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4 Levels of Tea Culture

1.Physical Culture

Physical culture is the sum of the activities and products of people engaged in tea production, i.e. the cultivation, manufacture, processing, preservation, chemical composition and therapeutic research of tea, etc. It also includes tea leaves, water, tea utensils, tables, chairs, tea rooms, and other visible and tangible objects and buildings used in tea tasting. neH Tea Network

2.Institutional culture

Institutional culture that people engaged in the process of tea production and consumption of social norms of behavior. For example, with the development of tea production, successive rulers have continuously strengthened its management measures, called tea policy, including tribute, taxation, monopoly, domestic sales, foreign trade and so on. Starting from the first year of the Tang Dynasty Jianzhong (780 A.D.), a tax was levied on tea, “taxing the world’s tea, lacquer, bamboo, and wood, and taking one out of ten.” (“Old Tang Book – Food and Goods Zhi”) Daho nine years (AD 835) began to implement the questionable tea system, that is, the implementation of tea monopoly. (“Old Tang Book – Wenzong Benji”) Song Dynasty Cai Jing set up a tea citation system, merchants pay taxes when they receive the citation, and then only to the designated location to take tea. From the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, in order to control the supply of tea to the Northwest ethnic minorities, set up the Tea and Horse Division, the implementation of the tea and horse trade, in order to achieve the purpose of the “Tea Border”. Tea trade in Han areas was also severely restricted and exploited in many ways. neH Tea Net

3.Behavioral culture

Behavioral culture is an agreed-upon pattern of behavior in the process of tea production and consumption, usually expressed in the form of tea rituals, tea customs and tea arts. For example, Du Lei, a poet of the Song Dynasty, wrote the famous line “Tea as wine for a guest on a cold night”, which shows that it is a traditional Chinese etiquette to honor a guest with a cup of tea. Tea sent from thousands of miles away expresses nostalgia for loved ones. Ancient proverb says, “A woman does not eat tea from two families,” which means that a woman’s family can no longer accept a bride price from another family after she has received a tea gift. neH Tea Net

4.Culture of mind

Mentality culture is people in the application of tea in the process of nurturing the values, aesthetic interests, ways of thinking and other subjective factors. For example, the aesthetic interest pursued by people when drinking tea, the mood and flavor pursued during the operation of tea art, as well as the richness of the associations arising from it; reflecting the tea production, life in the tea area, the tea drinking interest of literature and art works; combining the tea drinking with the philosophical philosophy of life and worldly life, rising to the height of the philosophy, the formation of the so-called tea virtues, the tea ceremony, etc. This is the highest level of the tea culture. This is the highest level of tea culture, but also the core part of tea culture. neH Tea Net

Therefore, the broad tea culture should be composed of the above four levels. However, the first level (physical culture) has long formed a complete and systematic science – tea science, referred to as tea science; the second level (institutional culture) belongs to the economic history of the disciplines of research, but also remarkable achievements, fruitful. Therefore, as an emerging discipline, tea culture should focus on the research on the past relatively weak third and fourth two levels, that is, the narrower meaning of tea culture. neH Tea Network

So it seems that people want to study the narrow sense of tea culture belongs to the so-called “spiritual civilization” category, but it is not completely separate from the “material civilization” of culture, but a combination. Whether it is the tea ceremony, tea art, tea rituals or tea customs, they are all embodied in the process of tea application. Leave the tea, there is no tea culture. neH tea net

5qI Tea Net

The Dong people living in the southeastern part of Guizhou Province like to drink bean tea. This kind of bean tea is made from soybeans, bulgur, rice flowers, fried rice, tea leaves, etc. Put into a cauldron to cook and boil, and it becomes bean tea. It is divided into three kinds: “clear bean tea”, “red bean tea” and “white bean tea”, and the requirements for drinking are also different. 5qI Tea Net

