 a tea ceremony is a ritualized form of making tea practiced in the east asian cultural sphere by the chinese, japanese,history of the japanese tea ceremony korean, taiwanese and vietnamese tea ceremony. the tea ceremony, also called the way of tea in japanese, and the art of tea in chinese, is a cultural activity involving the ceremonial preparation and presentation of tea. the manner in which it is performed, or the art of its performance, is called tea ceremony. the japanese tea ceremony is better known, and was influenced by the chinese tea ceremony during ancient and medieval times. the vietnamese tea ceremony, also influenced by its chinese counterpart, is only performed during a wedding and other religious rituals. one can also refer to the whole set of rituals, tools, gestures, etc. used in such ceremonies as tea culture. all of these tea ceremonies and rituals contain "an adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday life", as well as refinement, an inner spiritual content, humility, restraint and simplicity "as all arts that partake the extraordinary, an artistic artificiality, abstractness, symbolism and formalism" to one degree or another. at a very basic level, tea ceremonies are a formalized way of making tea, in a process which has been refined to yield the best taste. historical documents on the subject include the 8th century monograph "the classic of tea" and the 12th century book treatise on tea. ==teaism== thumbnail|280px|interior view of a tea room the tea ceremony is understood and practiced to foster harmony in humanity, promote harmony with nature, discipline the mind, quiet the heart, and attain the purity of enlightenment, the art of tea becomes teaism. the term "chadao" has two words, the first being 'tea' and the second the chinese loanword tao/dao/ native suffix -ism (also japanese: ä¸»ç¾©), and could thus be read as 'teaism'. another, more literal reading of the word is the 'way of tea' (è¶ tea and é way), comparable with for example å¼é; the way of the bow. the term can be used to descri
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