01 - Аэростат 281 - Чай - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Hello!

This letter came to me some time ago.

“Good and blessed day to you, dear editors of the Aerostat program! I recently listened to a program about Confucius and an amazing thought came to me - maybe it’s worth talking about such an interesting topic as Chinese tea? Or even not only about Chinese, but about tea in general.

I believe that if you tell all of us, your radio listeners, a few of these stories about tea, if we listen together to a few more masterpieces of the musical inexhaustible wealth of the East, there will be one hour more Peace and Goodness in the world. And if during your program we drink a couple of cups of this aromatic and life-giving drink, then we will all become a little kinder and healthier.

With respect and sincere hope, your listener, Nikolai Dmitriev"

Well, well, pour out the tea.

Donovan - Teas

Observant Chinese said: “the whole universe fits in a teapot.” And there is a reason for this: after all, with the exception of water, tea is the most consumed drink on earth. The most consumed - and the most ancient: the history of drinking tea by people goes back at least five thousand years.

Tea was glorified as a healing drink and was used as medicine for a long time. The Eastern philosopher and physician Ibn Sina said: “Tea refreshes the body, strengthens the spirit, softens the heart, awakens thoughts, and drives away laziness.” Over time, tea turned from a medicine into an everyday drink - but it did not lose its value: it simply began to treat not only the body, but also the soul.

The sages say: “They drink tea to forget the noise of the world.” And the Vietnamese teacher Thich Nhat Hanh advises: “Drink your tea slowly and respectfully, as if it were the axis on which the world rotates - slowly, evenly, without rushing towards the future.”

And it remains to repeat after the ancients: “Tea is liquid wisdom.”

Magnetic Fields - The Doll's Tea Party

They say that tea was discovered by the divine ancestor of the Chinese nation, the Second Emperor and Spirit Plowman Shen Nong, who walked the earth and explored the properties of all plants. And he lived in prehistoric times, about five thousand years before today.

Experts in ancient wisdom assure that in those days we were closer than now to the plant world and, by concentrating, a perspicacious person could feel why which plant could be useful.

At first, tea was used as a healing drink, relieving fatigue, strengthening strength and vision. Buddhist monks drank tea to avoid falling asleep during meditation; and after meditating, they often went on a journey - and together with the monks, tea came to Korea, Japan and other countries in this region.

By the 5th century, everyone began to drink it, with or without reason. And by the 10th century, tea had become the national drink of China and, therefore, an item of trade.

Lei Qiang - Tea Harvest

Tea has been known in Japan since the 7th century. Like almost everything else, tea was brought there from China. It is believed that the monk Saise began growing tea in Japan, and the mass cultivation of his own tea in Japan is associated with the personality of master Eisai, who brought tea bushes from China and began growing tea at a Zen Buddhist monastery.

Purely Japanese varieties of tea soon appeared; and in the 12th century, a method for making crushed powdered tea was brought to Japan from China.

At first, it was, naturally, a drink of Buddhist monks and palace nobility. Then the samurai joined in drinking tea, followed by the whole of Japan.

In the Middle Ages, Buddhist monks developed the Japanese tea ceremony - it was this that became famous throughout the world.