Basic indoor furnishings of the basic etiquette of tea ceremony: the location of the tea owner is generally in the north of the room, and several embroidered piers are randomly placed opposite to serve as seats for the host and guests. Sitting in China Tea Ceremony is very casual and eclectic, mainly to feel the natural atmosphere. In the Japanese tea ceremony, guests sit in rows on the left and right sides of the room, strictly according to their seats, and the order of seats is very important. When drinking tea, everyone will only sip a cup, which is somewhat similar to the feeling of pre-Qin, and the atmosphere is solemn. ) The tea maker uses a long square table with a screen at the back and a pier in the middle, with tea washing and water on the left. The tea master sits in charge of the tea, and the maid holds the case beside her.
Preparation equipment: a teahouse (preferably with a water leakage device on the surface); Teapot (flower water); Tea stove (for making tea, it is best to have a small wind shield next to it); Tea set (for washing teacups); A teapot (for making tea); Put the teapot (pounding tea leaves), tea spoon (holding tea leaves), tea leakage (holding tea soup), tea masher (pounding tea leaves) and tea bamboo (holding tea cups) into the bottle; There is a small incense burner, a set of incense cups, a set of tea cups and a teapot on the teahouse.
Requirements for the host and guests: quiet, polite and orderly, dressed up, not whispering, the host is polite to the guests.
Requirements for tea artists: orderly, unhurried, solemn, elegant and polite. The staff is generally composed of a tea teacher and two accompanying waiters. Waiters stood on the left and right sides of the screen, holding boxes sideways. When there is no case, stand with your hands together (put your hands in front of your abdomen and cover them with sleeves). When the tea maker and waiter salute, they should bow with their hands folded.
Ceremony:
Before the tea ceremony begins, the host and guests get together, and the host and guests salute each other in turn. Generally, the guests salute and the host responds. The host entertained the guests, talked with them and invited them to visit the teahouse by the way. The host showed his arrangement to the guests and asked them to comment as a topic.
Before the tea ceremony began, the host and guests were seated, and then they stopped talking. The tea master led the maids to the table, bowed in rows, and the host and guest got up to reciprocate, and then they all sat down. The tea party officially began.
The maid who burns incense with clean hands first holds the basin, and the tea maker (symbolically) washes his hands, and then goes to the guests in turn. Guests come first, and the host and guests should also wash their hands. The ancients believed that tea affairs were sincere and solemn, and at the same time they should be kept clean, and cleaning hands was undoubtedly equal to cleaning the heart. Then the tea maker lights the incense burner, puts it on his desk, and puts the maid on the low table where the guests sit. The fragrance of static gas is essential in tea culture, which not only adds artistic conception, but also helps to adjust the atmosphere and add a peaceful atmosphere, which is more conducive to the spiritual exchange between people here.
Show the tea set, then the tea maker puts the tea set on the case, and the maid holds the case and distributes the tea set (mainly tea cups) to the guests for viewing and comments.
Wash tea
The first step in the initial boiling of Yanquan is to boil water, and tea powder can be brewed directly with boiling water in the tea tunnel. The rule of frying tea in Tang and Song Dynasties is to directly boil tea cakes into tea soup, so the first step is needed? Pour tea-make tea-mix tea? Take tea leaves with a tea spoon and put them in the teapot. Mash the tea leaves slowly, finely and elegantly with a tea masher. Then put the tea leaves into a tea stove and inject the boiled tea leaves; After cooking, gently mix the tea soup with the tea leaves and put them back.
After washing the tea three times (the tea soup is cooked), rinse it gently on the teapot with boiling water (called a warm pot); Then turn on the tea stove, pour the tea soup into the leaky teapot, inject as much water as possible, and then gently sweep it with the lid to let the tea soup go down the pot (brew); Then cover the pot and pour the tea soup on the pot (to make the teapot fragrant inside and outside). (Before making tea in a teapot, pour the boiled tea soup directly on the teacup with a filter tea ware, which is also a triple shower. Step one, gently pour boiling water into the cup, step two, pour tea soup, and step three, reuse the whole tea soup. Skillful pour, either urgent or dripping, or tight or slow. Later, making tea with different tea set materials is more conducive to preserving the taste, such as purple sand and teapot with a top cover. Teapot? .
