The Role Of Urbanization And The Growth Of Population In Late Ming China

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Secondly, due to the process of urbanization and the growth of population in late Ming China, particularly the Jiangnan region, the water sources became more precious. Only the best water sources were catering to water tasting and tea connoisseurship, which were both cultural practices only belonged to scholar-officials and their friends. Furthermore, the dwindling water sources may have caused more attention from scholar-official tea drinkers; therefore, the relationship between tea drinking and water choice became closer during this era. On one hand, the writings about the water usually use tea to differentiate the quality of water; on the other hand, tea literature always contained the content of water choice. For example, Tian Yiheng arranged