Elegancy plays the rhythm of tea and evokes the delight of Zen as well. Tea and Zen share the common cultural character of their aspiration for elegancy, which is also the inherent characteristic of tea culture. Tea tasters from antiquity to today unexceptionally take the teatime chatting as a matter of gracefulness. And people during the Song Dynasty, in particular, regarded tea tasters graceful while alcoholics vulgar. The Zen advocates the easy life in peaceful mood. In ancient Chinese society, the literati usually pursued elegancy, their teaware are therefore personified with similar temperature. |