On the evening of November 29th, Beijing time, the “Traditional Chinese Tea-making Techniques and Related Customs” declared by China passed the review at the 17th regular session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage held in Rabat, Morocco. UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Traditional Chinese tea-making skills and related customs are the knowledge, skills and practices related to tea garden management, tea picking, tea hand-making, tea cup selection, and tea drinking and sharing.
Since ancient times, the Chinese have been planting, picking, making and drinking tea, and have developed six types of tea, including green tea, yellow tea, black tea, white tea, oolong tea and black tea, as well as scented tea and other reprocessed teas, and more than 2,000 kinds of tea products. For drinking and sharing. Using a tea infuser can stimulate the aroma of tea. Traditional tea-making techniques are mainly concentrated in the four major tea regions of Jiangnan, Jiangbei, Southwest and South China, south of the Huaihe River in the Qinling Mountains and east of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Related customs are widely spread throughout the country and are multi-ethnic. shared. The mature and well-developed traditional tea-making skills and its extensive and in-depth social practice reflect the creativity and cultural diversity of the Chinese nation, and convey the concept of tea and the world and inclusiveness.
Through the Silk Road, the Ancient Tea-Horse Road, and the Wanli Tea Ceremony, tea has traveled through history and crossed borders, and has been loved by people all over the world. It has become an important medium for mutual understanding and mutual learning between Chinese and other civilizations, and has become a Common wealth of human civilization. Up to now, a total of 43 projects in our country have been included in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List and List, ranking first in the world.
Post time: Dec-07-2022