Chingdao tea is drunk during national festivals. The scale of the tea drinking is very large, and every family in the whole village puts their own prepared green bean tea on the square of the village for everyone to drink. The people who drink the green bean tea are not only from their own villages, but also the Dong families from neighboring villages can come. This is actually a kind of joint activity. When almost all the people attending have come, everyone holds hands, sings and dances, and when they take a break, they sit around the teapot and drink the green bean tea. 5qI Tea Net

Red bean tea is consumed when children are married. The so-called red bean tea is actually made by adding some pig’s blood when cooking bean tea. The purpose of drinking red bean tea is to offer thanks to the newly married couple at the same time, and it is also an initiative of the newly married couple to thank the guests who came to the wedding. After the bride and groom have had their wedding ceremony, they stand to give thanks to the guests who have come to the wedding. After the bride and groom hold a wedding ceremony, they stand in front of the door of the hall, holding a tray with red bean tea, and offer tea to each guest who enters the door, and the guests politely accept the red bean tea, say a few words of blessing, and then enter the hall. 5qI Tea Net

White bean tea is served when an elder in the family passes away. This tea is boiled with beef. When guests come to offer condolences to the deceased, the deceased’s children or other immediate family members carry trays and offer the white bean tea to the guests as a sign of appreciation for their presence. 5qI Tea.com

However, eat red bean tea and white bean tea can not be eaten as white as eat clean bean tea, after eating tea to take out the gift money bet on the bottom of the tea bowl; as for the amount of tea gift money, depending on the person, the relationship between the close often pay more, the relationship between the general payment of the tea gift money to get by on it. 5qI Tea Network

YNw Tea

Singapore is a multicultural country, Chinese accounted for 76% of the total population, but also has been colonized by the British for more than a hundred years of history, this demographic composition and historical background, making Singapore not only Chinese tea, British afternoon tea, and there is a unique Singapore “long tea”. The so-called “Long Tea” is a kind of milk tea made by adding the right amount of milk to the brewed black tea. Drinking this “long tea”, often not to drink tea, but to let the buffet-style eating snacks occupy a dominant position, so the quality of this “long tea” is not high, tea drinkers are more interested in Dr. Tea’s tea performance. ynw tea net

Dr. Tea’s tea pouring performance can be described as a pure skill. Dr. Tea holds a large tea canister in one hand and a tea cup in the other, one on top of the other, with an interval of about 1 meter between the two hands. They will milk tea from the big tea canister into the tea cup, and then from the tea cup back to the big tea canister, so that repeated 7 times, it means that the black tea and milk fused with each other into one, this kind of pouring tea show is a kind of superb skills, in the process of repeated pouring tea, milk tea half will not overflow, and even less splash to the body of the tea guest, because of the many tea drinkers rather than come to drink tea, as if to say that it is to watch the tea show. ynw Tea Network

Due to the large proportion of ethnic Chinese in Singapore, the Chinese tea ceremony is also very marketable. Some teahouses specializing in Chinese tea are very popular. It is not only the Chinese who come here to drink tea, but also many people who come here to visit or do business. They gather in the teahouse to spend time, talk business, or catch up on old times, and it has become a social place that people like to go to. ynwtea.net

Tea Drinking Habits in Russia XkF Tea.com

In everyday life, Russians can not live without tea every day. Breakfast tea, usually eat slices of bread and small pies with ham or salami. After lunch also drink tea, in addition to adding sugar to the tea, sometimes with jam, cream, lemon juice and so on. Tea is especially enjoyed on Sundays, holidays or after a hot bath. They drink tea as a supplement to the diet, tea must taste sweets, pastries, bagels, honey and a variety of jams. The Russian nation has always been proud of the “State of Manners”, many families have the habit of serving tea to their guests, when you come to their home as a guest, the host will usually ask: “What would you like to drink, tea or coffee?” If you choose to drink tea, the host will say, “I’ll put the tea on.” Drinking tea is one of their great hobbies. The Udh people also invite general guests and all travelers to drink tea. When guests drink tea, the host often served sweet snacks, cakes, pies, etc., straight drink until the guests and hosts are satisfied. XkF Tea Network

