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In addition to being a popular beverage, it is used as an integral ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine as well as in Chinese cuisine.Ī tea house in Presidential Palace Garden in Nanjing, China Tea is still consumed regularly, both on casual and formal occasions in modern China.
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Tea culture in China differs from that in Western countries such as the United Kingdom, United States, and Russia as well as neighboring East Asian countries such as Japan and Korea in terms of preparation, taste, and occasion when it is consumed. Liu Qinjin, a Chinese tea culture researcher, defines culture "as a kind of behavior in human society, which has a certain continuity and group characteristic or refers to some humanistic phenomenon of one nation, such as history, human relationship, custom, the way of life, art, law, and value." Tea has been a part of China for over four thousand years and continues to influence the people and nation today. Tea culture also has non-physical aspects such as symbolic, spiritual, religious, psychological, and social. Physically, it consists of the history of tea cultivation, brewing, serving techniques, methods of consumption, arts, and the tea ceremony. Chinese tea culture ( simplified Chinese: 中国茶文化 traditional Chinese: 中國茶文化) ( zhōngguó chá wénhuà, 'Chinese tea culture') Chinese tea culture includes all facets of tea, both physical and spiritual, that significantly influenced Chinese culture throughout history.