“茶”的文化符号学诠释

万物都是某种方式的符号。茶符号作为符号的一种,是携带着茶文化而被接收的感知。茶符号是茶文化的典型体现,是茶文化的焦点。同时,茶符号在人们生活中发挥着重要作用,即促进茶人理性活动的发展和情感寄托的实现,使茶人的文化生活得以连续积淀,有助于茶人的价值观念与生活方式的有机结合。茶文化精髓在于“和”,它是建立在个体感性生命的土壤上,在儒释道文化灌溉下形成的。另外,符号具有时空性,可以“透射”一种超越体验,茶事参与者借助超越的时空体验,可以进入茶汤背后的文化世界。

On Cultural Semiotic Interpretation of“Tea”

Everything is a symbol in some way.Tea,as one of the symbols,is the perception of tea culture.The symbol of tea is the typical embodiment of tea culture and the focus of tea culture.At the same time,it plays an important cultural role in people’s life,that is,it promotes the development of rational activities of tea drinkers and the realization of emotional sustenance,so that the cultural life can be accumulated continuously,which is conducive to the organic combination of values and the lifestyles of tea drinkers.The essence of tea culture lies in“harmony”,which is formed on the soil of individual perceptual life under the nurture of Confucianism,Buddhism and Taoism.In addition,symbols are spatiotemporal and can“transmit”a transcendental experience,and people take this experience to enter the cultural world.In this world,man moves away from this and into a higher plane,that is,beyond the time and space in which he lives.That is to say,tea event participants can enter the cultural world behind the tea infusion with the help of the transcendental time-space experience.