【正文】 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。 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 CultureA. British black tea culture: 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。 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. 2. Black TeaBlack 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 great therapeutic effects. One recorded examples shows that, among 20 patients suffering from high cholesterol(膽固醇), those who drank three cups of this tea every day for one month experienced a 22% drop in their cholesterol levels, but those who drank ordinary tea three times a day showed no change. (Zhou 160) Yunnan pressed tea is a suitable beverage for all ages. It is also known as a diet tea(減肥茶) and beauty tea as well.