著者

水野 正明

出版者

東洋文庫

雑誌

東洋学報 (ISSN:03869067)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.87, no.3, pp.289-319, 2005-12

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The Wudaishiguo 五代十国 period was characterized by political chaos with warlords running rampant and China divided into small kingdoms. Nevertheless, the country developed normally both economically and socially, as the Tang 唐 Dynasty's haute culture spread far and wide.The custom of tea drinking had already begun taking root among the common people, even extending to foreign peoples during the latter half of the Tang period. Thus, a huge tea market appeared in northern China, while in the south, wherever the war damage done to the Shiguo 十国, located to the south of the Qinling (秦嶺) and the Huaihe (淮河), was not so serious, the tea industry prospered remarkably with the help of government policy promoting the production of indigenous blends, and the tea culture became increasingly refined.With respect to the Wudaishiguo period, however, few complete source materials remain, forcing the author to use such ancient accounts as Mao Wenxi's 毛文錫 Chapu 『茶譜』, some parts of which have been scattered and lost, and "Mingchuanmen" (茗[くさかんむりに舛]門) in Tao Gu's 陶穀 Qingyi lu 『清異録』, in addition to as many fragmentary materials as possible, including the Zizhi Tongjian 『資治通鑑』 and Shiguo Chunqiu 『十国春秋』.Despite the lack of complete sources on tea during the period in question, it can be said on the basis of the available materials that the tea industry was expanding in Wang' 王 QianShu 前蜀, Ma' 馬 Chu 楚, Li' 李 NanTang 南唐, Qian' 銭 Wuyue 呉越 and Wang' 王 Min 閩 under government protection and promotion, thus forming the foundation upon which tea would become one of China's key industries. It was a time during which the sale of tea goods spread as far as Qidan 契丹, Dangxiang 党項 and Zhongyuan 中原 in northern China through the vigorous activities of tea dealers, who during the later Northern Song period would further extend merchandise distribution and the custom of tea drinking to foreign peoples, thus implementing government supplies to troops stationed on the northern frontiers via the tea-horse trade (茶馬貿易).