중국 차(茶)문화에 관한 연구

Abstract

China has as many cultures inside as its wide land. To understand a country, the most important thing is to know about the country's representing cultures. Therefore, in this writing, among Chinese cultures which have long history and tradition, investigations of Chinese tea culture which is deep inside chinese people's lives are shown. Also, aspects of changes of Chinese tea drinking manner has been researched at the same time. This writing analyses tea cultures and drinking methods of Dang, Song, Won, Myung, and Chung dynasty. In section 3, tea culture and drinking manner of Dang dynasty is shown and it is summarized as follows. From Dang dynasty, the meaning and use of tea started to change and this is due to first, the prevalence of Buddhism, second, enforcing gwageo-the highest level state examination to recruit ranking officials-system, third, enforcing tea offering system, fourth, growth of population and prohibition of drinking order, and fifth, growth of trade between south and north with Grand Canal. Also, in Dang dynasty when tea was spreaded to the public, drinking tea by pouring boiled water into the cup with tea leaves was a popular tea drinking methods. In section 6, 10 most popular teas of China are shown. 10 most popular teas of China are changing continuously, and selection criteria is different from periods and people. In this writing, selection of 10 most popular teas of China is arranged by their tea types. Also, features of 10 teas are shown. Based on long time tea history and academic researches, there are more than thousands of tea kinds in China, and popular teas are 676 kinds. After Dang dynasty, based on the support of government, lots of tea making methods have been developed to make high quality teas. Based on China's suitable nature and geographical condition, national concern and desire to spend, and academic, cultural background, China is developing popular teas continuously and leading worldwide tea industry and culture. Together with rapidly growing economy of China, tea culture which is China's representing culture will also develop. Continuing researches of this must be accomplished and furthermore, more researches and interest in our tea culture and industry are expected.