Chinese Tea Culture Research Articles

A Comparison of Chinese and British Tea Cultures from the Perspective of Cross-Cultural Communication and the “Tea Language” Translation

As the Chinese saying goes, “The seven necessities of life: firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea”, which shows the important place the tea occupies in the hearts of the Chinese. With the advent of globalization, countries all over the world have gradually become an organically integrated economic and cultural whole, and China’s tea has travelled across the ocean to the west, developing a unique and exotic western tea culture. Despite the fact that British tea comes from China, there are significant differences in tea culture between the two countries. This paper explores the deeper reasons behind the differences between Chinese and British tea culture through a comparative analysis and put forward some strategies and methods for the translation of “tea language” based on these cultural differences. The differences between Chinese and British tea culture are discussed in terms of the development of tea culture, tea drinking etiquette and the spirit of the tea ceremony, which are created by the differences in cultural background and ideology. Analyzing Chinese and British tea culture from different aspects enables us to make better use of tea culture and observe tea drinking etiquette in cross-cultural communication, reduce the language barrier formed in translation and understanding, and reduce the cultural conflict, thus promoting the exchange and development between Chinese and British tea culture and making tea culture shine on the world stage.

Analysis of the Xiao Guan Teas Marketing Strategy from the Perspective of Consumers

It is believed that the Chinese tea culture dates back at least 4,000 years to the Shennong Period. Tea drinking inspired the creation of several poetry by ancient literati and poets, with over 400 poems recorded during the entire Tang Dynasty. Prior to the introduction of Xiao Guan Tea, China's extensive history and enormous tea market had not produced a dominant brand. Xiao Guan Tea was the first brand on the tea market due to its effective marketing, and it earned an astounding 2 billion sales in 2018. Therefore, the analysis of Xiao Guan Tea's marketing approach is of tremendous academic importance. This paper utilizes a literature analysis and questionnaire survey to assess the marketing success of Xiao Guan Tea from the consumer's perspective. For readers interested in the consumer psychology of purchasing tea and the marketing techniques of Xiao Guan Tea, this paper includes voluminous information and a few practical analysis methods of marketing strategies. In addition, it gives a framework for analyzing the marketing strategies of enterprises in the same position as Xiao Guan Tea.

The Study of English Translation of Tea Wares in China National Tea Museum from the Perspective of Eco-Translatology

The tea culture now plays a prominent role in the traditional Chinese culture. Tea ware, the ‘carrier’ of tea culture, is crucial to the global spread of the Chinese tea culture if properly translated. The Eco-Translatology provides translators with a fresh perspective when translating tea wares, allowing them to create a more desirable translation when doing adaptive selection and transformation in terms of tea sets concerning the linguistic, cultural, and communicative dimensions. The paper studies the English translation of tea wares at the China National Tea Museum from the perspective of Eco-Translatology, with the objective of providing several insights into the English translation of tea wares so as to facilitate the international dissemination of the Chinese tea culture.

A Comparative Study of Tea Culture in Chinese English Translation: Pedagogical Translation in Second Language Acquisition

Tea culture is very vital in the Chinese geographical and economic setting. Apart from being a high-selling brand, Chinese tea culture is inseparably associated with Chinese culture which is almost as old as tea cultivation history in China. As Chinese tea is sold all over the world, especially in western countries, the tea terminology becomes more significant in the age of globalization and international tea export. However, as the Chinese language is very much distinct from English including grammatical, syntactic, and semantic aspects, the translation of Chinese tea terminology into English has always been a challenge that hampers the tea export and consequentially, the Chinese tea culture. It has been found that with the use of some identified translation norms, translation strategies, and translation ethics, the Chinese tea culture may be globalized through the tea export from China. The paper has dealt with the inherent and external pedagogical issues found in the translation of Chinese-English translation of Chinese tea terminology and how these impact the tea culture and tea trade in China.

Taste the Fragrance of Tea with the Book in Hand

Chinese tea culture has a long-standing history, is rich in content, and contains the unique spiritual characteristics of the Chinese nation. Learning about and understanding Chinese tea culture is an important and effective way to understand contemporary Chinese culture and contemporary China. The book General Introduction to Chinese Tea Culture makes use of historical research methods, international perspectives, and the concept of combining theory and practice to comprehensively discuss the conceptual connotation, development history, thoughts and art, etiquette and customs, international exchanges, to summarize and generalize Chinese tea culture. It describes the core ideas and concepts of Chinese tea culture, and illustrates the methods and paths of tea art practice, the types and functions of tea, which provides readers with a concise understanding of Chinese tea culture by setting a solid foundation for them. The book can improve a reader’s personal temperament and taste in making friends.

