BOv Tea
Lu Yu (733-804), the word Hongjian (a disease, the word quarter blemish), since the name of Sang Ning Weng, also known as the competition Lingzi, Hubei competition Ling people. BOv tea network.
Jingling, i.e., Tianmen County, Hubei Province today. During the Tang Dynasty, Jingling was a town of fish and rice with beautiful scenery. Pi Rixiu in the “send from the brother Pi Chong return to the state of Fuxu” greatly praised the “competition Ling smoke and moon like Wu Tian”, “everywhere by the roadside thousands of hectares of rice, outside the door of a canal of lotus,” and so on. Song dynasty ouyang xiu wrote “new tangshu – hermitage – lu yu biography” said: “lu yu for the abandoned child, by the dragon temple zhijie zen master adoption.” Tang Dynasty monasteries planted tea trees, so Lu Yu is well versed in tea planting, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea at a young age has been a master of first-class tea. However, as he had no intention of leaving the Buddhist order and leaving the group, Lu Yu finally left the monastery at the age of 12, and has been wandering around the world ever since. BOv Tea Net
In the fifth year of Tianbao (764 A.D.), Lu Yu befriended Li Qiwu, the governor of Jingling, and became a guest of the governor’s residence. Li Qigu favored his poetry and literature, and encouraged him to concentrate on his studies. Lu Yu also became friends with Cui Guofu, a minister of the Ministry of Ceremonies, who was friendly with Du Fu and was good at five-character poems, and under whom Lu Yu’s talent grew greatly. At the age of 22, Lu Yu bid farewell to Cui Guosu and his friends and relatives, and began his career as a traveler, making friends in all directions and learning the art of tea. BOv Tea
In 755, Lu Yu lived in Wucheng Campsite (present-day Huzhou) and met many famous scholars and writers, such as the great calligrapher Yan Zhenqing, the poet monk Kyauk Ran and the poets Meng Jiao and Huang Fu Ran, etc. He had accumulated a lot of knowledge and experience in the field of tea and tea learning. Years of cloud travel life so that he has accumulated a lot of information about the tea around, and from the bottom of his heart to the love of tea culture, so that he was determined to write a monograph on tea. After more than a year of organizing ideas, finally in 763 AD, Lu Yu was 28 years old when he completed the first monograph on tea in human history – “Tea Classic”. BOv Tea Network
In the book “Tea Classic”, Lu Yu on the origin of tea legends, historical records, picking, processing, cooking, drinking method, water quality, tea utensils, as well as closely related to the cultural practices and so on are made a detailed introduction, so that the tea sublimation as a systematic, combining nature and culture of the new discipline, but also reflects the charm and elegance of the Chinese tea culture. BOv Tea Network