The Way of Tea as a part of culture understanding

The thesis is focused on a tea ceremony phenomenon. This work follows the tea ceremony ways of China, Korea and Japan, which refer to a very specific form of eastern culture. Based on the historical context analysis, social and culture meaning, semantic, aesthetic and philosophic elements, it rediscovers possible traces of cultural transmission. It further analyses this transmission via the means of both integrative and reconstructive hermeneutics and thus shows to what an extent are the above stated methodical approaches practically applicable and viable