The main ideas of Zen tea culture are: “honesty, Qing, harmony and elegance”, righteousness represents integrity, Qing represents cleanliness, and represents peace as the most valuable, elegance represents elegance.
Zen tea culture is more inseparable from humanistic care, inseparable from daily life, inseparable from Zen care and sentiment, inseparable from the essence of tea (recommended by the master: uric acid tea, learn tea knowledge please pay attention to: www.lhecha.coM] clear, light clean, polyester trouble, and cultivation.

Zen tea basic procedure
Compared with the ordinary tea ceremony, the procedure in Zen tea is related to its religious temperament. In the meantime, in addition to doing the corresponding action of making tea, the main brewer should also give some corresponding guidance to the tea drinker, so as to better appreciate the real “Zen tea spirit”.
1 breath regulation
The master should guide the guest to meditate first.
2 Boil water
Observe the fire phase, from the burning flame to understand the shortness of life and the brilliance of life.
3 Hou Tang
From the boiling water Hou Tang listen to the initial boiling, boiling sound, people will have “Fahai tide sound, random general response” sentiment.
4 Wash the cup
When washing the cup by turning the cup, it may be possible to see the cup turn into enlightenment.
5 Hot pot
Using boiling water to wash the teapot is called “fragrant soup bath Buddha”, indicating the strength of the mood.
6 Enjoy Tea
Show tea to guests.
7 Throw tea
Throw tea into the pot, like a Bodhisattva in prison, go through water and fire, and the tea can arouse the spirit.

8 flushes
Brewing tea and flushing water can make people feel like “cliches” and lead to enlightenment. The hot air rising from the pot is like a warm cloud, which makes people feel like bathing in the spring breeze and have good thoughts in their hearts.
9 Wash tea
The tea is still clean to wash, the pursuit is spotless.
10 Making Tea
The teapot is like the human heart, it should be inclusive of everything, everything is true like a wonderful body, in the small teapot also contains profound Buddhist principles and Zen machines.
11 points tea
Zen tea tea art pay attention to: there are three thousand merit water in the pot, and listen to the sound of Yanxi water. The sound of pouring tea is also like the sound of Yanxi water can inspire people’s mind, alert the mind and help people to understand the way.

12 Tea
The purpose of offering tea is to use tea as the media, so that guests can taste the taste of life from the bitterness of tea.
13 Smell the incense
Do deep breathing, as much as possible to inhale the aroma of tea, and make the tea aroma directly to the cranial door, repeated several times.
14 Color viewing
“Secret Nunnery sayings” said: “By listening to a drop of Cao stream, scattered as emperor city Yuan spring.” The color of the tea soup is called “Caoxi watching water”, and the metaphor is to see the color is empty from a deep level.
15 Tea Tasting
One of the principles of the Yunmen School of learning, that is, to follow the fate of things, to freely understand the taste of tea, not tired of bitterness, not partial to sweet, only in this way can the mind be relaxed, broad and free, in order to realize the Zen machine Buddha ceremony from the tea.
16 Aftertaste
After tasting the tea, the sixteen procedures on the front side, and then carefully aftertaste, will be: “There is a sense that through, a thousand cups of tea reflects a thousand cups of moon; A perfect sense of understanding, a thousand miles of clouds to ten thousand miles of heaven.” The Dharma doctrine is in the most ordinary things of daily life, and the true nature of Buddha-nature is in people’s own hearts.
17 Thanks for tea
Tea should be often drunk, meditation should be often involved, sex should be often nourished, and the body should be often cultivated. “Seven bowls to taste, one pot to really interesting, empty hold a hundred thousand verses, better to eat tea!”

Tasting tea is like meditation
The meaning of tea is to put down, life is like a journey, people who are rushing about, busy people, put down the work in their hands, take a break, enjoy leisure, and put down the meaning of Zen, so it is called tea Zen blindly.
“Go to eat tea” is a famous case of Zen. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Zhao Zhou from the Zen master, with “eat tea to go” to meet the posterity a convenient way.
Zen masters believe that the normal mind is the way, the way in nature, far water to carry firewood are wonderful way.

China is the country of poetry, but also the country of tea. When tea meets poetry, the two meet, creating the most beautiful tea poetry, both refreshing and reassuring.
Share 8 of China’s most beautiful tea poems, let us put down all the disturbing, quietly enjoy a cup of tea.

