中国茶艺Chinese Tea Art
为与日本茶道、韩国茶礼相区别，1977年台湾众多学者共同提出 “茶艺” 这一概念，并于1978年在台北和高雄分别成立茶艺协会，1982年成立全台茶艺团体“中华茶艺协会”。 台湾茶艺带动了本土茶叶产业的发展，如茶艺师培训的教育事业、茶艺表演的演艺业、茶文化的出版业。台湾的茶艺在中国大陆改革开放之后，很快传入内地，并在茶行业内迅速传播，对大陆茶文化的内容提供了重要的补充。
In order to distinguish it from Japanese tea ceremony and Korean tea ceremony, many scholars in Taiwan jointly proposed the concept of “tea art” in 1977. In 1978, Tea Art Associations were established in Taipei and Kaohsiung respectively. In 1982, the tea culture group “Chinese Tea Art Association” was established. Taiwan tea art has driven the development of the local tea industry, such as tea artist training, tea art performance, and the publishing industry of tea culture. After the reform and opening up in mainland China, Taiwan's tea art was quickly introduced to the mainland and spread rapidly in the tea industry, providing an important supplement to the content of the mainland tea culture.
茶艺是一门综合性的艺术，包容性强，涵盖面广，涉及的学问精深。茶艺跨越了茶学、美学、文学、宗教、哲学、伦理、道德、民俗等众多门类的传统及现代艺术，综合了陶瓷、插花、书画、音乐、建筑、装饰、表演等领域。
Tea art is a comprehensive art with inclusive, wide-ranging and profound knowledge and culture, covering various traditional and modern arts such as tea art, aesthetics, literature, religion, philosophy, ethics, morality, folklore, etc. and integrating ceramics, flower arrangements, paintings, music, architecture, decoration, performance together. It benefits and enlightens us in many ways.
茶艺表演是茶艺师展示茶艺技巧、方法和品饮艺术的一种方式。其表演因地域、民族和茶品类的不同，目前正处于“群芳争艳”的繁荣时期，各类主题茶会、茶文化节、茶艺馆都会根据自身特点举办适宜的茶艺表演。同时，有一部分人欲通过茶艺表演诉诸各自的功利目的，因而其茶艺表演出现了较为含混的、违背茶艺精神的现象。
Tea art performance is a way for tea artists to showcase tea techniques, methods and art of tea tasting. Due to the different regions, ethnic groups and tea types, the performances are currently in the prosperous period with brilliant points respectively. however, various tea parties, tea culture festivals and tea art houses want to perform tea art according to their own characteristics with their utilitarian purposes, and thus some performances are contrary to the spirit of tea art.
