茶文化与咖啡文化对比研究

A comparative study of Chinese tea culture and the western coffee culture

School of electric power, South China University of technology

Xian Y ouqian

Culture contains many aspects, for example, diet culture, etiquette culture, clothes culture, custom culture and so on. Different environment and history resulted in different phenomena, like China and the western countries. As all we know, there is tea culture in China, but coffee culture in the western countries. If you earnestly learn something about tea culture and coffee culture, you will find that there are many differences among them. And through this, we can learn more about our own culture, at the same time it can help you communicate with foreign people, and find the reasons why they love coffee.

Tea culture

Origin of tea cultur e

Tea originated in China, tea culture occupied an important place in our lengthy history. Tea culture is a shining star of the Chinese diet culture. Tea was discovered during 2737 B.C. to 2697 B.C. And then, with the number of people who drink tea increasing, tea culture gradually came into being. According to historical records, tea culture originated in the Jin Dynasty, and tea culture formally came into being in the Tang dynasty, and its silver age was in the Song dynasty.

During the southern and northern Dynasties, the society was disordered, various cultural ideologies blended and metaphysics was quite popular. Knights of the pen think that they could keep conscious when they drink tea unlike alcohol. Gradually they treated drinking tea as a spiritual phenomenon. The first book about tea was written by Lu Yu, in the Tang dynasty. “The book of tea” was the earliest existing, the

most complete and the most comprehensive tea monograph, which was deemed to tea encyclopedia. In the Song dynasty, there were some professional tea-sampling associations among bookmen. But the popularization of tea culture was in the Ming and Qing dynasty.

Embodiment of Tea culture

Etiquette

China is known as the nation of the etiquette. In us China, we emphasize ceremony. When you go to visit some people or you were invited to your friend’s home, the first thing is to give you a cup of hot tea. As all we know, this means you are welcome there.

Carrier of emotion

In China, there is a custom. That is to toast to someone with tea. In Chinese, we call this as Jingcha. Through this, we express our benediction over the other people and our respect for people. When you drink tea with your friends, it is the embodiment of friendship. When someone will be away from you, you can invite him to teahouse to express that you are reluctant to his leaving and you wish to meet him again.

The link of Sociality

In China, it doesn’t matter you were familiar with each other, you could drink tea together. In Yibin, Sichuan province, my hometown, people always get together in teahouse. There, they drink tea, and then, they talk with each other. Sometimes some people are doing business. Especially, when in spring festival, people will be willing to expend their day time in the tea house. There, they can meet their friends who