On the Historical Evolution of Japanese Tea Culture
Abstract
Tea originated in China, the Japanese tea ceremony originated in China's tea culture. As early as the Tang Dynasty, tea drinking customs of the domestic epidemic has brought to Japan. China's tea culture into Japan, through the tireless efforts on behalf of tea, painstaking research and innovation, and finally the tea daily activities such simple distillation of a very formal beauty and inner beauty to the art level. After more than a thousand years of historical changes, the Japanese tea ceremony has become a fusion of architecture, gardening, art, religion, thought, literature, cooking styles of various cultures to tea as the main body of the integrated arts skills. As we all know, tea culture and tea itself originated in China. Tracing hack to the Tang Dynasty, tea-drinking tradition of ancient China eventually passed into Japan. Soon, this kind of daily custom was raised to the level of "art form" combining the inward with outward beauty of the culture. Having been developed for thousands of years, the Japanese tea culture becomes a kind of integrated skill, which includes construction, gardening, fine arts, religion, ideology, literature, and cooking