摘  要

结合文化因素，与儒、道、基于农耕文化的影响下，中国特有的茶文化应用而生。十七世纪，中国的茶叶开始进入欧洲市场。尽管很多国家加入了中国茶叶的消费行列中，却只有英国建立了自己独有的茶文化体系。中国和英国都是饮茶的大国，他们都有着各自不同的历史渊源和文化背景，因此，他们的茶文化也是不同的。茶文化集中体现了各自的本国文化。通过对中英两国茶文化的比较，笔者不仅能够对其历史文化有着更深入的认识，同时还能从中了解英国是如何吸收外来文化，如何坚持并加以创新，从而形成自己的茶文化的。通过大量的文献阅读，笔者决定用比较的方法从发展历史，品饮方式，茶具，用茶礼仪，茶道精神以及茶道文化影响六个方面来着手对汉英茶文化的风俗进行比较。本文不仅仅对六个方面进行单单地比较，更将对其产生不同的原因进行透彻地分析，使读者更加深入地了解中英文化以及他们之间的文化差异，并引起读者关于如何传承中国传统文化的思考。

关键词：中国茶文化；英国茶文化；文化差异

Abstract

Combined with culture factors, and under the influence of Confucianism Buddhism and Taoism based on cultivation culture, a special Chinese tea culture came into being. In the 17th century, Chinese tea began to be brought into European market through trade. Although so many countries had joined Chinese tea consumption, only British set up their own system of tea culture. China and Britain are both large tea-drinking countries. They have different historical origins and cultural backgrounds, so their tea culture is different. Through comparison of Chinese and British tea culture, the writer not only has a deeper understanding to the history of China and UK, but also learns how the Britain absorbs other tea culture, remains some of the alien tea culture, creates and forms its own tea culture. The writer prepares to analyze from six aspects about their developments of history, tasting, tea sets, tea etiquette, tea ceremony and the influence of tea culture by using the comparative method. This paper not only carries on the comparison of the six aspects but conducts a thorough analysis, making readers more in-depth understanding of British and Chinese culture and their cultural differences, and causes readers to think about how to inherit Chinese traditional culture.

Key words: Chinese tea culture；British tea culture； cultural differences

1 Introduction
1.1 Background
    Now the number of tea drinkers in the world is quite large and is still increasing. China is the homeland of tea. Combined with culture factors, and under the influence of Confucianism Buddhism and Taoism based on cultivation culture, a special Chinese tea culture came into being. In the 17th century, Chinese tea began to be brought into European market through trade. Although so many countries had joined Chinese tea consumption, only British set up their own system of tea culture.