Connect the world and harmonize civilizations. Tea, as a typical representative of Chinese culture, has always been favored by the majority of film and television screenwriters. The film, in her own way, has also made a thoughtful and warm footnote to tea culture. Brew a pot of tea, press the play button, you can follow the camera through the world, from different angles to understand the tea culture, appreciate the deep and long tea knowledge, complete a lifelong tea exploration journey, is not beautiful?! Through the following 30 tea-themed movies and documentaries, you will feel the profundity of tea culture, and it is as if you can smell the melodious tea aroma wafting out of the images.
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"Tea, the Story of a Leaf"
The documentary tells about all kinds of tea, which is worth a look for every tea lover who learns tea. Tea growers, tea pickers, tea makers, and tea drinkers, their fates are connected together by a cup of tea. The real tea people know that the source of this tea fragrance is actually not in the hands, but in the heart. "To perceive perfection in an imperfect life, even if it is only a time for a cup of tea."
In 2013, CCTV once shuttled through the tea countries all over the world, filming the stories of nearly 60 tea people, traveling through China, Japan, the United Kingdom, India, the United States, Georgia, Thailand, Kenya... In the end, CCTV launched the documentary "Tea, the Story of a Leaf", including "The Temperature of the Land and the Palm", "The End of the Road", "The Matter of Boiling Water and Boiling Tea", "Stopping for Tea", "Hometown, Other Hometown" and "A Bowl of Tea Soup to See People", a total of 6 episodes.
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Book Title: The Tea Road
"Tea, the Story of a Leaf" is a documentary that comprehensively explores the world's tea culture. This is a journey led by a piece of tea, and we set out to explore the secrets of this world-conquering aroma? We travel through the tea kingdoms all over the earth and discover a legendary story: a small piece of tea that originated in China miraculously connects the world into a single whole.
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Tea China
Launched by Jiangsu Satellite TV, the program lasted three years to create, traveling 300,000 kilometers, looking for Chinese tea veins, and seeking ingenuity. The production team has visited 11 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China to Japan, the United Kingdom, Kenya and other tea origins, visited the most representative origins of Chinese tea for the first time, rushed to home and abroad, photographed nearly 100 tea people, interpreted tea from a new perspective, explored the most authentic taste of tea, cleared the source of tea, and showed China's cultural self-confidence.
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Title: The Complete Book of World Tea Culture in two volumes
Zhou Guofu, President of China International Tea Culture Research Association, editor-in-chief
With a grand industrial vision and a broad historical context, it is the mission of "Tea Industry China" to find the story of tea in the global time and space and express the history of tea. "Tea World China" reveals the story of how tea was born in heaven and earth and spread in the world under the guidance of people. Three continents, four countries, trekking mountains and wading waters, interviewing and filming. Between China and the world, because of the thin line of tea, it is free to switch.
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Chinese Tea: The Elixir of the East
The documentary "Chinese Tea: The Panacea of the Orient" was jointly produced by Zhejiang A&F University's Chinese International Promotion Tea Culture Dissemination Base, the Confucius Institute at Kennesaw State University in the United States, and the Georgia Public Television Station in the United States. "Chinese Tea: The Elixir of the East" is divided into five parts - "The Origin of Tea", "The Types of Tea", "The Health of Tea", "Chinese Tea Culture", and "Chinese Tea in the United States".
Title: General Theory of Tea Culture: Tasting China
Author: Wang Xufeng
Wang Xufeng, dean of the Tea Culture College of Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, specially organized a group of tea culture scholars and scientific research experts to repeatedly revise the script of the documentary, so that the documentary presented to the audience was not only a documentary of the tea garden, but also an expert interview; there were both tea houses and pharmacies in the city, and there were tea ceremony philosophies of Confucianism and Taoism. And on June 11, 2017, the documentary won six Emmy Awards: Best Lighting, Best Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Director, and Best Documentary.
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The Tea House
Small teahouse, big world, with teahouse witnessing the revolution of an era. At the turn of the century, ancient China is ushering in unprecedented changes. The Qing Dynasty, which is old and dragon clocked, is crumbling, and the sky over the old City of Beijing is changing and unpredictable. The film revolves around a Beijing teahouse in such a background - the rise and fall of Yutai Tea House in three historical periods and the fate of different characters that appear in between, you sing I appear on the stage, and the small teahouse plays out the vicissitudes and desolation of the world... In dealing with injustice, in dealing with life, struggle is often more than compromise; it is precisely the sacrifice of the revolutionary ancestors that makes the years we sit in the teahouse today be quiet.
