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Four things in Song Dynasty: fighting tea, planting flowers, and what else?
In the Song and Yuan Dynasties, fighting tea, arranging flowers, hanging pictures and tasting incense were called "four kinds of busyness" in the elegant life of the upper class.

Fighting tea, that is, the advantages and disadvantages of competing tea, also known as fighting tea and fighting tea. It started in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. It was an elegant play for rich and idle people in ancient times. It has a strong winning and losing color, which is interesting and challenging.

Flower arrangement means putting flowers in containers such as bottles, plates and pots, rather than planting them in these containers. The inserted flowers, branches, flowers, or leaves, have no roots, but are only a part of the plant, and they are not randomly inserted. Instead, they are selected according to certain ideas and inserted into a beautiful body (shape) according to certain creative rules, so as to express a theme, convey a feeling and interest, and make people look pleasing to the eye and gain spiritual beauty and pleasure. Chinese flower arrangement is an ancient cultural phenomenon of Han nationality, mostly to meet subjective and emotional needs, and also a special way of entertainment in daily life. Flower arrangement originated from the love, planting, appreciating, picking, giving, admiring and hairpin of ancient Han people.

Hanging painting, a kind of decorative painting, is made of wood, resin, plastic and other materials and hung indoors, reflecting the artistic accomplishment and cultural taste of the householder.

Pinxiang is absolutely helpful to a person's inner cultivation and appearance temperament. In this society where utilitarianism is too hot, you might as well use Pinxiang to calm down and recuperate and enhance your wisdom. There are many ways to taste incense. What I am mainly discussing here is the method of incense by fire, and it is the method of incense by using a single spice.