The concept of "three hundred miles east of Yongjia County" should be calculated according to the location of Yongjia County in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the distance is calculated east by the post road. Because it is difficult to directly find the specific position represented by this expression in ancient books, it is now reasonable to speculate based on the records of Fang Zhi. According to the "Hongzhi Wenzhou FuZhi": "Yongjia County, east (north) to Yueqing County boundary fifty-five miles of the pavilion, from the boundary to (Yueqing) County sixty-five miles, a total of one hundred and twenty miles", "Yandang Mountain, to the east of the county ninety miles", then the Ming Dynasty Yongjia County to Yandang Mountain distance of 210 miles. If calculated according to the Tang Dynasty's "Yuanhe County Atlas", then the Sui and Tang dynasties will be significantly greater than this distance. From another angle, according to the "Hongzhi Wenzhou FuZhi": "Yandang Mountain Lingyan Temple, go to the county (east) one hundred and twenty miles, in shanmen township Yan (Dang) Shandong outer valley." According to the "Yongle Yueqing County Chronicle": "Ming Yin Temple, go to the east of the county one hundred and sixty miles, under the Wenling Ridge in the outer valley of Yanshan Mountain in Shanmen Township", then the total distance in the Ming Dynasty was 240--280 miles. Yandang Mountain is centered on the main peak of Baigangjian, from Giethoorn Cave in the east, connected to Wenling County; south to Furong Town, with the Qingjiang River; west pole sawstone (Jiepailing), bordering Yongjia County; north of Liuping Mountain, bordering Huangyan City. According to the "Guangyandang Mountain Chronicle", Shi Zhi is quoted: "Yanshan Mountain spans 60 miles from east to west, 45 miles from north to south, and 180 miles around; the outer border of this mountain is 100 miles from east to west, 100 miles from north to south, and 420 miles around." Therefore, Yandang Mountain conforms to the scope of "three hundred miles east of the county" referred to in the "Tujing".
"Hongzhi Wenzhou Fu Zhi": "Wenzhou Prefecture territory to , (east) north to Wenling 330 miles to Taizhou capital Huangyan County" can be corroborated. According to the Taiping Imperial Records, vol. 867, the Twenty-fifth Ming of the Ministry of Diet, a large-scale official book of the early Northern Song Dynasty, said: "The Yongjia Tujing says that there is a white tea mountain in the east of the county. Although "three hundred miles" is not mentioned here, only "county east" is written, which also provides important evidence for the arguments in this article. As for which tea mountain (tea garden) is specific, it is difficult to determine, but the ancient tea gardens of Dalonghubei, Yanhugang and Bixiaofeng are relatively close to the history of tea production. Historical materials of tea produced in Yandang Mountain. Yanshan tea (now known as Yandang Maofeng) began in the Jin and Tang Dynasties, smelled in the Song Dynasty, passed down from the Ming and Qing dynasties, and passed down a thousand years of history. Longqing "Yueqing County Chronicle": "Lecheng (now Yueqing) tea production began in the Yonghe period of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (345~ 356)", more than 1600 years ago, is the earliest tea producing area in Wenzhou. The "TangShu Food And Commodity Chronicle" has been recorded as a tea production in Lecheng. Qing Dynasty Lu Tingcan's "Continuation of the Tea Classic" quoted tang Lutong's "Tea Classic" in the Qing Dynasty Lao Dayu "Oujiang Yizhi" quoted in the Tang Lu Tong "Tea Classic" cloud: Tiantai Waterfall water, Ou water taste is thin, but the Yan tang landscape is better, this camellia is also the first. The Northern Song Dynasty poet Mei Yaochen (1002-1060) "Ying Gong's Legacy of Bixiao Feng Tea": "It is late in the spring of the mountains, and there is more new tea." The summit should be rainy and the cold should sprout. When picking, Lin Li is quiet, steaming shiquan jia. Holding the clothes of The Rich, the Five Willows family was divided. "This is the earliest tea poem in Yandang Mountain, indicating that tea was planted on many mountain peaks such as Bixiao Peak in Yandang Mountain in the early Northern Song Dynasty. Ming Dynasty Yueqing scholar Zhu Zhi 's "Sending Tea and Ten Thousand Scholarly Messengers": "The new tea in Yanding is more clear, and the immortals pick bai yunying." After the seven bowls of psychic communication, the two armpits of the practice of the breeze are born. Qing Ren Cai Jia Ting's "Dragon Back Picking Tea": "The wild man guided me to the peak, and the tea that has been planted will be immortal." The white clouds are full of sleeves of incense first, and the green snow is full of poor colors"; "The Song of Yandang Mountain Tea": "The same is true of tea in the mountains, the immortal plants on the spirit stone, why not see the white flowers on the top of the goose mountain, this is a golden bud that is not bad"... These poems mainly explain the strange quality of the tea tree (group species) at the top of Yandang Mountain, and the "tender white", "white cloud tea", "green snow", "white flower", etc. in the verses are all reflections of the "white" tea characteristics of Yandang tea.
