On December 1, a teahouse in Chengdu was filled with people "making tea around the stove".
Recently, as the new tea-drinking method of "making tea around the stove" has gradually become popular, many cities in China have set off a new wave of consumption in winter, and "making tea around the stove" has become a new favorite of young people for socializing.
According to reports, there are more than 20,000 various teahouses in Chengdu at present, among which there are about a thousand that provide the service of "brewing tea around the stove".
For the Chinese, cooking and drinking tea is both familiar and unfamiliar.
Familiarity is because of the seven things that open the door - firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar tea, how can we never drink tea; strangeness is because the scene of cooking tea around the stove and talking and laughing casually seems to exist only in literature, film and television works and long-term memories .
Today, tea, a Chinese drink that has been passed down for thousands of years, has led a new trend in this winter.
Tea has a long history, and the cultural content it carries is also profound, complex and heavy.
On the evening of November 29, the "Traditional Chinese Tea-making Techniques and Related Customs" declared by China passed the review and were included in the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
This project can be called the "largest volume" among the human intangible cultural heritage declaration projects in my country. It involves a total of 44 national-level intangible cultural heritage representative projects in 15 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), covering green tea, black tea, oolong tea, white tea, black tea, etc. Tea, yellow tea, reprocessed tea and other traditional tea-making skills and related customs such as tea farms.
This heritage project has been passed down from generation to generation, embodying the values of modesty, harmony, courtesy, and respect upheld by the Chinese people. It has had a profound impact on moral cultivation and personality shaping. It has also promoted the exchange of world civilizations through the Silk Road and is sustainable in human society. important role in development.
Take "cooking tea around the stove" as an example. It was called a tea feast in ancient times. It was a kind of tea-tasting and chatting among friends. It began in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties. , Expressing affection and expressing feelings.
It can be said that the tea feast is an organized, centralized, and standardized presentation of tea art, from the selection of tea leaves to the utensils for cooking tea.
After the tea soup is cooked, friends talk and laugh happily, and taste a cup of tea soup, so as to realize the accumulation of tea drinking experience and share life feelings with guests, and arouse the imagination of beauty and the perception of life.
Today, the ancient tea culture has been reactivated and rejuvenated in modern soil through the reclamation of the Internet celebrity economy. This "opening method" is gratifying.
In fact, compared with the ancients, the popularity of "cooking tea around the stove" is not in the tea leaves, nor in the utensils, but in the scene, in the form, and in the time. emotional levels.
Behind the form of gathering is that young people want to relieve stress and pursue spiritual freedom.
Perhaps, stress and worry are released and relieved in this cup of tea.
No matter drinking tea or tasting tea, whether drinking alone or with friends, whether it is the physical feeling of tea itself or the rich cultural connotation contained in the tea banquet, it can cultivate life and make life escape from mediocrity in a moment. and the secular world, and gain a calm and flexible life experience.
This kind of consumption of time and scenes not only coincides with the meaning of traditional tea ceremony, but also makes tea a real living intangible cultural heritage—the intangible cultural heritage on the tip of the tongue.
Won sits in a red furnace and sings small words, and reels in new wine to appreciate new poems.
Don't be afraid to get drunk tonight, everyone. When will it be different?
We have reason to expect that with the continuous discovery and excavation of tea culture, more old traditions will evolve into new fashions, and then into new traditions, and the ancient tea culture will also be accepted by more young people. And radiate lasting vitality.
Red Star News special commentator Zhao Qingyuan