A Study Of Wen Zhengming’s Tea Poems

Wen Zhengming was a leader in the literary circles of the mid-Ming dynasty,not only in poetry,calligraphy and painting,but also in the understanding of tea theory,creating a considerable number of tea poems and tea paintings.Wen Zhengming wrote a total of 166 tea poems,the largest number of tea poems in the Ming dynasty known to exist.His tea poems not only contain the essence of tea culture of the previous generation,but also express the new style of tea drinking in the Ming Dynasty.The thesis is divided into three parts: the introduction,the body and the conclusion.The main text is divided into five chapters.Chapter1:The first chapter analyses the background of Wen Zhengming’s tea poetry,discusses the development of tea culture over the ages and the development of tea culture in the Ming Dynasty,and briefly reviews the works of tea writers over the ages.Wen Zhengming’s artistic life of painting,calligraphy,poetry and literature is exquisite,and can be described as a blend of tea and people,with tea and ink being born together.Tea runs through Wen Zhengming’s life,and the process of analysing his tea poems also gives a deeper sense of the author’s tea man style.Chapter2:The second chapter deals with the content of Wen Zhengming’s tea poems,whose tea poems cover various aspects of tea springs,tea products,tea sets and tea parties,the poet attaches importance to the experience of drinking tea and has a taste for famous springs,often carrying tea to visit the springs and then chanting a million points.Chapter3:The third chapter elaborates on the cultural interest in Wen Zhengming’s tea poems.In Wen Zhengming’s tea poems,friendship can be seen,the fragrance of tea can be harvested throughout the seasons,and the poet’s life can be felt in the free expression of ink in tea,the poet is immersed in tea,tea brings the poet spiritual enjoyment while also becoming an important object of his artistic creation.At the same time,from the poet’s valued Confucian personality,analysis of Wen Zhengming in the tea poetry expressed in the character of the noble Confucian and benevolent style.As the poet’s tea poems often reveal his love for all good things,his benevolent heart is actually connected to Zhuang Zen,from people to things to the deeper care of all natural things,thus showing the "tea Zen a taste" tea theory implications.Chapter4:discusses the artistic characteristics of Wen Zhengming’s tea poems.One from the choice of tea poetry intended to analyse the author’s favourite "pine","cypress","bamboo","plum " and other intentions and tea constitute a mutual view of the mood of the world.Second,from the poet’s use of allusions,like to "drink tea and think of the past" the creative characteristics of his tea poems to analyse the ancient,respect the ancient sense of gravity.Thirdly,from the perspective of the language style of tea poetry,analyse the natural elegance of Wen Zhengming’s tea poems and the marvellous language features found in their neatness.Fourthly,the overall tendency of Wen Zhengming’s tea poetry style is explored,as the poet’s poetry was influenced by the Song dynasty and his own personality,thus forming the "elegant and light" style of poetry.Chapter5:The fifth chapter discusses the tea poetry and tea events of Wen Zhengming active in tea painting.Wen Zhengming tea painting works are inscribed with tea poetry,the painting painted tea people tea realm and tea poetry together to form a tea drinking mood world,the poet to tea into the painting,lead tea into the poem,its poetry,painting,books,tea composed of poetic life in the Ming Dynasty bland night sky cut a green colour.