Mr. Yu Yue discussed the relationship between Chinese studies and tea culture from three aspects: explaining names, distinguishing meanings and examining people. Sinology is the knowledge about China traditional culture, and China tea culture is an important part of traditional culture, which has a noticeable influence on the development of China national character. Chinese studies should include tea culture, which is an organic part of Chinese studies. Traditional Chinese studies include textual research, Ci, Zhang, Jing Shi and Yi. Tea culture also has these contents, and their spiritual cores are interlinked. There are many masters of Chinese studies who love tea and have incisive expositions on tea culture. Qian Mu emphasized that Qin tea has also become a cultural matter, that is, a matter of great human life. The view that "the history of tea drinking in China is an important item in China's social history and human history" is particularly instructive. In another article, it points out how to use the situation to develop. He believes that there are five problems now: first, subject status, second, academic vision, third, data mining, fourth, international communication, and fifth, talent training.
Regarding tea and Chinese studies, Yu Yue pointed out from the explanation of the name, "In short, Chinese studies and tea culture are the inheritance of traditional culture in China, with the characteristics of times, nationality and diversity." His Yi Bian talks about the intersection of tea and Chinese studies, and analyzes it from four aspects: textual research, statecraft, diction and meaning, and holds that there are many intersections. The so-called "judging people" is actually the tea art practice of the master of Chinese studies.
In Zhu's ideological system, he knows that tea is a symbol of purity, neutrality and Qingming ethics. He is full of fun, and when it comes to tea, it is quite intriguing. Although Zhu's theory was not taken seriously by the rulers at that time, the party ban in Qingyuan was aimed at him. After his death, the rulers realized the value of his theory, so they took the notes of four books that he had spent more than 40 years revising repeatedly as the standard answer to the imperial examination, so that his theory influenced China for thousands of years.
If Zhu is an ancient man, then the master of Chinese studies' preference for tea and his unique vision of tea culture have become a lasting appeal. It is an indisputable fact that Wang Guowei is a master of modern Chinese studies. Because his suicide has become an unsolved case in history, in many people's minds, he is a defender, an antique, and also a unsmiling look. However, the recently published "Wang Guowei's Academic Essays" contains his words about tea customs, showing his life interest unknown to ordinary people. Besides, Lu Xun is a recognized thinker and writer, but he is not a master of Chinese studies, but some people are still skeptical. However, he has long been listed as a master of Chinese studies in a monograph published by a publishing house, and he is also among the best in online voting. Even ignoring all this, there is no doubt that his knowledge of Chinese studies is very profound.
Lu Xun and tea also have an inseparable marriage, and many happy things are integrated with tea. In his tea activities, there are drinking tea, buying tea, sending tea and sending tea. He used tea to taste life and to refresh himself. He even reached the realm of life by drinking tea and expressed his feelings with tea. It is particularly noteworthy that there are many records about tea in Mr. Lu Xun's diary, and tea is often written in novels, such as Hometown and The True Story of Ah Q. Drink less and drink more tea, of course, drinking tea scientifically.
Mr. Qian Mu studied tea sets, tea customs and tea history together. He has an influential saying: "Writing a history of drinking tea in China is an important project in China's social history and human history." (Qian Mu's "Academic Balance in Modern China") I think these masters of Chinese studies have related expositions. We can even say that Chinese studies and tea culture are interlinked, and their essence is interlinked. All the masters of Chinese studies are concerned about the trend of tea culture and hope to devote themselves to the study of tea culture.
What needs to be pointed out here is that tea science is the physical extension and elaboration of China's traditional aesthetics of values. It is not only produced under the background of Confucianism as the backbone of Chinese studies, but also embodies more Confucianism. There are also similarities with Buddhism and Taoism in personal practice and character cultivation, and there are also similarities in practical use. For example, the court tea ceremony in the Tang Dynasty is characterized by complexity, emphasizing hierarchical etiquette, aiming at harmony and pursuing Chinese and foreign.
What we need to think about now is how to treat the current tea culture. In the State Council's documents, calligraphy, music and dance, opera and elegant art are explicitly mentioned, but tea culture is not explicitly mentioned. This shows that people's understanding of tea culture is still vague from top to bottom. In any case, this is a serious lack of tea researchers! Some tea people may take chances and think that tea culture is in the State Council's document "Wait". I understand it as a solution or comfort for young tea people.
