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The Grand Treatise on Tea (simplified Chinese: 大 观 茶 论; traditional Chinese: 大 觀 茶 論; pinyin: Dàguān Chá Lùn) [a] is a book written by the Chinese Emperor Huizong of the Song dynasty in 1107. [1] [2] Emperor Huizong was a great connoisseur of tea, with masterful skill in the art of tea ceremony. He often engaged in tea ...
The tea culture flourished during the Song dynasty, where it was consumed by the elite during social gatherings where Chinese arts and poetry were appreciated and discussed. [2] [18] Detailed standards also emerged for judging the color, aroma, and taste of tea. [19] Tea art, the tea gatherings, and tea houses continued to increase in popularity.
The Song dynasty (/ s ʊ ŋ /) was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 960 to 1279. The dynasty was founded by Emperor Taizu of Song, who usurped the throne of the Later Zhou dynasty and went on to conquer the rest of the Ten Kingdoms, ending the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
Tea became one of seven common household items - the others being rice, salt, soy sauce, cooking oil, vinegar, and charcoal - during the Song dynasty. Tea houses became a fixture of urban life. As a result of the popularity of tea drinking, tea plantation during the Song period expanded threefold compared to the Tang period.
1.2 Song dynasty. 1.3 Ming dynasty. 1.4 Qing dynasty. 2 Japanese. 3 English. 4 Translations. ... This was the beginning of tea cultivation and tea culture in Japan.
The Song dynasty scholar and Fujian native Cai Xiang (1012–1067) noted in his "The Record of Tea": Tea is of light colour and looks best in black cups. The cups made at Jianyang are bluish-black in colour, marked like the fur of a hare. Being of rather thick fabric they retain the heat, so that when once warmed through they cool very slowly ...
Chinese literature during the Song period contained a range of many different genres and was enriched by the social complexity of the period. Although the earlier Tang dynasty is viewed as the zenith era for Chinese poetry (particularly the shi style poetry of Du Fu, Li Bai, Bai Juyi), there were important poetic developments by famous poets of the Song era, with the flourishing of the ci form ...
Reputed as one of the greatest calligraphers of the Song dynasty, Cai Xiang was also a great tea connoisseur. During the Qingli (慶曆) era of the Renzong Emperor (1041–1048), Cai Xiang was the Officer of Transportation in Fujian. He pioneered the manufacture of a small "Dragon Tribute Tea Cake" (大小龙团 daxiao longtuan) of superlative ...