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Title |
The Blending of "Heart" and "Thing": On Tea Writing in Xiao Xiao's Prose |
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Author |
Lee, Tsui-Ying |
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Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Linguistics and Literature, Yuan-Ze University |
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Abstract |
This paper takes Xiao Xiao's tea essays as the research field, tries to analyze the writing characteristics of Xiao Xiao's tea essays, and puts forward Xiao Xiao's philosophy of life and spiritual realm inspired by tea affairs. In the introduction, the origin of Xiao Xiao's tea writing and the problems that this paper tries to solve are presented. The second section is about the background of Xiao Xiao's tea writing and his works. In the third section, the worldview of "I am the emotion", the expression of natural imagery, the integration of object and heart, and the concept of "Bide" are explained to illustrate the writing style and performance of tea writing. In the fourth section, the spirit of the tea people, which is to understand the heart through objects, elaborates on the humanistic and materialistic aspects of tea and the moisturizing effect of tea on the heart. Trying to illustrate the dual approach of intellectual and sensual in Xiao Xiao's tea writing, as well as the philosophical thinking of life through the drinking and making of tea, through the relationship between mind and object, etc. Tea is the materialization of the integration of mind and matter, and through the elevation of the heart, it reveals a higher spiritual realm. From Xiao Xiao's tea essays, this article clarifies the empirical evidence of tea and nature to the lubrication of tea and the human heart, as well as the humanistic materialism and the spirit of the Tea People that are centered on tea. |
