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Tea utensils have existed since people started to drink tea, and all utensils related to tea drinking are called tea utensils. Nowadays, tea sets are used as teapots for making tea, tea cups and tea cups for drinking tea, "hand-brewing" for boiling water, fairway cups for distributing tea, scenting cups for smelling tea, tea trays for making tea platforms, and tea canisters for storing tea leaves, and so on.
Ancient and modern ways of drinking tea are different, so are the tea utensils. China has an ancient tea culture, according to historical records, China's agriculture and medicine pioneer - Shennong's earliest discovery and use of tea. Since the Han Dynasty to the Sui and Tang dynasties, people drink tea style gradually formed. In the Tang Dynasty, tea was boiled, and the tea leaves were steamed and pounded to make tea cakes like Pu'er tea today, and then crushed into tea powder and boiled in a pot for drinking. Among them, the steaming cage for steaming tea, the pestle and mortar for pounding tea, the tea mill for grinding tea, the pot for boiling tea, the ladle for scooping tea, and the tea bowl for drinking tea were all tea utensils. Tang Dynasty to specialize in drinking tea utensils called tea or soup. In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, was later honored as the "Tea Sage" Lu Yu in his "Tea Classic", the tea picking, tea-making tools called tea; to boil water, tea utensils called tea. And now not the same. Song Dynasty prevalent tea method, the development of the Tang Dynasty tea utensils. Tea is injected into the boiling water into the tea cup with fine tea powder, tap out the foam and then drink. Song Dynasty tea not boil water, but with a flask; tea cups are tea and drinking tea double tea set, very important; clap bubble tea gazette is the emergence of new tea sets, very distinctive. To the Ming dynasty, people drink tea and now the same, brewing loose tea leaves, cover bowl, tea cups, teapot is the most important tea utensils.
Now some of the tea room, tea ceremony hall for the decoration of tea environment, fumigation ning quiet atmosphere with items, such as incense, paintings, flower arrangements, decorations, etc., these are known as tea props.
What kind of tea sets are used in daily life? What kind of materials are used to make them?
China is a vast country with many ethnic groups, but tea is drunk in all parts of the country. Because of the different tea-drinking habits of each region, there are many different kinds of tea utensils.
Generally speaking, a teapot is used for making tea, and a teacup, teapot or tea cup is used for pouring and drinking tea. Some small teapots can be used for mouth-to-mouth drinking.
Northern people love to drink tea, often placed on the table at home an enamel or plastic tea tray, tray put a large porcelain pot and a few porcelain teacups, but also useful glass cups.
In the south of the production of green tea in the region, most of the use of glass cups, because the use of glass cups to brew tea is easier to appreciate the shape of the tea leaves. The South also has bamboo tea set, but this tea set by the environment is very restrictive. South of the humid climate, abound in bamboo, the use of bamboo tea set is more appropriate; and one to the dry climate of the North will not work, "soil and water", you put it on the table regardless of it, it will crack.
People around Chaoshan, Guangdong like to use purple clay pots of tea, bubble a small pot of tea, self-pouring and drinking, there is a fun. Tea to talk about the top grade, but also kung fu tea, brewing kung fu tea is more cumbersome, used to the tea utensils are also more, there are fairway cups, smelling cups, cover bowls, teaspoons and so on more than ten kinds. The fairway cup is used to share the tea, the material does not have too many requirements, glass, purple sand, porcelain have; And the smell of the cup is generally porcelain; Cover bowl are porcelain, very few other materials of the cover bowl.In the south of the production of green tea in the region, most of the use of glass cups, because the use of glass cups to brew tea is easier to appreciate the shape of the tea leaves. The South also has bamboo tea set, but this tea set by the environment is very restrictive. South of the humid climate, abound in bamboo, the use of bamboo tea set is more appropriate; and one to the dry climate of the North will not work, "soil and water", you put it on the table regardless of it, it will crack.
People around Chaoshan, Guangdong like to use purple clay pots of tea, bubble a small pot of tea, self-pouring and drinking, there is a fun. Tea to talk about the top grade, but also kung fu tea, brewing kung fu tea is more cumbersome, used to the tea utensils are also more, there are fairway cups, smelling cups, cover bowls, teaspoons and so on more than ten kinds. The fairway cup is used to share the tea, the material does not have too many requirements, glass, purple sand, porcelain have; And the smell of the cup is generally porcelain; Cover bowl are porcelain, very few other materials of the cover bowl.
