英国茶文化休闲旅游观念探析

An Exploration of Leisure Tourism Perspectives on Tea Culture in the UK

茶叶自17世纪传播到英国后,深刻地融入到英国人的生活中,形成了一些特有的休闲旅游观念。本文从茶与风景、亲自然的思想出发探讨了这些观念萌发的机理,得出了英国茶文化中人们融入自然,重视康体,将茶与休闲观光、文化艺术之旅相结合的价值观与审美观。据此,进一步对中英茶文化休闲旅游观进行了对比分析,得出了对我国茶旅产业融合发展有益的一些启示。

Since it was spread to the UK in 17th Century,tea has been deeply integrated into British people’s life and has formed some specific perspectives about leisure tourism.This paper explores the mechanism of such perspectives from aspects of the relationship between tea and landscape and the thought of being close to nature.It concludes that people in British tea culture tend to integrate themselves into nature,attach importance to health and exercises,and stress values and aesthetics of combining tea with leisure sightseeing and cultural and artistic tours.Besides,a further comparative analysis of the Chinese and British tea culture leisure tourism views is made,providing some beneficial inspirations for the integrative development of China’s tea tourism.