From the perspective of content and ideological development, tea, as a livelihood industry, is endowed with special responsibilities and connotations: in the process of cooking and drinking, we should create an elegant atmosphere, treat people, people and nature, people and society with awe, eliminate injustice with vigorous self-improvement spirit and achieve the highest goal of harmony. Harmony and respect for Qingjian, or summarized as harmony, elegance and respect for health, is the confession and display of the profound meaning of Chinese studies by China people.
From the academic practice, since Zhuan Fu and Tea Classic, the study of tea science, including the expression and promotion of the spiritual world after tea tasting, tea making and drinking, and the discussion on the practice mode of tea, has been developed and passed down. Song Huizong wrote "A Grand View of Tea", and Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty visited the tea mountain and recited poems and chanted tea, leaving the feeling that a country cannot live without a gentleman and a gentleman cannot live without tea for a day. At present, the study of tea science has been going on for more than 30 years, and there is a tendency to move forward wave after wave.
Tea science in a broad sense includes cultivation, biology, botany, nutrition and so on. It belongs to natural science, including tea processing in engineering, including history, literature, aesthetics-philosophy, philology, folklore and anthropology-ethnology in humanities. The design of tea sets has many aspects, such as engineering and humanities. Tea science in a narrow sense is a tea ceremony culture with tea art and aesthetic, ideological and spiritual culture as its core. The reason why we put the contents related to tea, including natural science, into the broad sense of tea science is because the aesthetics of tea ceremony in a certain period determines the level of tea processing in this period, thus designing new tea products. The research, design and production of tea sets are closely related to the aesthetics of tea ceremony from ancient times to the present-there are many ingredients belonging to the technical category.
As far as the core of tea science-tea ceremony culture is concerned, it is closely related to piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, flower arrangement and incense burning. Qin, here is not a simple guqin, it represents music and involves dance. Books are not only calligraphy, but also reading. Painting is not only the process of Chinese painting and Chinese painting creation, but also represents artistic and aesthetic experience.
The irreplaceability of tea ceremony culture and its mission of the times.
First, the existing cultural and artistic categories can not completely replace the tea ceremony culture.
Music and dance, TV movies, traditional Chinese opera and folk art, artistic theory and artistic creation, calligraphy theory and calligraphy practice, etc. Can't fully integrate into the tea ceremony. Moreover, tea and Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism in China traditional culture have gained a lot of knowledge in aesthetics and personal practice. These understandings of * * * are not in physical behavior and artistic expression, but in some aspects of values and aesthetics-this is what we call harmony and respect for health or harmony and elegance. Therefore, the tea ceremony culture is a comprehensive cultural form, which existed in the past and continued all the time, but it has not been realized since Du Yu, Lu Yu, Evonne, Zhu Quan, Wu Juenong and Chen Wenhua tried to systematize it.
Second, the combination of excavation, inheritance and innovation of the times.
At present, we call for the birth of China Tea Science with tea ceremony culture as the core, which has already met sufficient conditions. Tea culture, tea training manual and Chinese tea history related to tea have entered the cultural education system as teaching materials for decades. At the same time, we can see that we haven't reached a complete agreement on China tea science and China tea ceremony culture in theory, and we also lack national academic authority. In social practice, it will be more chaotic. The names of various tea ceremonies alone are extremely troublesome. We advocate that it should be collectively called China Tea Ceremony, China Tea Ceremony Longjing Tea Ceremony and China Tea Ceremony Afternoon Tea Ceremony, instead of "China Afternoon Tea Ceremony" and "China Longjing Tea Ceremony", so "Daguanyuan Tea Ceremony" would be a bit funny. In recent years, songs and dances or other forms of performance attached to the process of tea art have often become the main content of the success of tea art performances, while the taste of tea and tea soup made by tea artists has been ignored. I think it's putting the cart before the horse and returning pearls. It is the result of tea merchants attracting the attention of the audience. Therefore, the integration of tea science theory and standardization of practice are still the needs of tea science reconstruction.