I am interested in chapter 4 about history and how it is important to culture. According to the article “Tea-a Chinese way of life and culture” tells us about the origins of tea in Chinese history has giving me an understanding better how history influences and becomes important to culture and communication. Tea in China as coffee in Western; of which the “appreciation was a major hallmark of a well-to-do lifestyle,” but “sometimes even was deemed to define the characteristics of a highly cultured person.” So tea as a best friend as they say “rather than go without salt for 3 days than without tea for a single day.” As custom of old Chinese people, they said that: “scholars and gentry identical would not have been able to entertain their guests without tea or the teahouse.” As well as today, even though in China “almost every family has radio, colour TV sets, a personal computer and there are a lot of coffee bars, such as Starbucks, in every big city, many people [but] people still like to go to tea especially businessmen and elderly people.” For a reason that they believe that the teahouse is a good place to meet their old friends and a place to communicate to each other, instead of being a silence or out-of-the-way spot for the achievement of their scholar.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090911/ap_on_re_eu/eu_germany_arctic_passage
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This is very interesting! But it would be even more convincing if the empirical evidence focused in on the younger generation’s tendencies. If the young Chinese people drink relatively more tea than coffee, it would demonstrate their commitment to identity and cultural preservation over the adaptation of western practices (such as coffee drinking). Such evidence would also show a level of awareness to history, whether it be thousands of years or merely their childhood of watching their parents and grandparents drinking tea.
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