The Tea Life And Communication-ship Of Literati In Song Dynasty

The ancient tea culture experienced its peak in Song Dynasty, which was endowed with distinct temporal spirit. Lit policy and developed economy in Song Dynasty enable its people pay more attention to the spiritual life. The great importance attached to and the advocate to songs and poems make its men of letters repose themselves to poems and paintings. As the medium of communications and exchanges, tea enters people’s life and the formidable history of literature. Tea was infected with the elegance of scholars because of their transmission. It is reasonable that tea has permeated scholars’ life. As a result, we can perceive the everyday life of these scholars and their friendships by appreciating tea and poems in Song Dynasty.The paper is to make people have an all-around and systemic knowledge of the developing process of the tea culture, through a summary of each dynasty tea culture. And it makes people know inheritance and creativeness of the tea culture in Song Dynasty in detail by making a special feature of the tea culture in Song Dynasty. Through giving prominence to make a detailed analysis of literati group’s drinking tea activities, it gets that tea is a medium of literati’s communicating process in Song Dynasty, an sustenance of spiritual lives, a token of literati’s life experience.