Russians like to drink black tea, especially Georgian black tea. They are very interested in China’s jasmine tea, that this tea is fragrant, refreshing. There are different customs of the tea party, by the people generally welcome. xkF Tea Network

Russian tea drinking is very sophisticated, there are very beautiful tea set: saucer is very chic, because when drinking tea is used to pour tea into the saucer and then to the mouth. Tea has people like Chinese ceramics, some people like glass. But the most accustomed to use the teapot to cook tea to drink, especially the elderly more like. XkF Tea Network

When the host will be tea cooker on the table, the aroma of the room full of glory. Especially in winter, outside the window, snow, the house fire is red, sitting on the copper tea cooker. A moment will be sprayed with steam, squeaking, the table with bread, sugar, jam and a variety of sweets. Russians drink tea is usually a good tea cooker tea, and then into the cup of strong tea juice, and then add boiling water, adjusted to the appropriate concentration, drinking tea tea utensils are generally very small, such as a small glass of wine, pouring the side of the tasting side of the chat, it is really sweet, no words. If you want to talk about business, this is a good time. XkF Tea Net

mAC Tea

Xishuangbanna six ancient tea mountain records, can be found in the Qing Dynasty Ruan Fu written by the “Pu’er tea record” as follows:

“The so-called Pu’er tea, non-Pu’er Province within the boundaries of the production, cover the production in the province of Simao Hall boundaries, the Office of the six tea mountain, said Yibang, said shelf cloth, said Kong, said the brute brick, said Gedeng, said Yiwu, and the Tongzhi contained in the name.” mAC tea network

The six tea mountain, are located in xishuangbanna territory: is located outside of jinghong city is yule mountain, is located in menghla county territory is the other five tea mountain. These six tea mountains have a total area of more than 2,260 square kilometers, and now the tea plantations on the mountain have developed to 100,000 acres. They are in the southern subtropical climate, the average annual temperature of 19 ℃ -20 ℃, the annual effective cumulative temperature of 6000 ℃ -7000 ℃, annual rainfall of 1700-2100 mm, four seasons as mild as spring, coupled with the location of the high mountain area, the clouds, the production of Pu’er Tea is famous. In the 10th year of Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty (1732), the tea here became one of the tribute teas designated by the Qing court, and it has been tribute until the 30th year of Guangxu to end. Since the court loved it and gave it as a state gift to foreign emissaries, Pu’er tea became famous all over the world. mAC Tea Network

In the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the Six Tea Mountains experienced some decline in planting, production and marketing, mainly due to the neglect of government departments. After the founding of New China, the production and marketing of Pu’er tea in the six tea mountains was revitalized. mAC Tea Network

The ancient tea mountain of Youle is located in the jurisdiction of Jinghong City, and is also named as Keeno Mountain. It is 75 kilometers long from east to west and 50 kilometers wide from north to south. Its northeastern zone is the Gedeng Tea Mountain. mAC Tea Net

Throughout history, the tea planting and processing in the Youle Tea Mountain has always ranked among the best. The highest annual output of Yunnan big-leaf tea grown here exceeded 2,000 quintals. In the seventh year of Yongzheng of Qing Dynasty (1729), the imperial court set up the Tongzhi Prefecture here as the general judge of Pu’er. In 1942, there was a constant war here, and the tea farmers could not make a living, so they had to flee and scatter, and the tea mountains became desolate with fewer people to manage them. mAC Tea Net

After the establishment of New China, the government attached great importance to the tea production here, and gave strong support, so the production and production quality of Pu’er tea has been greatly improved. mAC Tea Net

