Song Dynasty Chajiu Poetry Cultural Interpretation

Since the date of tea and wine poems' production, and the continuous development of Qin Dynasty, Han Dynasty, Wei and southern and northern period and Tang Dynasty, tea and wine poems had made a further prosperity in Song dynasty and had an unique cultural connotation. Tea and wine culture of China reached to an unprecedented period of prosperity in Song Dynasty , when many kinds of tea and wine had emerged as well as endless books about wine and tea. Tea and wine had become an important part of culture related to the etiquette and music and contributed to the formation of folk customs in Song Dynasty. They were integrated well with the literate is who had higher social status and multi-cultural identity at that time in Song dynasty, which enriched the cultural connotation of tea and wine poems to some extent and explained the reasons for the prosperity of tea and wine poems from the aspect of culture in Song Dynasty.During the period of highly prosperous culture with extremely strong humanistic culture atmosphere in Song dynasty, most scholars had a rich cultural training and cultural life. Tea and wine became two kinds of important humanistic images which were full of humanistic meaning. In the poems of tea and wine in Song dynasty, tea and wine themselves became aesthetic objects and had different cultural characteristics, elegant and plain in tea, uninhibited and passionate in wine. Literates in Song Dynasty often used tea and wine as a methphor for the characteristics of human and also reflected the features of the combined spirit of them. Tea and wine poems in Song dynasty were often full of the humanistic image and the atmosphere of bookish literatics, reflecting the strong humanistic spirit as well as the thinkings and personalities and the spiritual characteristics of scholars in Song Dynasty. The coming of the theory of Li and Buddhism made tea and wine poems become very interest in the Song Dynasty, reflecting the source of principle,the concept of investigation of things and the thought of searching the endless truth, which had the feature of combining tea and Zen together as a whole with the same structure of wine and tea. The poets often use rational thinking by the way of discussion and enlightened language to express this kind of principle and interest.Tea and wine poems in Song dynasty had abundant cultural connotation and prominent cultural significance. As an important part of tea and wine culture, tea and wine poems in Song dynasty were a sign of prosperity in tea and wine culture.As an important part of Song poems, tea and wine poems typically reflected the basic features of Song poems. As the carriers of the spirit, both tea and wine posed the influneces on the spiritual aspect of literatis in Song dynasty and played a very good role in adjusting the spiritual mood.