| dc.description.abstract | Tea, not only is the daily life of Chinese people drink, but also because of the promotion of the ancient literati, tea elevated to the realm of tea, and formed a unique tea art and tea culture. In particular, after the Ming Dynasty, the tea book publishing, reflects the elegance of celebrities by taste of tea, at the same time, drinking tea and tea tasting into the level of culture and art, and can be seen on all kinds of Chinese novels, lyrics.
JinPingMei CiHua is a lengthy Ming Dynasty novel. It describes the daily life of the Shandong wealthy person named Ximen Qing of the Song Dynasty. Because of the writer was in Ming dynasty , so many daily life in Ming dynasty were wrote in, then we are able to understand the living conditions in the late Ming, the particularly interesting is their tea-drinking culture and habits.
In this research of JinPing Mei CiHua, lists the varieties of tea and ways of drinking tea, and with reference to the literature of Tea experts , monographs, food spectrum, the recipe , Medical dictionary, cultural historical analysis of the tea drinking habits of the public and change of the Ming dynasty. Since the twenty-forth years of Hongwu, Emperor Taizu of the Ming dynasty, even ordered the bud-tea as a tribute instead of the solid-tea. After that, the loose tea became more popular, and was the mainstream in the Ming Dynasty. In addition, according to JinPingMei CiHua, it can be seen that the general public like to add different flavors in tea by adding flowers, dried fruit, fruit, some of those were considered to be curative.
JinPingMei CiHua is also mentioned a variety of occasions and rituals of the tea, including the narrative about weddings and funeral when the tea ceremony, tea festival, social by having tea, the development of thriving tea house, and so on. These reflect the association of tea between folk customs, and tea between social life. By the description of book of tea drinking, it more present the bright and rich tea culture in the Ming dynasty.
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