Most of the tea drunk by the ethnic minorities is brick tea and cake tea, so they are accustomed to using metal teapots, such as copper, iron, aluminum, etc., and tea bowls of gold and silver, as well as wood and porcelain.
In daily life, there are some other materials of tea, such as stone, bamboo, lacquer, etc. to do the teapot and tea cups, these tea ornamental value is greater than the practical value, suitable for use as a small decorative or for the collection, so they regarded as a tea crafts is more appropriate to some.
Apart from the teapot and teacup, what other auxiliary tea utensils can be used when drinking tea?
It depends on what kind of tea you are drinking. Drinking flower tea, green tea used tea utensils are relatively simple, while drinking brick tea, oolong tea and other auxiliary tools used is more, such as tea knife, fairway cup. Tight pressure of pu-erh tea, voltaic tea, thousand two tea, etc., because it is very hard, it is necessary to use a special knife, the first cake or brick tea like prying, this knife is aided by tianshi. If you drink is iron Guanyin, big red robe oolong tea, in addition to the teapot, tea cups, it is best to have another some tea utensils, they are:
- The tea storage jar allows guests to view the shape and color of the tea and smell the aroma of the tea before drinking it.
- Tea is used to pour the dried tea from the canister into it (some use a tea ruffle) to make it easier to see the amount of dried tea.
- Tea spoons are used to transfer dry tea leaves from the tea canister into the tea container; when changing tea, wet tea leaves are transferred from the teapot or teacup into the container.
- Tea needles are used to clear the blockage of the inner spout of the pot when it is clogged with tea leaves.
- Tea Clips are used to hold the tea cups for cleaning.
- Containers are used to hold discarded tea leaves.
- Tea towels are used to wipe or absorb water stains from the bottom of teapots.
- A wooden stand used to hold a teapot.
- The stopper is a small collar that holds the stopper of the bottle.
- A tea strainer is used to filter the tea broth and keep it clean when it is poured out of the pot.
- The tea broth is infused into the fairway cup through the tea strainer, and then distributed to each cup to ensure the consistency of the concentration in each cup.
- Tea Wash is used to wash the tea.
Since when have teapots and cups been used?
Tea sets are for tea drinking, and changes in the way tea is drunk lead to changes in the tea set.
In the pre-Qin period, people cook the tea leaves into a vegetable soup, called "tea dishes", when the tea is mainly for food, there is no teapot, teacups and other tea utensils. Han Dynasty appeared to boil tea, tea began to become a beverage. The earliest mention of tea is the Western Han Dynasty rhetorician Wang Bao wrote "Children's Covenant", there is "cooking tea as much as possible," four words, this is the earliest record of China's tea, meaning that the tea is cooked and cleaned tea utensils, but did not say what tea utensils.
Tang Dynasty appeared a real teapot, tea bowl, this is because tea to the Tang Dynasty is popular throughout the country. Tang Dynasty prevalent cake tea, according to Lu Yu's "Tea Classic" records: first baked tea cakes to remove water, and then crushed into powder, and then sifted, sifted out of the tea powder into the pot to cook, in the tea bowl when drinking tea tea powder and water together with the entrance to swallow. In archaeological excavations, unearthed a lot of Tang Dynasty porcelain bowls, the bottom of the bowl in the center of the "Tuan", "Tuan realm" and other words, which is used to drink tea tea bowl. "Tea" character in the Tang Dynasty in the middle of the popularity of the word, before that are written as "Tuan". Also unearthed a kind of "tea bottle", the bottom of the writing "Chashe bottle", is a special ceramic teapot.
Song Dynasty popular tea method, according to Cai Xiang's "Tea Records" records: first baked, crushed, sifted powder tea cakes, and then put the tea powder into the teapot, injected a small amount of boiled water to mix, and then use the tea gazette to make the foam. Injection of boiling water utensils called soup bottle, is a kind of thin high teapot. Since the end of the song dynasty, the people found that the tea leaves fried and dried with water brewing method is simple and easy to use, especially in the ming dynasty zhu yuanzhang ordered to change the cake tea only with the current loose tea brewing method to drink tea, teapot, teacups are popular in the world.
