≪다주론≫과 ≪주다론≫의 비교 고찰

Comparison study on tea-wine theory and wine-tea theory

Tea and wine have been competed in preference as tastes since old times. Tea and wine share certain similarities to some extent, however, in the meantime, also possess conflicting characteristics. In the ancient times, there were many interesting talks by oriental scholars of which one is more beneficial to human beings. Among ones that discuss both tea and wine, ‘tea-wine theory’ by Wangbu in Chinese Tang dynasty and ‘wine-tea theory’ by Ranshuku seonsa in Japanese Azuchimomoyama age, written by personifying both of tea and wine are most renowned literatures. Though written in different times in history, both describe human cultures with tea and wine during each time and provide cultural understanding of tea and wine of respective historic moments. In both of ‘tea-wine theory’ and ‘wine-tea theory’, tea and wine try to appeal its superiority and nobleness each other and blame the other sometimes. In the peak of debates on their superiority, water, fundamental substance of tea and wine, and a man of leisure appreciated and reconciled them with proposal for co-existence. Contemporary men/women confine their tastes in their biased cultural preference and place their tastes superior to others. This study will analyze and compare above theories and review them from modern prospective.