Tea Poetry and the Spirit of Tea Tao in Song Dynasty
摘要
Nature is like mother to the human beings. The history of human development shows that people always compare themselves to natural objects that are closely related to them. At the beginning, it manifested in various nature worship and animal worship. Entering the age of civilization, people made comparison of various objects, attaching certain features of personal characters and spirit to certain objects, such as the depiction of the sun, the moon, the wind, the thunder, plants and animals in songs and poems. Chinese people discovered and improved tea through a long period of tea-cultivation. After they recognized its various physical properties and functions, certain spiritual values such as ideological will and moral integrity were associated with tea.