Tang Dynasty Family Leisure Culture

Since ancient times, Chinese had haven good tradition of leisure and entertainment. The leisure of families in the Tang Dynasty, which rooted in native culture and absorbed essence in foreign culture, became very superior. The members in families paid more attention to the health of their bodies and the comfortable of their sprit except their work and jobs. Studying leisure and entertainment in the Tang Dynasty aims at constructing a system which can reflect the place about the culture of leisure, the society, the production and dissemination of the culture in the Tang Dynasty. In this way, we can deep our understanding about the society and family in that time.The bloom of the leisure of families in the Tang Dynasty was firstly because of the addition of the time and the free income which could afford to leisure, as well as the widespread of the education, the more need about leisure and the object and the mediators of the leisure, there became so much of forms of leisure in the Tang Dynasty, such as travelling, games, sports, dance, festival entertainment and so on.Representation through family leisure activities, on the one hand, we can find that the family members'characteristic could be shown and developed:Father's authority could be expressed, Mother's pressure of their role could be released, Children's social could be further developed and the relationship in the family could be harmony. On the other hand, there was positive correlation between the leisure and politic, economic and culture in the Tang Dynasty. What is more, the leisure promoted the ideas flourish. At the same time, the ways, ideas, management and philosopy of the leisure also had its own characteristic which reflected the popular and atmosphere in the Tang Dynasty.Tang, as a period that from a noble society to a civilian one in the Medium China, the leisure also played a nexus role. We should face the positive worth of leisure in classical culture, and we also should absorb them to the contraction of ideas and culture in modern times.