What does Taoism mean by nourishing the heart with tea?

Do you know the meaning of "repairing tea"?

-Listen to Wu Guanjun, an expert in tea culture, talk about "repairing tea"

In recent years, with the prosperity of tea industry and the widespread popularity of tea culture, the word "tea art" has long been widely understood and familiar, and a new word in the tea industry has gradually entered the public's field of vision, which is "repairing tea".

Compared with "tea art", most tea culture lovers are somewhat unfamiliar with "tea art", and even some students who have participated in "tea art" classes still don't understand the difference between "tea art" and "tea art" after completing a tea art course, thinking that "tea art" is just a change of traditional "tea art".

What exactly does "tea repair" mean? Wu Guanjun, a famous tea culture expert, gave the answer based on his years of research on the topic of "Restoration of Chinese Tea Art".

Wu Guanjun believes that raising tea, as the name implies, is "taking tea as a business". "Tea art" is a kind of tea culture expression between "tea art" and "tea ceremony". It refers to tea as the main medium, tea art as the fun to improve, and cha de as the code of conduct. In the process of tea culture learning and practice, through the continuous improvement and understanding of "technology and art" with tea as the main body, practitioners can achieve "nourishing the heart with tea, understanding the Tao with tea and cultivating themselves with tea."

For China tea culture with a long history of 5,000 years, the word "repairing tea" can be regarded as a new word, but the reality of this behavior or concept of "repairing tea" has at least started from the Tang Dynasty, which means that the word "repairing tea" is a new word at most, but it is definitely not a new thing.

Cha Sheng Lu Yu wrote in the Book of Tea: "Tea is useful and tastes cold; For drinking, it is best to be a frugal person. " This statement has always been regarded as the origin of China's "cha de", which is the historical evidence that the ancients began to attach importance to "practicing with tea" as early as the Tang Dynasty. In The Book of Tea, Lu Yu explicitly raised the daily life content of drinking tea to the spiritual level for the first time, and closely linked the lifestyle of drinking tea with the personality practice of "precision and frugality", thus perfectly establishing the concept of tea culture in China, including material civilization and spiritual civilization.

The so-called "frugal" people refer to those virtuous people who strictly restrain themselves from pursuing "the supreme way". "Pay attention to behavior" refers to diligence and perseverance, which means that tea people should strictly follow social ethics, understand etiquette, behave themselves and not deviate from the rules; And "frugality" means that tea people should always abide by traditional morality, be cautious and diligent, and not slack off. In the Book of Changes, Confucius also has the eternal aphorism that "a gentleman is difficult to be frugal, not rich", which shows the importance of "frugality" to a person's cultivation.

Thus, in Lu Yu's view of "cha de", "drinking tea" is very beneficial to the noble personality of "thrift". Then let's see why people should cultivate morality, and what important role does "morality" play in people?

"Talent" and "virtue" in "Learning from each other" divide people into four categories, namely, "having virtue and talent, having virtue without talent, having talent without virtue" and "having virtue without talent is not enough to help them succeed; Talent without virtue, virtue will help its rape. Among these four types of people, "virtuous and talented" people are most loved by the world. They benefit the society, are respected by future generations, and even achieve the name of sages, such as Laozi and Zhuangzi, Confucius and Mencius; People who are "talented without virtue" are the most spurned and hated by the world. Most of them will bring disaster to the country and the people because of their talents, endangering the people, leaving eternal infamy, such as Chytra, Isoroku Yamamoto and Qin Gui! The Warring States Policy in Sikuquanshu records that "people can't stand without virtue, things can't prosper without virtue, and countries can't be strong without virtue", which shows the importance of virtue to personality, career and country.

Judging from the social attributes of talent and virtue, it is non-directional, while virtue has a clear direction, so there is a saying that talent without virtue is far worse than talent without virtue. "Having both ability and political integrity" is the lifelong pursuit of every aspiring person. It is difficult for Shangyi to acquire "talent" and "virtue", so talented people need to cultivate themselves.

When it comes to self-cultivation, the simplest and most direct way for China tea people is to cultivate self-cultivation through tea ceremony based on "China cha de". What is "China Tea"?

1989 In May, Mr. Zhuang Wanfang, a master of tea science, first put forward cha de's view of "sincerity, beauty, harmony and respect" in Shanghai Tea Newspaper. 199 1, published in Tea (199 1 third issue) and Tea. This paper further interprets this view, and suggests that this "cha de view" should be publicized nationwide, so as to strengthen the current construction of two civilizations and improve economic and social benefits. This is the first time that Teacher Zhuang has explained the meaning of tea to Chinese people relatively formally. Later, the four-character code of China tea people put forward by Zhuang Lao, namely "sincerity, beauty, harmony and respect", was established as "China cha de" by academic circles.

The four simple explanations about China and cha de are "honesty and thrift: a cup of tea, honesty and thrift; Respect customers with tea, replace wine with tea, reduce "foreign drinking" and save foreign exchange "; "Meizhen Leisure: a cup of green tea, featuring famous products, * * * delicious products, * * * fragrant products, * * * renewed friendship and long life"; "Treat each other with sincerity: have a cup of tea, pay attention to tea ceremony, get along with each other sincerely, and improve interpersonal relationships"; "Respect for people: a cup of tea, respect for people and love for the people, helping others, purifying water and making good use of tea art are the ways for tea people to cultivate themselves."

Knowing the meaning of "China cha de", we can easily find that as a tea culture lover or a professional tea man, it is by no means a day's work to sublimate one's self-cultivation to conform to the four-character code listed in "China cha de". This process of learning tea, which is "keeping healthy with tea, clarifying the heart with tea, and establishing virtue with tea", will surely become the theme of our life's practice.

So how do we start the road of "Chad" practice? Of course, it is not simple to make a cup of tea or learn one or two tea art processes every day, but it requires a long-term professional tea culture practice process. In this long training process, we should first learn about the orthodox Chinese traditional tea culture through professional study, instead of being misled by the pseudo-tea culture, so as to truly understand the true essence of tea, which is the primary condition for developing "tea art training".

When we have the basic conditions of "raising tea", then in the process of learning tea, we can let the body absorb the nutrition of tea and let the mind understand the connotation of tea; We should not only know the long history of Chinese traditional tea culture, but also learn professional comprehensive knowledge of tea culture, such as basic knowledge of tea, knowledge of tea biochemistry, tea processing evaluation, teahouse aesthetics, tea art aesthetics, etc. Through the study of profound Chinese traditional tea culture, we can cultivate our body and mind in knowing and making tea again and again, realize human nature in tea tasting, and practice the supremacy of "sincerity, beauty and respect" in the constantly improving tea learning skills.

To sum up, we can see that the process of tea cultivation is a comprehensive process of tea art promotion and moral cultivation. Of course, the tea art mentioned here is not a narrow sense of making tea, but a broad sense of Chinese tea art, which covers the four links of "planting tea, making tea, making tea and tasting tea" and the double meaning of "technology and art"; The moral character here is not a single moral character in the ordinary sense, but the virtue of "sincerity, beauty and respect" that a qualified China tea man should possess.

Therefore, Wu Guanjun believes that a simple interpretation of raising tea can be understood as the meaning that people who love tea practice with tea; The basic idea of Chinese tea art is to achieve the effect of cultivating the mind, understanding and Xiu De by practicing, improving and understanding tea art;

It is the practical theme of tea culture in China that "keeping healthy with tea, enlightening the heart with tea and establishing virtue with tea".

Cultivation of Chinese tea art: it is an activity to know tea, a process to improve tea art, a Dojo to cultivate one's mind and cultivate one's nature, and a lifelong practice of China tea people!