The Tea Service Product Design Research Based On The Pu’er Tea Culture

Yunnan Pu’er Tea is one of the immaterial cultural heritage in the world, containing rich tea culture and unique cultural color of minority ethnic region in Yunnan, which is A valuable part of the national cultural heritage of China, so it deserves a more sufficient attention and in-depth study. Tea service is an important branch of tea culture and carries the dual material carrier of practicability and spiritual pleasure. Throughout the ages of each era, tea service is designed to reflect the tea culture, and in the same time the process of using tea service is also the process of the drinking which we can get the feelings and promote the tea culture, That is, "the pot increases the tea taste, the tea pot increases the art value".This article analyses and summarizes the tea culture and Pu’er Tea culture, especially the core culture of Pu’er Tea.To be specific, this paper analyses tea customs, tea ceremony and tea service, and summarizes tea culture essence of natural nature and simple way about Pu’er Tea, including the tea truth on"incerity, goodness, harmony, contence, respect, "and then put forward the concept of Pu’er Tea service.Through the analysis of different age of tea culture and tea products and according to domestic famous tea culture, relative tea products and comparative analysis about Pu’er Tea, we can come to conclusion that tea service design must take tea culture for the purpose, and is designed according to the tea characteristic. Moreover, this article summarizes the outstanding problem of Pu’er Tea service:firstly, The lack of research institutions about Pu’er Tea service; secondly, the Separation of tea products and culture attribute about Pu’er Tea service; thirdly, the lost of Pu’er Tea culture brand on tea service.Combined with culture characteristic of the Pu’er Tea and the regional culture characteristics of region, this article summarises the fixed position of Pu’er Tea service design. The design of the Pu’er Tea service should be taken Yunnan ethnic culture, national culture of Pu’er Tea regions and modern people’s aesthetic needs as the starting point. The article discusses the application feasibility of Pu’er Tea service design about Dai pottery, Simao bamboo, Zhenyuan black pottery and Jianshui purple pottery.It summarizes tea ceremony, tea truth and drinking atmosphere of Pu’er Tea, at the same time, it also carry on systemic analysis and research for the shape, material, color, decoration, packaging, technology of Pu’er Tea products.Finally, this article induces and summarized the general principles and methods about Pu’er Tea set product design. The main content is:syetemic principle; adapting to Pu’er Tea culture attribute principle; the organic integration principle about regional national culture elements in Pu’er Tea producing areas; the principle fitting the times demand.