Gongfu Tea Ceremony

Chaozhou Gongfu tea art, also known as Chaoshan Gongfu tea, is a unique traditional tea-drinking custom in The Chaoshan area of Guangdong Province. Chaoshan Gongfu tea set is the most famous, well-known all over the world, and is honored as "Chinese tea ceremony".

Chaozhou Gongfu tea is one of the most representative tea arts in China. It is a complete form of tea ceremony integrating spirit, etiquette, brewing technology, tea tour art and quality evaluation. It is not only a tea art, but also a folk custom, and a symbol of "fashionable people practice elegance and excellent measures". Chaozhou Gongfu tea has been listed in the National Intangible Cultural Heritage List.

Chaozhou tea Ceremony is the most representative tea ceremony in China's ancient traditional tea culture, especially Gongfu teapot. Chaozhou Gongfu tea has a long history. Chinese tea culture prevailed in the Tang Dynasty, while Chaozhou Gongfu tea prevailed in the Song Dynasty. Aristocratic tea originated from Chaozhou Gongfu tea, which has a history of one thousand years.

In Chaozhou, tea is regarded as the best etiquette to entertain guests and is perfected, not only because tea has the role of health preservation in many aspects, but also because tea has the artistic conception of "treating gentlemen and clearing the mind and body" since ancient times.

Drinking Gongfu tea is the most common thing in the daily life of chaozhou people in Guangdong province. After dinner, or when guests come to visit or friends meet, a pot of tea is always used as a foil.The tea decocting ceremony in Japan and the tea brewing ceremony in Taiwan both come from Gongfu tea in Chaozhou.
Chaozhou Gongfu tea has a long history. Chinese tea culture was popular in the Tang Dynasty, while Chaozhou Gongfu tea was popular in the Song Dynasty. Aristocratic tea originates from Chaozhou Gongfu tea, which has a history of thousands of years. Tea has already become an indispensable part of chaoshan people's life. Chaoshan Gongfu tea is the most famous, famous all over the world, is honored as "Chinese tea ceremony." "Chaozhou Gongfu tea can be called the representative of Chinese tea ceremony," said Qin Mu, a great writer of chaozhou nationality. Chaozhou Gongfu tea is a symbol of "hipster learning elegant, superb measures".

Mr. Zhang Huayun once wrote "Chaozhou Gongfu Tea Song" a cloud:
Fujian and Guangdong land is connected, marriage Asia does not break off. Five niang shi Chen Three, litchi for cutting. Fujian tea shows east Guangdong, xi Ming tieguanyin, bud is broken powder, the rope is slender brown. One catty 40 bubble, three cups without shortage. Hipsters have no nobility or inferiority, and are often addicted to tea. Harmony, love, essence, cleanliness and thought make the tea ceremony invincible.

Water, fire, utensil, cooking, drinking, tea gas is extremely insightful. Thin pot boiling spring, clay furnace blazing olive core. The pot is small, and the cup is deep and clean. West Lake Virgin Spring, Sangpu Longquan liquid. Four-finger flywheel, scrubber clean and hot. Wrap the strip around the powder and head off the floating foam. Guan Yu patrols the city and Han Xin points the soldiers. Dry tea can ripe cloud, drink no crumbs.

A rush number for the skin, flow incense four overflow. Two or three blunt for meat, fragrant leave teeth cheek. Four chong has cloud pole, breeze born two axils. The mind cheng strange, gastrointestinal clear food. Bandits alone cure thirst, xia Xing winter. Can not be a day without, all evil away. Hipster travel far, the four seas leave traces. When I meet people from my hometown, I will be a guest together. A total of three or two cups, exchange township news. Homesickness from awn perch, nostalgia such as rubber paint.

Because of knowing gongfu tea, the most cohesive force. Once upon a time, the people of the past opened their doors, and the dynasties gained gains. Is into the tea culture, the world soak up plasterze.

"Shang Gongfu Tea":
Chaozhou Gongfu tea art gradually expanded into practice. Chaozhou Gongfu tea is not only used by wealthy businessmen, officials, scholars or large families to entertain guests and amuse themselves with Gongfu tea, but also three kinds of "shangGongfu tea" :
First, teachers and other scholars, to tea, so there is a saying "sitting in the study, ha (drink) burn (hot) tea";
Second, craftsmen, tea to relieve fatigue, very common;
Third, the idle people in the towns gather to drink tea and relax.
Accordingly, before chaoshan area each village has so-called "idle" and "between string (the house that plays tide music)", all are the place that drinks tea.

National Intangible Cultural Heritage:
Chaozhou Gongfu tea is not only from eastern Guangdong, but also from China and the world. Chaozhou Gongfu has been classified as national "non-material cultural heritage" [1], this is a wealth of chaozhou fathers, special skill, and is also the Chinese tea culture is the "living fossil" of the ancient Chinese Gongfu, both bright roentgen sequence, etiquette, and there was a beautiful way of tea, and tea art is elegant style, small in see big, more in the outside, the actual profit and loss of philosophy.

As a classical school of Chinese tea art, Chaozhou Gongfu tea has concentrated the essence of Chinese tea ceremony culture, is the embodiment of the vulgar and elegant, is the deposition of history and traditional culture. "The pot is small, the tea is thin and the human feelings are thick", Gongfu tea has penetrated into every corner of social life, throughout the world, silently playing the role of the bond of friendship communication, thick tea fragrance moistens and pacifies people's hearts.

Gongfu tea advocates the Ceramic Teapot spirit of "harmony, respect, essence and happiness", and it will surpass limitations and be shared with more people.