| Tea affairs in the Song Dynasty were very popular,and the artistic activities related to tea affairs were also rich and varied,such as tea poems,tea books,tea painting,etc.Tea painting mainly refers to the painting with the contents of tea events or the relevant items of tea events.The tea painting in the Song Dynasty is rich in content and contains the aesthetic interest of the Song people.The prosperity of tea painting in the Song Dynasty was inseparable from the background of the times.The implementation of the rule of culture and the preferential treatment of literati in the Song Dynasty enabled literati not only to participate more in political affairs,but also to spend more time in elegant affairs and cultural and artistic activities,which promoted the prosperity of tea painting in the Song Dynasty.In terms of ideology,the integration of the three religions in the Song Dynasty made the literati have the philosophy of the three schools,and the tea painting is also the synthesis of the three religions.According to the different levels of expression,the tea painting in the Song Dynasty can be divided into the tea painting depicting the palace,the tea painting depicting the refined monks and the tea painting depicting the market.From the existing paintings of tea affairs in the Song Dynasty,we can understand the method of tea frying,tea ordering and tea fighting,and get a glimpse of the elegant life of the Song people.In addition,starting from the tea utensils painted in the tea painting and the existing tea objects,this paper explores the main tea utensils used in the tea ordering method of the Song Dynasty,and understands the restrained and minimalist aesthetic pursuit of the Song people from the tea utensils.The literati of the Song Dynasty loved to drink tea in an elegant environment.In the tea painting,the tea drinking environment of the Song Dynasty can be divided into the privacy of drinking tea in the room,the practice of drinking tea in the courtyard for the "seclusion" thought and the temporary realization of drinking tea in the mountains and forests for the seclusion life.Tea painting in the Song Dynasty contains the aesthetic pursuit of the literati in the Song Dynasty,and is the carrier of the literati’s worship of tea and self-cultivation.Tea is considered as the symbol of refined practice and frugality.Through the pursuit of tea and tea painting,the literati reflect on themselves through drinking tea;It also reflects the plain and simple aesthetic of the literati and the pursuit of the Confucian etiquette and order.Through the complicated and tedious tea drinking ceremony,the literati also practices the Confucian ideology in the process of preparing and drinking tea.Put the tea painting of the Song Dynasty into the category of aesthetic in terest of the literati,and try to explore the pursuit of "elegance" of the literati of the Song Dynasty with the tea painting as the carrier.The tea painting of the Song Dynasty also has aesthetic significance in the contemporary era.In the busy life,you may as well slow down and enjoy a cup of tea. |
