The Preliminary Study On Tea Sets Of The Liao Dynasty

Based on the absorption of tea culture in Tang dynasty, tea in Liao dynasty has its own unique style. Based on the archaeological excavations of tea set and mural reflecting the use of tea by the Liao people, supplemented by literature references, this paper attempts to explore the tea set in the Liao dynasty. This thesis is divided into five parts: The first part is an introduction, defining the definition of tea set, which gives the scope of the study and outlined the result of previous studies, illustrating the research methods used in this article, research objectives, research problems that may exist in research. The second part is the overview of history of tea drinking, through the consolidation of historical documents, to briefly describe the history of the utilization of tea in various dynasty. Tea is divided into five different time periods by the main axis of the change of utilization of tea, so as to refer to the tea set of Liao dynasty mentioned below, outlining a backdrop. The third part is the study on the tea set of Liao dynasty. This chapter classify the tea set of Liao dynasty into two categories: tea cooking utensils and tea drinking utensils, and to study these two categories and five subcategories. The fourth part is tea-drinking customs of Liao dynasty social life, based on the research of tea set above. respectively from tea trade in Liao dynasty, and drinking tea features of Liao dynasty, different aspects of drinking methods in Song and Liao dynasty, and preliminary reveals tea-drinking customs of Liao dynasty and tea-related Khitan people’s social life in Liao dynasty. The last part is the conclusion, in the conclusion of the paper briefly summarizes and induces the sections of this paper.