spiritual sustenance. Traditional tea art uses dialectical and unified view of nature and people's own experience to identify related problems from the feeling of interaction between soul and body, so the techniques include not only the simple dialectical materialism in ancient China, but also people's subjective aesthetic taste and spiritual sustenance.
Tea art mainly includes the following contents:
First, the basic knowledge of tea. To learn tea art, we must first understand and master the classification of tea, the quality characteristics of main famous teas, the production process, and the identification, storage and purchase of tea. This is the basis of learning tea art.
Second, tea art technology. Refers to the skills and techniques of tea art. Including the procedure of tea performance, the essentials of action, the content of explanation, the appreciation of tea color, fragrance, taste and shape, the appreciation and collection of tea sets and so on. This is the core part of tea art.
Third, tea etiquette. It refers to politeness and etiquette in the process of service. Including the requirements and skills of gfd in the process of service, welcoming, communicating and communicating with each other.
Fourth, the standardization of tea art Tea art should truly reflect the spirit of equality and mutual respect among tea people, so there are standardized requirements for guests. As a guest, we should demand ourselves with the spirit and quality of tea people and devote ourselves to tea tasting. As a service provider, we should also conform to the hospitality, especially the teahouse, whose service level is an important factor to determine the quality and level of service.
Fifth, enlightenment. Tao refers to a kind of practice, a way of life and direction, a philosophy of life, and Tao belongs to spiritual content. Enlightenment is the highest realm of tea art, and it is to realize life, realize life and explore the meaning of life through making tea and tasting tea.
2. Tea background
Broadly speaking, it refers to the whole tea culture background; In a narrow sense, it refers to the scenery of tea tasting places and the scenery that sets off the main things. The background of tea art is an important means to set off the theme, which renders the pure, elegant and simple temperament of tea and enhances the artistic appeal. As an art, tea tasting needs the cooperation of tea tasting skills, etiquette and environment, and different tea tasting methods and environments should have harmonious aesthetic artistic conception. Downtown, chanting is self-sufficient and not elegant; It is even more inappropriate to burn incense and sip in the study and sing some vulgar songs. The unity of tea art and its background style, different styles of tea art have different background requirements. Therefore, in the selection and creation of tea art background, we should design a suitable background according to different tea art styles.
How to understand tea ceremony
1. Simplicity is the organic combination of "tea" and "art". Tea art is the habit of tea drinkers to drink tea every day. According to the rules of tea ceremony, through artistic processing, tea drinkers and guests are shown the skills of making tea, making tea and drinking tea, which leads daily tea drinking to artistry, enhances the realm of tea drinking and endows tea with stronger spirituality and beauty.
Second, tea art is an art of life. Tea art is colorful and full of life interest, which is a positive way to enrich our lives and improve our life taste.
Third, tea art is a stage art. To show the charm of tea art, we need to rely on the close cooperation and reasonable arrangement of characters, props, stage, lighting, sound, calligraphy and painting, flowers and plants to give tea drinkers noble and beautiful enjoyment and bring vitality to the performance.
Fourth, tea art is an art of life. Life is like tea. When busy, make a pot of good tea, savor it carefully, enter the inner cultivation process through tea tasting, experience the ups and downs of life, and purify the soul.
Fifth, tea art is a kind of culture. On the basis of integrating the excellent culture of the Chinese nation, tea art has widely absorbed and borrowed from other art forms, and extended to literature, art and other fields, forming China tea culture with strong national characteristics.
Tea originated in China and is closely related to all levels of China culture. Mountain clouds produce good tea, while clear springs produce good tea. Tea art is not an empty metaphysics, but a substantial embodiment of the improvement of life connotation. Drinking tea can improve the quality of life and expand the field of art. Since ancient times, arranging flowers, hanging pictures, ordering tea and burning incense have been called the four arts, which are especially loved by literati. Tea art is also an elegant leisure activity, which can relax the spirit, narrow the distance between people, resolve misunderstandings and contradictions, and establish a harmonious relationship. All these put forward higher and deeper requirements for us to know and understand tea art.
Device for learn tea art and using method thereof
At the beginning of learning tea, we need to prepare the following basic uses: a kettle (making tea at will), a tea ceremony group, a tea boat, several colorless and transparent glasses, a teapot for four to six people, a fair cup, several sets of fragrant tea cups (including tasting cups and smelling cups), several large-covered bowls (making ceramic purple sand at will) and new tea towels (tea towels).
With these, we can combine most of the utensils needed for tea art, such as green tea art, red tea art, oolong tea art, flower tea art, Pu 'er tea art and so on.
What are the tea ceremony combinations?
Tea clips or tea tweezers shaped like clips; The name shaped like a spoon is tea spoon or Chaze; The circular bucket is called a tea bucket or a tea leak; The shape of thin-headed needle is called tea needle or tea tea pass; A wooden stick with a flat elbow is called scraping tea ware; A vase-shaped name is a tea bottle.
What are the functions of the kettle and these utensils?
Boiling the kettle is to make it easy for us to master the water temperature when making tea and make delicious tea; The function of the six-piece tea ceremony: tea clips are convenient to take when cleaning and recycling teacups, and some large pieces of tea (such as Pu 'er, etc.) can also be taken. ); The tea spoon is designed to be convenient and hygienic when putting tea in the teacup (teapot); Tea bucket (tea leakage) is to enlarge the teapot spout under the condition that the teapot spout is small, so that the tea leaves can enter cleanly and easily; The function of tea needle is to clear the spout when it is blocked; The function of scraping tea ware is to help clean the tea residue in the pot; Tea bottles (tea cones) are used to store the above five kinds of utensils.