Mountain Spring Tea You Huai
(Casual look: rose water put a few at a time, learn tea knowledge please pay attention to: www.lHECha.COm) (Tang) Bai Juyi
Sit drinking lingri ling water, see the fry rustling dust
No reason to hold a bowl, send with tea lovers
Note: ling

“Who wants the West wind to cool alone?”
(Qing Dynasty) Nalan Xingde
Who read the west wind alone cool, Xiao xiao yellow leaves close the window
Contemplation of the past set the sun, by wine Mo shock sleep heavy
Gambling books have poured tea fragrance, at that time only the road is ordinary

Cold Night
(Song) Du Lei (l i)
Cold night guests to tea when wine, bamboo stove soup boiling fire first red
As usual window month, just have the plum blossom is different

Looking South of the Yangtze River · Detached from Taiwan
Su Shi (Song Dynasty)
Spring is not old, the wind is thin willow slanting
Try to see it on the detached stage
Half trench spring water a city flower
The rain darkens thousands of homes
After cold food, wine wake up but sigh
Stop thinking of the old and the old
And try new tea with new fire
Poetry wine while you are young

“One to Seven Character Poems · Tea”
Yuan Zhen (Tang)
tea
Sweet leaves, tender buds
Mushik, monk lover
Carving white jade and weaving red yarn
Diao fried yellow core color, bowl twists dust flower
Invite to accompany the moon after the night, before the morning life to the dawn
Wash all the ancient and modern people tireless, will be drunk after can boast

The Early Spring Rain in Lin ‘an
(Song) Lu You
The taste of the world is thin like yarn, who makes the rider Beijing
Small building overnight listen to spring rain, deep alley Ming Dynasty sell apricot flowers
Low paper oblique line idle grass, fine milk play tea in fine window
Plain clothes mo dust sigh, still and clear can go home

“A Partridge in the Sky · A Cold Day Goes up to Lock the Window”
(Song) Li Qingzhao
Cold day Xiao xiao on the closed window, the parasol should hate frost at night
Wine stop more like group tea bitter, dream broken partial Rui brain fragrance
Autumn is over, the days are long, Zhongxuanhuai far more desolate
As with the division before drunk, mo negative east fence chrysanthemum rui yellow

Seclusion in Early Summer
(Song) Lu You
Hu Shan Sheng put weng home, locust willow Yin field path oblique
Sometimes the water is full of herons, deep grass everywhere singing frog
The Sheaths of dragons have already started to shoot, and the wooden pen is still opening its first flower
Sigh old to hand over the old, sleep to who total lunch ou tea

Tea is like life,
Hold a cup of fragrant tea, let the tea float.
A cup of tea, a poem.
The clash of different ideas is the joy of living.

Is it okay to face tea art every day? The question of what the tea ceremony is and why the Chinese tea ceremony is inferior to the Japanese tea ceremony is initially dismissed, but if more people ask, it really becomes a problem.
Some people are very disgusted with the tea art show, saying that the tea ceremony is corrupt? The question then arises, what is the tea ceremony? And then it entered the competition mode that I was very disgusted with, and the Chinese tea ceremony and the Japanese tea ceremony had to compete with each other to win or lose.
The truth is too simple. Do Indians care that their Buddhist situation is inferior to the reality of Buddhism in China?
In the indoor space of tea, consider the tea making subject’s control over tea, water, utensils and visitors, the measurement of tea, the temperature of water, the suitability of utensils, people’s emotions, more or less tea, the degree to which the water is open, the room for choice of utensils, the joy and dislike of the visitors, precision, precision, and fine, reflecting the tea people’s cultivation and pursuit of tea.
There is a way to drink big bowl tea, a way to drink kung fu tea, a way to drink matcha tea, and a way to drink matcha tea. We must use one method of drinking tea to negate the others, is this to destroy the richness of tea?
Tea is not the same outdoors. The tea table has become a show, the tea should show, show the host’s posture, show the position, “because of tea, I am very different from others”; To find, where is the tea, “only here, is a good place to make tea”; To lack, irreplaceable luxury, “I am so different”.
Today’s tea art performance, tea table layout, music selection, from the inside out to convey the concept of tea and beauty, is the extension of tea space.
Some people like tea because of tea, some people like tea because of the dress of tea people, and some people like tea people and tea utensils.
Of course, some people find the difference in tea because of a tea show, which makes up for the quiet of tea and makes tea dynamic between square inches.

The charm of tea, from a leaf of grass and trees, to a side of soil, to the fragrant wood, clear spring water, can be satisfied (recommended reading: What is Taiping monkey Kui tea, learn tea knowledge please pay attention to: www.lhecha.coM] people, comfortable environment, constitute the tea space and tea sentiment since the Ming and Qing dynasties, continue to the present.
As for the tea ceremony, Wang Yangming said that daily use is knowledge and Tao. “The conscience of man is the conscience of plants, trees and stones. If no one has a conscience, do not think that grass and stone. Is it just vegetation and shingles? The conscience of no one in heaven and earth cannot be heaven and earth.”
What you see is what you get, tea is the way, in its daily, everywhere. Water gives tea temperature, tea gives utensils life. Love to be adjusted with water, those flashing words, those blazing points, summed up.
Confucianism says, warm and moist like jade, so. Suave, yes. Lukewarm, yes. Even so, it is warm. Shi Jia said that if people drink water, they know how to warm and cold, so do they.
The tea ceremony liberated by Lu Yu is among them.
Our current problem is really serious, instead of changing the Japanese tea ceremony “and respect and silence”, it is better to learn from the British afternoon tea!
Some people sigh that the Japanese lady can still perform the tea ceremony at the age of 90, and the 100-year-old lady in Yunnan can still pick tea from the tree!
| Zhou Chonglin photo: Speechless during the tea ceremony

