Ordering tea, burning incense, hanging pictures, and arranging flowers: the "four arts" of tea in the life of the Song Dynasty

Poetic and floral.

The Four Arts usually refers to the four arts that Chinese literati admire and want to master, namely piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. They are also called the "Four Arts of Literati" or the "Four Arts of Scholars". "Qin" refers to playing the harp (mostly Guqin), "chess" refers to playing chess (mostly Go and Chinese chess), "book" refers to calligraphy, and "painting" refers to painting.

Tie, paste, paint and fly: the "four arts" in Chinese kite skills talk about kites.

Telling, learning, teasing and singing: the "four arts" in cross talk.

Ordering tea, burning incense, hanging pictures, and arranging flowers: the "four arts" of tea in Song Dynasty life

Poetry and Flowers-Chinese Flower Arrangement Exhibition.

Arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy: Pythagoras regarded these four subjects as the "Quadrivium" (Quadrivium), plus the three subjects of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, forming the "Seven Arts" ”, is the seven compulsory courses of European medieval education Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans.