【正文】 s tea. But afternoon tea is likely to be just a biscuit or small cake and a mug of tea usually produced using a teabag in the average suburban home. Having some hot or cold, sweet or plain every day is a very pleasant enjoyment. B. American iced tea culture America is known as the Kingdom of coffee, but amazingly half country people like to drink tea and create their own tea culture. The consumption of tea is over one billion US dollars in America annually. IN America most people like to drink iced tea. The United States is a country which pursuing a fastpaced. And the main tea consumption market is possessed by instant tea and iced tea. Instant tea produced in England in 1940, but popular in the United States. Currently, instant tea is very popular in the international market. Americans are interested in drinking cold, this 10 drives them to create a tea iced tea. From iced tea taste, variety, way to take, to drink, to package, to price, etc. , are fully consistent with the times. The convenient, fast, and diverse of American iced tea is not different with the modern drinks that popular in the present market, so the American iced tea culture is also widely spread around the world. Now, walk into any supermarket in China, you will find on the shelf displays a variety of different brands, different types, different packaging iced tea beverages. Of course American people have the tea rites that belong to them, some tea rites are as follows: Today in the western world black tea is the most monly consumed tea, ranking only second to coffee in its popularity. Americans may be unified as to a mon drink, but how they drink it is often unique to local or regional cultural. Where you live in the United States may decide how you drink it even though 80% of all served in the United States is served iced or cold,. In the South, most tea is iced and sweet and is drank around the year. Most Southern restaurants serve it sugar sweetened and with a slice of lemon perched on the edge of the glass. If you prefer it with no sugar in yours, order it plain or unsweet. When having dinner at someone39。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。當今，西方茶文化在某種程度 上影響著中國茶文化。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。 fusion。s home, a good hostess always has a picture of unsweetened on hand just in case if you expect unsweet tea with your meal. In the North tea is served hot and not with ice unless requested. In the winter, Southerners and Northerners enjoy hot tea as it is called here in the South. If loose leaf tea is needed, a teaspoon of tea leaves steeped in six ounces of boiling water for three to six minutes will yield a pleasant tea. This openness of tea drinking in the west, the good news is many active and original tea drinking patterns will be presented。clock, and British more enjoy drinking assorted tea. The Britain has the largest tea consumption in the world. People in Britain drink tea as same as three meals a day, there is morning tea, afternoon tea and evening tea points. Afternoon tea is not just black tea, sandwiches and snacks will be acpanied, people are more in the pursuit of a leisurely mood at the free time of ending busy work. (Tea Comes to Englang 22) 1. The reason why British people like black tea Due to tea ceremony is important in Britain and British homeland is not fit for planting tea tree, so the tea trade in Britain is developed. British tea are mainly imported from China and India. Besides, the tea ceremony of British always choose black tea. Black tea is soft fermented and it can be stored for a long time, so it gets widely spread. What’s more is that Britain is surrounded by water and the weather is cold and wet, and the warm of black tea can make people feel fortable, so the British love black tea more. British people prefer to black tea and the tea ceremony focuses on black tea are based on above mentioned. 2. The habit of British people drinking tea British people spend about a third time of their lifetime with tea. They usually have a cup of tea in bed in the early morning. Later is a cup of breakfast tea. On 11:00pm, they will sit down and have a cup of morning tea no matter whether there is work on hand or not. Lunch time with a cup of tea is necessary. The famous afternoon tea time is at 4:00 pm . Besides, there are high tea before dinner, night tea before 9 going to sleep. (British Tea Drinking Customs 8)Next we will talk about the habit of the British people drink tea. The origin of the afternoon tea dating back to 1840 years ago. Duchess Anna wants to gather friends to spend the stupid time every afternoon when she is boring. Because the only formal part is the dinner part at that time, she spends that stupid time with her friends by prepareing some dessert with tea, and afternoon tea time is well known for this. There are a lot of etiquette need to pay attention to, despite drinking afternoon tea make people happy and fortable. (Polite and society 16) In Victorian times, men need to wear tuxedo and women need to wear robes at afternoon tea time. Even today men also need to wear tuxedo, takes top hat and hold an umbrella, women must wear white dresses and wear a hat at the