Comparison between Kung Fu Tea Ceremony and Japanese Tea Ceremony

Japan is a nation that is good at learning and absorbing. Once many foreign cultures have been transplanted to Japan, they will be labeled as "Dahe Nationality" and become an integral part of Japanese culture after being integrated and abandoned to make them more in line with their national conditions. The same is true of Japanese tea ceremony. After a long process of development, it has developed distinctive national characteristics and enjoyed considerable reputation in the world of tea culture.

A simple comparison between Kung Fu Tea Ceremony and Japanese Tea Ceremony aims to enhance understanding and promote the exchange of tea culture, rather than to promote and suppress the two.

Difference in tea art

The Japanese tea ceremony is the "end tea" road, and the Kung Fu tea is the "tea" road.

In the Tang and Song Dynasties, many Japanese monks who went to China to study, such as Zhicheng, Konghai, and Rongxi, brought Chinese tea, tea, and tea-making methods back to Japan. Since China was still in the “end tea era”, the Japanese tea ceremony still drinks the last tea.

The operation method is: "The tea girl pours the boiling water into a grayish white rough bowl and stirs it with a stick (the samovar). The bowl floats up in the spring with the pine needles and the green end of the green, which floats on the thin Bubble." (Lin Qingxuan "The Aesthetics of Matcha") It is obvious that they still use the tea method of the Song Dynasty.

Differences in the drinking environment

There is a special tea room in the Japanese tea ceremony. There is a “mountain gate” in the form of a huts in front of the tea room. After the entrance, it is a small garden. The door is short, and adults usually bow down to show respect. In the tea room, there are only the stove on the ground, the iron pot on the stove, a tongs with charcoal, a simple calligraphy and painting, a bottle of sculpt, and no display. You can't talk loudly in the tea room, let alone talk and laugh. In short, what it requires is the atmosphere of "clearness and silence."

Such a serious and cautious environment is better than the time of Kung Fu tea. It can be set up in time; can be a room, can stand, can be quiet, can sing songs... is a clear contrast.

Difference in the concept of drinking

At the beginning of the formation of the Japanese tea ceremony, it has a close relationship with Buddhism.

The "Tea Zen" written by Dade Temple in Kyoto, Japan, and the Buddhist monk of the Chinese sorghum in the Song Dynasty, is quite representative of the spiritual pursuit of the Japanese tea ceremony.

In the fifteenth century, Nara's monk Pearl was the first tea ceremony, and the first name was “Tea Soup”, which is in line with the “Tea Soup” of the Chinese Zen Temple. Later, the third generation of Zhuguang's disciple, Qian Lixiu (1521 - 1591), founded the "Tuo Tea Road". According to the revelation of "Fa Hua Jing. Letters of Dissolution", "I am still at the door, stop the grass," he put forward the idea that "the true meaning of the tea ceremony lies in the grasshopper", and set up a grass-style small tea room outside the main house of the Buddhist temple. This form has been passed down to this day.

Qian Lixiu lives in an era of arrogance and war, and he hopes to create a peaceful, courteous, sober and silent environment through the tea ceremony, so that people can reflect and self-discipline at any time, with a view to eliminating disputes. This kind of Zen-style penance requires a bitter silence. Only the bitterness of silence can seek the relief of the spirit. Therefore, not only poetry, music, flowers and birds, but even redundant words are not suitable for this purpose. The corresponding etiquette is very rigid.

When people who experience tea ceremony enter the tea room, there are certain etiquettes for pushing the door, squatting, and chilling; the owner has a certain standard of decocting water, brewing tea, and offering tea; other procedures such as wiping bowls, picking up, tea, talking, etc. are also detailed. And rules. It can be said that the Japanese tea ceremony pays attention to the inner spiritual cultivation, and pursues the atmosphere and emotions of extreme concentration, tranquility and solemnity, which makes people enter a strange realm like “meditation”. Therefore, some people regard it as "aesthetic religion."

Kung Fu Tea is a popular art of drinking and drinking. Drinking Kung Fu tea is a physiological and health need. It “drinks” tea, but does not use thirst for the sole purpose, but an artistic drink; it also includes interest, but more is life; it pays attention to cooking tea. The skills and procedures, but not the form and form, but through the form to more fully play the material function of tea and the spiritual function in the process of tea, so that people get the pleasure and enjoyment of sensuality and rationality.

Japanese tea ceremony has four rules of "harmony, respect, clearness, and silence"; Kungfu tea ceremony is "harmony, respect, fineness, and pleasure", and it should not be called "four rules", but should be called "four fun."