The Aesthetics of Song Dynasty Life

History has always been the saying that the Sheng Tang and the weak Song, as a literary rule of the founding of the state of Song, although weak militarily, but is the paradise of the literati.

Ancient aesthetics, to Song reached its peak, today's popular minimalism, elegant Morandi, textured square and round, as early as the Song Dynasty, played.

Song Ru kiln, different from the colorful Tang Sancai, there is a kind of simple and advanced beauty. Ice cracks, is burned out. Song people consecrated as open piece, beyond the era of aesthetic.

Song calligraphy Shangyi, break through the Tang strict law, Su Huangmi Cai, works of calligraphy, glittering.

Song bird and flower landscape painting, the world's recognized character, ink in five colors, light and noble. Unlike the Tang Dynasty's bright and flamboyant, the Song Dynasty's color scheme is calm and introverted, Taoist nature.

This is not all a weak Song that lost the sixteen states of the Youyun, this is also the Eastern Renaissance of cultural splendor, a pot of wine, a word, the age of peace and elegance of the era.

The TV series "Knowing", the whole play is easy and cozy line of clouds and flowing water, presenting a school of simplicity through the exquisite, exquisite quenched with the vicissitudes of the Song Dynasty life aesthetics.

China's tea drinking style "emerging in the Tang Dynasty, and flourished in the Song Dynasty", there is a "Tang cooking Song point" said. Song Dynasty tea culture was revered by emperors and generals, literati and even folk workers, tea culture can be said to be unprecedented prosperity, the upper inheritance of the Tang Dynasty, the exquisite method of cooking tea, but there are innovations, complex and elegant point of tea became the mainstream way of drinking tea at that time. Song Dynasty tea, the process is very complex, tea set up a table full of tea, tea calendars, hot bottles, calendars, tea mills, silk Luo, tea brushes, water boiler, spring water, and so on. It looks like it's not an easy task.

Point tea is the basis of tea, is one of the ancient tea methods. The interest of tea pointing lies in the word "point". Tea master first bottle of decoction water, and will study fine tea into the tea, successively injected into the boiling water, the tea will be adjusted to the thick paste, and then the pot to the teapot rhythmic point of water, and water points to be accurate, can not destroy the tea surface. At the same time, the point of tea people also use the other hand to hold a tea brush, rotating strike and whisk the tea in the tea calendars of the tea broth, so that the soup flower, known as the "transport brush" or "hit whisk".

In practice, the filling and whisking are done at the same time. So strictly speaking, to create the best effect of tea: one should pay attention to adjust the paste, the second rhythmic injection of water, the third is the tea brush to hit the whisk according to the actual situation of light and heavy. Only in this way, can point out the best effect of tea.

Su Shi in the "send Nanping modest division" poem said: "Taoist dawn out of Nanping Mountain, to pilot the tea three hands". This kind of smart tea pointing hand is called "Samadhi hand".

In addition to the point of tea, the Song people have a tea event - tea fight. Fighting tea mainly to guess the origin of tea, identify the time of tea picking, distinguish between spring tea and autumn tea, and identify the source of water and quality of tea mainly.

This game-filled tea ceremony was popular among the upper class, literati and gentry, and contributed to the enhancement of the quality of tea leaves and the art of tea-pointing at that time. Cai Xiang tea monograph "Tea Records" mentioned Jian'an fighting tea: "depending on the color of its fresh white, no water marks on the calendars for the best. Jian'an fighting test, the first water marks back for the negative, durable for the win."

That is to say, after the point of tea on the surface of the tea foam, to color white and foam lasting for the best. Is not the same as the popular coffee flower?

Song Dynasty literati in the process of tea, but also through the superb mixing skills, the tea foam painted on the various patterns, birds and animals, birds, fish and insects, people and landscapes, etc., and even more in the tea foam on the poems, known as the "water Danqing", Su Shi wrote a poem praising the tea division of the skill of the humble master of the monks: "The tea soup to capture the tea three, looking for the sentence also peep a spot of poetry".

"Knowing the high frequency of Jianzhan" is simply the best supporting role, a hand. Song people tea color is still white, so point tea favorite black glaze, especially like Jianzhou kiln (now Jianyang County, Fujian Province, Shui Ji Town) fired blue and black tealight, also known as Jianzhan. Tire thick, open mouth, deep bottom, small circle foot, glaze color is mainly black, there are also soy sauce purple and other colors. Inside and outside the body has rust or brown stripes, there are also silver stripes such as rabbit hair for the top grade, called rabbit hair marigold.

The famous artist Emperor Song Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty, art appreciation level is naturally very high, once evaluated the rabbit hair marigolds: "marigold color is expensive green and black, jade hair strips up to the top."

Now open the shopping site search Jianjian, the most appearing rabbit hair marigolds, partridge spot marigolds and oil drop marigolds, chaotic and fascinating, beautiful. But the range of selling prices is also breathtaking.