Chinese traditional tea making techniques and related customs
Chinese traditional tea making techniques and related customs are the knowledge, skills and practices related to tea garden management, tea picking, tea hand-making, and tea drinking and sharing. According to local customs, tea makers use tools such as woks, bamboo plates, and baking cages, and apply core skills such as killing green tea, steaming yellow, piling, withering, making green tea, fermentation, and scenting to develop six major tea categories of green tea, yellow tea, black tea, white tea, oolong tea, and black tea, as well as processed tea such as scented tea. There are more than 2,000 kinds of tea products, which meet the various needs of the people with different colors, fragrances, flavors, and shapes. Drinking and tasting tea runs through the daily life of Chinese people. People drink and share tea in homes, workplaces, teahouses, restaurants, temples, and other places by brewing or boiling. Drinking tea is an important communication medium in activities such as making friends, weddings, worshipping teachers, and sacrifices. Tea is used to entertain guests, to make friends, to make friends, and to make friends with tea, which is shared by many ethnic groups and provides a sense of identity and continuity for related communities, groups, and individuals. This heritage project has been passed down from generation to generation, forming a systematic and complete knowledge system, extensive and in-depth social practice, mature and developed traditional skills, and a rich variety of handicrafts. It embodies the values of humility, harmony, courtesy, and respect upheld by the Chinese people, and has had a profound impact on moral cultivation and personality formation. It has promoted exchanges and mutual learning among world civilizations through the Silk Road, and played an important role in the sustainable development of human society.