The function of tea ceremony
1, advocate scientific tea drinking? Medical care. The medicinal value of tea has been discovered and applied to human life. What is Lu Yu's exposition of the pharmacological effects of tea in Tea Classic? Tea tastes cold. If the heat is exhausted, the eyes are stuffy, the limbs are agitated, and the joints are uncomfortable, then talk about four or five mouths, competing with waking up and nectar. ? Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica points out? Tea tastes bitter and cold, which can best reduce fire, relieve alcohol and food poisoning, and refresh yourself. This kind of tea is also helpful. Decoct strong drink, vomit wind, heat, phlegm and saliva? . Su Dongpo thinks that drinking tea is not as good as taking medicine. Have you ever had one? Why does Di Wei need a bottle of medicine and seven bowls of tea in Lutong? A famous poem. This is the ancients' affirmation of the role of tea in disease prevention and health preservation. Modern science has found that there are more than 600 kinds of chemical components in tea, including more than 500 kinds of organic compounds, more than 30 kinds of inorganic salts and more than 600 kinds of trace elements, including more than 500 kinds of organic compounds, more than 30 kinds of inorganic salts, more than 20 kinds of trace elements and more than 300 kinds of nutrients, which plays an important role in maintaining normal physiological activities and improving human immune function.
In a word, tea is a natural healthy drink with low fat and low heat energy, and it is the safest and most ideal green drink for human beings. In the current situation of serious natural environmental pollution and ecological imbalance, we advocate not smoking, drinking less, drinking more tea and drinking good tea, and keeping health with tea.
2. Practice the spirit of tea ceremony? Mental health. China Tea Ceremony is a way of drinking tea (the art of tasting tea
The unity of art and tea-drinking monasticism is the unity of tea affairs and culture, cultivation and enlightenment. Mental health care is mental health care, and its key lies in psychological balance and keeping a pure mood. Modern medicine has proved that people's psychological balance and normal endocrine make their mood stable, their mood peaceful, their resistance enhanced and their vitality vigorous. Solving psychological imbalance and promoting mental health depend on people's inner personality psychology such as noble morality, beautiful sentiment, correct outlook on life and values.
Lu Yu's "Tea Classic" says that tea is for drinking and is most suitable for elegant and thrifty people. Summarize the essence of tea ceremony. Lu Yu led the material life of drinking tea to a new realm of attaching importance to humanistic spirit and spiritual sublimation, and infiltrated the ideal and value orientation of life into the process of tea affairs.
In modern society, people need not only the enrichment and satisfaction of material life, but also the enrichment of spiritual life and the satisfaction of the soul. The spirit of tea ceremony with cha de as the core can fully act on today's spiritual civilization construction and provide spiritual food for people's mental health. With the acceleration of the pace of modern life, people are often in a state of mental tension, physical and mental exhaustion, prone to impetuousness, psychological imbalance, and even infatuation with money, and embark on a situation of material desire expansion. Leisure and moderate tea drinking can not only improve the quality of life, but also carry forward the spirit of tea ceremony and practice cha de, and achieve the following social effects. 1. Being quiet can relieve stress, busyness, noise and tension in life? Relaxing agent? . Harmony, respect and peace are courtesy, honesty, mutual respect, mutual help and encouragement, which promote the establishment of new interpersonal relationships and social stability? Lubricant? . Third, frugality and nobleness are to get rid of the shackles of fame and fortune, to be indifferent to fame and fortune by worshipping money and things, to overcome the troubles of suffering and loss, and to treat life in prosperity and adversity? Balance agent? .
3. Promote tea culture? Pioneering, innovating and developing. Tea culture in China is produced on the basis of natural materials, and it is also the product of the transformation of natural material consciousness. It evolved with the development of tea production, scientific progress and social progress. Tea culture has generally experienced the development process of enlightenment (three kingdoms ago), germination (Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties), formation (Tang Dynasty), prosperity (Song Dynasty) and popularization (Ming and Qing Dynasties), and continues to this day. In the new century, China tea culture must keep pace with the times, not only to continue the tradition, but also to create in the promotion and development. Only in this way can we give full play to the unique cultural potential of tea culture, keep its wonderful youth forever, and create more glory.
Function of tea ceremony
The social functions of tea culture are mainly manifested in carrying forward traditional virtues, displaying culture and art, cultivating self-cultivation, cultivating sentiment, promoting national unity, demonstrating social progress and developing economy and trade. Traditional virtue is a beautiful morality accumulated for thousands of years and respected by people of all ages, and it is the embodiment of national spirit and social fashion. The traditions of tea culture mainly include loving the motherland, selfless dedication, perseverance, modesty and courtesy, thrift, mutual respect and mutual accommodation. Mr. Wu Juenong and Mr. Liu Xianhe from Hunan are both devoted to the tea industry. They are both patriots and outstanding representatives of contemporary tea people.
