Agricultural cultural heritage under the perspective of tea culture

On November 27, 2019, the United Nations general assembly proclaimed on May 21, as the international day of tea, to praise the economic, social and cultural value of tea, to promote the sustainable development of global agriculture. The United Nations food and agriculture organization (fao) announced in 2020, the first session of the international day of tea activity theme of "sharing of tea and the world", its aim is to promote the tea culture, active prosperity of tea trade, promote the development of tea industry, the local tea farmers' income. The establishment of the international day of tea, will no doubt contribute to the world of Chinese tea culture identity, will help China with other countries tea culture to a blend of mutual learning and the coordinated development of tea industry. This is because -

China is the hometown of tea and the birthplace of tea culture

Tea was formerly a JiaMu of southern China, tea as a health drink, can be said to be the ancient China southern people to the Chinese diet culture contribution, also is the Chinese people's contribution to the world food culture.

The origin of tea at least six hundred and seventy thousand years of history, tea was discovered and utilization can be traced back to forty-five thousand years ago. The legend of "shen nong tasted grass bouquet" not credible, but a book not later than in the early western han dynasty "shennong grass bouquet of shows, at least at that time, our ancestors have learned that the medicinal efficacy of tea. The tea in the tang dynasty wrote "the saint", is our country, is also the world first tea science monographs, comprehensively discusses the traits of tea, quality, origin, fuel, cooking methods and tools, etc., reflects both the function of our ancestors is the earliest discovered tea in the world and the fact that development of drinking is also very good interpretation of the brilliant ancient Chinese tea culture. Said to the emperor shen nung, smell in the duke of zhou lu, xing in the tang dynasty, sheng yu song, popularization of Ming tea is the national drink of the Chinese nation, too.

Chinese tea, tea for thousands of years of history, has experienced the pharmaceutical, food, wine, drinks the different stages of development, with the boiled, Fried, steamed tea tea tea, tea, tea drinking, with green tea, black tea, black tea, white tea, yellow tea, scented tea and other tea types, with different purposes such as tea, tea, tea and tea set, tea and other related items, and tea fathers, god tea, tea art, tea ceremony, tea customs, such as derived from different cultures, to explain and profound Chinese tea culture.

Tea is not only has important economic value of agricultural products and have good health to raise the value of health care products, and different areas and different national cultural exchange medium, and its itself is an important cultural symbol. "Daily necessities sauce vinegar tea" illustrates the tea must be by People's Daily life, "human" between vegetation "tea" metaphors in the realm of nature and humanity, "zen tea blindly" interpretation is for PinWu life, while the "longevity tea", revealed the relationship between tea drinking and healthy life.