The area included in Gedeng Ancient Tea Mountain was also a very famous tea-producing area in ancient times, and the annual tea production was also more than 500 quintals. The teas grown here are all big leaf tea types. There was once a historical record, there is a tea tree king, to the Qing Jiaqing period is still growing in the vicinity of Bajiaoshuzhai, just spring tea picking, this ancient tea tree can produce a quintal of dry tea. There are many ancient tea trees like this one in the area, but most of them have already died. mAC Tea Net

In the Dai language, the Yibang ancient tea mountain is also called “Molar Yibang”, which means “tea well”. The total area of the tea mountain is 360 square kilometers, which is located in the high mountain area, and there are many ethnic groups living together. In ancient times, it was famous for producing round tea, which is what people refer to as the “Seven Cakes”, and is said to produce and sell more than 10,000 quintals of tea annually. mAC Tea Net

Yibang Ancient Tea Mountain tea industry development is the most prosperous in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, tea estates and tea stores abound, merchants gathered, trading is booming. During the Ming Dynasty, some tea traders from Sichuan and other places brought small-leaf tea seeds here. During the Qing Dynasty, many famous tea merchants emerged here, such as Songyun and Yuanchang, which were founded in the Guangxu period and specialized in selling tea to the Sichuan area. mAC Tea Net

At that time, Yibang ancient tea mountain tea is also exported to Tibet and Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asia, the Qing court will be the tea here as tribute. Tribute to the court of the tribute tea are Yibang tea as raw material production, the Qing court of the tea mountain also carried out a more systematic and perfect management, to the Daoguang 25 years (1845), here has been built an ancient road, Kunming – Simao – Yibang, Yiwu Tea Mountain tea road is also open, greatly promoting the tea mountain tea business and sales. mAC Tea Network

In the Qing Dynasty during the Qianlong period, Yibang tea mountain has gathered 90,000 people, the market is prosperous, business is booming. Every family planted tea for business, planting tea, making tea, selling tea, has formed a series of one-stop service, the four major tea market towns have taken shape. In the Xiangming, appeared very characteristic Yibang Street, Man Gong Street, brick street, cattle rolling pond street. Tea carriers and horse gangs traveled to and fro, and the situation was unprecedented. Until now, people can still find some of the old streets left back then, savoring the ancient and simple legacy of the year. mAC Tea Net

Yibang ancient tea mountain began to decline in the late Qing Dynasty, followed by the fierce rise of Yiwu tea mountain. However, in history, the round tea made in Yibang Tea Mountain was the best-selling product, with an annual production and sales volume of about 1,000 quintals of round tea alone. It is said that the best quality is the round tea produced in Manson, which has very good tea flavor characteristics, and it is listed as a tribute to the imperial court. Thick flavor, color clear yellowish is its character different from other tea, after brewing with boiling water, the tea is upright and not sinking, a sweet aroma into the throat and nose, refreshing and relieving the effect is particularly good. mAC Tea Net

Mangzhi ancient tea mountain tea, mainly concentrated in the cattle rolling pond street, cattle rolling pond street is like Ming “four streets” in the most prosperous one of the town, to do tea business here mostly from abroad. Mangzhi Tea Mountain tea planting place in Dazhai, according to historical records, every March, from the picking of spring tea, tea farmers go to the temple to worship the tea ancestor Tea God, praying for a year’s harvest. Mangzhi ancient tea mountain produces cheap tea, but due to the impact of war, resulting in the decline of the city, the people do not live. Now this place has long been the scenery is no longer, just see some residual ancient monuments and tombs, and some fragmentary wall carvings. mAC Tea Network

Barbarian brick ancient tea mountain, including the territory in the Barbarian forest and Barbarian brick, as one of the six ancient tea mountain, people can see from the local ruins of Guandi Temple some inscriptions, which is only a few written records. The Guandi Temple was built in the sixth year of the Qianlong reign (1741), when the annual output of the Brick Tea Mountain was over 10,000 quintals, and the tea leaves here were picked and transported to Yiwu for processing and sale. mAC Tea Net

