中西茶文化異同及融合畢業(yè)論文(編輯修改稿)

　

【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 g, the first things we should get ready are firewood, rice, edible oil, salt, soy, vinegar, and tea.” Whenever we sit round a table, or have a gettogether with good friends, a cup of fragrant tea will give a rich flavor to the occasion. Most people are willing to enjoy their afternoon tea. When it es to summer or warm climate, tea seems to calm down the heat and bring on instant cool together with a feeling of relaxation. Based on this, teahouses abound in towns and market villages in South China and provide elderly retirees with the locates to meet and chat . Tea houses are everywhere in every town and city. Many elderly people often rise early in the morning and hurry to the tea house to enjoy a cup of tea. As shown by Lao she’s famous play The Tea house that a tea house is a society. 1. The great therapeutic effects of tea According to the Holy Farmer’s Herbal Classic, 2,700years ago, shennong often got poisoned after tasting various herbs he picked,. Later, he found a plant, tea, which could detoxify him. Since then, the Chinese people have treated tea as a precious medicine bestowed on human beings by the cosmos. (Wang 95) This story shows that the Chinese people first used tea as medicine. Some tea have great effects in helping to reduce high blood pressure, aid digestion, prevent coronary heart disease and lower the cholesterol. And some tea even be known as a diet tea and beauty tea as well. 2. Funeral and sacrificial customs and tea rites Tea has been used as one of the sacrificial offerings to gods and ancestors from ancient times in China. In Liu Jingshu’s Fantastic Garden, of the Southern Dynasty (420479), there is an interesting story(Zhou 157): a young widow lived with two sons. They were all fond of drinking tea. But before drinking, the young mother would offer a cup of tea to an ancient tomb in their courtyard. Her two sons became disgusted with this practice and decided to dig up the tomb. But they were stopped by the mother. That night a spirit appeared in that woman’s dream saying that “I am a spirit 5 living in the ancient tomb for three hundred years. I am grateful to you for your protection and offering of the fragrant tea. Though I am a heap of rotten bones, I’ll surely repay you.” the next morning they found in their courtyard one thousand strings of ancient coins with a new thread binding them together. From this story we know that offering tea to god or ancestors at the memorial ceremony had bee a practice. Archaeological discoveries have proved the custom of using tea as a funerary object. In an ancient tomb of Western Han Dynasty (.)unearthed at MaWangDui in the suburbs of Changcha, Hunan province, tea was listed in the brochure of burial articles. Although these customs were fatuous and superstitious, they also contained Chinese philosophies of life. The Chinese advocated that people should look squarely at life when they were alive, instead of leading a befuddled life as if drunk or in a dream。 when they died, they should strive to control their own lives instead of being ordered about ghosts and gods at will. People used tea in funerals and sacrificial rites because tea could help them keep a clear head. 3. Tea and religion In china, tea is full of great spiritual significance and has had close connection with religion in China. In the history of China tea is usually regarded as a kind of drink that would refresh oneself and make the mind calm. Refraining from daily pressures, and sitting and amusing themselves with Buddha’s teachings are the Buddhists aim. Tea is their ideal drink to cultivate their moral character. In Buddhism tea is praised as a sacred thing given by god. The Taoist thought stressed the relationship between man and the nature and believed that it was the mon law of the universe that kept nature and society operating. Therefore, material and spirit, and human and nature could not be separated. Chinese tea culture, integrated with tea’s natural and material functions and human spirit, absorbed the Taoist spirit. Despite Buddhism and Taoism have played greatly important roles in the development of tea culture, Confucian thought is regarded as the core of the spirit of Chinese tea ceremony, which is demonstrated in the following two aspects: tea’s gentle and 6 peaceful characters embody the golden mean of the Confucian school and the spirit of tea cultivate one’s honesty, elegant taste and active attitude towards life. (Wang 152) 4. Tea and literature Literature is a mirror of life. As tea has been closely woven into the life of the Chinese people, so has it been into literature. There are several thousands of classic poems about tea left to us. The great poet of Tang Dynasty (618907)Bai Juyi（白居易） was particularly fond of tea. He wrote more than fifty poems about tea. In his famous poem of a Pipa player(《琵琶行》 )there are these lines: The merchant cared for money much more than for me. One month ago he went away to purchase tea. (Zhou 158) The great patriotic poet of Southern Song Dynasty(11271279)Lu You(陸游 ) wrote more than three hundred poems in which tea is mentioned. Tea has entered almost every other form of literature and artnovels, paintings, plays, songs, and dances, couplets. In the great novel of Qing Dynasty (16441911), a dream of the red mansions, there are about three hundred mentions of tea. So people say the novel is permeated with the fragrance of tea(一部《紅樓夢》 ,滿紙茶葉香 ). There are a variety of paintings describing teadrinking affairs and the scenery in tea fields and there are a variety of teapicking dances among the minority nationalities in China. So we can find these lines frequently quoted: Tea can add virginity to heroes While tea can stir up men of letters to create. 5. Chine