| Summary: | 碩士 === 銘傳大學 === 應用中國文學系碩士在職專班 === 100 === Abstract
The history of tea is a very long one. The culture of tea drinking
began in China and had spread throughout the world. Hence,
China can be regarded as the native soil of tea culture. Tea plays a
special and venerated role as a beverage in Chinese culture, and
can be regarded as the national drink of the Chinese people.
Cultural aesthetics of tea developed quickly in Taiwan since the
appearance of the term “Art of Tea” during the 1970s. Many
social groups and institutions began to actively promote of tea
aesthetics, and to this day, tea aesthetics have become an iconic
feature of Taiwanese culture.
Through reviewing the theories and literature on the culture of tea
aesthetics, this research investigated historical legacies of tea
culture and observed the cultural development of tea aesthetics.
This paper attempted to organize the past and present of Taiwan’s
tea industry and development of tea culture into four perspectives
of tea consumers, tea spirituality, art of tea preparation and tea
aesthetics. Observational research was carried out to investigate
the essence of tea aesthetics and analyze its relationship with
Chinese tea culture and Japanese Chado, and to assess the value of
tea aesthetics in Taiwan from social, customary and economic
perspectives.
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