摘要:唐代,是中国茶和茶文化发展的鼎盛时期,世界首部茶著《茶经》的出版,更是向世人展示了中国茶文化历史上最早的宫廷茶道。1987年,法门寺出土的系列宫廷茶器,则为复原唐代宫廷茶道提供了有力的依据。本设计以法门寺出土的宫廷茶器为依托,参照陆羽《茶经》所述,探索设计了大唐宫廷茶道礼仪。从大唐宫廷进贡“贡茶”开始,设计了君主赏茶、赐茶、茶器展示、煮茶、分茶、奉茶、品茶等礼仪程序,并设计了君主、嫔妃、大臣及煮茶师、宫女、礼官等人物。在煮茶过程的设计中,重点应用法门寺出土系列宫廷茶具仿制品,并按《茶经》所记载的煮茶步骤,并补充了部分茶器进行编排,在此基础上提出了复原大唐宫廷茶道的全套方案。
The Exploration and Design of Royal Tea Ceremony of Tang Dynasty
Xu Nanmei, Zhang Liying, Yao Guokun, Cheng Qikun
(International Tea Culture Research Institution of China, Chinese Tea Culture Research Center of Famen Temple, China)
Abstract: Tang Dynasty is the most splendent period in Chinese history of tea culture and tea business. The publication of Cha Jing, the first tea monograph in the world, showed the world the tea drinking technique and tea business of Tang Dynasty. The emperor of Tang Dynasty liked tea drinking and tea ceremony very much, and thus the earliest royal tea ceremony in Chinese tea culture history was formed. A series of royal tea sets were unearthed in Famen Temple in 1987, this offered a solid basis for restituting the royal tea ceremony of Tang Dynasty. In this paper we designed a perform of royal tea ceremony of Tang Dynasty, according to the royal tea sets unearthed in Famen Temple and that of described in Lu Yu’s Cha Jing. The perform started from contributing tea tribute, followed by emperor appreciating tea, awarding tea, showing tea sets, cooking tea, distributing tea, delivering tea, tasting tea, etc. We also designed following several characters in the perform: emperor, imperial concubine, minister, tea cooking technician, maid-in-waiting and ceremony officer. In the designing of tea cooking procedure we paid more attention on the using of imitated royal tea sets of Famen Temple. These imitations were displayed mainly according to the tea cooking method described in Cha Jing. As thus, we put forwarded a complete design of the royal tea ceremony perform of Tang Dynasty.