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A tea house in Shanghai, China. The concept of tea culture is referred to in Chinese as chayi ("the art of drinking tea"), or cha wenhua ("tea culture"). The word cha denotes the beverage that is derived from Camellia sinensis, the tea plant.
Chinese tea houses refer to the public place where people gathered to drink tea and spend their spare time. Chinese tea houses have a long history. It first took shape during the Tang dynasty Kaiyuan era (713–714) [14] and became common during the Song dynasty. From the Ming and Qing dynasties, tea house culture became integral to regional ...
Chinese tea is a beverage made from the leaves of tea plants (Camellia sinensis) and – depending on the type of tea – typically 60–100 °C hot water. Tea leaves are processed using traditional Chinese methods. Chinese tea is drunk throughout the day, including during meals, as a substitute for plain water, for health, or for simple pleasure.
Tea became a drink of the religious classes in Japan when Japanese priests and envoys, sent to China to learn about its culture, brought tea to Japan. Ancient recordings indicate the first batch of tea seeds were brought by a priest named Saichō ( 最澄 ) in 805 and then by another named Kūkai ( 空海 ) in 806.
Tea ceremony is a ritualized practice of making and serving tea (茶 cha) in East Asia practiced in the Sinosphere. [1] The original term from China (Chinese: 茶道 or 茶禮 or 茶艺), literally translated as either "way of tea", [2] "etiquette for tea or tea rite", [3] or "art of tea" [4] among the languages in the Sinosphere, is a cultural activity involving the ceremonial preparation and ...
Tea is an essential item in Chinese culture and is mentioned in the seven necessities of (Chinese) daily life. During the Tang dynasty, Lu Yu found that the plants that grow under shady hillsides produced poor-quality tea, often resulting in abdominal distension.
Pu'er is the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 普洱. Pu-erh is a variant of the Wade-Giles romanization (properly p‘u-êrh) of the same name.In Hong Kong, the same Chinese characters are read as Bo-lei, and this is therefore a common alternative English term for this tea.
The Macao Tea Culture House (Chinese: 澳門茶文化館; Portuguese: Casa Cultural de Chá de Macau) is a museum about tea in São Lázaro, Macau, China. History [ edit ]