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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
A chapter in the New Book of Tang is Lu Yu's biography. The book recorded Lu Yu's obsession with tea, and he wrote a three-volume book Ch'a Ching about details of tea's origin, the method of cultivating and drinking tea, and the tools of tea drinking. The tea sellers of that time would make pottery statues of Lu Yu and worship him as the "tea ...
Many of the folk dances of the Qing dynasty were known from the earlier period, for example, the yangge dance was developed from a dance known in the Song dynasty as Village Music (村田樂). [74] Small-scale folk song-and-dance shows became popular in the Qing dynasty, examples are the Flower Drum, Flower Lantern (花燈) and Picking Tea ...
It is considered by some to be a milestone in Chinese tea culture. Following the Hongwu Emperor's ban [citation needed] on manufacturing of tea cake, Zhu Quan advocated a simpler way of steeping loose tea, a radical departure from the involved tea cake preparation methods of the Tang and Song dynasties, thus pioneered a new era in Chinese tea ...