中国文化英语论文 ——Chinese tea culture.docVIP

中国文化英语教程 学期论文 学号：111425020133 班级：计科 111 姓名：完颜杨威 Chinese tea culture Abstract: Chinese tea culture has a long history, extensive and profound, as the quintessence of the Chinese nation. Chinese tea industry, initially is popular in bashu, then gradually spread to the east and south, so that throughout the country. In the tang dynasty, and spread to Japan and Korea, after the 16th century were introduced in the west. On Chinas tea industrys contribution to the human, the main is the earliest discovered tea and use this kind of plant, and its form and development for our country and the east and the world of a kind of unique tea culture. Core of tea culture to the tea ceremony, Chinese material culture can rise to the level of the only tea culture, tea is tea and the way of integration and sublimation. To tea culture explanation helps us to deeply understand, better for our profound grasp and carry forward the Chinese traditional culture. China is the homeland of tea. Of the three major beverages of the world-- tea, coffee and cocoa-- tea is consumed by the largest number of people in the world. China has tea-shrubs as early as five to six thousand years ago, and human cultivation of tea plants dates back two thousand years. Tea from China, along with her silk and porcelain, began to be known the world over more than a thousand years ago and has since always been an important Chinese export. The Chinese tea ceremony, also called the Chinese Way of Tea, is a Chinese cultural activity involving the ceremonial preparation and presentation of tea leaf. The manner in which it is performed, or the art of its performance is shown in the tea ceremony. Taoism has also been an influence in the development of the tea ceremony. The elements of the Chinese tea ceremony is the harmony of nature and enjoying tea in an informal and formal setting. Tea ceremonies are now being revived in Chinas new fast-paced culture, and continuing in the long tradition of intangible Chinese art. Tea