Ancient how to identify the end of the tea to send guests, according to the end of the Qing Dynasty Zhu De Shang “thirty years to see and hear” records: a newly appointed magistrate in the hot summer when he went to pay a visit to the governor of the Lord, according to the etiquette can not bring a fan. F4E Tea Net
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The magistrate, however, handheld a folding fan into the governor’s office and waved the fan. When the governor saw that he was so rude, he took the opportunity of asking him to take off his hat and broaden his clothes to put up his tea cup. When he saw this, he immediately shouted “see off the guest”. F4E Tea Network
When the magistrate heard this, he hurriedly took his hat in one hand, grasped his clothes in the other, and retreated in a sorry state. This story reflects the prevailing custom of the Qing Dynasty officialdom – “sending off guests with tea”. At that time, the subordinate to meet the boss, the boss let the waiter to make tea, but most do not drink. F4E Tea Network
When the boss lifted the tea cup to do want to drink, it is under the “expulsion order” of the indication, the waiter will immediately shout “send the guest”. Of course, the Qing Dynasty official on the guest on the tea, sit for a long time can also drink, but the supervisor must raise his hand and said “please tea” and the supervisor first drink, subordinates can end the tea to drink. F4E Tea Network
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The author of “Words on Earth” Wang Guowei in the “Tea Soup Customs” had this description: “the world of officialdom, the guest to set up tea and not rice, to the master of the extended guest tea, then the servant called to send the guest carry on, this wind has been since Song, but with the soup does not use the tea ear.” F4E tea network
Visible, this custom since the Song Dynasty has been, specifically, should be from the Song Dynasty, “point soup evicted from the guest” evolved. F4E Tea Network
Point soup and how is it? It turns out that in the past, the ancients had a common hospitality ritual, that is, the guests came to drink tea first, after drinking tea and then drink soup, and then evolved step by step, the guests came to drink tea first, and then drink soup when they left, the soup is usually made with sweet and fragrant herbs. F4E Tea Network
From the above can be seen, “point soup” was originally “guest speech respect soup” of a ritual, to later be quoted as “civilized expulsion” means. Wei Tai’s “Ai Xuan Pen Lu” mentioned such a story: the Song Dynasty, there is an official called Hu Mei’s Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of Justice, was transferred to the Shaanxi Xingyuan to do the governor, because of the family’s poverty and the road is far away, the inability to go to the office, to put it bluntly is that he did not want to go, so how to do it? F4E Tea Network
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So they went to see the Privy Council Secretary Chen Shengzhi, want to accommodate a little, but who knows Chen Shengzhi neither give accommodation, but also do not want to listen to his complaint, immediately point soup, said earlier, soup is the guests to drink only when they go, then Chen Shengzhi the meaning of this is clear, soup are up, you should go. F4E Tea Net
So, “Mei got soup, three in the ground and resigned”, meaning that Hu Mei received soup did not drink, but splashed it on the ground wrath away, it seems that this Hu Mei or a little bit of backbone. F4E Tea Net
Tea sent to the guest, and the guest to honor the virtues of tea is contrary, nowadays has been extinct. But from a side reflection, in China, drinking tea has long exceeded the simple diet, not only become a way of interpersonal communication in the hospitality, and contains a unique etiquette rules in which. F4E Tea Net