2. Song Huizong's Daguan tea theory greatly improved the status of tea ceremony. Rulers in the Song Dynasty had a special liking for tea, and the tea-loving custom of the imperial court strongly promoted tea production and the development of tea culture.
3. Tea fighting originated from the court in the Tang Dynasty, and became popular among the people in the Song Dynasty, and developed into a fashion that all princes and nobles liked. Fighting tea, competing, tasting water and appreciating utensils have developed China Tea Ceremony from practice.
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Since the Yuan Dynasty, tea culture has entered a tortuous development period. Song people expanded the social level and cultural form of tea culture, and tea affairs flourished. However, tea art has become complicated, trivial and extravagant, losing the profound ideological connotation of tea culture in Tang Dynasty. Too fine tea art drowned the spirit of tea culture and lost its noble and profound essence.
In the Yuan Dynasty, on the one hand, although the northern minorities liked to drink tea, it was mainly for the needs of life and physiology, but they were not interested in tea tasting and cooking culturally. On the other hand, in the face of the broken motherland and foreign oppression, China cultural people have no intention to express their charming feelings with tea, but hope to express their sentiments and sharpen their will by drinking tea.