　Tea tea culture in a broad sense, points of two aspects of natural sciences and humanities tea, refers to the practice in the process of social history created the material wealth and the spiritual wealth related to tea. In a narrow sense, focus on the humanities tea, refers to the tea to mental and social function. Because tea science has formed an independent system, therefore, often say the tea culture of now 　focus on the humanities.
　First, the formation and development of tea culture
　1, the three previous tea culture enlightenment
The discovery of many books put tea time for 2737-2697 BC), its history can be pushed to the three sovereigns. In the eastern han dynasty hua tuo "food" : "eat bitter tea for a long time, yi" recorded the medicinal value of tea. The western han dynasty to the tea producing area county named "tea ling", namely hunan chaling. To The Three Kingdoms wei generation "guang ya" has been the earliest recorded the process of tea and drinking: leaf picking between jing ba made cakes, leaf old bread, with rice paste out of. Tea in material form and penetrate to other humanities and formation of tea culture.
　2, jin, northern and southern dynasties, the buds of the tea culture
With the rise of literati, drinking tea, the tea of verses appeared increasingly, tea has been from eating into culture, as a general form plays a certain spirit, social function.
　3, the formation of tea culture in tang dynasty
780 Liu Yuzhu "saint", is a sign of tea culture in the tang dynasty to form. It Outlines the nature and the humanities dual contents of tea, tea art is discussed, the Confucianism, Buddhism, daoism into tea, pioneering spirit of the Chinese tea ceremony. Later appeared a lot of tea, tea poetry book, "tea", "Fried tea", "tea plucking down", "16 soup" and so on. The formation of tea culture in tang dynasty and the rise of buddhist teaching, because tea has refresh, raw essence thirst function, so the temple advocate drinking tea, planting tea tree around the temple, to set up the tea ceremony, set ChaTang, choose tea, the tea matter activity. The Chinese tea ceremony is formed in the tang dynasty palace tea ceremony, the temple of tea ceremony, tea ceremony scholars.
　4, the rise of the song dynasty tea culture
　Song dynasty tea industry has great development, and promote the development of tea culture, in the literati, a professional tea group composed of officials "soup club", the buddhist "one thousand club" and so on. Song MAO song taizu is an addicted to tea, set up the tea things in house the family authority, with palace tea is hierarchical. Tea has become a ritual, give tea has become a minister of emperor netting, an important means of JuanHuai kindred, also give foreign envoys. As to the underworld, tea culture is bright and lively, migration, neighborhood to offer "tea", the guest has come, to worship "wing tea", is engaged to "tea", to "tea" at the time of the marriage, as you knew "tea". Folk tea wind, a series of changes brought tightly boil point.
　5, the Ming and the spread of tea culture
　At this point has been steamed green, liquor, baked green tea, tea drinking has been changed to "pinch of bubble method", in Ming dynasty, many scholars have masterpiece, such as tong pak fu tea cooking picture scroll, "tea map", the prove of the hui camellia will ", "liu yu tea cooking figure", "tea figure", etc. The increasing of the tea, tea art, tea set design, quality of a material, decorative pattern diversity. To the qing dynasty tea exports has become a formal industry, tea, tea, tea poetry book.
　6, the development of modern tea culture
　After the founding of new China, Chinese tea with annual capacity of 7500 T development from 1949 to 1998, more than 60 m T. Large increase in the tea material wealth provides a solid foundation for the development of tea culture in China, in 1982, established the first to promote tea culture in hangzhou for the purpose of society - "tea house", founded in 1983 in hubei province "the tea tea culture research association," 1990 "Chinese tea association was established in Beijing," China international tea culture research institute "in 1993 in lake chau, in 1991 China tea museum officially opened in hangzhou west lake township. In 1998 the Chinese international tea culture built JiaoLiuGuan peace. With the development of tea culture, local teahouse to do more and more. International tea culture seminar has been open to the fifth world, attracting Japan and South Korea, the United States, and Hong Kong and Taiwan participated. The provincial cities and agriculture is part of the host "ChaYeJie" tea, such as the city of fujian wuyi rock tea, yunnan puer tea, xinyang, henan, zhejiang xinchang, taishun county, hubei YingShan ChaYeJie too numerous to list. With tea as the carrier, to promote comprehensive economic and trade development.
