茶文化与咖啡文化对比研究

1、A comparative study of Chinese tea culture and the western coffee cultureSchool of electric power, South China University of technologyXian YouqianCulture contains many aspects, for example, diet culture, etiquette culture, clothes culture, custom culture and so on. Different environment and history

2、 resulted in different phenomena, like China and the western countries. As all we know, there is tea culture in China, but coffee culture in the western countries. If you earnestly learn something about tea culture and coffee culture, you will find that there are many differences among them. And thr

3、ough this, we can learn more about our own culture, at the same time it can help you communicate with foreign people, and find the reasons why they love coffee.Tea cultureOrigin of tea cultureTea originated in China, tea culture occupied an important place in our lengthy history. Tea culture is a sh

4、ining star of the Chinese diet culture. Tea was discovered during 2737 B.C. to 2697 B.C. And then, with the number of people who drink tea increasing, tea culture gradually came into being. According to historical records, tea culture originated in the Jin Dynasty, and tea culture formally came into

5、 being in the Tang dynasty, and its silver agewas in the Song dynasty. During the southern and northern Dynasties, the society was disordered, various cultural ideologies blended and metaphysics was quite popular. Knights of the pen think that they could keep conscious when they drink tea unlike alc

6、ohol. Gradually they treated drinking tea as a spiritual phenomenon. The first book about tea was written by Lu Yu, in the Tang dynasty. “The book of tea” was the earliest existing, the most complete and the most comprehensive tea monograph, which was deemed to tea encyclopedia. In the Song dynasty,

7、 there were some professionaltea-sampling associations among bookmen. But the popularization of tea culture was in the Ming and Qing dynasty.Embodiment of Tea cultureEtiquetteChina is known as the nation of the etiquette. In us China, we emphasize ceremony. When you go to visit some people or you we

8、re invited to your friends home, the first thing is to give you a cup of hot tea. As all we know, this means you are welcome there.Carrier of emotionIn China, there is a custom. That is to toast to someone with tea. In Chinese, we call this as Jingcha. Through this, we express our benediction over t

9、he other people and our respect for people. When you drink tea with your friends, it is the embodiment of friendship. When someone will be away from you, you can invite him to teahouse to express that you are reluctant to his leaving and you wish to meet him again.The link of Sociality In China, it

10、doesnt matter you were familiar with each other, you could drink tea together. In Yibin, Sichuan province, my hometown, people always get together in teahouse. There, they drink tea, and then, they talk with each other. Sometimes some people are doing business. Especially, when in spring festival, p

11、eople will be willing to expend their day time in the tea house. There, they can meet their friends who hadnt met for one year because of their going out to work. Through tea, they expanded their circle of friends, at the same time, tea also make friends closer. Embodiment of moralityWhen you brew u

12、p tea for the first time, tea tastes bitterly, and then when you append water again, you will find that tea tastes well. So I think Chinese people love drinking tea and this is also embodiment of bearing hardships spirit of Chinese. Chinese can get Satisfaction during labor. So there is an idiom in

13、China: when bitterness was finished, sweetness begins. And tea is also the symbol of probity and self-motivated. We used to say that, “qing cha dan fan”. And so, many people use tea to express that they dont care about fame and wealth. Embodiment of Chinese cultureUsing tea to welcome people is embo

14、diment of our emphasizing etiquette and to express what they really aspire after. And tea culture is deep and implicative. And these are also characteristics of Chinese culture.Coffee culture Coffee, a word, derives from Greek and the meaning is passion and strength. More and more people like drinki

15、ng coffee. Coming with that, coffee culture influences us more and more. Nowadays, in China, more and more young people will chose coffee not tea. So we should learn more about coffee culture, and find the reasons why more and more Chinese chose coffee not tea.Origin and development of coffee cultur

16、eAfrica is the hometown of coffee .Coffee tree originated in Ethiopia and was brought to Yemen and Arabiawith the slave trade. Dutchmanbrought the alive coffee trees and seeds of coffee to Europe in 1616. Coffee plantation reached most scale in middle South America during 1740 to 1850. Actually it i

17、s European to make coffee get back to its hometown and bring coffee to their colonies. And there, with favorableland and climate condition, coffee became flourishing. Nowadays, the cafs are around the world. And coffee is changing our lifestyles and behaviors. Many years ago, when people got up or w

18、ent to work, they would brew up a cup of tea. But now, people mostly will brew up a cup of full-bodied coffee.Embodiment of coffee cultureEtiquetteIf you go to visit an American family, the host will ask you”Do you want tea or coffee?” most Americans will choose coffee. And this is just to show that

19、 you are welcome there.Embodiment of fashion Nowadays, more and more people like drinking coffee, especially people in the western countries. And in China, young people will chose to go to a caf not a teahouse. They all consider drinking coffee fashionable as the same as foreigners. Daily necessity

20、In the western counties, people will drink coffee every day, whether if they are working or in daily life. They just think that coffee is their daily necessity.The contrast between tea culture and coffee cultureChinese tea culture is more old-line than coffee culture. According to historical records,