What are the famous tea sets in ancient China?
Ancient China has a lot of famous tea sets, these tea sets testify to the development of Chinese tea culture. 1990, in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, a late Eastern Han Dynasty tomb unearthed a celadon urn, 33.5 cm high, inside and outside are covered with green glaze, engraved in the shoulder of a "tian (tu, the same as the ancient tea)" word, obviously is the time of the tea set.
In 1953, in hunan changsha wangcheng county unearthed a piece in the bottom of the bowl written "tiankeng (wan, ancient with bowl)" two words of the tang dynasty celadon tiankeng bowl. This is the earliest tea bowl found in China.
In 1957, a silver gilt lotus-shaped tea cup tray was unearthed in Xi'an, with a footrim inscribed with the words "In August of the 14th year of the Dazhong period, a tea tray was made with Hun gold coating ……", which is a famous tea set of the Tang Dynasty.In 1957, a silver gilt lotus-shaped tea cup tray was unearthed in Xi'an, with a footrim inscribed with the words "In August of the 14th year of the Dazhong period, a tea tray was made with Hun gold coating ......", which is a famous tea set of the Tang Dynasty.
In Dantu County, Jiangsu Province, a Tang dynasty silver bottle with a long stream and a silver tea tray were unearthed. The bottle has a long stream with a narrow neck, a deep belly, a short footrim and is larger than the body of the bottle, which is in the shape of a disk. On one side of the shoulder is a long stream, with a small, rounded and sharpened mouth, which allows for a powerful and rapid injection of water; on the other side, a thin piece of silver is used to form a ring-shaped handle. The entire bottle is plain and undecorated.
In 1987 Shaanxi Famen Temple collapsed, in the rescue excavations, found under the tower base of the underground palace, when unearthed 12 pieces of gold and silver made of palace tea and a batch of "Secret Color Porcelain" tea bowl, sensational world. "Secret color porcelain" previously unseen in kind, only in the Tang Dynasty, there are written records, is the "Tea Sage" Lu Yu most favored "Yue kiln" (kiln site in today's Zhejiang Shaoxing) porcelain.
Song Dynasty prevalent black tealight, glaze in the firing will produce some special texture, such as "rabbit hair 盞", "oil drop 盞", "cormorant 盞", and so on. This black teapot to Fujian Jianyang's most famous.
Lacquerware tea sets appeared in the Song Dynasty in the lacquer-producing regions of southern China.
The Yuan Dynasty saw the emergence of blue and white porcelain. It was fired on white porcelain blanks using oxidized put as the coloring material, with blue flowers on a white background, and was very clean. It is produced in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, and there are many varieties.
During the Ming Dynasty, there was a change in the way tea was served, with teapots and covered bowls gradually increasing in number. Zisha pots also took the stage of tea culture.
What is the impact of Chinese tea sets on foreign tea sets?
Tea, silk and porcelain were exported from China at the same time. After the Tang Dynasty, especially after Lu Yu's "Tea Classic" came into being, tea culture began to benefit Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia. At that time, the tea utensils include tea pots, tea cups, tea stoves and some auxiliary tea utensils, Japan and the Korean Peninsula are on the Chinese tea utensils for imitation. Some of their tea societies still maintain China's Tang and Song Dynasty heritage, Japan today still use the tea cage (xian) in the Japanese pronunciation and the Chinese language. In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, part of the northeastern Khitan moved to the Korean Peninsula, and now the tea utensils used by the Korean people are the same as those depicted in many Khitan tomb murals. Jian kiln lamp after the flow of Japan, they imitated the name "Raku-yaki", "Soto-yaki". Today, koreans use tea set has a kind of celadon cup table lamp, is still authentic sung dynasty tea set style.
Vietnam (then known as Jiao-toe) also copied porcelain tea sets. Since the Ming Dynasty in China appeared after the purple sand teapot, foreign countries (including Europe) also began to use clay made of specialized tea sets, only on the style of raw materials, culture, habits and some changes. Today, these countries, especially in the East, because of the relationship between land resources, are in China to order the tea they need. From the proportion, or porcelain products are mostly ceramic, pottery should also be coated with glaze.
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