日本近代文学中“红茶”的文化意义

The Cultural Significance of “Black Tea” in Japanese Modern Literature

红茶从中国传到欧洲,离开原生土壤,经过异域语境的重塑获得新的涵义和发展,再经欧洲传到正在经历新旧文化冲突、融合的近代日本,成为获得特殊意义的一种文化符号。在近代文学作品中,红茶指向高端、优雅和时尚,象征与日本传统文化大相径庭的西洋文化的同时,又是东洋文化与西洋文化冲突融合的代表,它反映了近代知识分子对西洋的憧憬,更见证了他们在新与旧、西洋与传统之间的纠结和挣扎。

Black tea,after a series of propagation from the original soil China to Europe and finally be spread to Japan who was experiencing the conflict and integration of old and new cultures,has gradually acquired new connotation and finally turned into a cultural symbol with special meaning in Japan.In modern literary works,black tea was regarded as a cultural symbol of high-end,elegant and fashionable,symbolizing the divergence between Western culture and Japanese traditional culture.It is also a representative of the fusion of Eastern and Western cultures.It reflects the longing of modern intellectuals to the West,and witnesses the struggle between the new and the old,the Western and the traditional.