【正文】 afternoon tea time every year in Buckingham Palace. People usually talk in deep voice to keep quiet at afternoon tea time. Generally speaking, the great afternoon tea are Darjeeling tea, earl grey tea, Gunpowder green tea and Ceylon tea of the traditional pure taste flavor tea, and if someone want to drink milky tea and he or she should put in milk first then put in tea. The tea consumption of British is the largest in the world with each person consuming on average kg per year. (Zhang and Sun 9) They usually drink black tea served with milk or sugar. Strong tea which they drinking is served with lots of milk and often two teaspoons of sugar, usually in a mug, is monly referred to as builder39。s tea drinking culture in this century. The analysis and parison of the tea drinking culture between the East and the West just show the differences of them are related with different thinking pattern. Compared with the west , China39。茶文化作為一種的文化在中國(guó)傳統(tǒng)文化中具有獨(dú)特的地位。中國(guó)茶文化主在展示人文主義的維度，而西方茶文化則僅僅關(guān)注茶其本身。 tea rites。 but the disadvantage is that people just to drink tea for drinking, and don’t rise tea drinking to one of the world39。 therefore, tea sets should not only be convenient to use, but also show orderliness and aesthetic feeling in their arrangement, bination and operation. Lu Yu designed 24 vessels when he created Chinese tea art, which were recorded in the book of tea. The methods of drinking tea has changed several times since the Han and Tang dynasties. The general methods are descried below: brewing tea, dripping tea, dripping flower tea, semimade tea and made tea. The degree of dissemination and development of tea culture in the world was different due to the differences in cultural history and environmental conditions,. This difference is not only reflected in the tea time and in the tea culture behavior are also evident. Whether on the way in or on the object tea, different countries and regions who have maintained different customs and habits. III. Western Tea Culture A. British black tea culture: 8 Western orthodox tea culture in the west is Britishled and evolved from the Victorian Tea . In Britain tea has bee a part of life and a British gentleman style ritual performance, but also the tea ceremony must be the essential procedures of the Queen of England lives and necessary ceremony of major social life. Originally royal taste tea at home with elegant tea sets, and then evolved into a social tea party that friends gathered, which in turn extends a variety of red tape, such as tea sets, flower arrangement, candlesticks and a series of furnishings is very particular, but also with music and dance, this is a prehensive art reflection of the Victorian era of spiritual life. English afternoon tea with some dessert is usually 45 o39。s Tea drinking culture has an impact on China39。中國(guó)茶文化源遠(yuǎn)流長(zhǎng)，飲茶與人們的生活息息相關(guān)。隨著經(jīng)濟(jì)全球化，茶文化以其獨(dú)特的魅力在國(guó)際交流中越來(lái)越活躍。 crosscultural munication Table of Contents I. Introduction................................................................................................................. 1 II. China Tea Culture ..................................................................................................... 2 A. The origin of tea ................................................................................................. 2 B. Kinds of Chinese tea........................................................................................... 2 1. Green Tea ..................................................................................................... 2 2. Black Tea...................................................................................................... 3 3. Oolong Tea ................................................................................................... 3 4. White Tea ..................................................................................................... 3 5. Scented Tea .................................................................................................. 3 6. Tea Lump ..................................................................................................... 3 C. Customs and rites of tea ..................................................................................... 4 1. The great therapeutic effects of tea .............................................................. 4 2. Funeral and sacrificial customs and tea rites ............................................... 4 3. Tea and religion ............................................................................................ 5 4. Tea and literature .......................................................................................... 5 5. Chinese tea art .............................................................................................. 6 III. Western Tea Culture ................................................................................................ 8 A. British black tea culture: .................................................................................... 8 1. The reason why British people like black tea .............................................. 8 2. The habit of British people drinking tea ...................................................... 8