The Historic Information Of Chinese Ancient Tea Sets

China is the hometown of the tea, and the ancient tea sets occupy an important place in the history of the Chinese culture. The tea drinking resulted the tea sets, and the tea sets have been the unity of the elegant artifact and the common aliment in the course of the history. They were so close with the scholars that they were the reflex and the reposement of the spirit of the scholars. In addition, the tea sets were the products of the history. Because the tea sets developed in the continual change of the needs of the people' s tea drinking, they presented bright times' character. Through the tea sets of different times, we will see the different character of the tea culture and civilization of every period.There was no difference between tea and foods. It resulted that no difference in the implement of the tea, drink and other foods. There' s no special tea sets until Sui and Tang Dynasty.With the development of the gradually popularize of tea drinking, the special tea sets appeared. There were many kinds of materials. Most were made up of ceramics, and there were metals, such as gold, silver, copper and tin, in the noble or rich family. The scholars used the beautiful sets to set off the value of the tea.In the Tang Dynasty, the tea sets were so tasteful and complicated that there were 28 tea services in the Tea Scriptures written by LuYu. Because the tea ceremony and the social mood advocated genuinely and simple, the tea sets popularized simple and practical. To the Late Tang Dynasty, the tea ceremony entered into a new period, when the tea sets advocated splendidly.It symbolized the splendid civilization of the Tang Dynasty and the luxury of the society in the Late Tang Dynasty.The diet in the Song Dynasty were characteristic and tea drinking were popular in the all classes. The formation and development of the citizen society resulted the development of the common diet. And in the first class, the monarchs and bureaucrat, even the feudal officials advocated luxuriously. It resulted the luxury of the tea ceremony and sets.The tea war, which was the most important way of tea drinking in the Song Dynasty, was so different from the natural spirit in Tang Dynasty.It was so splendid that the tea sets must be splendid too. The black ceramics which could set off the white tea were very splendid at both the appearance, shape and materials. Gold, silver and jade were more popular. Moreover, The Drawing of The Tea Sets written by Shen' An in South Song Dynasty, which named ted sets with 12 sirs, embodied that the Confucianism was so advanced that it reflected the tea sets.The tea ceremony and the sets as same as the history in the Yuan Dynasty, took the charge of the connecting link. And the tea sets in the Ming Dynasty went through two stages of simple and luxurious. Because the society advocated simple in the early Ming Dynasty, while luxury in the late.At this period, tea drinking layed stress on the unity of taste andinterest.It needed the tea sets should be not only practical, but also artistic. From that time , the main mean of the tea sets were the services of drinking. After the Qing Dynasty, the tea sets had more select in the kinds, appearance and colours. Muchmore, the manufacture of the tea sets entered into a new period that they integrated the poem and drawing.