The relationship between Coffee Culture and Chinese Tea Culture

I like a way of working, working while drinking a drink.

Sometimes it's coffee, sometimes it's Chinese tea. Apart from feeling the aroma and quality of coffee and tea, there is indeed an inextricable connection between the two drinks.

At the beginning of its discovery, coffee was used to refresh monks and cure illness. after thousands of years of development in the Middle Ages, coffee has been dissolved into the daily life of people in western countries.

Tea can refresh the mind and drive out the Sandman. At the beginning, it is also used for spiritual practice. Tea ceremony is the concrete embodiment of the mixture of Chinese Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, which is "governing the world by Confucianism, mind by Buddhism and body by Tao". Monks not only drink tea to stop sleeping, but also combine the philosophical spirit of Zen with tea through the creation of the artistic conception of drinking tea. Tea culture actually constitutes an indispensable part of Chinese cultural life.

Coffee has three characteristics: bitter, sour and sweet. According to its characteristics, it can be divided into the following categories:

Not sour, not bitter, mellow and fragrant coffee, Brazilian Santos coffee, Jamaican coffee, Blue Mountain coffee. Like Hangzhou Longjing, Dongting Biluochun fragrant if orchid, between the teeth flow fragrant, endless aftertaste. The personality is similar to the Chinese Doctrine of the mean, that is, it is not partial to mean, but not easy to be called mediocrity.

Sweet and bitter, no soft sour, but bitter coffee, Mantenin, Italian coffee Espresso. Like Yunnan Pu'er tea is strong and irritating. The personality is like the enterprising spirit of the Chinese legalists, emphasizing magic.

The acid also has a mellow coffee with a sweet aftertaste, Mocha, Colombia. It is like Lushan Yunwu Tea with a spicy and mellow aftertaste. The personality is similar to the thought of the Book of changes of Yin and Yang in China, with firmness in softness and softness in rigidity.

Two or more kinds of coffee beans, which are prepared in proportion according to their characteristics, are like harmony but differences in Chinese culture, emphasizing differences in unity and diversity in harmony, and embracing individual differences while seeking consistency. finally achieve the pursuit of internal harmony and unity.

Of course, there are differences between coffee culture and Chinese tea culture. For example, the French evaluation of coffee is: dark as demons, hot as hell, pure as angels, sweet like love. On the other hand, tea adapts to the Chinese character and pursuit of "indifference to clear ambition, serenity to far away".

In this era of ideological and cultural integration in the world, we are bound to try more different things, just like tasting coffee. In other words, coffee is also constantly integrated into our Chinese culture.