Jingshan tea banquet

Name of Chinese national intangible cultural heritage: Jingshan tea banquet

Applicant: Yuhang District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province

Project No.: 1215

Project No.: Ⅹ - 140

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: folk customs

Region: Zhejiang Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Yuhang District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province

Protection unit: Wanshou temple, Jingshan, Yuhang District, Hangzhou

Jingshan tea banquet

Applicant: Yuhang District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province

Jingshan tea banquet is a kind of hall tea party when Jingshan Wanshou temple in Yuhang District of Hangzhou receives distinguished guests. It is a unique solemn traditional tea banquet etiquette custom of respecting guests with tea, and is the survival of ancient Chinese tea banquet etiquette. Jingshan tea banquet originated in the middle of Tang Dynasty. Yuhang county annals contains the entry of "Buddha offering tea" by Faqin, the founder of Jingshan temple in Tang Dynasty. It was popular in song and Yuan Dynasties, and later spread to Japan, becoming the source of Japanese tea ceremony.

According to the tradition of the temple, whenever guests come, the abbot will hold a tea banquet in Mingyue hall to entertain them. There are more than ten ritual procedures in Jingshan tea banquet, such as opening tea table, beating tea drum, inviting you to enter the hall, offering incense to Buddha, boiling soup and ordering tea, walking tea, speaking and eating tea, and leaving the hall to thank tea. It is the essence and core of Jingshan tea banquet to take part in meditation with tea.

Jingshan tea banquet hall has a classic style of Chinese Zen tea culture, which is characterized by its quaint style, standard program, main bow and guest villa, perfect etiquette, and harmonious harmony. It embodies the perfect combination of Zen temple's rules, etiquette and tea art. It has a unique style of high ancient character and exquisite elegance.

Jingshan tea banquet has a long historical value and rich cultural connotation. It is of academic research value to discuss Taoism with tea and to focus on Zen tea, reflecting the spiritual character of Chinese Zen tea culture, enriching and enhancing the connotation of Chinese tea culture. Jingshan tea banquet is the origin of Japanese tea ceremony and plays a bridge and link role in the cultural exchange between China and Japan. Jingshan tea banquet has an important influence on the formation of modern "tea party" etiquette and the survival of folk tea drinking etiquette and custom in Hangzhou area, with outstanding folklore value.

Chinese PinYin : Jing Shan Cha Yan