Why do you say that the four elegance of aesthetic peak in Song Dynasty are burning incense, ordering tea, arranging flowers and hanging pictures?

As a strong advocate of life aesthetics, I am simply obsessed with the elegant life in the Song Dynasty. If I had to choose a dynasty with the most ceremonial sense of national life in history, I would definitely put the Song Dynasty first.

From the details of daily life, we can see that Song people are good at life, simple, leisurely and rich, and have a sense of ceremony everywhere. A cup of tea, a lamp of incense and a bunch of flowers are all manifestations of exquisiteness and elegance in daily life.

Although the Song Dynasty was not as gorgeous as the Tang Dynasty, it was beautiful and comfortable. Personally, the elegance of people's life in the Song Dynasty is mainly reflected in two aspects:

One is the layout of people's living environment in Song Dynasty;

The second is the Song people's pursuit of the details of daily life, such as the four well-known things of the Song people: ordering tea, hanging pictures, arranging flowers and burning incense.

The Song Dynasty was the pinnacle of China's ancient aesthetics. The four elegance of aesthetics means: burning incense emphasizes the beauty of smell, tasting tea emphasizes the beauty of taste, arranging flowers emphasizes the beauty of touch, and hanging pictures emphasizes the beauty of vision. The integration of the four arts shows the life aesthetics of the literati in the Song Dynasty.

Wu, a poet in the Song Dynasty, recorded in his notebook Dream: "Burning incense and ordering tea, hanging pictures and arranging flowers, four kinds of busyness, not tiring the family", and pointed out the "four things" or "four arts" of the elegant life of literati in the Song Dynasty. These four artists taste daily life through smell, taste, touch and vision, and elevate daily life to the artistic realm.

The four arts of literati in Song Dynasty are arranging flowers, hanging pictures, burning incense and ordering tea. Now these four arts are also four indispensable elements in the tea party.

Incense burning: a wisp of agarwood soothes secular troubles; Order tea: a pot of agarwood tea to entertain distant friends; Flower arrangement: a pot of flowers of ideas, savoring all kinds of life; Hanging painting: a painting with clouds and calligraphy, which contains beautiful scenery.

In Know No, the scene of arranging flowers taught by Confucius truly reflects the daily life of girls in the boudoir of the Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, which was deeply influenced by science, its elegant and beautiful temperament of the times was reflected in the flower culture, forming a clear flower arrangement style.

In modern society, flower arrangement is also an exquisite art, which can not only form its own family, but also become the ornament and foil of teahouse layout and space decoration.