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Green Tea
The movie "Green Tea" starring Jiang Wen and Zhao Wei can be said to be a representative work of tea release. In the movie, green tea is made by using a glass casting method, which has a good viewing effect. During the preparation of "Green Tea", Zhang Yuanchang led the crew to a meeting at the Tea Horse Ancient Road in Yunnan Tea House. Green Kuding is considered by Zhang Yuan to be the greenest and most beautiful tea, and the close-up of green tea in the film comes from this.
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Kung Fu Wing Chun
The movie "Kung Fu Wing Chun" (director: Zhang Tongzu) is probably a film that focuses on kung fu themes, but uses the most bridges to show the tea art culture. As soon as the film opened, it took a long time to show the tea art culture, Liang Boli, who runs a tea shop, skillfully and gently and elegantly performed tea brewing for guests, only to see him use a bowl to brew Sichuan Liangshan specialty Mengding manna, bring tea soup to the guests to drink, and at the same time began to introduce the knowledge of tea drinking to everyone, telling the way of drinking tea in the four seasons. After a scene of visiting relatives in Daliangshan, the gifts also used Da Hong Pao and Ceylon black tea. In the meantime, he also gave a beauty tip in a humorous way, how to use tea residue to get rid of dark circles and eye bags. Although there are some jokes, but this side is also well documented, tea residue does have beauty effects, the movie is used at that time brewed tea residue, the actual imitation should be selected overnight tea residue is better.
Book Title: "Chaoshan Gongfu Tea Source Flow Examination"
Author: Lin Chusheng
The tea sets shown in the movie are all covered bowls, there are white porcelain, blue and white porcelain, hand-painted porcelain, ancient and modern conditions of people choose this tea set to entertain guests, to cover the bowl to make tea for guests, people serve a cup, taste and drink at will. Movie music is sometimes melodious guqin, with boiling water on the stove, the cup is steaming, I believe that people who understand tea will be very loving when they see these bridges, watching the movie is like smelling tea, and the mood is comfortable.
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Chibi 2
The film has a passage where Xiao Qiao uses the "tea meter", the pair of slim jade hands flipped on the tea towel, putting tea into the pot, and scooping tea soup, these shots are memorable.
Little Joe: "Don't worry, first look at the soup color and smell the tea."
Cao Cao: "What is the most difficult thing about this tea cooking?" ”
Little Joe: "Tea, heat, water, utensils." ”
"The harder part is boiling water...
Boiling like a fish's eyes with a slight sound, for a boil,
The edges are like gushing springs, which are two boiling, and the tea is the best when using tea at this time.
Tengbo drum waves, for three boils,
If you boil it again, the water will be old and you can't drink it."
In a few short sentences, the main points of making tea have been said, and a bowl of fragrant tea is used to satirize Cao. This section undoubtedly gives the film that has too much impression of the battlefield and the fight, adding a few strands of softness and adding a little literature and art, but the way of cooking and drinking tea in the Three Kingdoms period is still worth further discussion.
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"Love Has an Afterlife"
Although it is not clear from the name of the movie that there is any relationship with tea, in the film there are many scenes of making tea, heavy teapots, and tea leaves caught in the pot, which on the surface is just a casual embellishment in the movie. At the end, the sentence "The tea is cold, I will go to you to continue it", awakened the heroine's memory of her past life, remembered the agreement of the past life, and touched many viewers at that moment. The love that cannot be completed after reincarnation, like the cup of tea that gradually cools down, can't help but make people sigh secretly.
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Dragon's Top
China's first film with Lin changed the background and tea as the theme of "Dragon Top" (director: Ren Zhaoxuan). "Think that money is the most important" The people of the city, through a dragon top tea garden, cleansed their hearts that were already city servants, had a new understanding of life, and found themselves. The repeated appearance of beautiful tea gardens in the film, as well as close-ups of tea leaves flying up and down in the cup, show the beautiful pursuit of the spirit of tea people.
