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Decoding Tea Culture in the Song Dynasty | Hello Tea Cup
Decoding Tea Culture in the Song Dynasty | Hello Tea Cup

The Song dynasty (960-1279) features an amazingly rich tea culture. Tea during this period involves many aspects such as politics, economy, literature and social customs. With the prosperity of the tea industry, everyone – the nobles, scholars, and common people, all had access to tea.

"Every household has seven daily necessities: firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea" Wu Zimu, Song Dynasty Poet

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Decoding Tea Culture in the Song Dynasty | Hello Tea Cup
Tea Drinking in Chinese Song Dynasty
Tea Drinking in Chinese Song Dynasty

Tea Drinking in Chinese Song Dynasty (960-1279)

In the Tang dynasty,the production,management and sales of tea or the tea culture research, tea processing skills all had progressed greatly, thus tea was also popularized. However, comparatively speaking, the development of tea culture in the Song dynasty had more changes and innovation than the Tang dynasty. For example, the way of tea drinking, the varieties of tea, the literatures of tea and the supervising organizations had all undergone great breakthroughs in the Song era.

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Tea Drinking in Chinese Song Dynasty
Tribute Tea in the Song Dynasty – Umi Tea Sets
Tribute Tea in the Song Dynasty – Umi Tea Sets
In the Tang Dynasty the habit of drinking tea spread from the imperial court to towns and the countryside; and it was the literati, hermits and Buddhists who played a leading role in the advocacy of tea culture. But things changed in the Song Dynasty (960-1279), when the influence of intellectuals on the culture of tea weakened.Although many famous literati, such as Su Shi, the great writer of the Northern Song, and Li Qingzhao, the celebrated woman poet,and Lu You, a prolific poet of the Southern Song, were fond of tea and wrote some literary pieces on tea, they contributed little to the construction of tea culture. Tea culture at that time was expanded and publicized by two polar strengths - the imperial court and ordinary people.
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Tribute Tea in the Song Dynasty – Umi Tea Sets
Fish Eyes in your Kettle – Chinese Water Temperature Methods | Zhao Zhou tea
Fish Eyes in your Kettle – Chinese Water Temperature Methods | Zhao Zhou tea
As you probably know, different kinds of tea need to be steeped at different temperatures to ensure you are getting the best flavour out of your tea. This is particularly true of delicate whole-leaf green teas which may be most optimally steeped at temperatures as low as 70°C (155°F). But how do you know when to stop your kettle at a lower temperature than boiling? There are of course temperature-controlled kettles out there, but if all you have is a kettle or a pot in your kitchen then you can use the traditional Chinese methods of determining water temperature by paying close attention to the way the water changes as it boils.
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Fish Eyes in your Kettle – Chinese Water Temperature Methods | Zhao Zhou tea
Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural History
Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural History
Tea in China explores the contours of religious and cultural transformation in traditional China from the point of view of an everyday commodity and popular beverage. The work traces the development of tea drinking from its mythical origins to the nineteenth century and examines the changes in aesthetics, ritual, science, health, and knowledge that tea brought with it.
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Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural History
The rise of tea culture in China : the invention of the individual
The rise of tea culture in China : the invention of the individual
«This distinctive and enlightening book explores the invention and development of tea drinking in China, using tea culture to explore the profound question of how Chinese have traditionally expressed individuality. Western stereotypes portray a culture that values conformity and denigrates the individual, but Bret Hinsch convincingly explodes this facile myth. He argues that although Chinese embrace a communitarian ethos and assume that the individual can only thrive within a healthy community, they have also long respected people with unique traits and superior achievements. Hinsch traces how emperors, scholars, poets, and merchants all used tea connoisseurship to publicly demonstrate superior discernment, gaining admiration by displaying individuality. Acknowledging central differences with Western norms, Hinsch shows how personal distinction nevertheless constitutes an important aspect of Chinese society. By linking tea to individualism, his deeply researched book makes an original and influential contribution to the history of Chinese culture.»
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The rise of tea culture in China : the invention of the individual