The Ming Dynasty Zhu Zhi "Yanshan Zhi" said: "Zhejiang east has many teas, and the Yanshan people call it the most." Every spring to pick tea buds to pay tribute, a gun and a flag and white, the name of the sun tea, the valley rain day picker name day rain tea, this product also. "Qing Dynasty Lao Dayu "Oujiang Yizhi": "Zhejiang Dongduo tea, Yanshan people call the first, every year three days before the valley rain, picking tea buds to pay tribute." One shot, two flags and white hair, known as Ming Tea. Valley rain day picker name rain tea. It is also known that "The Five Treasures of Yanshan Longhu Tea is Ming Tea", and the content of "Oujiang Yizhi" is basically the same as that of "Zhu Zhi", which has pointed out in detail the picking time, picking standards, varieties and process characteristics (white, white hair) of Longhu Baiyun Tea.
Some friends may have to ask, ploughing and pottery, net said other people's views, what do you think of these three views? Frankly speaking, I agree with Mr. Huang Xiangyong's point of view. Why? I have my reasons. First of all, Mr. Huang has already used a very detailed space to argue that "East" is not "West" and "South". Then I would like to add another reason, that is, if you think about it, Lu Yu, he lived in the Tang Dynasty, and when he wrote the book, it was the closest era to this Yongjia Tujing. That is to say, he may have seen the original book or the text materials closest to the time of the original book at that time, so from this point of view, the book written by Lu Yu should not have any clerical errors.
Let's take a step back and say, even if Lu Yu's pen is wrong, then you can think about what people Are around Lu Yu, and there are good friends who are also teachers and friends. What kind of person is Kyaukran, the ancestor of Chinese tea culture and tea ceremony. There is Yan Zhenqing, who does not know the four big people of kaishu "Ou Liu Yan Zhao". There are also poets such as Huang Furan, who is in the middle of the official zuo, and famous courtiers such as Li Cao. These people often tasted tea with Lu Yu. Under common sense, the original manuscript of Lu Yu's poetry must have been viewed by these good friends, didn't these people see it?
Taking a step back, even if these people don't see or don't see it, then think about it, since the Tang Dynasty descended to the Qing Dynasty, there have been tea scholars in the past, such as Zhang Youxin of "Sencha Water Record", Wen Tingjun of "Tea Picking Record", Cai Xiang of "Tea Record", Song Zi'an of "Dongxi Tea Trial Record", Zhu Quan of "Tea Recipe", Tian Yisu of "Boiling Spring Sketch", Xu Ranming of "Tea Shu", Wen Long of "Tea Notes", etc., especially Tian Yisu, Xu Ranming, Wen Long are people from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and should be quite familiar with the geography of this province. As tea people, it is impossible for them not to study Lu Yu's "Tea Classic", don't they see it? Taking a step back, the Song and Qing dynasties were at their peak in examination and study, so didn't everyone find Lu Yu's clerical errors? I don't think it makes sense. What do you say?