The Importance Of Chinese, Chinese And Chinese Tea Culture

Chinese, Japanese and Korean have their unique food culture, although they are neighbor countries. However, we share the same interest – drinking tea. Three of the countries developed tea culture as in they have a special tea ceremony when making tea. Tea ceremony requires a silent environment, where tea drinkers are able to relax their bodies with a sip of tea.

Chinese recognize tea as part of its traditional culture, in which their generation will pass the skills and techniques to the younger ones. Through the tea culture, Chinese believe by drinking tea, it would enhance their spiritual thinking and step to a higher level of wisdom. Unlike Japan and Korea, Chinese during the Song Dynasty would do trading with the western companies, such

Each of them renowned a different fragrance. In Japan, most of its tea are green tea. But there is something special for their Genmaicha, as in they will add brown roasted rice and mix with certain tea leaves. It produces a yellow color when boiling Ganmaicha, also brings out the nuttiness in taste. Korean tea culture has big influence form China since it used to be a tributary state of China. Chinese tea can be found in most of the tea house in Korea, however, Korean has introduced new flavours to their tea culture. Not only for older generation but attracting more teenagers in flavor with tea. There are 12 kinds of tea people can find in

The tea performers are usually women. Chinese would wear Qipao, Japanese would wear Kimono, Korean would wear Hanbok.Apart from the tea drinking, some of the tea house would offer treats to guests, lead them to the next level of Tea Art – The Joy. Chinese would serve small amount of dim sum, which usually exist in the Chinese restaurant. Dim Sum is the thing that every customers cannot be missed when they go to ‘Yam Cha’, meaning ‘drink tea’. Cantonese cuisine plays an important part in the tea culture, ‘Haam Gaau’ (shrimp dumplings), ‘Siu Mai’ (pork dumplings) are the most popular Dim Sum that customers would order. Having a crowded Yam Cha place in the Chinese culture, Japanese tend to enjoy the silence with tea and Wagashi, as known as Japanese beautiful tea sweets. It considers as snack to Japanese, also served with tea to balance the bitterness that the green tea brings. The most often used ingredients would be rice and mocha flour with different kind of flavours, such as chestnut, red bean. They believe red bean and green tea is the best way to show a perfect balance of Japanese traditional tea culture.Back in the ancient time, Korean in Silla would serve tea with rice cakes, along with fresh fruit platter to the nobles, and even the royal family. Korean believes tea has medical purpose which inspired them to include various