Tea ceremony is a way to appreciate the beauty of tea. It is also regarded as a life art of drinking tea while making tea, a life etiquette with tea as the medium, and a lifestyle of cultivating oneself with tea. It is a very beneficial beauty ceremony to make tea, taste tea, smell tea, drink tea, enhance friendship, please Xiu De, learn etiquette and appreciate traditional virtues. Drinking tea can calm the mind, help to cultivate sentiment and eliminate distractions.
Tea ceremony spirit is the core of tea culture. Tea ceremony culture originated in China and was introduced to Japan in the Southern Song Dynasty, from which Japanese tea ceremony was derived. Nowadays, tea ceremony culture has become popular in Japan. The representative figures of tea ceremony are Cha Sheng Lu Yu, the author of Tea Classic in Tang Dynasty, and Lu Tong, a poet in Tang Dynasty. He wrote Tea Spectrum and Seven Bowls of Tea Poems when he lived in seclusion in Chaxian Spring, a fairy valley of Shaoshishan Mountain Tea.
Tea, botanical name, shrub or small tree, with or without hairless twigs. Leaves leathery, oblong or oval, blunt or sharp at the top, wedge-shaped at the base, shiny on the top, hairless or initially pilose on the bottom, serrated at the edge, and glabrous on the petiole.
Flowers are white, and sometimes the stalks are slightly longer; Sepals broadly ovate to rounded, glabrous, persistent; Petals broadly ovate, slightly articulated at base, glabrous on back, sometimes pubescent; Ovary densely covered with white hairs; Style glabrous. Capsule 3 is spherical or 1-2, with a height of1.1-0/.5cm, and each ball has 1-2 seeds. The flowering period is from June 10 to February of the following year.