The Splendor of Verdure: Tea and the East Asian World of the Song and Yuan Dynasties

Tea has played an important role throughout the entire East Asian world. During the Song and Yuan dynasties, due to differences in the target consumers and acceptance of tea, Chinese and Japanese tea cultures began to take different paths. The close relationship between tea and Goryeo politics propelled the flourishing development of Goryeo tea culture on the Korean Peninsula. The colorful landscape of tea culture during the Yuan dynasty illustrates the transformation of traditional Chinese tea culture from the Song to the Yuan, with an upper-class break and a lower-class continuation. During the Song and Yuan dynasties, there were great changes in the order of the East Asian world, where tea was not merely a beverage but carried historical changes and served as a spiritual symbol in the East Asian cultural world, reflecting historical transformations.

명·청 시대 차문화 전개 양상에 대한 고찰

Chinese tea culture flourished in the Party and flourished in Song. The tea culture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties was a period of rapid change as the ethnic groups of North and South China clashed. The development patterns of tea culture in the Ming and Qing Dynasties can be largely summarized into four. First, there has been a fundamental change in car policy, such as setting up legal mechanisms for the distribution of cars．Second, the Ming and Qing Dynasties were the golden age of publishing Daseo. Third, as the Dancha and Malcha cultures, which had led the Tangsong era, rapidly declined, and as the Sancha culture developed, various Jeda methods developed. Fourth, tea utensils of various materials have been developed according to the change in the phonetic method.

The Dissemination of Chinese Tea Culture Based on Encoding/Decoding Theory

The Dissemination of Chinese Tea Culture Based on Encoding/Decoding Theory

Moral education in the course “Introducation to chinese tea culture”

China has made great achievements in education since the start of its reform and opening up policy. The exploration of China's education reform has never stopped while facing the challenges of educational development in the new era. When it comes to education, the report of the 19th CPC National Congress proposed to “implement the fundamental task of Moral educationˮ and “make more contributions to nurturing socialist builders and successors with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique, aesthetic and hard-working spirit. In the past few years, moral education was placed on the same important position as professional education and actively carried out in all levels of educational institutions such as primary and high schools, colleges and universities. Taking the general course “Introduction to Chinese Tea Cultureˮ offered by Chinese university as an example, this paper tries to discuss the teaching practice and reflection of “moral educationˮ in liberal studies. Focusing on the teaching implementation process of “Introduction to Chinese Tea Cultureˮ, the paper analyzes the development and the potential value of moral education, and the value of traditional Chinese culture to guiding the moral education in Chinese universities from the perspective of “cultural confidenceˮ. This paper analyzes the development of moral education teaching and the exploration of moral education potential in the implementation process of “Introduction to Chinese tea cultureˮ, aiming to analyze the value of Chinese excellent traditional culture in guiding moral education in Chinese Colleges and universities from the perspective of “cultural confidenceˮ. As a general course of liberal studies opened in Chinese universities in recent years, “Introduction to Chinese Tea Culture” contains great potential for moral education, which benefits from the rich cultural connotation, philosophical thought and humanistic spirit in Chinese traditional tea culture itself. It is necessary to dig deep into the spiritual connotation of Chinese tea culture to maximize the moral education role of this course.

Analysis of Tea Material Culture in China and Britain

China is the first country in the world to grow, make and taste tea, and has a colorful tea culture. After absorbing some of the connotations of Chinese tea culture, the United Kingdom, through innovation and integration, has condensed a unique British tea culture. The two countries that both have tea have very different tea situations. This paper focuses on comparing the differences between the two countries at the level of the material culture in tea culture and exploring the reasons behind the differences.

