The so-called Tea Ceremony to preserve health actually blends into tea drinkers daily lives. They do not even need to think about anything. They don’t even need to pursue it purposefully. They just relax and follow their own ways, brew well a teapot of tea every day, enjoy it, appreciate it, after a period of […]
The Effect of Tea on Keeping Good Health
The medical functions of tea can be divided into both physical benefits and psychological benefits. Psychological Benefits Humans are such elegant creatures that they are the true love of nature. Everyone has been born with an original impulse to return to nature, to be close to nature in their deep hearts. The Chinese characters are really […]
The Chinese Tea Ceremony and Keeping Good Health
Health and longevity is the foot stone of happiness in life. Life is precious because everyone has just one life. Hence, the pursuit of longevity is a common goal in humanity. The science of health is an old but active study. There are loads of theories about health in the Chinese traditional culture. One of […]
Understanding the Discipline of “Tao”
Buddhism Altar Classic preaches “Tao is understood by heart”. There are three thousands ways to understand Tao, how to do it in the tea activity? There is no fixed way, only some examples as references. There are a lot of records about understanding Tao through tea in the Buddhism Zen studying stories. For example, the […]
Discussion on its Atmosphere
“Atmosphere” is a very important concept in the Chinese Classical Aesthetics. It was officially put forward by Wang Changling, a Tang Dynasty poet, in his Poem Personality. He said that “within the atmosphere, see it in heart, put it in hand and then think about it, clear image like this.” Developed by Jiao Ran, Sikong […]
Experiencing the Teapot
Utensils are the “father of tea”. Our country is a civilized Nation, has a very rich food and beverage culture, there used to be a saying that “cuisine is not compared to utensils”, In the Early Tang Dynasty, Lu Yu suggested in Classic of Tea that in the formal tea activities, 24 tea utensils should […]
Examining the Water
“The personages examine water well and the masters fancy tea competition”, Brewing tea and examining the water is One Of the features of the Chinese Tea Ceremony. The Japanese and Taiwan Tea Ceremony do not consider that much about the water examination because their geography and lacks of natural resources. Since Lu Yu, the Chinese […]
The Ceremony and Art of Tea
In traditional Chinese culture, “Tao” and “Art” are essentially different from each other but are contradictorily united. In the tea practice activities, the Tea Ceremony and tea art match each other. Tea art is the “operation”，the main technical, operation, contains the art of the tea ceremony; the tea ceremony is the “heart”, the main rationale […]
Appreciating the Aesthetics of the Chinese Tea Art
Excellent tea drinkers are not only good at discovering beauty, but also good at creating beauty, to appreciate and enjoy beauty. Without this aspect, a complete aesthetics theoretical system of the Chinese Tea Ceremony could not be established. From the aesthetic theory, aesthetic activity is a special form of practical activity. Aesthetic a mental activity […]