略论唐宋时期西湖茶禅文化的历史地位

A Brief Discussion on the Historic Position of the West Lake Tea-Zen Culture during the Tang & Song Dynasties

西湖是中国茶禅文化的重要起源地之一,见证了中国茶文化与禅文化同时兴于唐盛于宋这一重要历史环节。龙井茶的发展史是中国茶禅文化有序传承的重要例证。唐宋时期文人士大夫与僧侣和在西湖的茶禅活动对中国茶禅文化的发展具有重要的先行地位,他们以茶、禅、诗为内容的交往活动正是"茶禅一味"思想的美学实践,他们创造的茶禅文化美学、茶禅思想境界对后世及日本、韩国等周边国家的茶禅文化发展产生了广泛而深远的影响。

As one of the major birth places of the Tea-Zen culture in China, the West Lake witnessed the simultaneous rise of the Chinese tea and Zen cultures during the Tang Dynasty and their prosperity during the Song Dynasty. The evolution of Longjing Tea has provided an important example of the orderly inheritance of the Tea-Zen culture in China. Scholar-officials, monks, and those Tea-Zen activities conducted around the West Lake during the Tang ＆ Song Dynasties held a crucially leading position to the evolution of the Tea-Zen culture in China. Their exchange activities with tea, Zen, and poems as the major contents were practiced from the perspective of aesthetics to reflect the ＂Taste Zen in Tea＂ idea. The aesthetics and ideological level of the Tea-Zen culture thus created have had far-reaching and profound influence on the evolution of the Tea-Zen culture in later ages and in neighboring countries such as Japan and Korea.