【導(dǎo)讀】生活中的博大精神。中國茶文化源遠流長，飲茶與人們的生活息息相關(guān)。作為一種的文化在中國傳統(tǒng)文化中具有獨特的地位。當(dāng)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(xí)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(guān)。中國茶文化主在展示人。文主義的維度，而西方茶文化則僅僅關(guān)注茶其本身。隨著經(jīng)濟全球化，茶文化以。其獨特的魅力在國際交流中越來越活躍。中西茶文化之比較在展現(xiàn)中國茶文化魅

　　

【正文】 areing 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 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. 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 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。 but the disadvantage is that people just to drink tea for drinking, and don’t rise tea drinking to one of the world39。s natural philosophy height. 11 IV. Similarities, Differences and Fusion between Chinese and Western Tea Culture A. Similarities Time goes by as the light, with the evolution of tea drinking history, we can see that although the difference of tea drinking history exist in both china and the west, but the tea culture also present some similarities: and western people are both the first to realize and use the therapeutic value of tea, started drinking, and gradually developed tea into a mon drink. Tea may help promote digestion with the aromatics. We therefore can say tea has great effect on many of the ethnic minorities in China who live mainly on meat . A popular old saying says, Rather go without salt for three days than without tea for a single day. Tea with various vitamins in it can help smokers discharge nicotine out o f the body. Moreover, strong tea may prove to be a sobering pickmeup when people are over drinked. 2. Tea has relationship with many aspects of social life. Generally speaking, the use of something and the formation of a custom started from the mon people, while a group of scholars surprisingly take tea as a drink at first. Zhu GeLiang, prime minister of the state of Shu during the three kingdoms period (), is known to almost every household. His wisdom and civil and military abilities are still respected by later generations. Tradition says that Zhu GeLiang popularized tea cultivation in Yunnan province and other places. The great literature works about tea is also fruitful. In Britain, Victorian, the queen of Britain specially love tea drinking and make tea popular all around country in that time. 3. People are both in China and western countries take tea as an enjoyment and relax. 12 4. In many Western countries d