Tea art or coffee latte art, the ultimate comparison!

Nowadays, coffee shops have become the destination for afternoon tea. People order a cup of coffee, read or meditate in a quiet corner of the coffee shop. Coffee art has become one of the essential skills of almost every coffee shop, and various creative patterns are presented on the coffee. People who have seen tea art will find that tea art and coffee art look very similar, and both can form patterns on the surface of the liquid. So do tea art and coffee art have the same principles?

▼Tea art and coffee latte art

1. What is Tea Opera?

We are all familiar with coffee latte art. To make the ultimate comparison between tea art and coffee latte art, we need to understand tea art. Tea art has another name called "tea division". It was very popular in the Song Dynasty because of tea fighting. Tea art is an ancient tea ceremony that makes the veins of tea soup form images. Only tea and water are used without other ingredients to show words and images in the tea soup. Tao Gu, the Shangshu of the early Song Dynasty, once recorded in "Tea Tea Records": "Tea art... In recent times, there are people who use a dagger to pour tea soup and use special tricks to make the patterns of the soup water veins form images of animals, insects, fish, flowers and plants. They are delicate and beautiful, but they disappear in a moment."

2. Comparison between Tea Art and Coffee Latte Art

1. Differences in historical background

Tea art is a treasure of Chinese national culture and an intangible cultural heritage, belonging to an elegant culture; however, there is no clear documented record of the historical origins of coffee latte art, and we only know that coffee latte art belongs to European and American culture.

2. Different imaging principles

Tea art is a form of art that uses only tea soup, without any other ingredients, and uses special physical methods to form the tea soup into various patterns. Coffee latte art uses coffee and milk, two ingredients with different properties that are immiscible in each other, to present a variety of patterns.

3. Differences in performance feeling

Tea art presents a hazy image that is very suitable for Chinese-style calligraphy and painting, with a feeling of overlapping mountains and curling smoke; coffee latte art uses milk, which is lighter than coffee, to inject milk on the surface of espresso to create a pattern, and the pattern is also relatively clear.

4. Comparison of changing patterns

Since the tea art pattern is formed only by tea soup, it will disappear after a period of time. At this time, you can draw it again to form a new pattern, which will change repeatedly many times, which is very magical. However, coffee latte art can only have one fixed pattern, and it will not change after it is formed.

Tea art is different from coffee latte art. Whether it is the historical background, the display principle, the taste and the durability of the pattern, they are fundamentally different. The only similarity is probably that they both present patterns on liquid!