As a beverage, tea is the quintessence of the Chinese nation and a necessity of people's daily life, right? Seven things to open the door? One. Many people have a soft spot for drinking tea. In terms of drinking tea, regardless of gender, there are villagers living in mountain villages and rich people living in cities; There are both literati who share the ups and downs with the world and monks who see through the world of mortals. If so? The leader of modern Tai Ji Chuan? Known as Wu Tunan, he likes drinking tea all his life, holding a cup in his hand, day and night. Tang dynasty 120 year old monk is a monk. Master Zhao Zhou? , created in the Buddhist altar? Zhaozhoumen style? , including? Want to have tea? Interpretation of Zen? Normal mind is the right way? . The centenarian birthday girl in the Qing Dynasty appreciated this passage of Lu, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty. Enough rice and firewood, carefree, eat up the official grain early, not surprised or humiliated, not owing debts or interests, not entering the pawnshop, just plain tea and rice, you can live a long life. ? Li Qingyuan said: This is really a recipe for keeping in good health and prolonging life. With this, you can live forever, and you don't have to use a panacea to refine the elixir. ?
Drink different teas according to different seasons to make tea? Do your best? The function of soil in the body is one of the ways for the birthday girl to drink tea to keep healthy. Drinking scented tea in spring can radiate the cold accumulated in the body in winter and promote the generation of human yang; Green tea tastes bitter and cold. Drinking it in summer can clear away heat and detoxify and quench thirst. Green tea is neither cold nor hot. Drinking in autumn can eliminate residual heat in the body and restore body fluid. And black tea is sweet and rich in protein. Drinking in winter can help digestion, replenish the body and make it strong.
As the origin of tea, there are many kinds of tea in China, among which Luan Guapian is one. Lu 'an Guapian, which grows in the beautiful Dabie Mountains, is the only kind of green tea without stalks and buds. It is unique in that it has been mentioned many times in the famous historical masterpiece A Dream of Red Mansions. She was a necessity for dignitaries at that time, which shows its importance to life and health at that time.
Drinking tea is beneficial, but everything should not be too much, and so is drinking tea. Drinking too much tea will lead to electrolyte disorder in the body and even lead to abnormal cardiopulmonary function. Therefore, there is a saying among the people that they never drink strong tea, drink tea on an empty stomach or drink overnight tea. .
So, why does drinking tea have the effect of prolonging life? Chinese medicine believes that tea can clear the heart, wake up and get rid of troubles; Cooling the liver and gallbladder, clearing away heat and resolving phlegm; Benefiting lung and stomach, improving eyesight and reducing fever. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica says: Tea tastes bitter and cold, which can reduce fire best. Fire is a disease. When it falls, it will clear up. ? Modern medicine points out that human aging is related to the excessive oxidation of unsaturated fatty acids in the body, and this oxidation is related to a substance called free radicals. Polyphenols, caffeine, vitamins C and E in tea have a strong scavenging effect on free radicals, which is the secret of healthy and long life of tea.
The relationship between tea culture and health preservation 1. Tea has a long history as a medicine;
Traditional Chinese medicine is a rich treasure house. Tea has a long history as a medicine. There are many records in ancient books. For example, Materia Medica, Yaoshu, Huatuo Food Theory and Tea Spectrum all record more than 20 kinds of functions of tea, such as quenching thirst, refreshing, promoting digestion, diuresis, relieving asthma, eliminating phlegm, improving eyesight, nourishing the mind, eliminating phlegm and diseases, diminishing inflammation and detoxifying, and prolonging life. Chen Zangqi, a great physician in Tang Dynasty, said in Compendium of Materia Medica: All kinds of medicines are the medicine for all diseases, and tea is the medicine for all diseases? Almost deified the medicinal value of tea.
With the development of modern tea biochemistry research, up to now, more than 500 known compounds * * * have been isolated and identified from tea, and many experiments and clinical tests have proved that the pharmacological effects of tea also include weight loss, blood pressure lowering, heart strengthening, blood enriching, anti-arteriosclerosis, blood sugar lowering, anti-cancer and anti-radiation. Recently, a water-soluble plant pigment was extracted from green tea in China's pharmaceutical industry. Tea pigment, clinically proved to have the functions of regulating blood lipid, anticoagulation, promoting fibrinolysis, improving microcirculation, enhancing immune function and inhibiting tumor growth, is another major breakthrough in the pharmacological research of tea and is in a leading position in the world.
Drinking tea is closely related to human health. It is predicted that tea will become the most popular healthy drink in 2 1 century. Therefore, as long as we advocate scientific and moderate tea drinking, we can say that tea is of great benefit to human health and longevity. This is the material basis of the close relationship between tea culture and health preservation in China.
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To sum up, China tea culture is the crystallization of China's traditional tea drinking habits and tea tasting skills, with profound oriental cultural heritage. The spiritual mainstream that runs through China tea culture is influenced by traditional philosophy and closely related to the rise of Zen. It is not easy for generations to attack each other. The health education in China regards self-cultivation as the first priority of health. For example, Gao Lian, a famous health care practitioner in the Ming Dynasty, wrote Eight Notes on Respect for Life, which matched the tea ceremony with China's health care spirit. In the Ming Dynasty, Gu Pu quoted Dream Record: In the third year of junior high school, there was a monk 130 years old in Tokyo. Xuanzong asked what medicine to take. Yun: Sex is the only good tea? , good!
According to historical records, China tea was introduced to Japan in the 9th century. Jianning II, the founder of Japan, entered the Tang Dynasty, and the right monk was a great monk, who wrote the book Seven Forks. Weighing? Tea is also a panacea for health? . It also profoundly clarified the cause and effect of tea and health preservation.
It is worth mentioning that China tea culture (China Tea Ceremony) is essentially different from Japanese tea ceremony. Japanese tea ceremony originated from Jingshan culture in Tang Dynasty in China. After centuries of development, it has gradually evolved into an existing religious philosophy (so-called? Harmony, respect, purity and silence), a cultural system with strict and complicated procedures, is called? Religious aesthetics? .
China's tea ceremony, on the other hand, forms different types of tea ceremony and ceremonies due to different times and different types of teas, but they have one thing in common, that is, they deliberately try to taste and exert the colors, fragrance and rhyme of various teas and pursue a harmonious and relaxed atmosphere instead of pursuing red tape? Relieve impatience, pleasure, joy? Spiritual realm, tea ceremony procedures and rituals are closely coordinated with scientific tea drinking, and complement each other, organically combining the health care value, health preservation value and appreciation value of tea, which is really an activity of harmonious combination of spirit and material. This is the reason why China Tea Ceremony has both fitness and health preservation functions, and it is also the reason why China Tea Ceremony has been able to last forever, from the court to the people, from the literati to the monks, and from the Central Plains to the frontier, reaching unprecedented prosperity.
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