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Su Shi (1037 – 1101 years), the word Zizhan, the name of Dongpo Jushi, Meishan (now Sichuan Meishan County) people. China’s Song Dynasty outstanding literary figures. In the Northern Song Dynasty literary circles, and tea ties can not be counted, but there is no one like Su Shi in tea, tea, tea, tea are in the line, the history of tea, tea work is quite a study, but also created a lot of tea poetry. pNx tea network.
Su Shi is very addicted to tea. Tea, to help poetry, war sleep, is an indispensable thing in his life. Yuanfeng yuan year (1078 AD) Su Shi Xuzhou governor. This year’s spring drought, summer rain, Su Shi went to the east of the city 20 miles of the rock pool to thank God for the rain, as the “Raccoon Creek Sand” five song chronicle. The lyrics are: “Wine sleepy road is long and Sui want to sleep, the sun is high and people are thirsty and think about tea, knock on the door and try to ask the savage home.” This is a graphic description of the scene in which he asked for tea to quench his thirst. He had to drink tea at night to do his work: “Book whips and pushes to fill up the committee by day, and boiled tea and burnt chestnuts are suitable for the night expedition” (“Second Rhyme for Monk Qian’s Gift”); he had to drink tea to create his poems and writings: “The white color is born on the surface of Ou, and it can be said that it is shy of the snow; Dongpo adjusted the poems in his abdomen, and he should be rested when he sleeps this night” (“Gift to Mr. Pao Jing’an for Tea”); he had to sleep before going to bed and get up before going to bed. ); before going to bed, also want to drink tea: “bathe after the towel crown fast evening cool, sleep after teeth and cheeks with the fragrance of tea” (“Farewell Jinshan Baojue Yuantong two elders”) “spring sleep enough afternoon window bright, want to see the new tea such as splash of milk” (“zhang zhongshe in yuezhou shoulehtang”). There is even a “Song of Water”, which describes tea picking, tea making, tea ordering and tea tasting, which is colorful and interesting. Lyrics: There have been several times rain, the night before a thunder. Flag and gun battle Jianxi, spring color accounted for the first leader. Take the branches of the bird tongue, with dew and smoke mashed, knot on the purple cloud pile. The gold mill was lightly moved, and green dust flew up. The old dragon ball, the real phoenix marrow, point will come. In a rabbit-hair marigold, the flavor of the tongue returns in a flash. I woke up the Qingzhou ministers and fought off millions of sleeping devils, but I couldn’t dream of the balcony. I want to go to Penglai. pNxTea.com
Long-term magistrate and relegation life, so Su wipe footprints all over the world, from the top of the moth-eyebrow to the shore of Qiantang, from the Song and Liao Liao borders to Lingnan, Hainan, for him to taste the famous tea around the opportunity to provide. As he said in the poem “and Qian An Dao sent Huijian tea”: “I official in the south now a few times, tasted all the stream tea and mountain tea.” Among them: “Baiyun Peak under two new flags, greasy green long fresh valley rain spring”, is the “Baiyun tea” produced in Hangzhou; “Thousands of gold to buy off the Guzhu spring, like with the Yue people to descend to the day note”, is the Huzhou production of the “Guzhu purple bamboo shoots”. “Guzhu purple bamboo shoots tea” and Shaoxing production of “day casting snow buds”; “did not do to report to the gentleman green jade case, Jianxi new cake cut off the cloud rich”, this kind of like the cloud rich beauty of the “new cake” from the South China Sea. The “new cake” is produced in Nanjianzhou (now Nanping, Fujian), where “the pumice stone has dried up the water after frost, and JiaoKeng idly tries the tea before the rain”. pNx Tea Net