Tea, bitter in taste, has a mellow and sweet aftertaste after drinking, which can promote fluid production and quench thirst. This is the function of tea. It enters every family as a daily necessity. With the development of society and the accumulation of culture, drinking tea has become a cultural phenomenon and a tea ceremony. Taoism is often associated with "spirit" and "cultivation", so tea ceremony has become an advanced cultural activity. Painting, originally a book, is one of the "six arts" and is used for "enlightenment". Later, with the changes of history and culture, it gradually became the carrier of personal emotional sustenance and personality. It can be used for recreation or "sleeping". It integrates literature, poetry, philosophy, calligraphy and seal cutting, and has become a very important feature of national culture.
"The use of tea is equal to the salt of rice, and you can't leave it for a day" (Wang Anshi). Drinking tea is not only used by ordinary people in their daily lives, but also loved by scholars of all ages. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, tea-making skills were also used as games: fighting tea and ordering tea. Song Dynasty literati Fan Zhongyan, Ouyang Xiu, Wang Anshi, Su Dongpo, Su Zhe and Lu You were also keen on fighting tea games.
Scholars in past dynasties wrote articles or poems praising the functions and wonderful rewards of tea, and countless people took tea as their poems, especially Lu Tong's "writing a pen to thank Meng for persuading to send new tea". The whole poem is as follows: "one bowl moistens the throat, two bowls are lonely and boring, and three bowls are poor, with only five thousand volumes of words;" Four bowls of light sweat, unfair life, scattered to the pores; Five bowls of clear skin; Six bowls of fairy spirits; I can't eat seven bowls, but I feel the wind blowing under my arm. " This poem makes full use of the opportunity of drinking tea.
The process of drinking tea has gradually become a process of Xiu De and personality perfection, which requires people who drink tea to have certain taste and accomplishment. The specific tea drinking environment also makes tea drinking a pleasant and nourishing aesthetic experience. You must have an elegant mood when drinking tea. If you are full of evil and secular thoughts, it goes against the pure and harmonious spirit of tea. Tea tastes people, and tea tastes people. In the Textual Research, Tu Long in the Ming Dynasty said: "It is a great sin to make good tea and drink it, not a human being, and it is also a great sin to take a spring to irrigate Artemisia. Others don't know their interests, and they are exhausted in one breath. Not a fake taste, but also very vulgar. " Lu Yu said in the Book of Tea: "Tea is useful and tastes cold, and it is the most suitable person for frugal drinking." Drinking tea not only has the simple medicinal function of quenching thirst and promoting fluid production, but also can rise to how to be a man, which is related to virtue. This is Chad.
Tea is a natural thing, although it has been picked and made by people, it still restores the original flavor of tea. If people who drink tea are virtuous, they can return to their roots with a peaceful heart, a state of no desire and no desire, and an ignorant heart, then they can return to the truth with tea, thus achieving the unity of heaven and man. This is the highest realm of tea people.
Painting is also about the painting of the mind, emphasizing the peace of mind, the cultivation of personality, the perfection of virtue and the cultivation of art. At first, painting appeared with the functions of "educating, helping others, enlightening and promoting". Until the rise of metaphysics in the Wei, Jin and Six Dynasties, people began to pay attention to health preservation, subjective concepts began to stand out, and they began to express their individuality wildly. At that time, the "Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest" was very representative.
Painting, like tea tasting, is an art of keeping in good health, which can make people happy, cultivate their sentiments and nourish their souls. When painting, you can calm down, use qi to drive the pen, practice Tai Chi, and move your whole body, so you can keep fit. Painting is an image of the soul, which entrusts feelings, wanders between heaven and earth, and resorts to pens, so it is also very fun to say.
Tea ceremony, painting Tao, belongs to spiritual and cultural activities and has nothing to do with utility. This state is relaxed, cheerful and focused. Whether drinking tea, painting or enjoying paintings, we should consciously forget the boundary between things and me, communicate with tea (or painting) wholeheartedly, and feel the intimate relationship between people and tea (or painting) through the mutual integration of things and me, so as to reach the mysterious realm.
When drinking tea or painting, it is "Zen tea" or "Zen painting" if the mind is free from distractions, the body and mind are put down and the whole body is integrated. Tea ceremony and painting are natural, advocating artistic conception. Natural beauty is simple, which is manifested in the height of the sky, the thickness of the earth, the blooming of flowers, the self-knowledge of the moon, freedom and indifference. This is manifested in the tea ceremony as simple and concise, pure in mind, unpretentious and happy-go-lucky; In painting, it shows that the mind is barrier-free, let nature take its course, and creates the artistic conception of painting with detached heart and unrestrained pen.
Good paintings are often tea scenes. In Ni Yunlin's Over-the-Knee Zhai Tu, a stone bank, several dead trees, an isolated pavilion and a bay lake are written nearby, and the distant mountains are extremely desolate and lonely with faint brushstrokes. The picture is natural, seamless, clean and elegant, and free from dust. Such a quiet place is the artistic conception of meditation and tea tasting.