Take your lover to drink coffee at Christmas

France, located in the western part of the European continent, is the largest country in Western Europe. China, located in the middle of Asia, Asia's largest country. One is a transit station for world cultural exchanges, and the other is an ancient cultural country with a history of 5,000 years. Eurasia and Asia Minor are two bright pearls, which influence the civilization process of the world, drive the communication of information culture between the West and the East, and promote the continuation of human history.

Precisely speaking, cultural exchanges and advancement, from a humanistic point of view, are not only pursued in historical issues, but can be explored in a wide range of economic, political and cultural fields. From these fields, there are some very subtle links, such as French coffee and Chinese tea, which drive the exchange of food culture, and cultural exchange from ancient times to the present cannot be separated from food. As a part of ancient human civilization, it breaks through geographical restrictions and language barriers, so that China and France find a breakthrough and shortcut for cultural exchange.

Coffee and tea can become part of cultural exchanges, symbolizing not only the taste of drinks, but also an important bridge to communicate friendly relations between the two peoples. Just like the ancient Silk Road and the modern Eurasian Land Bridge, China was pushed to the world and the world was close to China.

Coffee and tea play such a seemingly insignificant role, but in fact they are a pair of indispensable roles, just like the flower dan and the young student of Peking Opera. Can you imagine watching Peking Opera without their existence?

Coffee has a long history. Coffee from all over the world has its own characteristics. The first coffee bean picking, the first roasting, the first grinding, the first brewing and the first cup of hot coffee fragrance are scattered. Coffee culture has become one of the greatest and most romantic stories in human history. The French are one of the most romantic people in the world. Naturally, they drink coffee without romance. French people don't drink coffee for coffee, they don't drink it, they taste it, taste it. In the final analysis, the French are pursuing coffee flavor, artistic conception and environment, which is somewhat similar to Chinese tea. French people can read newspapers all day for a cup of coffee, and think about it with friends all day, which is the charm of a cup of coffee, while Chinese people can drink three or five mouthfuls of tea freely between small bridges and running water, and talk for three or five hours without feeling irritated and disgusted. French people develop this habit of drinking coffee, not forced out, is to express an elegant charm, a romantic atmosphere, a sense of enjoyment of life, pay attention to taste, enjoy life for romantic French is a kind of life culture.

French coffee stress artistic conception and mood, while the Chinese tea pursuit is tea ceremony.

In Chinese diet, entertainment activities can be sublimated into "Tao" only tea ceremony. Chinese people drink tea just like Chinese people's national characteristics are advocating nature, simple and modest, not heavy form. According to personal taste preferences, drink how you like. There are many forms of tea, tea as a drink to quench thirst, a large bowl of sea drink, called "tea." If you pay attention to the color and fragrance of tea, pay attention to the water quality of tea sets, and drink it carefully, it can be called "tea tasting". If you pay attention to the environment, atmosphere, music, brewing skills and interpersonal relationships, it can be called "tea art". And in tea activities into philosophy, ethics, morality, through tea to cultivate character, edify sentiment, taste life, Zen enlightenment, to achieve spiritual enjoyment and personality bath snow, which is the highest state of tea drinking in China. Tea ceremony.

Compared with French coffee, Chinese tea ceremony is less romantic, but adds the charm of nature. In a word, the essence of Chinese tea ceremony is: harmony, quietness, joy and truth.

Persistence is applied to the love of tea and coffee in China and France, which is not excessive and far-fetched at all. With this emotional input and persistence, China and France have a mode of communication, a non-formal way, and a "language" that is easier to master than language. Communication is so simple and direct. Modern history has proved that the increasingly close exchanges between China and France are not only limited to economy, politics and religion, but coffee and tea we drink at ordinary times can also become means and tools for information dissemination and cultural exchange. In China, coffee drinkers are as popular as tea drinkers, and more and more French cafes have emerged, while more and more French people like Chinese tea.

Cultural exchanges between China and France, two big Asian and European countries, have a profound impact on cultural exchanges, information dissemination and friendship between China and France and even countries around the world.