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This paper analyzed the Series of Nine Old Books of JinZang Rongxu’s Book of Jin Supplement I, Book of Jin, Ben Cao Yan Yi from the Song Dynasty, Renewed Classic of Tea written by Lu Tingcan in the Qing Dynasty and other documents. It was found that the earliest accurate record of tributed tea was from Wen Qiao, prefectural governor of Jiangzhou in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, who tributed a thousand pieces of tea and three hundred jin of tea to Emperor Cheng of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The time of tribute was from the first year of the reign of Emperor Xianhe (326) when Wen Qiao was appointed as the leader of Jiangzhou, to the fourth year of that period, and the second and third year was the most likely time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

All-round development of the Tang Dynasty society provided an objective background for the formation of tea culture. This paper points out that the composition and diffusion of tea culture at that time reproduced the triple attributes contained in the taste of tea. The first is the overt attribute, the physical attribute of the tea taste in tea drinking, embodied in the functional value of the tea. The second is the implicit attribute, also the spiritual attribute of tea, which endows tea with spiritual connotation in tea-tasting practice. In tasting tea, people can appreciate tea’s aesthetic value, cultivate their character and have connection with nature through the medium of tea. The third is the social attribute. Different groups developed different tea-tasting manners according to their own needs, which formed the grouping characteristic and market norms, reflecting the social connotation of the nationality, class and economic development of the Tang Dynasty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a famous tea-producing region in China, Jiangxi has a long history of tea culture, which has made outstanding contributions to the enrichment and development of Chinese tea culture. Jiangxi tea set is most famous for its ceramic material, which has become an important part of its tea culture, with both material and spiritual attributes. With the development and enrichment of tea culture, the categories and forms of tea set have been updated constantly. In this paper, the correlation between tea culture and tea set was investigated through reviewing and analyzing the development of Jiangxi tea culture, ceramic tea set and kiln sites. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Tang Dynasty witnessed the great development and prosperity of Chinese tea culture. The process of preparing and drinking tea was completely recorded, which can be divided into tea picking, baking, grinding, storing, boiling, and tasting. Utensils for tea preparation and drinking were also separated from diet utensils and became special tea utensils. Through research, it is found that most tea vessels were used or appeared in groups in different tea making processes. Therefore, based on the physical materials unearthed in archaeology, the records in the Classic of Tea written by Lu Yu and the paintings of tea vessels in Tang Dynasty, this paper mainly speculates the combinations of tea vessels in different tea making processes in the Tang Dynasty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fujian tea culture is mainly famous for Kungfu tea, but eating Lei tea is popular in some areas where Hakka people live in northwest Fujian. Jiangle Lei tea, which is listed in the preservation list of intangible cultural heritage in Fujian Province, is an important part of Hakka Lei tea and the epitome of Hakka Lei tea culture. Taking Jiangle Lei tea as the research object, this paper analyzes its origin, production process and social value, as well as various factors of Jiangle Lei tea inheritance from the perspective of food anthropology, trying to explore how Jiangle Lei tea has become a local cultural symbol during its evolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Song Huiyao Repertory-Food and Goods-Miscellaneous Record of Tea Methods records a large number of documents on the history of tea in the Song Dynasty. Those documents are only available in this book, one of the most important documents for the study of the history of tea in the Song Dynasty. However, the extant Song Huiyao Repertory is not the original Huiyao, and it had been copied many times, with many omissions, additions, errors, and reversals. This paper, taking the collated version of the Song Huiyao Repertory by Liu Lin and other scholars, which was published by the Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House in 2014, as a base, corrects the Miscellaneous Record of Tea Methods I one by one, points out and revises seventeen errors and mistakes [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By exploring the historical and cultural data of tea cultivation in Shandong and Mount Tai since the Tang and Song Dynasties, this paper speculates that the Jin Dynasty may be the earliest period of tea cultivation in Shandong and Mount Tai, and maintains that the tea recorded in most of the historical documents should be Mount Tai plant substitute tea. The introduction and cultivation of tea trees in Mount Tai was clearly recorded during the Republic of China. After the successful introduction of south tea, Mount Tai tea in the 1990s has achieved rapid development, forming a well-known regional brand. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Zen Master Koubing, known as the "Ancient Buddha of Koubing" in history, was a legendary eminent monk in Chinese Buddhism in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. He created an eclectic style in Ruiyan Temple of Wuyi Mountain and attracted many scholars to seek advice. The Zen tea allusion that Zen Master Koubing lifted a tea tray asking the King of Min about "will you" had been passed down to later generations and had become ever new. This paper expounds the wonderful use of expressing "Dharma" by means of tea from four aspects: the person of Zen Master Koubing, the delicate idea of Zen tea, the wonderful use of Zen skills and the extension of tea affairs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Su Shi is a great master of Chinese traditional culture, who kept his enthusiasm for the real life, forming his unique aesthetic view of daily life. In daily tea drinking, Su Shi kept an aesthetic attitude of appreciating everything, advocating the elegance of daily tea drinking and combining tea with Zen, incense and the four treasures of the study (brush, ink, paper and ink stone) to manifest the temperament of educated people and his pursuit of leisure life. Su Shi experienced huge survival difficulties after being relegated in his life. However, he always kept enthusiasm and love for the world thanks to his poetic attitudes towards life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

China is the birthplace of tea culture with a long history, having a profound influence on the tea culture in East Asia and even the world. The Japanese tea ceremony originated from China, and the tea utensils from China are collectively called "Karamono Utensils". In the Middle Ages of Japan, the Karamono Utensils were introduced to Japan together with teawhisking method of the Song Dynasty. This paper examines the influence of Karamono Utensils in the formation and development of tea drinking spatial structure, style classification, tea people’s appreciation ability and Japanese utensils, thus maintaining that Karamono Utensils played the following roles in promoting the innovation of tea drinking spatial structure, providing the basis for various classifications of the Japanese tea ceremony, cultivating the aesthetic ability of Japanese tea people, and providing specifications and models for Japanese tea utensils. The crucial role played by Karamono Utensils in the formation of the Japanese tea ceremony profoundly proves the fact that the Japanese tea ceremony is formed by learning from the Chinese tea ceremony, which is another example of the unique charm of Chinese tea culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Milk tea is a popular drink all over the world, which integrates two major materials of milk and tea, prevailing among young customers by constantly adding new color and taste materials and innovating in flavor and emotional expressions. However, the academic circle has paid less attention to the historical development and evolution of milk tea. Through a longitudinal review of the historical development of milk tea in China, this paper discusses the relationship between milk tea, ethnic integration and cultural exchanges, hoping to provide reference for the development of new tea drink related to milk tea in the modern times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hainan is one of the high-quality tropical tea regions in China, with a unique history of tea. There are disputes about the origin of its tea and the time of its artificial cultivation in the academic circles. This paper systematically reviews the historical facts of tea distribution, planting, understanding of tea as well as development and utilization in Hainan during the his torical period. It is believed that the development of tea in Hainan is far behind other regions. In the early days of the People ’ s Republic of China, the ancient tea processing mode of collecting wild tea was still retained, and cultivated tea planting did not appear until the 1960s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]