The birth of tea is not just the magic of nature and the inadvertent discovery of human beings.
From the very beginning, it has had a natural relationship with civilization. Some people taste tea and enjoy the healthy life brought by tea drinking; Some people chant tea and borrow tea to express their inner thoughts and emotions.
For thousands of years, tea culture has been endless. With the change of the times, the way Chinese tea drinking has also undergone several evolutions.
From cooking tea in the Tang Dynasty, ordering tea in the Song Dynasty, brewing tea in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and then to contemporary tea drinking, tea drinking has become an important part of our lives.
Tracing back along the time vein of tea culture, it can be found that what has changed over thousands of years is not only the way of drinking tea, but also the elegant name of tea is also advancing with the times, and the tea lovers of successive dynasties have given tea many ingenious nicknames in poetry.
Today, let's take stock of what elegant names tea has in ancient poetry
sow thistle
In ancient historical sources, there are many names for tea. Among them, "荼" was first seen in the "Book of Poetry, Yi Feng, Gu Feng": who is said to be bitter, its sweetness is like a thorn. Whether the word "荼" in the sentence refers to tea, scholars have different opinions.
It is reported that before the Middle Tang Dynasty, the word "荼" was generally used to represent the word "tea" to indicate the meaning of tea. Later, due to the continuous expansion of the development scale of tea, tea drinking became more and more popular, and more and more descriptions of tea were given.
Therefore, folk writers subtracted the word "荼" by one stroke, and there was the word "tea" that we use today.
tea
Tea, the elegant name of tea, often appears in poetry, and is now basically common with tea characters.
Su Shi of the Song Dynasty has a poetic cloud: never a good tea like a beautiful person. The Tang Dynasty poet Kyaukran wrote in "Night Feast with Judge Lu shuitang": Love Jun Gao Yeyi, cook tea and fish for the fallen.
Emgan
Yugan's is an anthropomorphic nickname for tea by the ancients. Because the tea soup is sweet and delicious, the charm is long, and after drinking, the teeth and cheeks remain fragrant and the sweetness is lingering, so it is called this name for tea.
The allusion to the Yugan clan comes from the Song Dynasty Li Gao's "Weiwen Trivia": the world calls olives Yu Ganzi, also known as tea as Yu Ganzi. Because of the word Yi, it was renamed tea as Yu Gan's, so as not to be ambiguous.
Never sleep
Tea can play a refreshing and refreshing effect, dispel the effect of sleepiness, the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi said in the "Gift to the Thirteenth Neighbor King": Broken sleep to see tea gong. Cao Yi also wrote in "The Old Man Sends Tea": The six viscera sleep gods go, and the poems of several dynasties are clear.
Zhang Hua of the Jin Dynasty praised in the "Natural History": Drinking real tea makes people sleep less, so tea is not called night, and it is also beautiful.
Yunhua
We all know that alpine clouds produce good tea. The tea plants that grow in the clouds and mist of the mountains are blessed with a unique environment, which makes the quality of tea raw materials more outstanding.
"Hua" usually refers to the best part of things, so the deceased called good tea Yunhua.
The late Tang Dynasty literary scholar Pi Rixiu wrote in the poem "Cold Day Bookstore Is a Matter": Counting Ou Wei Bai leaves in the middle of the night, and one instrument in the early morning is Yunhua.
In addition, the word Yunhua is also another name for clouds, which means that good tea is moistened by clouds and mist, condensing the essence of heaven and earth, and only then has that charming taste.
Tea and literati have been like close friends since ancient times. Tea dedicates its own taste and aroma to the literati to drink, and the literati carefully explore the charm of tea.
From the tea to understand the different moods and philosophies, with a clever mind to give tea full of profound meaning of the elegant name, but also let the tea culture more depth and temperature.