The Complete Chloroplast Genome Sequence of Machilus chuanchienensis (Lauraceae): Genome Structure and Phylogenetic Analysis

Machilus chuanchienensis is an ecological tree distributed in southwestern China. It has a significant valuation with making Hawk tea using its leaves, an ethnic traditional tea-like beverage with a long history in Chinese tea culture. The whole chloroplast (cp) genome is an ideal model for the phylogenetic study of Lauraceae because of its simple structure and highly conserved features. There have been numerous reports of complete cp genome sequences in Lauraceae, but little is known about M. chuanchienensis. Here, the next-generation sequencing (NGS) was used to sequence the M. chuanchienensis cp genome. Then, a comprehensive comparative genome analysis was performed. The results revealed that the M. chuanchienensis's cp genome measured 152,748 base pairs (bp) with a GC content of 39.15% and coded 126 genes annotated, including comprising eight ribosomal RNA (rRNA), 36 transporter RNA (tRNA), and 82 protein-coding genes. In addition, the cp genome presented a typical quadripartite structure comprising a large single-copy (LSC; 93,811) region, a small single-copy (SSC; 18,803) region, and the inverted repeats (IRs; 20,067) region and contained 92 simple sequence repeat (SSR) locus in total. Phylogenetic relationships of 37 species indicated that M. chuanchienensis was a sister to M. balansae, M. melanophylla, and M. minutiflora. Further research on this crucial species may benefit significantly from these findings.

Hybridity with exclusion: Chinese tea rebrewed in Australia

This article aims to deepen understanding of the concept of cultural hybridity through ethnographic investigation of Australian engagement with Chinese practices of tea drinking. The consumption of tea in urban Australia, despite its apparent novelty, embeds a story of decline. Unlike the development of coffee and wine consumption, a mature Australian tea drinking style is yet to arise. Whilst being influenced by Chinese tea culture, the actors in Australian tea culture also adopt a strategy of distancing and exclusivity, demonstrating “hybridity with exclusion.” When unable to articulate what denotes an Australian style, they instead locate themselves by declaring what they don't belong to. I argue that the concept of cultural hybridity should not be taken for granted as a totally blurred boundary between different cultures; rather, it critically demands to be understood in terms of rejection and exclusion, and it could incorporate an intentional distinction and distance between the self and the other.

Making “Senses”: The qualia of Pu’er tea and sensorial encounters between tea producers and traders in southwest China

This article analyses how Han buyers’ perception of and desire for the qualia—sensuous qualities—of Pu’er tea affects how ethnic minority producers perceive and make the tea. As a defining aspect of the consumers' experiences with ancient Pu’er tea, these qualia were invented and emphasised as part of the elite Chinese tea culture by Han traders and consumers. While the Bulang people's traditional way of making and using Pu’er tea related more to its economic and symbolic values than to its perceived effects on the body, in response to China's rapid marketisation they had to learn to sense the qualia rooted in a Han lexicon and philosophy and then acquire new skills to produce them. The paper argues that sensorial experience as a cultural dimension of tea has created new layers within Bulang people's encounters with the modern market.

“茶”的别称研究

About the names of tea, the five names ‘tu, jia, she, ming, chuan’ in <The Classic of Tea> by Lu Yu have always been quoted, and their sources are basically all kinds of exegetical literature quoted in <The Classic of Tea•Qi Zhi Shi>. This shows that before the Tang Dynasty, there were many different names for tea, and predecessors usually studied the origin of these different names by means of traditional methods such as phonology, characters and exegesis, but neglected to pay attention to the fact that these different names came from the native languages of various minorities in the southwest of China. After the Mid-Tang Dynasty, with the further development of Chinese tea culture, tea characters were used more and more frequently. The prosperity of Tang Shi and Song Ci also led the writers and calligraphers of all dynasties to create many obscure nicknames and epithets when speaking and chanting about tea. Moreover, the acquisition of these epithets and nicknames also payed more attention to rhetorical devices, which was the creative activity of language art. Although they were created and used in very different ages, some of them have long since ceased to be used, and some of them have been solidified into tea phrases with clear lexical meanings after time precipitation. Through research and analysis, the author thinks that ‘tea’ five major names the ‘tu, jia, she, ming, chuan’ comes from the southwest ethnic minority languages, and collect the ancient Chinese literature and poetry and the nickname of tea, dubbed came to the conclusion that the 35 two-word nicknames, 26 three-word nicknames and 4 four-word nicknames.

Study on Appearance and Morphology Evolution of Chinese Ceramic Tea Ware Based on Design Semiotics Theory

Ceramic tea set is an important part of Chinese tea culture. Influenced by the environment and human development, the appearance of tea set has changed a lot. The artistic characteristics of tea set are mainly reflected in the form, color, texture and surface decoration. In order to improve the research on the evolution of the external form of Chinese ceramic tea set, this paper summarizes and explores the development process of Chinese ceramic tea set from the perspective of design symbols From the perspective of science theory, this paper interprets the appearance of tea sets, and provides a theoretical basis for the appearance evolution of ceramic tea sets. At the same time, combined with the actual development, it provides the hypothesis for the appearance of Chinese ceramic tea set in the future and enriches its possibility.

