Tea ceremony is the way to appreciate the beauty of tea. It is also regarded as a life art of making and drinking tea, a life etiquette with tea as the medium, and a life style of cultivating one's morality with tea. By making tea, enjoying tea, smelling tea, drinking tea, promoting friendship, improving morality, learning etiquette and appreciating traditional virtues, it is a very beneficial and beautiful ceremony. Tea can calm the mind, calm god, help edify sentiment, remove distractions.
The spirit of tea ceremony is the core of tea culture. [1] The tea ceremony is regarded as the embodiment of Taoism.
The tea ceremony culture originated from China, and was introduced to Japan in the Southern Song Dynasty, where the Japanese tea ceremony was derived. Today, tea ceremony culture has become popular in Japan.
Representatives of the tea ceremony include Lu Yu, the author of the Book of Tea in the Tang Dynasty, and Lu Tong, the tang Dynasty poet who wrote the Tea Spectrum and Seven Bowls of Tea Poems when he lived in seclusion in the Xianquan Tea Valley of Shaoshi mountain.