Gideon: The most ordinary things in life, as small as bottles, cups, spoons, etc., have been mass-produced and become unimportant, and this tacit acceptance of banality is becoming part of human nature today.
Unfortunately, most people lack awareness and vigilance.
It is also strange to say that the Japanese ancient artifacts favored by the Chinese people at present are also an “anti-/ movement” of the Japanese tea saint Chirikyu, who is also well-known to us, from the pure worship of the Tang objects to the aesthetic of wabi-sabi and things.
The happy tea bowl made by ancient Korean artisans is a model of this kind. The Tenmu Tea bowl, which originated in the Song Dynasty and is still in Japan, is also a good example.
When we first looked at Tianmu, we always felt coarse, thick glaze, not only heavy in our hands, but also could not see clearly the color of the soup. So since the Song Dynasty, it gradually lost in China.
But it is from this Tianmu tea that Japan began to give birth to the self-confidence of “harmony aesthetics” from “Tang things are omnipotent”.
In modern Japan (random recommendation, phoenix brand Dianchun, learn tea knowledge please pay attention to: www.lhecha.CoM), Liu Zongyue of the folk arts also quite complained about thousands of Lixiu, for the time people praised him as “thousands of Lixiu”, extremely angry.
He believed that Qian Lixiu catered to the daimyo of the time, built gold teahouses, and respected the name of tea ware, which had departed from the “Tao”. Does that make us weird?
At the beginning of contact with Japanese tea ware, it is easy to be impressed by their ingenuity, and their utensils still have the charm of Tang and Song dynasties.
But it is easy to be clever by showing off skills. This is also something that those of us who like Japanese ancient artifacts cannot fail to check.
Japanese flower ceremony, tea ceremony, incense and so on, spread orderly, and full of vitality. Then, why did ancient China not form such a “Tao”?
Must not also, but do not also. Buddhism from the East of India is a good example. Assuming that there is no ancient Chinese understanding and reconstruction of the original Buddhism in India, we can imagine that Theravada Buddhism can only leave us more historical buildings like Angkor Wat.
Mahayana Buddhism has a vast number of works, tens of thousands of Buddhist doctrines, but also combined with the spirit of ancient Chinese literati, created a new “Buddhist path” : Zen.
Taoism is also a creative and imaginative work of ancient China.
The same is true of Kukama mountains in Japan. Ancient Chinese temples Jia LAN, rarely in the “small” inside efforts. When a good place is obtained, the buildings on it rarely need to be “twice” arranged.
Therefore, it seems that we have been a relatively spontaneous people since ancient times, disdaining small skills and preferring to study knowledge on the “Road of Neo-Confucianism”, so it is not surprising that we have not produced the “Tao” based on the foundation and artifacts of Japan.
The Qing Dynasty’s aesthetic from the top down is a destruction of the Tang spirit. Fortunately, the Japanese had already passed on their wandugoaesthetic.
Of course, it is a pity that young people in Japan today do not care much about the artifacts inherited by their families, which can certainly be regarded as good news for lovers of tea ceremonies and ancient artifacts in our country, but I am deeply worried that we are not ready to inherit them again.
The first, of course, is the dating of skills. I have come into contact with the works of some so-called masters, and most of them lack a little spirit.
It’s not about skill.
Second, it is aesthetic dating. Modern wars and cultural/Revolutionary wars have destroyed too many material relics. In addition to museums, it is difficult for us to come into contact with the elegance of ancient artifacts and ancient buildings in daily life.
Third, the collection of ancient artifacts, most of them still only stay in the stage of showering wealth, showering skills, and did not form a guide to the norms of daily life, so see Zhao Zhongxiang, He Shen (Wang Gang) home furnishings, the total feeling is completely wasting those valuable works of art.
Collecting like that, it’s no different than collecting precious metals.
I also do not think that Japan can have any development or breakthrough in tea utensils at present, this is not a criticism, but I think that Japanese tea utensils have reached the peak after Edo and Meiji era.
After the Meiji period, the abandonment of Confucianism and the destruction of Buddhism, under the guidance of Western American life, it is impossible to appear what cannot be developed, and it is good to make repairs.
On the other hand, I also think that the right time has not yet come, and even if such a time will not come, I think it is unknown.
After all, the age is too long, and our current state of life is still too hasty and uncertain, in this case, can have enough calm cognition of aesthetic is already extravagant.