Lu Yu's Tea Classic is the crystallization of ancient tea people's diligent study, assiduous study, painstaking exploration and indomitable spirit. Treat guests with tea, and replace wine with tea. A cup of green tea is intoxicating? It is a true reflection that the Chinese nation cherishes the fruits of labor and thrives on saving risks. What is the social function of arranging tea culture with tea characters as the head? Take tea as the source, treat guests with tea, make friends with tea, be honest with people, educate people with tea, replace wine with tea, exercise with tea, enter poetry with tea, paint with tea, dance with tea, sing songs with tea, promote culture with tea, make tea a gift, promote agriculture with tea, promote trade with tea and get rich with tea. Tea is the pride of China, the self-esteem, self-confidence and pride of the nation. You can think of the source when you drink tea. Dr Joseph Needham, a world-famous historian of science and technology, regards China tea as the fifth greatest contribution to mankind after the four great inventions of China (gunpowder, papermaking, compass and printing). Lu Yu's Tea Classic in Tang Dynasty was the first tea book in the world. China tea culture has a great influence on the world. Taking tea as a friend is one of the most extensive social functions of tea culture. Today's market economy is characterized by fierce competition, survival of the fittest, and emphasis on interests and benefits. However, human feelings are relatively indifferent and interpersonal relationships tend to be indifferent. Through teahouses and teahouses, friends get together to exchange information, feelings, understanding and friendship. Friends gather in the old teahouse, talking and laughing at will, recalling life and enjoying life again. In ancient times? Cold night guests come to tea as wine? In a word, replacing wine with tea embodies the traditional virtues, which meets the requirements of today's central government to advocate strict economy and eliminate extravagance and waste. Educating people with tea is a new social function bred by tea culture in the new period. Shanghai children's tea art learns tea by itself, promotes traditional excellent culture and receives patriotic education. When offering tea, we expressed our respect for our elders, parents and classmates.
Modern Function of Tea Culture
Modern society has created more social wealth, more and more material wealth and richer life by relying on high technology and information. In the process of industrialization in some East Asian countries, while absorbing excellent western technologies and crafts, decadent western cultural values and customs have also eroded society, resulting in moral crisis, money worship and extreme individualism. The experience of social development shows that modernization is not the only goal. Modern society needs a spiritual civilization that adapts to it, and it needs to explore the spiritual resources of excellent traditional culture. There are historical, contemporary cultural factors and reasonable factors in tea culture, which has played and is playing its positive role in modern society. Tea culture is an elegant culture, and celebrities are willing to participate. Tea culture is also a popular culture, in which people participate extensively. Tea culture covers the whole people and affects the whole society.
There are five main functions of tea culture in modern society:
First, tea culture takes morality as the center, attaches importance to people's group value, advocates selfless dedication and opposes mercenary. Advocating justice over profit, paying attention to coordinating the relationship between people, advocating respect for people and paying attention to self-cultivation are conducive to balancing people's mentality, solving modern people's mental confusion and improving people's cultural quality;
Second, tea culture is a good friend to meet the challenges of life. In the fierce social competition and market competition, intense work, entertainment, complicated interpersonal relationships and various pressures attached to people are not light. Participating in tea culture can relax the spirit and body and meet the challenges of life, and the role of Hong Kong teahouse is very significant.
Third, it is conducive to the construction of community civilization. The economy has gone up, but the culture can't lag behind, the social atmosphere can't be dirty, and the morality can't be decadent and ugly. The spread of tea culture after the reform and opening up shows that tea culture has the functions of changing unfair consumption activities, creating spiritual civilization and promoting social progress;
Fourth, it plays an obvious role in improving people's quality of life and enriching cultural life. Tea culture is knowledgeable, interesting and entertaining. Tasting famous tea, tea sets and refreshments, and watching tea-folk tea art, all give people a beautiful enjoyment.
The fifth is to promote opening up and promote international cultural exchanges. Zhabei District of Shanghai held the International Tea Culture Festival for four consecutive years, which expanded the visibility of Zhabei District at home and abroad. The four teams in Zhabei District decided to hold a tea culture festival all the time and invest in the construction of tea culture attractions in Zhabei Park in order to build a tea culture grand view garden.