Why is it said that the four aesthetic peaks of the Song Dynasty were burning incense, ordering tea, arranging flowers and hanging paintings?

As a strong advocate of life aesthetics, I am obsessed with the elegant life of the Song Dynasty to the extreme.

If I were asked to choose the dynasty with the most ritualistic sense of national life in history, I would definitely recommend the Song Dynasty first.

From the details of daily life, it can be seen that people in the Song Dynasty were very good at living. They were simple and rustic, leisurely and rich, and they had a ubiquitous sense of ritual.

A cup of tea, a stick of incense, and a bouquet of flowers are all manifestations of elegance and interest in daily life.

Although the Song Dynasty was not as rich and gorgeous as the Tang Dynasty, it was so beautiful that people felt comfortable. I personally feel that the elegance of people's life in the Song Dynasty was mainly reflected in two aspects: one was the layout of the living environment of the people in the Song Dynasty; the other was the pursuit of details in daily life by the people in the Song Dynasty, such as

It is well known that people in the Song Dynasty had four kinds of busy things: ordering tea, hanging pictures, arranging flowers, and burning incense.

The Song Dynasty was the peak period of ancient Chinese aesthetics. The Four Aesthetics refer to: burning incense emphasizes the beauty of smell, drinking tea emphasizes the beauty of taste, flower arrangement emphasizes the beauty of touch, and hanging paintings emphasizes visual beauty.

The four arts in one show the elegance and charm of life aesthetics of the Song Dynasty literati.

Wu Zimu, a native of the Song Dynasty, recorded in his notebook "Mengliang Lu": "Burning incense, ordering tea, hanging pictures and arranging flowers, and other idle things should not burden the family." He pointed out the "four things" or "four arts" of the elegant life of the literati in the Song Dynasty.

These four artists appreciate daily life through smell, taste, touch and vision, and elevate daily life to the realm of art.

The four arts of literati in the Song Dynasty were flower arranging, hanging pictures, burning incense, and ordering tea.

Nowadays, these four arts are also the four indispensable elements in tea parties.

Burning incense: a wisp of fragrant fragrance, soothing the worries of the world; ordering tea: a pot of good agarwood tea, entertaining friends from afar; flower arrangement: a pot of flowers of ideas, savoring all kinds of life; hanging painting: a calligraphy and painting of running clouds, embodying the hidden landscape

Beautiful view.

In "Do You Know", the scene where Grandma Kong teaches flower arrangement truly reflects the daily life of girls in the boudoir of the Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty, which was deeply influenced by Neo-Confucianism, reflected its elegant and elegant temperament in the flower culture, forming a clear and clear flower arrangement style.

In modern society, flower arrangement is also an exquisite art. It can not only become an independent chapter, but also become an embellishment and foil for tea banquet arrangements and space decoration.