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"Tea Fighting"
"Dou Cha" originated from the Tang Dynasty, and flourished in the Song Dynasty, and the works about Dou Cha have long been handed down to the world, such as the Song Dynasty tea man Tang Geng's "Dou Cha Ji" and the same dynasty Fan Zhongyan's "He Zhang Min Engaged in Tea Fighting Song" and so on. Nowadays, this special competitive event, which contains China's thousand-year-old tea culture, has been put on the big screen by Japanese and Taiwanese filmmakers, so the movie "Doucha", which contains Japanese tea ceremony culture, was born. The film begins with Lu Yu and his "Tea Classic", interspersed with tea fighting scenes of black porcelain tea sets brewing black golden tea, integrating Chinese tea culture with the Japanese tea ceremony, and ending with the truth of tea people: How to make the best tea?
The film tells the growth process of several young people, from not understanding tea to loving tea to finally overcoming themselves, and reflects the inheritance and pursuit of modern people for national traditional culture in inspiration. In the context of the theme of Chinese tea culture, it shows the two generations who pursue the highest level of tea ceremony culture and the love-hate relationship between them.
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"Fragrant Tea"
Through the interpretation of the love of tea people, "Tea Color and Fragrance" reflects the life and thoughts of tea garden people in the new era, with a strong local advertising color, but it is clean and fresh throughout, relaxed and natural, and it is also a masterpiece in tea theme movies.
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"In Search of Qianli Xiu"
The movie explains the tea ceremony like this: first boil the water, then add the tea leaves, and then drink the tea in the appropriate way, that's all you need to know, and there is nothing else to tea.
Senritsu was a famous tea ceremony ancestor in Japan, but in the end he died at the hands of Toyotomi Hideyoshi due to differences in ideals and personality, leaving a blood stain on the history of the tea ceremony.
Book Title: The Book of Tea
Author: Okakura Tenshin by Xu Hengjia Translation
This movie plumply shapes Senritsu, so that everyone can understand the ancestor of such a Japanese tea ceremony, what kind of life he has, and how to end it. Above Okakura Tenshin's "Book of Tea" should be the best text annotation.
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《Japanese Tea Ceremony》
This documentary is from the Begin Japanology series, an English series broadcast by NHK World TV in Japan to overseas audiences, which was first broadcast in 2009 and is held once a week for 30 minutes, mainly introducing Japanese culture and customs. For those who are curious about Japanese culture, the show is informative and is a window into Japan.
Title: Six Hundred Years of the Tea Ceremony
Author: Tadashi Kuwata
The documentary "Japanese Tea Ceremony" is mainly about the Japanese tea ceremony, which is divided into two types: matcha ceremony and sencha ceremony, which is a ritualized and tea ceremony for guests in Japan, originally known as "tea soup", the term tea ceremony refers to the earlier development of the matcha ceremony, originating in China.
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Tea with Mussolini
During World War II, a group of women from different cultural backgrounds went to the British Embassy in Italy every day to drink tea with the ambassador's wife, and this film tells their story. The film features several scenes of English tea drinking, and the end of a peaceful life is represented by the broken tea set. The trauma of war, the suffering of growing up, under the tenacity of personality, are nothing more than supporting roles in the moaning of diseaselessness.
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Chrysanthemum Tea
A straight friendship, a pure love, a common preference - drinking chrysanthemum tea, let the two young lovers break through the obstacles and raise the sails of life in the ordinary. The film won awards at the Shanghai and Moscow Student Film Festivals. Chrysanthemum tea has always been a clear main line in the film. The simple and rustic "Have I"? Does it still ring in your ears from time to time...
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The Tea Thief
Chinese tea culture has a long history, and Anhui's "An Tea" is a century-old tea classic. This time the "holy tea" reputation of An Cha into the film story is the first time, the producer selected the traditional craft tea "An Cha" as the theme, the combination of aesthetic traditional tea culture and suspenseful humor style of film shots will be a novel collision.
The film mainly tells the story of Nangang Ancient Frog Boy who was robbed of An Tea by Li Li, and became acquainted with Wu Guagua, who was pursuing the daughter of The An Tea Heir Xiao Yue, and fought with his father and daughter in a rout. Wu Daoyi, the boss of the ancient frog boy, and Sun Guolongdou, the heir of An Cha, waited for the opportunity to steal tea. Zhongji stole An tea and left a message: Oriental etiquette is proud of tea friends stealing tea? They were ashamed and speechless.
