Re: why Chinese tea ceremony was cut off: Zhu Yuanzhang abhor tea ceremony and let farmers drink tea leaves.
elegance always comes from the upper class society, the tea ceremony is cut off in China because of the prohibition of the rulers. The tea ceremony can be left in Japan, and the support of the rulers is inseparable. When the tea ceremony was banned in the Ming Dynasty, Japan entered the era of the general rule of the shogunate shogunate. The upper class society always likes to use rare and rare things to highlight the different power status. The shogunate, the shogunate, gave tribute to the Ming Dynasty. It sent a large number of instructions to make it clear, which was the international trade under the name. In this process, Japan did not hesitate to pay heavy money and have lost a large amount of market in China. The ancient buildings and all kinds of calligraphy and painting relics came back to serve as the collection of General Lee's family, and by the way, he showed the authority of the general. These were treasures of antiques in the Ming Dynasty. They were called "Tang things" in Japan.
Tea Road in the Ming Dynasty abolished Japan to buy a large number of
this batch of Dongshan Royal goods, which is the source of the traceability of the tea ceremony in Japan, because the tea ceremony is inseparable from the utensils. As the Chinese tea is now paying attention to the purple sand pot, the great time of the tea ceremony is related to the arrangement of various tea sets and even the room. In ancient tea meetings, there were special teahouses. According to the ancient Japanese book "the exchange of tea" in the early fifteenth Century, the tea meeting was divided into "clear tea" and "blasphemous tea". The so-called clear tea, it is the first in the guest hall to eat a delicious seafood, and then enter the tea pavilion, according to the rules of the Southern Song Temple tea ceremony, the "four tea ceremony", and the precious Song Dynasty to build a cup of tea. In the tea kiosk, the chair is the chair of the Southern Song, rather than tatami. There are all kinds of precious "Tang objects" from China, which are enjoyed by the guests when they are drinking tea. The most prominent one is the Central Hall painting on the front wall. Nowadays, Chinese ancient buildings also like to decorate with the Central Hall painting. Generally, it is a painting in the middle and couplets on both sides. In the Southern Song Dynasty, I like to hang three or more big paintings in the middle of the Song Dynasty. This complete set of ancient paintings in China has been lost.
the Guanyin ape crane picture is three big two meters high, the left one is crane, the middle one is Guanyin, the right is gibbon. The three images are connected, and the pictures are progressively progressive. It is a masterpiece in the history of Chinese art. This set of works in Japan, as a treasure, has been handed down from generation to generation, indicating a problem, that is, early in the early Ming Dynasty, the aesthetic between China and Japan began to separate. Mu Xi is a Buddhist monk in the Southern Song Dynasty. His paintings, regardless of figures, flowers, birds and mountains, are consistent with Zen, but this does not accord with the interest points of literati paintings after the Ming Dynasty. In the Yuan Dynasty, Wu Dasu's "Song Zhai Mei Pu" said that the paintings of Muxi were "highly aroused". To the Ming Dynasty, the painting history would like to say that it was "crude and evil without ancient methods, but not sincere." For hundreds of years, Japan has always thought that the painting of Mu Xi is the top quality, and the best appreciation of tea.
when it came to Japan, there were also the most exquisite obsidian and oil droplets. In Xin'an, South Korea, the sunken ship of the Yuan Dynasty found in the 1323 was carried on the black tea of the kiln, and all of the ancient things used. It is obvious that the Japanese began to collect the tea and tea of the Song Dynasty. After the abolishment of tea ceremony in the Ming Dynasty, the building was also a useless thing, so some of the top building blocks were bought by the Japanese high prices. The National Museum of Tokyo exhibited two national treasures of the Southern Song Dynasty. The celestial tea is especially worth seeing, and the bowls are small, such as cosmic stars, and this time the Tokyo National Museum has arranged light from below, and it also takes out the lonely morning stars outside the bowl.
the collection of Chinese cultural relics in the early Ming Dynasty is a national behavior, so the collection is the best in China at that time. One of the typical examples is the Tokyo National Museum of the Southern Song Dynasty dragon spring kiln green porcelain wheel tea bowl, this tea bowl has an alias called "leech leech tripping". The bowl was broken into pieces, so the Shogun general foot Li Yi decreed that the messenger should bring it back to China to see if there was any same purchase. But at that time, China did not have such a good tea bowl, so the tea bowl was linked up with iron buckle. It looked like a black leech and had such an alias.
the exhibition hall replicated the tea ceremony of the Japanese tea room
five hundred years ago. It inherited the luxury of the tea ceremony in the Song Dynasty and demanded the most precious tea sets and furnishings. But it did not long. Japan entered the Warring States period in 1467, and the feudal lords fought and mixed for more than 100 years. At that time, even the emperor had no money to bury him, even the emperor sold autographs. The luxurious tea ceremony left the government, and a large number of valuable Tang products went to the market, and were gained by businessmen from the private sector. The merchants could not be like the general's family, and there were so many Tang times to enjoy the tea tea, so a new tea ceremony was born, which is the "tea" created by Pearl (1423 -1502). The meaning of
, in short, is the rough and gloomy appearance, and the perfect inner enrichment. This view comes from the Buddhist Chan gate, that is, we can not build the inner enrichment on the outside. If you want to get the fulfillment of your heart, you must remove the strong dependence on foreign things. Therefore, the root of the tea is to enjoy the simple, rough, ordinary tea set with a simple and rough, but a rare and precious Song Dynasty antique as a standard of appreciation. Thus, some of the less elegant and luxurious but plain and beautiful Tang style tea sets began to prevail.
Tea Road reached its peak in Japan's tea Saint Li Xi (1522 -1591) era. The traditional tea ceremony of Tang and Song Dynasties is not only tea, but also includes diet, gardening, architecture, flower and tree, calligraphy, painting, ceramics, lacquer ware, etiquette and so on. It is a miniature of the social culture, so it is the "Tao". After the Ming Dynasty, only a few tea leaves, water and purple clay pots were left in China's tea. They were no longer a large-scale cultural system, but they were still in Japan. Therefore, thousand li has perfected the Japanese tea, based on the four words of harmony, reverence, Qing and silence, in fact, it established the aesthetic orientation of Japanese culture and art. Researchers say that thousand li is the most important person in Japanese cultural history, and that's why.
in the special exhibition of the "tea soup" of the National Museum of Tokyo, a tea room of the style of thousands of times is copied. It is narrow and narrow in it. The purpose is to concentrate on drinking tea. The object of appreciation is also concentrated in one painting, one teacup and one iron kettle. Beside the teahouse, there is a thousand year old national treasure tea bowl "Zhi Ye tea bowl - Ming Mao flower wall". This tea bowl is the typical example of aesthetics at that time. There are several vertical lines on the bottom of the body, which are simple but beautiful.
the Japanese tea ceremony has lasted over hundreds of years, and it should be said that the Chinese culture of the Song Dynasty and Japan's Warring States culture combined the crystallization of human culture. Tokyo National Museum's "tea soup" special exhibition, including calligraphy, painting, ceramics, lacquer ware, building and other core parts of the Tea Road, and many of the long lost cultural relics in the Southern Song Dynasty, is a rare cultural event.