“茶”的别称研究

Abstract

About the names of tea, the five names ‘tu, jia, she, ming, chuan’ in <The Classic of Tea> by Lu Yu have always been quoted, and their sources are basically all kinds of exegetical literature quoted in <The Classic of Tea•Qi Zhi Shi>. This shows that before the Tang Dynasty, there were many different names for tea, and predecessors usually studied the origin of these different names by means of traditional methods such as phonology, characters and exegesis, but neglected to pay attention to the fact that these different names came from the native languages of various minorities in the southwest of China. After the Mid-Tang Dynasty, with the further development of Chinese tea culture, tea characters were used more and more frequently. The prosperity of Tang Shi and Song Ci also led the writers and calligraphers of all dynasties to create many obscure nicknames and epithets when speaking and chanting about tea. Moreover, the acquisition of these epithets and nicknames also payed more attention to rhetorical devices, which was the creative activity of language art. Although they were created and used in very different ages, some of them have long since ceased to be used, and some of them have been solidified into tea phrases with clear lexical meanings after time precipitation. Through research and analysis, the author thinks that ‘tea’ five major names the ‘tu, jia, she, ming, chuan’ comes from the southwest ethnic minority languages, and collect the ancient Chinese literature and poetry and the nickname of tea, dubbed came to the conclusion that the 35 two-word nicknames, 26 three-word nicknames and 4 four-word nicknames.