{"id":6627,"date":"2019-11-18T06:44:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T06:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/chinese-tea-culture-gong-fu-cha-06-tea-gifts-in-marriage-custom\/"},"modified":"2019-11-18T06:44:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T06:44:10","slug":"chinese-tea-culture-gong-fu-cha-06-tea-gifts-in-marriage-custom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/chinese-tea-culture-gong-fu-cha-06-tea-gifts-in-marriage-custom\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Tea Culture \u529f\u592b\u8336 06 Tea Gifts in Marriage Custom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"470\" height=\"352\" src=\"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20191121_5dd586a9b2025.jpg\" style=\"filter:blendTrans(Duration=1);\" alt=\"Chinese Tea Culture \u529f\u592b\u8336 06 Tea Gifts in Marriage Custom\" \/>  <\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><span>  <\/p>\n<p>Tea gift, or &ldquo;Tea Silver&rdquo;, is a sort of betrothal  gifts. In the Tang Dynasty, tea was an indispensable gift in marriage.  It has been over 1300 years since Princess Wencheng brought tea into  Tibet in line with to the Han etiquette. Tea was evolved from a  trousseau gift into a gift prepared for a man&rsquo;s proposal of marriage in  the Song Dynasty. In the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, &ldquo;Tea gift&rdquo; almost  stood for marriage, with a maid&rsquo;s acceptance of tea gift being known as  &ldquo;Drink Tea&rdquo;. Such concept was retained in the Qing Dynasty, when the  saying &ldquo;A good maid will not accept tea gifts from two families&rdquo; was  prevailing.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, it is still prevailing in many regions in China to refer to  engagement and marriage respectively as &ldquo;Accept Tea&rdquo; and &ldquo;Drink Tea&rdquo;,  and earnest money for engagement and betrothal gift respectively as &ldquo;Tea  Money&rdquo; and &ldquo;Tea Gift&rdquo;. The custom of taking tea as a gift in a wedding  is also prevalent in many ethnic minorities. Tea is presented as a gift  in the Mongolian ethnic group on the occasion of engagement and  matchmaking to express preciousness of love. It is also presented to a  maid&rsquo;s family as a gift for engagement in Hui, Man and Kazakh ethnic  minorities. The engagement is called &ldquo;Engagement Tea&rdquo; and &ldquo;Drink Wedding  Tea&rdquo; by the Hui people, and &ldquo;Send Great Tea&rdquo; by the Manchu minority. In  bride fetching or wedding ceremonies, tea gift is mainly used to brew  &ldquo;Nuptial Cup Tea&rdquo; and &ldquo;Combining Tea&rdquo; for the bride and bridegroom, or  &ldquo;Thanks Giving Tea&rdquo; and &ldquo;Relative Recognizing Tea&rdquo; for their parents and  elders.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-813830693\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tea gift, or &ldquo;Tea Silver&rdquo;, is a sort of betrothal  gifts. In the Tang Dynasty, tea was an indispensable gift in marriage.  It has been over 1300 years since Princess Wencheng brought tea into  Tibet in line with to the Han etiquette. Tea was evolved from a  trousseau gift into a gift prepared for a man&rsquo;s proposal of marriage in  the Song Dynasty. In the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, &ldquo;Tea gift&rdquo; almost  stood for marriage, with a maid&rsquo;s acceptance of tea gift being known as  &ldquo;Drink Tea&rdquo;. Such concept was retained in the Qing Dynasty, when the  saying &ldquo;A good maid will not accept tea gifts from two families&rdquo; was  prevailing.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2839],"tags":[125,118],"class_list":["post-6627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-tea-culture","tag-chinese-tea-culture","tag-culture"],"views":191,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}