Tea and Social Life in the Song Dynasty

In the past, research on tea in the Song Dynasty mostly focused on the tea economy, paying less attention to the politics, social life, religious culture, and Sino-foreign exchanges between tea and the Song Dynasty. This book takes a new approach and covers the tea art of the Song Dynasty, such as tea picking customs, production processes, preservation methods, tea ordering procedures, The techniques of tea dividing and tea fighting, tea set shapes and series were compared historically; the political implications of tribute tea and tea gifting in the Song Dynasty, tea and cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries, the Song people's tea concepts, the Song Dynasty tea books, tea and the poetry, calligraphy and painting of the Song Dynasty were carefully examined and analyzed. The whole book makes detailed reference to ancient and modern achievements. It takes the Song Dynasty as the scope but is not limited to the Song Dynasty. Many tea culture phenomena are discussed throughout the ancient and modern times.