Chapter 55 tea ceremony

Drinking tea is a science.So Japan has tea ceremony.It is said that tea, like Buddhism, was introduced from China to the island country. The Japanese tolerate both, and they also pay attention to Zen and understanding in the etiquette of drinking tea. It is as grand as a full banquet of Man and Han.Now, it is the Chinese who have turned their backs on the Japanese to inquire about and learn the tea ceremony.The tea ceremony seems to have become an imported product like the original Panasonic, which is really strange!Regarding the tea ceremony, Zhou Zuoren explained it this way: "The meaning of the tea ceremony, in ordinary words, can be called 'sneaking in a busy life, enjoying a little bit of beauty and harmony in the incomplete world', enjoying a little beauty and harmony in the incomplete world. Experience eternity in an instant, which is the most important thing in Japan. A representative art in the 'symbolic culture'." The world is imperfect, and people must rely on certain means to obtain the illusion of perfection, and the tea ceremony is just one of the means.

Zhou Zuoren taught the tea ceremony very innocently, but he himself was a complicated figure in history.Before liberation, he had a study in Badaowan, Beiping, which was originally named Kuyuzhai, and later changed to Kucha Temple.Why did he change his name, he kept his mouth shut and kept secret.Maybe it shows that the rain is from the sky, but the tea is man-made-the change of God's will and human affairs?It is said that there are banners hanging in the room, "Let's go to Hanzhai to eat bitter tea", deliberately pursuing a realm of walking to the poor water and watching the clouds rise.Half a century has passed, and the so-called Kucha Nunnery located in the demolition area of ​​the old city should have been reduced to ruins, right?I always hear the hoarse voice of an old man coming from behind the shadow wall of the years: "Drinking tea should be under the paper window of a tiled house. Qingquan green tea, with a simple and elegant ceramic tea set, drinks with two or three people. Half a day's leisure can be worth ten." After drinking tea, continue to cultivate everyone's victorious karma, regardless of fame and fortune, but a moment of occasional travel is absolutely indispensable." It seems that the tea ceremony does not teach people to drink water to think about the source, or to drink water. To forget the world once and for all is just to provide people with a rest after chasing fame and fortune.

Ten years ago, the people who knew Zhou Zuoren were much less than those who knew Lu Xun.Similarly, Zhou Zuoren's Kucha Temple is probably only spread among the intellectuals, but when it comes to Lao She's teahouse, almost all Chinese people know about it.It is already a surreal teahouse, gathering the three religions and nine streams of the old era, including the old and the young, the old and the young, the storyteller, the singing girl, and even the rickshaw driver... The teahouse on the paper is full of lifelike people. The sentient beings will not be blown down by the wind.Kuchaan is individualistic, while the civilian Beijing teahouse described by Lao She abandons elegance and accepts vulgarity, returning to the basics.Lao She made the teahouses in Beijing famous.Lao She has also become Lao She.

The tea ceremony is simply turning tea drinking into a science and a practice.But if drinking tea is tantamount to learning, is it too serious?Drinking tea can reflect a sense of normalcy, which is enough.Whether the tea is good or bad, high or low is secondary.The exquisite craftsmanship of the tea set is far from the theme.The key lies in the state of mind, the balance of the state of mind holds you up, hovering in the trough, or falling from the high branch. The "Tea Classics" all indicate that good spring water should be used, followed by well water. There are even some who receive new rainwater or collect dew from banana leaves to replace sweet springs. These are actually formalities.Formalist teahouses are contrived and ignorant.The most important thing about making tea is the feeling of self.Don't care about the water quality, don't care about the temperature of the fire - make tea with the feeling, the shadows in life are invincible.

In addition to mentality, it is the environment. Drinking tea in a temple, drinking tea in a place farthest from the world, the experience is indescribable.I drank Longjing once at Jiming Temple in Nanjing and sat in a pavilion halfway up the mountain.I pursed my lips and blew the leaf stalks floating in the cup, and suddenly realized that the wind was blowing me from a distance in the same manner, making my soul stretch like new.The breath of the wind, my breath, is the same.When I went to Jiming Temple, I didn't burn incense, but I went to drink tea - it was also a worthwhile trip.