A Study Of Folklore Narrative On The Symbolic Construction In Songyang Yinhou Tea In Zhejiang Province

China is the birthplace of tea.Tea is not only an ordinary article in our lives,but also a symbol of the spirit which was given a different cultural connotation.Teas produced in different areas also have its unique regional characteristics and symbolic story.The process of tea symbolization is the process of excavation,selection,reorganization and ascension of the local history of the different construction subjects,so that the tea has completed the transformation from "material production and consumption" to "spiritual production and consumption".In this paper,the production,circulation and consumption of "Songyang Yinhou Tea" in Zhejiang Province were studied by using the method of field investigation and literature research.The narrative system of folklore was used as the interpretation frame to study the symbol construction process.It is also used to explore the mechanism and logic behind the symbol construction process.Furthermore,it is used to analyze how the main body explore and enhance the local culture to build the local image of the tea symbol.Finally,the system try to show the whole process of "Songyang Yinhou Tea"from the "material production and consumption" to "spiritual production and consumption ".Narrative is an important way of the existence of folklore.In symbolic construction of Songyang Tea,local government,local cultural elites,tea enterprises and ordinary people constitute a multi-level narrative team.They use the local cultural resources to reproduce and invent traditional culture.First of all,they recount the history of Songyang County and Songyang Tea through a language narrative story.The story is about Ye Fa Shan Emperor Qianlong and Songyang Tea.This story constructs a magical history of tea.Secondly,they have hold "Songyang Yinhou Tea Festival" for ten years.And they played a performance.All of these activities have built cultural identity.Thirdly,they systematically developed and produced the "Damu Mountain Cycling tea garden" and tea room,bamboo pavilion and other famous landscape etc.Therefore,visitors will have a culture connotation of "Songyang Yinhou Tea" by listening to the tour guide’s narrative words and staring the physical landscape image;Finally,they create a song and a modern media about Songyang tea.The preparation of Songyang tea song and filming tea micro-film,renders the image of the local ecological environment and human customs.These four-dimensional narrative of folklore complete the symbolic construction process of "Songyang Yinhou Tea" from the general sense of the goods to the cultural background of the works of art."Songyang Yinhou Tea" has transferred from consumer goods to a kind of "cultural symbol" and "cultural capital".It also affected the people of life and the way of production in Songyang County.In this process,the identity of the Songyang people interact with the identity of the group.Besides,the memory of culture and the construction of the symbols has interacted with different construction subjects."Songyang Yinhou Tea" has become a local business card and cultural symbol during the construction of the multi-subject and multi-level folklore narrative."Songyang Yinhou Tea" has become a part of the local community production and life.