《金瓶梅》与茶

Jin Ping Mei and Tea

《金瓶梅》中饮茶习俗描写,折射了明中叶的市井生活,作者对于茶具的选择,衬托了人物思想观点与性格的塑造,也是西门庆物欲占有、金钱至上价值观的体现,金银茶具满足了他的物质享受。茶在《金瓶梅》中折射出明中叶社会、西门家庭的奢靡生活,成为情节发展,人物性格塑造的助推剂。茶叶虽小,茶具不大,茶事寻常,但是以茶与茶文化来衬托人、事、物,乃至反映社会民俗风情则不平常。

The description of tea drinking custom in Jin Ping Mei reflects the folk life in the middle of Ming Dynasty.The author's choice of tea sets is to shape the character's ideology and personality and also to embody Ximen Qing's value of material desire and money supremacy.Gold and silver tea sets satisfy his material enjoyment.Tea in Jin Ping Mei reflects the extravagant life of Ximen family and the society in the middle of Ming Dynasty,which becomes the booster of plot development and characterization.Although tea is small,each individual tea vessel in one tea set is not big,and the tea business is common,the people,things,and objects and even the social customs reflected by the tea culture are unusual.