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【Abstract】Pu ’er tea and mocha coffee are two important drinks in today’s world of daily life, they are also deemed to the representative traditional drinks of China and the West. Tea is a representative lifestyle of the Chinese people while coffee is a kind of spirit.
【Key words】 Pu’er tea; mocha coffee; cultural differences
1. Introduction
Tea and Coffee, the representatives of the east and the west, are not just two kinds of drinks, but symbols of two cultures which convince people of their own splendid history. China is the homeland of tea. There is a common saying: “Firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea are the seven necessities to begin a day.” Though tea comes last on the list, we still can see the importance of tea in daily life. In west, people also say: “If I’m not in the coffee house, I will be on the way to the coffee house.” Even it is a simple joke, it reflects the real life of western people. It is also the necessity of life and the motivation of the development.
2. Research on Pu ’er Tea and Mocha Coffee
Pu ’er tea culture is the sum of material and spiritual culture of the Chinese nation of tea discovery process, domestication, cultivation, utilization produced culture. From AD 180, Payanleng who led the Puren began to use tea, then Pu ’er tea closely linked with Yunnan’s nature, geography, ethnic, economic, cultural, related to the customs of various ethnic groups, production, ideology ideas, religion, arts and culture and other aspects. As well as the Tibetan people say, “Xia added heat, Gaca heat, add hot comb”, Chinese meaning is: tea is blood, tea is meat, tea is life. It is this process that the Chinese nation has created many legends and tea-related stories, novels, poetry, opera, dance and other culture arts about Pu’er tea went into the Dream of Red Mansions, War and Peace and other great works of literature, forming a rich connotation of the Pu ’er tea culture.
Mocha coffee is one of the oldest coffees, its history need to be traced back to the origins of coffee. It is composed of espresso, chocolate sauce, whipped cream and milk mixture, named after the famous Mocha Port. The fifteenth century, the entire Middle East country transport of non-coffee was not flourish, Yemen Mocha was the main output of a commercial port near the Red Sea, then concentrated mocha coffee to Mocha Port and re-exported out of the African, those were all called mocha. Although emerging port replaced the status of the port of Mocha, the origin of Mocha Port period still retained, these origin produced coffee beans were still called Mocha coffee beans.
【Key words】 Pu’er tea; mocha coffee; cultural differences
1. Introduction
Tea and Coffee, the representatives of the east and the west, are not just two kinds of drinks, but symbols of two cultures which convince people of their own splendid history. China is the homeland of tea. There is a common saying: “Firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea are the seven necessities to begin a day.” Though tea comes last on the list, we still can see the importance of tea in daily life. In west, people also say: “If I’m not in the coffee house, I will be on the way to the coffee house.” Even it is a simple joke, it reflects the real life of western people. It is also the necessity of life and the motivation of the development.
2. Research on Pu ’er Tea and Mocha Coffee
Pu ’er tea culture is the sum of material and spiritual culture of the Chinese nation of tea discovery process, domestication, cultivation, utilization produced culture. From AD 180, Payanleng who led the Puren began to use tea, then Pu ’er tea closely linked with Yunnan’s nature, geography, ethnic, economic, cultural, related to the customs of various ethnic groups, production, ideology ideas, religion, arts and culture and other aspects. As well as the Tibetan people say, “Xia added heat, Gaca heat, add hot comb”, Chinese meaning is: tea is blood, tea is meat, tea is life. It is this process that the Chinese nation has created many legends and tea-related stories, novels, poetry, opera, dance and other culture arts about Pu’er tea went into the Dream of Red Mansions, War and Peace and other great works of literature, forming a rich connotation of the Pu ’er tea culture.
Mocha coffee is one of the oldest coffees, its history need to be traced back to the origins of coffee. It is composed of espresso, chocolate sauce, whipped cream and milk mixture, named after the famous Mocha Port. The fifteenth century, the entire Middle East country transport of non-coffee was not flourish, Yemen Mocha was the main output of a commercial port near the Red Sea, then concentrated mocha coffee to Mocha Port and re-exported out of the African, those were all called mocha. Although emerging port replaced the status of the port of Mocha, the origin of Mocha Port period still retained, these origin produced coffee beans were still called Mocha coffee beans.