Why do you serve tea at the wedding?

Serving tea is an important part of the wedding. Why should we serve tea instead of toasting and drinking?

Lang Ying's "Seven Revisions" in the Ming Dynasty mentioned that "tea can not be transplanted, transplanted, and will not be resurrected. Therefore, women's employment is to eat tea. I also hired a person who took tea as a gift to see the meaning of submission. " In other words, once planted, tea seeds cannot be transplanted, and once transplanted, they will no longer survive. Using tea as a dowry also means that once a woman gets married, she needs to be single-minded.

Tea is a symbol of "obedience" in a wedding. Drink this cup of tea and you will be well.

In the twenty-fifth episode of A Dream of Red Mansions, Wang Xifeng teased Lin Daiyu and said, "Since you have eaten our tea, why don't you marry a daughter-in-law for our family?" Lin Daiyu, who said she didn't eat fireworks, rolled her eyes, indicating that tea played an important role in ancient marriage customs.

Although with the changes of the times, the meaning of wedding refreshments has also changed.

In addition to "locking" the woman's mind, she also increased her respect for her parents and thanked them for their parenting. There is also the present wedding tea, also called changed tea. After drinking this cup of tea, other parents changed to "mom and dad", which increased the sense of ceremony and made the change of mouth shape more formal.

As the old saying goes: seven things to open the door, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea. Therefore, tea is an essential element in our family life.

Tea culture has a long history and culture in China. In the Tang Dynasty, drinking tea was very popular. Tea has become a gift-giving expert at home, visiting relatives and friends. I don't know what to send, just send tea. Tea as an important part of wedding etiquette was pushed to the peak in Song Dynasty. The Qing dynasty also retained the concept of tea ceremony, and there was a saying that "good women don't eat two teas".

To sum up, the wedding tea is from beginning to end, from nurturing grace to traditional culture.