Why 茶道【SA-DOU】 is the most recommended culture worth to experience at the first time?

Reasons of why 茶道【SADOU】is the most recommended Japanese culture worth to experiences at the first time.

PROLOGUE :

茶【MATCHA】or Green Powdered Tea is popular as healthy drink all over the world recently.

Amazingly, it has two components great for meditating!

▶1.ABOUT 抹茶【MATCHA】AS A DRINK: FEATURES AND NUTRITION


In addition to that, when it is served at 茶会【CHA-KAI(Tea Ceremonies)】 in Japanese 茶道【SADOU】”The way of Tea”, just to drink this beverage become very artistic and philosophical act.

In a serenity of tea room, one bowl of MATCYA green powdered tea is prepared politely and carefully. The movements is called 点前【TEMAE】, which has not been changed almost for more than 400 years since tea master 千利休【SEN NO RIKYUU】had established it.

▶2.HISTORY OF SADOU: THE MOST FAMOUS TEA MASTER 千利休【SEN NO RIKYUU】AND WHAT’S 侘び寂び【WABI-SABI】?

There are a lot of secrets for enjoying silence in the tea room. All things in a tea room including flowers, tea bowls, tea scoops and sweets are selected and arranged by 亭主【TEISYU(the host of tea party)】following a theme of 禅語【ZENGO(ZEN-WORDS)】on the hanging scroll at alcove.

▶3.INFRUENCES OF 禅【ZEN-BUDDISM】IN TEA CEREMONIES.ZEN words are on hanging scrolls and it is a theme of the tea ceremony.

By the way, there are 2 kind of Tea ceremony divided:茶会【CHAKAI】and 茶事【CHAJI】. 茶会 is also divided into 大寄席【OOYOSE(Many peoples in a large room 】and 小間【KOMA(Small number of peoples in a Small Room)】.

 

▶How different お茶事【O-CHAJI】from お茶会【O-CHAKAI】? O-CHAJI is large symphony last about 4 hours while CHAKAI is only one part of it.

There are interesting rules based on original philosophy. Just enjoying taste 抹茶【MATCHA】and 和菓子【WAGSHI】in a peaceful mood is great enough though,if you got some knowledges in advance, it would make your experience of tea ceremony more special and meaningful.

 

▶Recommended: 4.TEA CEREMONY FOR BEGINNERS. If only you know those simple rules, you can enjoy Tea ceremony as much as 30 times!


If you wanted to make delicious 抹茶【MATCHA】at your home, please check this article.

▶5.HOW TO MAKE MATCHA AT YOUR HOME?

 

-COLUMNS-

COLUMN -(1)
WHAT’S 道【DOU or MICHI】?
The Way Of Tea, The way of calligraphy…When Japanese say 道【DOU】,
it means the way to enlightenment.

 

 

COLUMN-(2)
What’s 型【KATA】?
When Japanese people learning ,they emphasize 型【KATA】pre-formatted
forms or patterns that past people completed .

 

 

COLUMN-(3)
WHAT’S 侘び寂び【WABI-SABI】?
One of important aesthetic senses of 茶道【SADOU】 told by a famous tea master
千利休【SEN NO RIKYU】, finding beauty into not gorgeous, rusted things.

 

 

 

COLUMN-(4)
Three ways to enjoy silence in a tea ceremony;
1-In authentic tea ceremonies,only the host and the main guest are allowed to talk.
2-Three ways sending message without words.
3-Sounds of water boiled in iron kettle is called 松風の音【SYOUFUU no OTO】;
the sound of the breeze in the pine tree, and what you can feel when it stops…?

COLUMN-(5)

禅語【ZEN-GO】short sentences from ZEN-sect Buddhism are hanged over at
床の間【TOKONOMA】as a theme of the tea ceremony.
All other utensils used in the tea ceremony are selected followed by
the meaning of the ZEN-GO.

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