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Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural History
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The book explores the contours of religious and cultural change in traditional China from the point of view of a commodity, tea. It shows how religious ideas, individuals, and institutions played key roles in the spread and development of tea culture. Nine chapters, based on new research in primary sources composed in Chinese, trace the development of tea drinking from its mythic origins to the late-imperial period (sixteenth to nineteenth centuries), and examine the changes in aesthetics, ritual, science, health, and knowledge which tea brought with it. The book contains many original translations from the Chinese primary sources, including poems devoted to tea, technical manuals on cultivation and processing, and discussions of the properties of tea found in traditional medical literature.
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In Chinese secular literature sanmei was often used in the vernacular sense of the 'wonderful ability' in doing something.
“In Chinese secular literature sanmei was often used in the vernacular sense of the 'wonderful ability' in doing something.”
From A Record of the Tea Retreat: The Chaliao ji by Lu Shusheng (2023) · cites this paper as Benn 2015: 129
The expression diancha sanmei, 'the samādhi of preparing tea', is found in some Song dynasty verses and also in other late Ming works on tea.
“It is found in some Song dynasty verses in the expression diancha sanmei 點茶 三昧 , 'the samādhi of preparing tea', and also in other late Ming works on tea.”
From A Record of the Tea Retreat: The Chaliao ji by Lu Shusheng (2023) · cites this paper as Benn 2015: 129
The Chajing by Lu Yu is the world's first treatise entirely dedicated to tea.
“The Chajing ( Tea Classic ) by Lu Yu was the first essay entirely dedicated to tea, inspiring the composition of other writings on this subject.”
From Chinese Writings on Tea (2017) · cites this paper as Benn 2015
Zheng Peikai and Zhu Zizhen also put under the label chashu the fictional work Chajiu lun, the paragraph on tea from the Ming text Zunsheng bajian by Gao Lian, the agreement for the shipping of spring water drawn up by Li Rihua, and a few modern technical manuals on tea industry composed in the late Qing period.
“They also put under the label chashu the fictional work Chajiu lun 茶酒論 , the paragraph on tea from the Ming text Zunsheng bajian 遵生八箋 ( Eight Memoranda on the Nurturing of Life ) by Gao Lian 高濂 (fl. sixteenth century), the agreement for the shipping of spring water drawn up by the Ming scholar Li Rihua 李日華 (1565-1635), and a few modern technical manuals on tea industry composed in the late Qing”
From Chinese Writings on Tea (2017) · cites this paper as Benn 2015
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- Authors
- Benn, J. A.
- Corresponding author
- Benn, James A.
- ORCID
- Benn, James A.
- Venue
- University of Hawaii Press eBooks
- Publisher
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Published
- 2015-02-28
- OpenAlex
- W2552303569
- Cited by
- 91
- References
- 4
- Citations by year
- 2026: 21 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 25 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 5 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 2.85
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- University of Hawaii Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Chinese history and philosophy
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Food, Nutrition, and Cultural Practices
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › General Arts and Humanities › Cultural and Mythological Studies
- Keywords
- tea, tea culture, tea consumption, religious change, cultural change, commodity history, tea cultivation, tea processing, tea aesthetics, tea rituals, tea and health, traditional Chinese medicine, late imperial China, tea poetry
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