Tea utensils, also known as tea utensils or tea utensils in ancient times. The term "tea set" first appeared in the Han Dynasty, and by the Tang Dynasty, there were many expressions of "tea set" in Tang poetry.
The emperor of the Song Dynasty gave the tea set as a gift, which shows that it has a high status. The materials of ancient tea sets, mainly ceramic products in the Tang and Song dynasties, gradually replaced the metal and jade tea sets of the past.
"Never a good tea is like a beautiful person", tea, tea drinking culture and Chinese feelings go hand in hand. So how did the ancients treat tea? What kind of attention did they pay to utensils? From Lu Yu's "Book of Tea", "Tea people are responsible for picking tea." We can get a glimpse of it.
Tea ceremony twenty-four utensils
Wind stove
For the purpose of making fire to make tea, it is designed with the Chinese Taoist Five Elements Thought and Confucianism as the inspirational spirit of the country, and is cast with wrought iron or fired tandoor instead.
筥
（jǔ）
It is a bamboo basket for charcoal, the shape is round and square, about one foot two inches high, seven inches in diameter, there are also wooden boxes, the periphery is made of rattan to make a hexagonal round eye, the bottom cover is closed like a bamboo box, and the cover is polished and smooth.
Charcoal
(tàn zhuā)
Hexagonal ironware, one foot long, was used to crush charcoal.
Fire Measures
Also known as chopsticks. It is round and straight, with a flat top, and is used for charcoal. It is mostly made of iron or wrought copper.
鍑
（fù）
It is used to boil water to cook tea, like today's tea kettle. Most of them are made of iron, and the Tang Dynasty also had porcelain and stone hammers, and the rich families had silver hammers.
Delivery
For cross-shaped objects, a piece of wood is dug out in the middle of the upper plank to place the bell.
Paper sacs
The paper bag made of white and thick rattan paper sewn in double layers is used to store baked cakes and tea, and the tea is stored in it after the tea is heated, so as not to leak its fragrance.
碾、拂末
The former grinds the tea, and the latter whisks the tea.
Luo He, then
Luo Heshi is two things, Luo is a fine-eyed sieve for sieving tea powder, and Luo is a box for storing tea powder, and Luo is used in conjunction with Hehe. Then, measure the amount of tea.
clip
It is made of small green bamboo, which is one foot and two inches long, and is used for roasting tea leaves. When roasting tea made by Xiaoqingzhu, the moisture and aroma of Xiaoqingzhu are roasted at the same time, and the taste of tea can be enhanced by the bamboo fragrance.
Water side
It is used to store raw water, with a capacity of about one bucket, that is, about 10 liters.
Water bladders
It is used to filter the water used to make tea, and it is made of copper, wood, and bamboo.
瓢
It is made of cut gourds, and some are carved out of wood and used to scoop water.
Bamboo
A type of chopsticks made of bamboo, peach, willow, etc. One foot long, the two ends are wrapped in silver sheets, and it is used to ring the soup heart when sencha to make tea.
Revealed
(cuó guǐ)
In the Tang Dynasty, tea was boiled and salt was added to remove bitterness and sweetness, the former stored salt flowers, and the latter used salt flowers.
Ripening
It is used to store hot water. Tang people pay attention to three boils in boiling tea, add tea directly after one boiling, foam appears when boiling two, ladle out and hold it in the cooked bowl, and the cooked water in the bowl is re-entered into the kettle after three boiling, which is called "saving boiling" and "Yuhua".
bowl
It is a tool for tasting tea, Shangyue porcelain in the Tang Dynasty, in addition to Dingzhou porcelain, Wuzhou porcelain, Yuezhou porcelain, Shouzhou porcelain, Hongzhou porcelain. Take Yue porcelain as the top grade. The Tang Dynasty tea bowl was tall and partial.
畚
(bean)
It is used to store tea bowls, and the bowls are separated by special paper to avoid collisions.
扎
Use dogwood to tie the palm skin into a brush, or tie the palm skin into a bamboo tube to make a pen shape, which is used to clean the tea set after drinking, similar to the current pot pen.
Polyester
Cleaning basin for wastewater. It is made of wooden planks, and is made in the same way as the water side, and can hold eight liters of water.
Slag side
It is used to dump waste and collect all kinds of sediment.
towel
Generally speaking, it is a rag, now called a tea towel, made of coarse silk cloth, two feet long, usually used in two rotations, used to wipe utensils.
Columns
It is used to display tea utensils, similar to modern wine racks.
All baskets
It was named because it can hold all the utensils. After drinking tea, store all tea utensils for the next day.
When the ancients drank tea, most of them would use these 24 tea ceremony utensils. From today's point of view, it seems incomprehensible that drinking a cup of tea requires so many complicated utensils.
But in the eyes of the ancients, it was the completion of a ritual, and it was an inevitable process to make tea drinking as good as possible. The process of using utensils is also the process of enjoying soup making and making flowers.