A Practical Exploration on Ideological and Political Construction of Curriculum in Higher Vocational Colleges under the Background of Internet —— Taking Chinese Tea Culture as an Example

With the development of information technology, the communication between people is becoming more and more convenient, and the educational resources and teaching methods in colleges and universities are becoming more and more diversified. However, the conflict between ideology and mainstream values brought by open network environment often puzzles college students and seriously affects the development of their cognitive and moral level. Tea culture, as an important cultural resource, plays an important supporting role in moral construction and world civilization construction. Through excavating the ideological and political elements of tea culture, this paper systematically analyzes the application value of tea culture in ideological and political construction. On this basis, this paper makes full use of the platform and technical advantages of the Internet, puts forward the practical path of ideological and political construction in higher vocational colleges, and points out the direction for the development of higher vocational colleges and the cultivation of talents.

The Exploratory Study of Feasibility of Chinese Tea Culture Entering the Curriculum of Chinese Primary and Secondary Schools

Coffee culture is becoming increasingly popular among the younger generation in China today, on the contrary, teenagers and young adults seem to have forgotten the traditional Chinese tea culture. This article tries to figure out how to make traditional Chinese tea culture enter the curriculum of Chinese primary and secondary schools by analyzing the ways in which the other two traditional Chinese culture, Peking opera and Chinese martial arts, which have already entered the primary and secondary schools, and by combining with the reference to the related curriculum setting of China National Tea Museum and Wuhan University. The methods employed in this exploratory study are mainly literature study and case study. And there are four aspects of tea culture entering the curriculum mentioned: selection of subject, the training of teachers, content of lessons and policy support.

The Significance of the Establishment of the International Tea Day in the Context of the Development of the Global Tea Industry

Chinese tea and tea culture have spread along the Great Silk Road and the Great Tea Road throughout the world. At the present stage, the tea culture and the tea industry are dynamically developing and affecting the development of the world economy and culture, as well as our daily life. This article provides an overview of the development of the tea industry in the modern world. The significance of the International Tea Day’s establishment in the context of the modern development of the world tea industry is analyzed. The purpose of this article is to introduce a new holiday — the International Tea Day, as well as analyze its importance and implications for the development of the global tea industry. Moreover, the author explains the significance of the International Tea Day creation from the angle of economics, ecology, social culture, politics and diplomacy. The author believes that in the future, under the influence of the International Tea Day, the world tea culture and industry will reach a new level of development, and tea cultures of various countries and nationalities will show their full power.

Study on Appearance and Morphology Evolution of Chinese Ceramic Tea Ware Based on Design Semiotics Theory

Ceramic tea set is an important part of Chinese tea culture. Influenced by the environment and human development, the appearance of tea set has changed a lot. The artistic characteristics of tea set are mainly reflected in the form, color, texture and surface decoration. In order to improve the research on the evolution of the external form of Chinese ceramic tea set, this paper summarizes and explores the development process of Chinese ceramic tea set from the perspective of design symbols From the perspective of science theory, this paper interprets the appearance of tea sets, and provides a theoretical basis for the appearance evolution of ceramic tea sets. At the same time, combined with the actual development, it provides the hypothesis for the appearance of Chinese ceramic tea set in the future and enriches its possibility.

Techniques in <i>Mincha</i> Production: Pursuing Perfection While Retaining the Essence of Tea Culture

Tea growing in Fujian province dates as far back as the Shang and Zhou dynasties. Since then, Fujian tea (known as Mincha locally, in which Min is the abbreviation of Fujian Province) has flourished and is renowned in China and abroad. Closer connections to the international market have raised standards and led to the integration of different tea growing techniques to produce quality tea. This article aims to describe how tea production techniques have become increasingly sophisticated by focusing on Mincha’s breeding, fertilization, irrigation, weeding, pruning, intercropping, and scale production. The study also pays special attention to the inherent spirit of Chinese tea culture to explain the tranquil and peaceful attitude embodied in the inheritance and development of tea production techniques. Such a perspective demonstrates the profoundness of Chinese tea culture and sets a strategic direction for its future innovation.