【正文】 5. Chinese tea art Tea drinking is an art in china. “Art” means a special process of making, cooking and tasting tea. (Wang 40) However, before you start to learn tea art, you should first study skills of meditation. “Artistic tea” means to process of enjoyment as if reading a pure and fresh verse, or appreciating a piece of beautiful music. To Chinese, tea is a spirit in the world. When it enters your body as a drink, you will be filled with the nutrition of sunshine, the bright moon and the land, and the wonder of the whole universe. Therefore, all the famous Chinese tea culture experts have had the experience of 7 planting, picking and making tea by themselves, or learning the spirit of the labor from tea growers. Now, let’s talk about the relationship between water and tea art. Please imagine gurgling springs, the waves of rivers, misty vast lakes, and sweet and clear well water. The relationship between water and tea is similar to that between Tea and water. All Tea experts understand that excellent water quality is essential for the best Tea, while tea art is even stricter with water. It is impossible to make fragrant tea without good water. Lu Yu discussed tea water exhaustively in the book of tea. According to him, the ordinary drinking water is not good enough to brew tea. Water from mountains are best, river water are inferior, and well water are low grade. As the old idiom runs, “it is necessary to have effective tools to do good work.” It refers to ordinary people and creations. As a material activity, tea art is a spiritual and artistic creation。 fusion。 關鍵詞： 茶文化；融合；飲茶習俗；跨文化交際 The Differences， Similarities and Fusion of Tea Culture between China and the West Abstract: Tea culture is neither a material nor a spirit one. With the material as its carrier ,it contains profound spirit in material life. Tea drinking culture has a long history in china and has a plete seepage into the different domains of human life. Tea drinking culture has a unique status in Chinese traditional culture being a special way of culture. The West39。本文對一些代表飲茶主流的國家的飲茶習慣進行了比較和分析，指出中西茶文化異同其實跟人的思維方式有關。 渭南師范學院 本科畢業(yè)論文 題 目： 中西茶文化異同及融合 學 院： 外國語學院 專業(yè)班級： 20xx 級英語專升本 2 班 畢業(yè)年份： 20xx 年 6 月 姓 名： 余偉麗 學 號： 130321064 指導教師： 李會琴 職 稱： 副教授 渭南師范學院教務處 制 The Differences, Similarities and Fusion of Tea Culture between China and the West By Yu Weili A thesis pretended to school of foreign language of Weinan normal university as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of bachelor May22, 20xx Class: Class2 of 20xx Adviser: Li Huiqin 中西茶文化之異同及融合 摘要： 茶文化是一種介于物質與精神之間的文化，它以物質為載體，包含了物質生活中的博大精神。當今，西方茶文化在某種程度 上影響著中國茶文化。中西茶文化之比較在展現(xiàn)中國茶文化魅力的同時，還將促使世界上越來越多的人理解、享受茶文化并且最終促進國際間的跨文化交流。s tea culture mainly show the humanistic dimension. This paper made a parative study on tea customs of some representative countries. The tea drinking culture is day by day drawing people’s attention with its unique charm in international munication with the globalization. Comparing the differences between Chinese and Western tea drinking culture can not only show the great charm of Chinese culture but also make more and more people in the world understand and enjoy the tea culture and eventually contribute to the intercultural munication. Key words: tea culture。 Waston 52) B. Kinds of Chinese tea China tea is famous throughout the world for its unique color, fragrance, flavor and finely shaped leaves. According to the ways of manufacturing, Chinese tea can be divided into six categories: green tea, black tea, oolong tea, white tea, scented tea, and tea lumps. (Zhou 159) 1. Green Tea Green tea has the longest history and still ranks first in production and variety in China. People like to drink green tea for its freshness and natural fragrance. Longjing(龍井 ) Tea from the West Lake of Hongzhou, Maofeng(毛峰 ) Tea from Huangshan Mountain, Yinzhen(銀針 ) Tea from Junshan Mountain, Yunwu(云霧 ) Tea from Lushan Mountain and Biluochun(碧螺春 ) Tea from Jiangsu are the famous green tea. 3 2. Black Tea Black tea also owns a good reputation in all over the world. Different from green tea, the tea leaves turn from green to black in the fermentation. Black tea is thoroughly fermented. 3. Oolong Tea Oolong tea both own the freshness of green tea and the fragrance of the black. In recent years, it has bee popular with more and more people for its effects in helping to reduce high blood pressure, , prevent coronary heart disease, aid digestion and lower the cholesterol.` The history of oolong tea be produced in Fujian province is at least 400years. Today it is also grow in Guangdong and Taiwan. It is difficult to pick the tea because it grows on cliffs which people rarely reach. So it is considered the most precious. 4. White Tea White Tea is as white as silver. Fujian’s Zhenghe and Fuding are the major producing areas. And Yinzhen tea and White Peony Tea are the famous varieties. 5. Scented Tea Scented tea (also called Flower Tea) having the smells of flowers is a variety unique to China. The dries flowers spread as they were just picked up when put in boiled water,. 6. Tea Lump The black tea or green tea is pressed into the shapes of brick, cake or ball. The tea lump is convenient to store and transport and is suitable for minority people in border regions. The most famous tea lump is Yunnan’s Puer tea(普洱 ), which has