The Chinese Tea Morals
1 min readAs for the tea morals, four words “honesty, beauty, harmony, respect”can be used to summarize the tea morals in China. Honesty, that is, by advocating thriftyto cultivate morality, and use tea to toast to the guests instead of wine. Beauty means relying on tea mainly, and people should enjoy delicious food and fragrant tea together, so that they can appreciate their friendship and have a long happy life.
Harmony refers to the emphasis of virtue and tea etiquette, advising people to live in harmony and with honesty. Respect asks people to respect and love others, taking pleasure in helping people.
Furthermore, another four words “logic, respect, incorruptibility, and harmony” can be adopted to summarize the essence of Chinese tea morals. Logic refers to standing to reason when tasting tea and talking with others, be rational and friendly. Respect means that when guests come, you should serve them with tea toshow your manners and respect. Incorruptibility means being honest and upright, serving the public. It advises people to drink tea to keep healthy. Harmony refers to being peaceful and auspicious, being friendly and harmonious.
No matter what kind of opinion, in fact, all represents the development of tea culture in the modern society and shows the good imparting and inheriting state of tea culture as a kind of traditional culture in the new age.
