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Lu Yu Tea Exchange shared a selection of Lu Yu's "Tea Classic"

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Lu Yu Tea Exchange shared a selection of Lu Yu's "Tea Classic"

A source of one

Its words, either from grass, or from wood, or from grass and wood. Its names, one day tea, two days 槚 (5), three days 蔎 (6), four days tea, five days 荈 (7).

exegesis:

(5) 槚: pronounced jia, originally a beautiful wood of the catalpa and catalpa types, borrowed as tea.

(6) 蔎: pronounced she, "Jade Chapter": "蔎, vanilla also". The Qing Dynasty Duan Yujue believed that it should be grassy. Borrowed as tea.

(7) 荈: pronounced chuan. Tea made from the old leaves of the tea tree.

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