A Reserch On The Tea Banquet At Chong-Hua Palace In Qianlong Period

Qianlong eight years(1743),Qianlong emperor Hongli invited the academician secretary the monarch-subject couplet activities in The Chong-hua Palace,this is The beginning of the Qing Dynasty court tea banquet.The tea banquet in the Chonghua Palace in Qing Dynasty once after Qianlong,Jiaqing and Daoguang Period,every years hold in the first month shall be presided over by the emperor himself,for 87 years,a total of 66 times,participation totaled more than 2000 people,only during the reign of the Qianlong emperor Hongli period,the tea banquet at times has 42 times.party content to protect interference activities as the core,The banquet is for the special officials who have the status of grand bachelor or imperial academician.This banquet is a literati gathering for the purpose of drinking tea and composing poems,and it is a kind of court political banquet with profound meaning.The origin of the tea banquet in Chong-hua Palace can be traced back to the tea culture and the development process of court banquets in Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty and even earlier,and to the monarch-subject couplet activities of in Kangxi and Yongzheng period of Qing Dynasty.The cultural accumulation of thousands of years in previous generations contributed to the creation of this banquet is one of the important models of studying Qing Dynasty palace cultural activities and court banquet politics.From the micro point of view,the selection of the time of the Chong-hua Palace tea banquet is to respect the beginning of the New Year.The choice of chong-hua Palace is a symbol of imperial power.The flow of the tea banquet shows the coordination and tightness of the court organization;The content of tea banquet not only contains the inheritance and development of traditiona literature,but also reflects the innovation and reform of banquet activities in Qing Dynasty.The theme of the tea banquet symbolizes the peak of Qing Dynasty court literature;The participants of the tea banquet implied the relationship between the emperors and ministers in the Qing Dynasty and the composition of theupper bureaucratic groups.From a macro point of view,the Qing Dynasty court tea banquet started and flourished in the Qianlong period.From the upward movement of tea culture and the revival of Bailiang-style couplet activities,we can see the trend of restoring ancient ways in the cultural field of Qing Dynasty.The promoteon of national cultural undertakings and laws and politics in the Tea Banquet reflected the prosperity of the country and cultural affairs at that time.Since its long period of time,held many times,considerable Qianlong once the state of stability.From the research of the theme of the tea banquet in The Chong-hua Palace and the changes ofthe participants,we can intuitively feel the national political style at that time.