Ten popular tea culture phrases released in 2022

The Tea Culture Research Center of Wuhan University recently released the "Ten Popular Words of Tea Culture in 2022", which are "Brewing Tea Around the Hearth", "Menghualu - Tea Ordering in the Song Dynasty", "Traditional Chinese Tea-Making Techniques and Related Customs", "Fujian Anxi Tie Guanyin Tea Culture System", "Hainan Wuzhishan Black Tea, Guangxi Liupao Tea", "Wangjiangnan", "Phase to Tea", "Tea Horse Ancient Road Meets the Dead", "Tea King Competition", "Lin Xie Sencha Map"
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In the new era, Chinese tea culture continues to prosper.

Jointly promoted by governments, industry organizations and experts, in 2019, the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly declared May 21 as "World Tea Day" every year; In 2022, the project "Traditional Chinese Tea-Making Techniques and Related Customs" was officially inscribed on UNESCO's new Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity; The application for world cultural heritage such as the ancient tea forest cultural landscape of Jingmai Mountain in Yunnan and the Wanli Tea Ceremony is also in full swing
.
In this context, the hot events of tea culture in 2022 are continuous
.
Based on this, the Tea Culture Center of Wuhan University organized relevant personnel, focusing on sorting out mainstream media such as People's Daily, China Tea Society, China Tea Circulation Association, China International Tea Culture Research Association, China Tea People Association and other community organizations, tea culture related reports published in professional journals such as "Chinese Tea", "Agricultural Archaeology" and "Tea Expo", on the basis of dozens of important events initially screened, after expert screening and selection, finally determined the top ten popular tea
culture words in 2022 。 At the same time, Wuhan University also released "Ten Tea Culture Academic Papers with the Most Attention in 2022" and "Ten Most Concerned Tea Culture Books in 2022"
.
The three lists released this time have three characteristics: first, based on the ontology of tea culture; the second is to strive to reflect the characteristics of the year; Third
, it is mainly academic and popular.

Brew tea around the hearth

In the autumn and winter of 2022, the most watched event in the field of tea culture is "brewing tea around the hearth"
.
Brewing tea around the stove is the most popular social favorite
among young people at present.
Three or five friends gathered together, around the fire, brewed a pot of tea, added milk, red dates, laurel balls, and roasted oranges, sweet potatoes, peanuts, chestnuts, etc.
next to them, full of atmosphere and full of ritual
.
There are currently more than 120,000 notes on Xiaohongshu, and related topics have been viewed more than 3.
3 billion times
on Douyin.
In major cities, tea houses have launched stove tea brewing services, and the equipment related to furnace tea brewing on online sales platforms continues to sell
hotly.
This phenomenon has attracted the attention and coverage
of many media.

Menghualu - Song Dynasty tea

In 2022, the hit of "Menghualu" has led to the fire of tea ordering culture
in the Song Dynasty.
In episode 16, the teahouse owners in Tea Tang Alley saw that the business of the half-covered teahouse opened by the three sisters Zhao Paner was good and kicked the restaurant, staging a good show of fighting tea, and the process of grinding tea, hot cup, and blowing were all reproduced
one by one.
Influenced by this play, the tea culture of the Song Dynasty will be popular in 2022, and books such as "Song Tea" and "The Book of Ordering Tea: The Skills and Aesthetics of a Song Tea" have been published one after another, and tea ordering competitions
have been held from all walks of life.

Traditional Chinese tea-making techniques and related customs

On November 29, 2022, China's nomination of "Traditional Chinese Tea-Making Techniques and Related Customs" was evaluated at the 17th ordinary session of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage held in Rabat, Morocco, and was inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List
of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
"Traditional Chinese Tea-Making Techniques and Related Customs" was inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, which is of great significance
for promoting Chinese tea culture.
It is necessary to do a solid job in the systematic protection of intangible cultural heritage, better meet the growing spiritual and cultural needs of the people, and promote cultural self-confidence and self-improvement
.

Fujian Anxi Tie Guanyin tea culture system

In May 2022, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) announced on its website that the "China Fujian Anxi Tie Guanyin Tea Culture System" was officially recognized as a globally important agricultural cultural heritage (GIAHS).

Anxi is the hometown of Chinese oolong tea and the birthplace of the world-famous tea Tie Guanyin
.
Anxi Tie Guanyin tea culture system is an agricultural production system with traditional Tie Guanyin variety breeding, planting and cultivation, harvesting technology and tea culture as the core, and covers the biodiversity nurtured in the production process, the ecosystem functions played by the system, and the human and natural landscape characteristics presented, which has become a prominent representative and symbol
of Chinese tea culture.

Hainan Wuzhishan black tea, Guangxi Liupao tea

Wuzhishan black tea, a specialty of Wuzhishan City, Hainan Province
.
Wuzhishan is the core area of forest biodiversity conservation and an important water conservation area in Hainan Province, which is a typical low-latitude, high-altitude tropical marine monsoon climate, rainy and foggy, rich in light, heat, water resources, slightly acidic soil, deep and fertile soil, and unique natural conditions for the development of tea production, and is the southernmost alpine cloud tea producing area
in China.
The unique ecological environment has achieved the excellent quality
of Wuzhishan tea.