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The Kettle King
Pretending to be the most detailed purple sand pot production process in the history of the movie Analysis This is a movie with the theme of tea utensils - purple sand pot, and the name is called "The Pot King".
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Book Title: "Kettle Rhyme Tea Fragrance"
The film reflects the inheritance and pursuit of the purple sand people from generation to generation through fictional stories, showing the unique charm of the purple sand and the great artists of the purple sand artists reflected in the purple sand pot. While unfolding the tea ware culture, the film also emphasizes the profound truth of "making a pot before being a person". The film has no shortage of detail shots made of purple sand, showing many exquisite craftsmanship.
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AnHui Tea
Huizhou tea, that is, Huizhou tea, was produced in various counties in ancient Huizhou. Huizhou, known as Shezhou in ancient times, has jurisdiction over six counties, except for Wuyuan, which belongs to Shangrao, Jiangxi, and Jixi belongs to Xuancheng, Anhui, all of which belong to Huangshan, Anhui. Hui tea is a traditional tea series based on the unique natural geographical environment of ancient Huizhou. The tea culture documentary "Hui Tea An Hui Tea" filmed by BTV is dedicated to the famous tea from Anhui. The whole documentary is divided into two episodes, the first episode is Huangshan Maofeng and Liu An Gua Film, and the second episode is Taiping Monkey Kui and Keemun Black Tea.
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Zhejiang University Open Class: Tea Culture and Tea Health
The main speaker of this open class is Wang Yuefei, who is the deputy dean of the College of Agriculture of Zhejiang University, the deputy head of the Department of Tea Science, the doctoral supervisor, and the doctor of tea science, who interprets tea for us from the direction of science. Taking the traditional Chinese tea culture and modern tea scientific research as the ontology, the open class interprets the history of the origin, development and dissemination of Chinese tea and the humanistic spirit embodied in it, and in a new context, uses a scientific perspective to re-understand the connotation and health value of tea.
Book Title: Tea Culture and Tea Health - General Knowledge of Tea Tasting
2021 revised version
Author: Wang Yuefei Editor-in-Chief
Teacher Wang Yuefei said that the ancient and the present, from shallow to deep, easy to understand, integration of knowledge, fun, scientific as one, after reading, we will get knowledge in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere.
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The Road to Tea
The tea documentary "Tea Road", broadcast by CCTV, takes the history of the rise and fall of the tea road as a clue to introduce the audience to how this tea-based trade channel arose, and the historical fate of China and Russia hidden between the tea trade. From China, Russia and Mongolia, three experiencers were selected to explore the ruins of the tea road, the form of the tea trade, and the stories and folklore related to tea from their participation and perspective, leading the audience to re-walk this tea journey, which is not the real re-walking of the tea road
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Tea Journey
The documentary documents the adventurer and journalist Simon Reeve traveling to East Africa to discover the story behind the British national drink, tea. The British drink millions of cups of tea every day, but few know where they come from. Unexpectedly, most of the tea in the British tea bags did not come from India or China, but from the Kenyan port city of Mombasa. From here, Simon follows the tea route, searching for workers who pick, pack and transport tea in Kenya and Uganda; drink tea and chat with The Maasai shepherds.... Students who are interested in British tea drinking culture can take a look at Oh~
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"Tea In the World"
"Tea Edge of the World" is a large-scale documentary filmed and produced by Hong Kong Health Tv under the guidance of the China Tea Circulation Association and the China Tea Society. The film is inscribed by the 103-year-old Zhang Tianfu, a leading figure in the tea industry, and aims to comb through the entire tea industry, dedicated to finding and displaying the best tea in the world. Starting from the "tea edge", this film integrates tea with affection, explores tea events throughout the ages, and allows ordinary audiences to understand the tea categories, tea brands, tea ceremonies and tea drinking styles in different places through this film.
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Wuyi Camellia Culture
In October 2007, a special collection ceremony was being held at the National Museum. The collection this time is a tea leaf from Wuyi Mountain in Fujian Province, the Da Hong Pao. The use of tea as a collection is unprecedented for a national museum specializing in collections of items of great historical and cultural value. So, what kind of tea is Da Hong Pao, and will receive such a special honor?
