Chinese Culture of Tea

In primitive society, human life simple and plain. Han fei zi "ten meet" and the "five" article, attracted to yao said the life is hut, brown rice, potherb root, the diet is Fou soil, and after that invention use of black, etc. The first stage of visible tea, may not have special tea service, mostly and other food, is a Shared by the multi-purpose. With wooden or ceramic bowl, and as the instruments of tea drinking.

The development of tea set and ceramic production development are closely related. The emergence and development of ceramics and pottery and porcelain is first after by the tao is. Zhejiang yuyao hemudu cultural level 4 unearthed pottery-clip carbon black, it has 7000 DuoNian history, is one of the early neolithic pottery.

Tea with the cooking method, also along with tea production technology improvement and cattle of tea and the development of the constantly changing. The first to find wild tea tree, is gathering fresh leaves in the pot cooked in the soup soup and food into, at that time cooking method and vessels drink is very simple. In the spring and autumn period, tea as vegetables, and cooking, the same, no special boil drinking method and vessels. When human beings enter into the class society, slave owners and the noble class after the emergence of the leisure class, drinking, form tea, instruments to have the new requirements, thus appeared the dedicated to the tea, cook tea tea and tea utensils.

The generation of tea set, began in slave society, when it is mainly for cooking pot of tea tea, tea bowls and storage tank and so on with the tea. Along with the time evolution, tea consumption, wide, because of consumer of tea of different, different customs, consumption object. No matter the form of different tea, tea service supporting or tea service, such as the type of change constantly.