Washing a cup-warming a cup-smoking a cup is the same as boiling a teapot. Tea cups also need warm washing and fumigation. Here, the delicate teapot needs to be soaked for a while. First, take out handkerchiefs (preferably scarves) and put them on the table to form small squares. Wipe the teacups one by one, then put them in the washing tea with tea clips and wash them with water in turn. Then put the teacups in hot water before drinking tea. Finally, put the teacups in front of the incense burner for incense and static air.
When the soup is finished and the tea is soaked, pour water into the teacup in turn and return the jade liquid to the pot. What if the teapot is? Teapot? If so, you can also pour the water from the teacup back into the teapot. The tea fragrance is folded on the wall, handed back to the pot, and then injected with tea. This time, the incense cup was covered on it, held in the left hand and covered in the right hand. Hold it to your chest three times to mix the fragrance of tea with the fragrance of tea. Then, take off the incense cup, put your hands in front of your nose, twist and smell. Then the maid presented the incense cup to the guests, who smelled it in turn.
After serving tea, fill all the cups with tea, cover them with scented cups, then cover them with silk handkerchiefs, breathe repeatedly, then put the silk handkerchiefs in your left hand, fold them with your right hand, put the cups on the silk handkerchiefs, and then put the cups on the table with your hands (using silk handkerchiefs to pad the cups is mainly for fear of burning hands, and some good silk materials are used for heat preservation. As for the movements, it is for beauty, and at the same time, you should pay attention to elegant manners when serving tea). When the maid serves tea, she should raise the case to her eyebrows to show her respect, and the guests can only accept the case after devoting themselves to the original seat.
When tasting tea, mix the incense first; The tea master motioned that everyone hold the cup in his left hand and cover it with his right hand, and shake it three times before his chest, which is called fragrant tea. Smell the fragrance again; Take off the incense cup in your right hand, hold it in front of your nose with your left hand, twist it and smell it, and then taste a cup of tea; Holding a cup (together with a silk handkerchief) in his left hand, he held it in front of his mouth. Turn the cup three times on the silk handkerchief with your right hand, which is called observing the color of the soup, and then cover the front of the cup to drink (in fact, this is not only the case during the tea ceremony, the ancients had to cover their hands in front of the cup to prevent it from being unsightly when drinking), and then put it down. When drinking tea, the most important thing is action, which is the only place in the whole tea art that needs to behave appropriately. I didn't pay attention to the previous actions, at most? Making tea? Just do it, just watch it. Therefore, when drinking tea, the actions such as the left hand and the right hand are all for attention.
Because you can't drink tea three times at most, you can only sip it carefully, one is bitter, the other is sweet and greasy, and the third is fine aftertaste.
After three sips of tea, they put the cups on the table, and everyone was quiet for a while, not only remembering the tea they just drank, but also feeling all this silently.
After the ceremony, the host and guest stood up, and the tea maker and maid lined up. The host and guests thanked the tea. After the tea teacher left, the host and guest stayed to enjoy the fragrance and tea, or listen to the piano, or talk about the sky, or meditate, quietly experience the tea environment and feel the quiet and far-reaching atmosphere. After the guests left, the host sent them out, which was a complete success.
The brewing method of tea ceremony is to cover a cup for personal enjoyment or meeting to save time. This is a simple and convenient tea set for individuals who use it once and for a short time. Covering the cup can also be used as a brewer, which is also suitable for general tea tasting.
If you want to enjoy the standard concentration of tea soup, you can increase the amount of tea according to the type, nature, time, occasion and the physique and habits of the drinker. If the cup capacity is 150, a single cup can hold 3 grams of tea, and it can be drunk after brewing for five minutes. In a long meeting or a variety of drinks, 5 grams of tea can be put in and brewed for two minutes. The lid of the cup can be used to stir the tea leaves, make the tea soup uniform and judge whether the concentration is appropriate; It can also be used to filter tea leaves when pouring tea soup. After pouring the tea soup, you can not only enjoy the tea soup, but also smell the aroma of tea leaves and bowl lids. If the cover cup is used as a brewer or teapot, the amount of tea leaves can be appropriately increased or decreased according to personal preferences and drinking habits, and the brewed tea soup can be poured into the tea sea from the cover cup to mix the tea soup evenly, and then poured into the cup for drinking. The quality of the cover cup is mostly porcelain, so the aroma is easy to appear when making tea, and the taste and aroma of the tea soup will not be disturbed. It is most suitable for brewing fragrant tablets, high-fragrance packaged tea, Longjing, Biluochun and other green teas.