Title: Four volumes of the "Wuyi Yan Tea" series
This documentary tells about the culture of WuyiShan's Dahongpao and Wuyi Rock Tea Production, which is divided into two episodes, the first episode "Wuyi Ask Tea" and the second episode "Wanli Tea Road", which takes us into the tea culture of Wuyi Mountain in all aspects.
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The Ancient Tea Road
"The Road to Ancient Tea" comes from a car review program "Radish Report", and they drove the car to a passionate place, that is, the southernmost point of Yunnan , Xishuangbanna Autonomous Prefecture. There, they rode through the mountains and forests, walking through the red clay and mud unpaved roads, meeting local fellow villagers and listening to their stories; and finally having the privilege of experiencing thrilling rainforest off-road motorcycles, and continuing to the southwest direction of Xishuangbanna - Brown Mountain.
Title: Seven Lessons of Pu'er Tea
This documentary feels a bit at odds with tea, but it's a different way of looking at tea from another angle, and they're like newborn children, ignorantly touching tea by chance. Perhaps, it also provides a perfect strategy for you who want to travel by car in Yunnan
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"Every Day is a Good Day"
The film is based on the book "Every Day is a Good Day – Fifteen Kinds of Happiness Brought by the Tea Ceremony", by Japanese tea ceremony professor Noriko Morishita. Twenty-year-old female college student Noriko is full of confusion about the future, after being recommended by her mother to go with her cousin to learn the tea ceremony, when she first arrived at the classroom, she looked up and saw a plaque that read: "Every day is a good day." Beginners do not make tea, but they are disturbed by trivial stacked tea towels and complicated rules, and they always can't help but ask the teacher: Why? It wasn't until a few months later that she suddenly realized that the repeated small actions were unconsciously strung together into a line, and she realized the truth of "if the burden is light, the heart is first".
Title: Japanese Tea Room and Spatial Aesthetics
Author: Wolfgang Feller (Switzerland).
In middle age, Noriko and her cousin once again appeared in the tea room that accompanied them for twenty-four years, and the long-term tea practice experience made them fade the impetuousness of their youth, and the corners of their mouths and eyebrows revealed a sense of tranquility and calmness after the events of the world. At this time, they finally realized the true meaning of the words on the forehead plaque, no matter what kind of day they must cherish it and enjoy it, so that any day can become a good day.
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"Tea with Victoria"
Although China is the world's largest tea producer, it is not the British who are talking about tea lovers. During World War II, while the "foodie" Italians were busy boiling pasta from military storage, the British were also busy hiding tea leaves across Britain to avoid attack. The funny thing is that every five o'clock in the afternoon the British cease fire and drink tea, while the Germans wait for them to finish drinking and then fight... The documentary is a humorous and witty way to explain the British people's feud with tea, and from time to time it can make you laugh and appreciate the long tea culture. Recommended reason: humorous and witty way to learn tea knowledge, relaxed and pleasant style, easy to accept.
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The Queen
"The Queen" tells such a story. The public has doubts about the British royal family, the royal family's credit plummeted, Queen Elizabeth II did not stand up at this time, but hid with her family behind the high wall of the holiday palace Balmoro Fort, Prime Minister Tony Blair (Michael Simn) has just become prime minister at this time, in the face of the difficult situation at this moment, it is necessary to find measures to balance the interests of all parties as soon as possible to get the royal family out of the crisis of trust.
Title: A Century of Tea in India
Author: Luo Longxin
In the film, we can feel the traditional culture of English afternoon tea. Speaking of afternoon tea in the UK, I have to talk about their milk tea. In the past, the quality of porcelain for the British to drink tea was far less than that in China, and they poured milk into the porcelain before pouring boiling water into the porcelain to make tea, so that the boiling water poured down would not crack the porcelain, so their tradition of drinking milk tea was formed.
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"I Love You The Most On the Road"
"I Love You The Most on the Road" tells the story of the protagonist and Crystal who meet unexpectedly on a train heading south and spend a good time together. In the movie, the heroine makes a cup of tea for the male protagonist, and the tea blooms under the brewing of water and blooms into a camellia flower. Some netizens asked what kind of tea this is, in fact, this is a tea ball, in the color line Yunnan project, the founder Hu Lanjun invented it when guiding tea farmers to grow tea.
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