"Others drink tea, drink harmony, the present world is good, and the years are gentle; Lu Xun drank tea, drank anger, and enjoyed Qingfu also became ironic. He never left his hand and tea all year round, and he married a beautiful woman who was good at kung fu tea; He copied the Tea Sutra in his childhood and made tea houses as a young man, but in his later years, he bought a lot of tea and gave tea in Shanghai. ”
He once abandoned medicine and practiced literature, turned the barrel of a pen into the barrel of a gun, and woke up countless sleeping people with bloody words.
He also wrote for tea, and wrote the strongest voice of the era in that era of high productivity.
He is Lu Xun. That Lu Xun, who wrote the iron-boned ambition of "horizontal eyebrows cold to a thousand husbands, bowing down and willing to be a cow".
Lu Xun (1881-1936). was originally named Zhou Zhangshou, later renamed Zhou Shuren; Zi Yushan, later changed to Yucai, a native of Huiji County, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, was a great proletarian writer, thinker and revolutionary in modern China. He wrote hard and fought all his life, and was known as the "soul of the nation".
01 Tea friends are standard, and his salon has conquered half of the literary world
If we say that hordes of geniuses in Europe, in cafes. Then the Chinese tea house or living room with tea in the early 20th century was also a place where geniuses came together.
Among them, Lu Xun is a tea friend, like the friendship with many famous humanities, but also basically in the tea fragrance.
On February 15, 1936, Shanghai's "Six Arts" magazine was launched, and a "Tea Party in the Literary Circle" signed "Lu Shaofei" was placed in the illustration. The amount of information in this painting is stunning, to paraphrase the "half of the entertainment circle" favorite in news releases, this painting depicts most of the literary circles of the Republic of China.
Don't look at the person sitting in the main seat in this painting, although it is Shao Xunmei, it is really a true portrayal of Lu Xun's "circle of friends". Among them, there are his friends, brothers, colleagues, students, enemies, etc., and the title "Tea Party Diagram" is appropriate, accurately conveying the way people interacted and the purpose of that era.
During his stay in Shanghai, Lu Xun "always poured you a cup of tea when he saw guests coming, and put out snacks, and listened to them when they didn't use them." His tea friends included Song Qingling, Qu Qiubai, Feng Xuefeng, Pan Hannian, Hu Feng, Xiao Hong, Xiao Jun, Ding Ling, Roushi, Mao Dun, Ba Jin, Cao Juren, and Tai Jingnong.
In addition to meeting friends with tea, in life, Lu Xun is also an out-and-out tea lover. When he was in Beijing, he was a guest at the tea house, and he often mentioned in his diary that he liked to go to Qingyun Pavilion and eat snacks with tea and drink and eat; When he was in Guangzhou, he and his friends often went to Taotaoju, Luyuan, Beiyuan and other tea houses to drink tea, and said that "Guangzhou's tea is fragrant and delicious, and with a cup in hand, you can have a half-day conversation with friends."
02 Lu Xun's tea is a kind of tea outside tea
Mr. Lu Xun once said: "There is good tea to drink, and it is a kind of 'blessing' to drink good tea." ”
Lu Xun has a unique understanding of drinking tea and life, and is good at using tea to analyze the ills in society and life.
Lu Xun has an article called "Drinking Tea", which says: "There is good tea to drink, and it is a kind of 'clean blessing' to drink good tea." However, in order to enjoy this 'blessing', you must first have work, and secondly, you must practice the special feeling."
"To drink good tea, you have to use a bowl, so use a bowl, after brewing, the color is clear and sweet, slightly fragrant and slightly bitter, it is indeed a good tea." But this is a time of sitting and doing nothing."
Later, Lu Xun described this kind of tea tasting "work" and "special feeling" as a kind of squeamishness and spiritual fragility of a literati, and made a spicy mockery.
He said in the article: "From this extremely trivial experience, I think that if a worker who uses tendon strength, when his throat is dry, then give him Longjing bud tea and Zhulan tablets, I am afraid that he may not feel any difference from hot water when he drinks it." The so-called 'autumn thought' is actually like this, and the people who are troublesome will feel that 'sad autumn is also angry', on the one hand, it is also a kind of 'blessing', but in the old farmers, they only know that at this time of year, it is just to cut rice."
Lu Xun's "Drinking Tea" is like a scalpel, dissecting those literati who moaned without disease. It is entitled "Drinking Tea", and its tea has a special taste. The tea in Lu Xun's mind is a kind of "coarse tea and light rice" that pursues true nature, and it is by no means the so-called "work" that is delicate in every way. This "taste" is precisely the experience of tea drinking at the highest level: natural and rustic.
At this time, I can see the difference, Lu Xun wrote about drinking tea, he is writing about two kinds of people at the moment, one is the scholar Yake who talks on paper, and the other is the hard-working clothed people. He is satirizing the diseaseless moans of the literati and the tedious and useless spiritual pursuits of the dignitaries. In a turbulent environment, who can survive is king!
03 Accumulate half a lifetime of tea paste, and the sky-high price shocks the tea world and the collecting world
At an auction in 2004, a piece of tea paste belonging to Mr. Lu Xun's relic appeared in front of the public, which immediately shocked the tea world and the collecting world.
▲Mr. Lu Xun's collection of 39 pieces of tea paste
This tea paste collected by Mr. Lu Xun is a tribute to the Qing Palace, with a total of 39 tea pastes, of which 24 are complete, each weighing about 3g.
This batch of tea paste was originally prepared for the overall auction, and the reserve price was set at 300,000 yuan. The National Museum heard the news and rushed to express its desire to collect it before the auction, and in the end, Lu Xun's descendants decided to auction only one of the tea pastes, and 3 grams of tea paste were sold for 12,000 yuan, which is already a sky-high price in the tea price.
Zhou Haiying, a descendant of Lu Xun, recalled that he knew that there was tea paste at home from the time he first got into the people, and every time after eating a big meal during the New Year and festival, as long as he felt that his stomach was upset, his mother Xu Guangping would take out a small piece of tea paste and brew it for him to drink, and not long after drinking, the uncomfortable feeling disappeared.
He also confirmed that Lu Xun and his wife were usually reluctant to drink these tea ointments.