On Jan. 18, TAG-Confucius Institute conducted Chinese tea culture and tea ceremony activity. In China, tea has several thousand years of history and has formed the Chinese tea culture. At the same time, tea is beneficial to our health, thus it is well received by many people. Chinese tea culture is both extensive and profound, which not only contains the level of material culture, but also includes a deep level of spiritual civilization. Referring to Chinese tea, we can trace back to ancient times, which flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasty. Since then, the spirit of tea has penetrated into the court and society, going deep into Chinese poetry, painting, calligraphy, religion and medicine. For thousands of years, China has accumulated a great deal of culture in tea cultivation and production, moreover, enriching the spiritual culture of tea.
Since China has a long history of tea planting, extensive tea areas, various natural conditions, numerous varieties of tea trees and also different methods of tea collecting and processing, it has produced thousands of tea products. Through long-term practice, people have created and adopted diverse processing and making technologies for developing series of tea. These come from non-fermented, half-fermented and fully fermented teas, which gradually formed the six major types of tea in traditional Chinese concept, which are green tea, black tea, oolong tea, white tea, yellow tea and dark tea. Furthermore, scented tea and brick tea are famous teas as well.
In the Chinese tea culture and tea ceremony class, the teacher told the children the categories of Chinese tea and the methods of making tea. Then, the teacher made tea for them and told them how to serve the guest and what the guest does to show thanks. The children tasted Jasmine tea, black tea and oolong tea. Not only did they taste the tea, they also imitated the teacher to make tea, from which they found much pleasure.