Generally speaking, sending tea represents two meanings. First, tea, as a carrier of local specialty and tea culture, has attracted much attention. Sending tea is to share the beauty you feel with others and enjoy the pleasure brought by tea culture. Second, tea, as a gift, has the value of conveying emotions. Sending tea carries the worldly wisdom, represents respect and etiquette for others, and is of great significance in interpersonal communication and emotional contact. Send tea in ancient and modern times: (1) offer tea; Serve tea. "Wu Deng Hui Yuan Yun Ju Ying Zen Master Fa Si Hang Fu Li Zen Master": "I will always invite Master Wei Nanling to send tea in the future." The second time in "Biography of Heroes of Children": "After the tea is delivered, the master asks this sentence." Chapters 4 and 5 of Adventure Witnessed in Twenty Years: "When the man saw that I spoke Cantonese, he thought I was from the village, so he asked me for tea." (2) In the old wedding custom, the man sent a bride price to the woman's house, which was called "sending tea". Later, it also referred to "sending tea" as a gift. The third time of Jin Ping Mei Hua Ci: "Jinlian asked: The Qiao family moved yesterday, why not send him tea today?" (3) Drink tea with food. Ye Lingfeng's "Can you forget the smoked green beans in Caizhizhai in the south of the Yangtze River": "This is a very light snack, which can be used to send tea or eat porridge." (4) giving gifts. Give tea as a gift to elders, bosses, friends, etc. Tea delivery is also very particular. China is a big country in tea culture, and now everyone pays attention to health preservation. The tea sent can't be too bad. You'd better send a little better tea according to your favorite. Other meanings of sending tea: tea is a special commodity. First of all, it is different from rice, oil and salt. It's not a necessity, so sending tea has other meanings. In some movies in Hong Kong, "sending tea" and "sending it for inspection" are homophonic, so its meaning is very bad. There is an Independent Commission Against Corruption in Hong Kong, and when it is necessary to investigate public officials, they will be summoned. These people are invited to tea in movies, so in Hong Kong movies, whether it's tea delivery or tea invitation, it's a taboo word. In addition to officialdom, tea delivery has also been given to other meaning among young people. When a heterosexual brings you tea or invites you to tea, it means that he wants to hit on you. In addition, it is still the words "new tea" and "a batch of new tea". If you don't understand these code words, it will cause a lot of misunderstandings and troubles, which will make some people afraid of being drunk with tea. But in fact, with the progress of society, drinking tea is a very common chat and business negotiation. In interpersonal communication, sending tea to each other has become a very common phenomenon, and it is also a manifestation of the world. However, young couples are still sensitive now, and there are often more speculations about sending tea to friends of the opposite sex. For example, when a girl makes tea for a boy, the boy will think: tea is soaked in a cup, so the girl makes tea for me just to make it with me. The cup is for life, so she wants to make it with me for life. Some boys will think that girls care about themselves, because boys usually like to smoke, drink and eat meat and stay up late, and girls care about boys' health, so they send tea to boys. When my boyfriend sends tea to my girlfriend, she will also think that my boyfriend may have regarded me as a marriage partner. For example, in Shaanxi, young men and women use tea to determine their relationship from blind date to engagement. On blind date, if a girl likes a young man, she will offer tea to the man's elders and "change her mouth" respectfully to each other. When "betraying relatives", the two sides went to the man's house, and the girl poured tea for the elders of the man's house in turn, thus setting a marriage.