Yingde Tea Culture

The Chinese nation has a glorious culture for thousands of years, a thousand years of history of tea culture. The so-called culture, broadly speaking refers to the sum of human history created during practice material and spiritual wealth. Although only part of the culture of Chinese tea culture system, but its rich traditional culture connotation and profound closely related.

The so-called "tea culture"? Although currently there is no unified concept of different opinions, but the general view is that the tea material and spiritual aspects of unity. Tea spiritual culture. "Tea Culture" can also be interpreted as a positive outcome achieved in humans tea production, manufacturing, and enjoy the spirit derived from activities. In a nutshell, including the "tea culture", "tea culture" and "Tea in Tea" three parts. As the "tea culture" involving the natural sciences and the social sciences in many aspects, so all parts of penetration into all aspects of social life, constitute a content implication Colorful cultural phenomenon.

One, Yingde tea culture has a long history

Yingde tea has a long history of formation and development of tea culture has a long history, the trajectory of its development can be traced back tea1.jpg (17460 bytes) dating back 1200 years ago in the Tang Dynasty. According to the Tang Yu book "Tea-eight of the" (764 years) contains: "Lingnan students Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Xaucea, like state ......, and often have of their excellent taste." Planting tea was Xaucea including Britain and Germany, Qujiang and so on. According to the "world's tea industry for 100 years," the study demonstrate Chinese Tea Research Institute Chengqi Kun, 庄雪岚 two fellow editor; "Tang Dynasty, Five Dynasties Xaucea Qujiang, Renhua, Britain and Germany and other counties have tea," "the Ming Dynasty before he became one of Yingde, Guangdong Province, 11 tea-producing counties; Guangdong Province, is one of 70 tea-producing counties Ming Dynasty; after the Opium War was one of 84 tea-producing county in Guangdong "visible Yingde tea planting and production. long history of tea.

Tea production flourished promotes the formation of tea culture. According to historical records: the Tang dynasty, Yingde (when Zhen County), Nanshan scenic area has a "Zhu Ming Taiwan" one; Nanshan Song "public Leting" Cliff says: "carved cliffs between Han Hui Gu, Ling smoke peaks, Feixia Ridge, the Greek sun Island, Zhu Ming Taiwan, cold Chui Ting, all Chinese relics. "Southern Song Yingzhou magistrate Wang Ren had "cooked US Ming" Praise poetry titled "Zhu Ming Taiwan": "Shihti one thousand Zhang Li OK, OK mountainside enough to suspend; tour Jia Gou Ji Lingquan cook, thirsty heart moisture trapped magic awake "; and the" tea-line hospital for laughing, troubled landscape painting halo bar ", and other poems. Visible, Yingde tea in the Tang Dynasty style of the people has been very popular. Since the rise of the tea industry, producing more than made Jiaming was listed as imperial tribute. According to historical load, the Ming Dynasty tribute tea produced in Yingde tribute to the imperial court. Also, according to Chen Qing Emperor Kangxi's written right "rebuilt Yingde County · contribution" records: "seven pounds seven two-leaf tea, Guo Chao: bud fourteen pounds five ounces, a tribute to the imperial court," when in fact the territory of the Qing Dynasty Yingde County tea throughout the four townships. According to the Qing dynasty, "Paper 16 properties Yingde County Chapter of tea" and reads: "Red Zhu camellia, Shek Lin Heung blue camellia, tea lady Ridge peaks, Tou Township Huang Ling, Crane tea2.jpg (16265 bytes) sub-Township Fushan tea are odd product ...... "Xuantong" Yingde County "is written:" Tea production Luokeng, Tai Po, Hong Wu Nai Hang those ancient pure taste, such as flutter Mao disabilities, special vulgar true nature remainder gold Hill. production waterside premises, Li-dong, Huang Village and other far away as incompetent ...... Goro mountains tea smells absolutely clear, Kwun Yam Shan mountains are old tea tea. "However, when planting is" small clusters of stems and long, tip as referring lobular kinds of tea with the development of foreign trade, Britain and Germany had tea in the first half of the 19th century 叶兴盛 of a sudden, after the war because of the endless, gradually shrinking exports, to the early 20th century, the barren tea, tea dying, almost disappeared ...... tea trade.

Even so, after all, is an ancient Anglo-German tea area, tea customs still strong, both urban and rural, tea has become a common custom, deposited into a cultural phenomenon, but I do not know at what time (has been unable to sophisticated) also derived from a well-known "Leicha porridge" food culture. Such food "Leicha porridge" phenomenon than drink, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian and other provinces, "Lei Cha" has the same purpose, to become one of the contents of this tea culture unique to the region.