Tea

With its history of thousands of years,Chinese tea-culture has been influenced by the orthodox ideological trinity of Confucianism,Buddhism and Daoism. In ancient times of China, people pursued, appreciated and created tea-sipping as an artistic activity,because tea-sipping ,in their eyes,could show pursuers'accomplishment, give them spritiual sustenance and help them achieve self-actualization.That is the reason why "elegance" becomes the essence of the traditional Chinese tea-culture.

As a subculture, the Sichuan teahouse constitutes a component part of Chinese tea-culture. Despite a place for people of all classes, it is, in most cases, visited by the "lowbrow" people. The bustling and hustling teahouse, with its rough and sloppy customers and multifarious occurrences, is dominated by the "philistine taste" and the "vulgar" subculture, And this "vulgarity" is secular, local and folksy!