Liu Pao tea, a special product of Wuzhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, a national geographical indication product
.
Liupao tea belongs to the black tea category, using Cangwu County group species, Guangxi large and medium-leaf species and their separated and bred varieties, and the fresh leaves of the strains of tea plants as raw materials, processed according to specific processes, black tea
with unique quality characteristics.
Anyone who has drunk Liupao tea will have a soft spot
for its "Chinese red".
The industry believes that the cultural charm and national characteristics of "Chinese red" must be taken as the criterion to make Liu Pao tea embark on the road of
rejuvenation.

Looking at Jiangnan

"Wangjiangnan" is a novel written by Mao Dun Literature Award winner Wang Xufeng for 26 years, which narrates the ups and downs and the fate
of the Hang family, a tea family in Jiangnan in the nearly 20 years before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
This novel writes about the spirit of China's tea people, Jiangnan culture and family and country, and witnesses a hundred years of China
in personal history, family history, and national history.
After the publication of the novel, it attracted much market attention, and was printed more than 20 times in a row, and "Tea Expo", "Writing", "Literature and Art News" and other related research papers
were reported and published.

Phase period with tea

On January 25, 2022, Mr.
Fang Hanqi, a leading journalist in China, paid a New Year's greeting to Mr.
Li Zhan, a pioneer of journalism education in Taiwan, and in the video, 96-year-old Fang Hanqi said "phase with tea"
.
Four days later, Li Zhan's daughter replaced 98-year-old Li Zhanhui with a "centennial reunion"
.
The two "century old men" used tea as a medium to count 70 years of friendship, which attracted the attention and praise of many netizens, and they all expressed that they were warmed
.
The phrase "phase with tea" comes from a couplet written by Mr.
Feng Youlan to his friend Mr.
Jin Yuelin at the age of 88 in 1983
.
This video New Year greeting is a good story in cross-strait exchanges in recent years, and once again expresses the "homesickness"
of compatriots on both sides of the strait.
But it is regrettable that on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2022, Mr.
Li Zhan passed away at home in Taipei, and the second elder's "phase period with tea" suddenly became empty, leaving a great regret.

The Tea Horse Road meets the deceased

In January 2022, Liu Hong, director of the Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province, incarnated as a hero in "Smiling Rivers and Lakes" to speak for his hometown tourism
.
In the video, Liu Hong led the horse to walk on the mountain road, and met an old man with straw on his back, and in the moment the two staggered, he disguised himself as a "tea horse merchant" wearing a national costume, while the old man became a porter holding a "T-shaped cane" and carrying multiple tea leaves.

This short video recommending the Tea Horse Road in Kardze Prefecture is accompanied by "If you can cross it, who would you like to meet on this ancient tea horse road?" "
.
In 2022, more than 20 mainstream media liked the video, and Guangming Daily successively published reports such as "The Ancient Tea Horse Road: Testimony of Civilization on the Roof of the World" and "The Ancient Tea Horse Road in Southwest China: A Millennium Echo of the Consciousness of the Chinese National Community
".

Tea King Race

From October to December 2022, a well-known tea company in Fujian issued a notice in Wuyishan City to find Wuyi Tea King (Narcissus, Cinnamon, Da Hong Pao)
with 10 million yuan in cash.
However, when announcing the shortlisted tea samples, there was a large number of code serial numbers, and the tea farmers questioned the organizer's dark operation, in order to keep the funds from flowing out, and also collect a large number of tea samples
for nothing.
A large number of tea farmers gathered to ask for explanations, and the company's president made inappropriate remarks, causing dissatisfaction
among the masses.
In the end, the relevant departments intervened in the investigation, the person in charge of the company came forward to apologize, and the official public account released the "Public Apology Letter to Wuyi Mountain Tea Farmers", and the Tea King Race incident was calmed down
.
In addition to this hot event, in 2022, Anhui Qimen, Guangxi Wuzhou, as well as some industry associations and well-known tea companies, also held various forms of "Tea King Competition" and "Tea Fighting Competition" to create a positive tea culture atmosphere
.

Lin Xie sencha diagram

In November 2022, CCTV's large-scale cultural program "Poetry and Painting China" invited Zhao Yazhi and Zhang Zhifeng to interpret the tea painting "Lin Xie Sencha Picture"
by Wen Zhengming of the Ming Dynasty with two tea poems of the Tang Dynasty, Shuidan green tea art in the Song Dynasty, and the tea brewing method of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhao Yazhi, the person who opened the book, entered the volume of "Lin Xie Sencha Picture" in the form of a recitation of a poem, restoring the tea brewing method of the Ming Dynasty in the painting, showing the leisurely and idyllic life of the literati; Zhang Zhifeng, representative inheritor of Fujian's intangible cultural heritage of tea opera, used the method of "tea hundred opera" to paint on the tea soup, leading the audience to feel the broad and profound Chinese tea culture
.
After the program was broadcast, it was welcomed by the audience and forwarded
on social platforms.

About author:Song Shilei, researcher and deputy director of the Tea Culture Research Center of Wuhan University, an expert of "Chinese Food Think Tank", an academic member of the Academic Committee of the China International Tea Culture Research Association, the deputy secretary-general and director of the Chinese Writing Society, and the vice president
of the Wuhan Yanhuang Culture Research Association.

(Song Shilei)

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