Barbarian brick tea mountain is located in high mountains and dense forests, until now it still maintains a simple natural state, and now also has an annual output of more than 10,000 quintals. mAC Tea Net

Slowly spread ancient tea mountain is located in the northeast of Mengla Yiwu Township, bordering with Laos. Tea production here was at its peak during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, with an annual output of more than 10,000 quintals. During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, many Han Chinese from the mainland were concentrated here, and they worked together with the locals in the planting, harvesting and development of tea. The most famous “Yuanbao tea” was formed at that time, this Yuanbao tea is also a kind of round tea, which sells well at home and abroad. mAC Tea Net

The results of the relevant experts show that the slow spread of the ancient tea mountains, including the Yiwu tea mountain, the Tang Dynasty here has become the distribution center of Pu’er tea, Yiwu is therefore crowned with the “profit city” reputation, as one of the Yunnan-Tibet Ancient Tea Horse Route starting location, has a very important historical position. mAC Tea Net

Qing Daoguang years (1821-1850), Yiwu tea mountain quietly rose, Yiwu produced tea, with excellent quality marketing everywhere, the annual output reached 4,000 quintals, the sale is basically a group of tea, tea farmers here to make the “seven cake tea”, most of the use of good tea as a material for the high requirements of the color of the tea, this tea has eight kinds of tea color. Tea has eight kinds of tea color. The imperial court designated Yiwu, Manla and other regional production of group tea (Tuocha) as tribute tea, so the status of Pu’er tea has been extremely fast, and now there is still a plaque inscribed by the Daoguang Emperor “RuiGongTianZhao”. Pu’er tea became a fashionable drink popular in the Qing court, became a noble gift for the royal relatives and the aristocracy, and also became a valuable gift for diplomatic envoys. mAC Tea Net

Qing Dynasty scholar Ruan Fu recorded that: Pu’er tea is famous all over the world, the capital is especially important. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the price of Pu’er tea was the highest. Scholar Chai Calyx “Fan Tian Lu Cong Lu” recorded that: Pu’er tea …… sex warm flavor thick, produced Yiwu, Yibang is particularly good, the price of equal and gold. That is to say, at that time, the price of Pu’er tea good tea is twice the price of silver. mAC Tea Net

About the six tea mountain prosperity, can be found in the Qing people Tan Zui “Dianhai Yu Heng Zhi” in “Pu Tea is famous all over the world …… Tea Mountain week 800 miles, into the mountains of tea hundreds of thousands of people, tea buyers, transported to various places,” said. mAC Tea Net

The six tea mountain soil quality is different, tea is also very different. The Pu’er tea produced here has a preoccupation, that is, Pu’er tea leaves and other weeds grow together, the tea product appears inferior, Pu’er tea and other things mixed together, the smell is not pure. mAC Tea Net

The earliest founder of Dian Hong was Feng Shaoqiu (1900-1987), Feng Shaoqiu (1900-1987), the word yiqun, Hengyang City, Hunan Province, the founder of Dian Hong, Dian Hong Group, the first director of the factory, the former director of Shunning Experimental Tea Factory, in January 1939, began to scale production of black tea, named “Dian Hong”, the first batch of “Dian Hong” was sold to London, England, the price of 800 pence per pound hit the highest price in the international market. The first batch of “Dian Hong” was sold to London, England, and set the highest price of international black tea at 800 pence per pound.

rhL Tea Network

In 1933, Mr. Feng Shaoqiu for the first time as Xiushui Experimental Tea Farm technician, responsible for the Ning Hong tea initial, refined test work, and then by Mr. Hu Haochuan (Qimen Tea Improvement Field Director) hired to Qimen trial production of black tea, and designed a set of black tea in the field of the initial production of machinery and equipment, creating a mechanism of our country’s precedent for black tea.

The outbreak of the war of resistance against Japan in 1938, Qimen tea began to evacuate, Mr. Feng Shaoqiu was invited to work in the Tea Company, in mid-September, in order to open up new tea export production areas, the Tea Company sent Feng Shaoqiu, Fan and Jun to Yunnan to investigate the situation of tea production and marketing, Feng Shaoqiu was subdivided into Shunning (now Fengqing County), that is, the Fung Shan Tea Plantation, the trial harvesting of 5kg of tea buds and leaves, were made into black tea, green tea, each of which is 500 grams, kind of sent to the Hong Kong Tea Market, which is known as China’s black and green tea, and is also known as China’s black tea, green tea. Known as China’s top red and green tea, Dian Hong was born. rhL Tea Network

In March 1939 began to prepare for the establishment of Shun Ning Experimental Tea Factory, the year the trial production of more than sixteen tons of Dian Hong, Hong Kong resale of London, the excellent quality of the product caused the vibration of the international tea market. rhL Tea Network

rhL Tea Network

Feng Shaoqiu life dedicated to tea research and production, he is good at making tea, known as “tea scholar”, “black tea experts”, “the father of Dian Hong”; he is a connoisseur of identification and evaluation of tea, known as “Feng Shaoqiu”, known as “Feng Shaoqiu”. He is a connoisseur of tea identification, tasting and evaluation, known as “Feng Nose”; he is an outstanding contribution to the history of Chinese tea, able to write and industry, good leadership, innovation, forgetting to open up the leading cadres of the model. rhL Tea Net

Think of the source of water, do not forget the virtues of our forefathers. rhL Tea Network

wG4Tea.com

Rice Brick is produced in the hometown of Chinese Green Rice Brick Tea – Yangloudong, Chibi, Hubei Province. Rice brick production history is longer, second only to the green brick. Hubei brick tea, originally operated by Shanxi Gang, first set up in E’nan Zhuang acquisition of gross tea processing brick tea, the middle of the 19th century, Xianning County, Yangloudong production of more than 800,000 pounds. Into the 19th century, due to the development of foreign trade, the Qing Daoguang years Yihong came out, to 1861 after the opening of the port of Hankou, Britain went to Hankou to set up a foreign bank, a large number of purchases of black tea, transshipment of the United Kingdom and transfer to the countries of Western Europe. wG4tea.com

At this time the Russian businessmen to buy brick tea, around 1863, Russian businessmen to go to the Yangloudong area to finance the recruitment of people chartered to supervise the production of brick tea. 1873 in Hankou to establish the Shunfeng, Xintai, Fuchang three new factories, the use of machinery to press the rice bricks, transshipment of Russia to change hands for export. The main raw materials from the Xiang, E, Gan, Anhui four provinces black tea tea pieces of tea, but also from India, Ceylon when the mouth part of the tea. Russia in the red mouth production and acquisition of brick tea, generally from Hankou through Shanghai shipping to Tianjin, and then generally transported to Tongzhou, and then use the camel team through Zhangjiakou across the desert road, transported to Chakotu, and finally transported by Chakotu to Siberia and other markets in Russia. wG4tea.com

Later also used the fleet to participate in transportation, transshipment through Vladivostok to Europe. According to the “Customs General Book of Commerce and Trade” statistics, from 1876 to 1879, rice brick exports in Hankou total exports of 13.4-26%, in 1879 exported 7,232.8 tons of rice bricks, accounting for 7.28% of the total national exports of tea at the time, in 1888 rose to account for the country’s exports of 12.91% of the total for the heyday of the production and export of rice brick. wG4tea.com

Currently produces more than a thousand tons, the main sales of the east mouth (refers to Zhangjiakou), west mouth (refers to Baotou) and all over Xinjiang. A small amount of sales in Europe, America and the Soviet Union. Because of the beautiful appearance of rice bricks, some western families to the rice bricks with refined frame into the living room, as a display of works of art to appreciate. wG4Tea.com