From the Tang Dynasty onwards, tea prevailed in all regions of the country; from the Song Dynasty onwards, tea prevailed among all classes of the people.
Tea has the status of today's rivers and lakes, and the poets of the Tang and Song dynasties have contributed to it. It is they who spare no effort to hit the list, and finally promote the wind of tea drinking.
So the question is, in the two camps of poets of the Tang and Song dynasties, who is the one who knows the most about tea? Who is the first person to make a list for tea?
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The first person to appear must be a big name, welcome Li Bai. Li Bai's advertising copywriting level is master-level, what Lushan Waterfall, Tianshan Mingyue, Lanling fine wine, he shot, will become a hit.
This time, Li Bai was very serious about making a list for tea. Why? Because a monk with the title of Fu brought tea from Yuquan Mountain, it is said that drinking it often can prolong life. Zhongfu asked Li Bai to write poems to promote this tea.
Listening to the legends of this tea, Li Baixin gladly wrote a poem, the first few sentences:
It is often heard that Yuquan Mountain, caves and milk caves.
The fairy rat is as white as a crow, hanging upside down in the clear stream moon.
Ming gave birth to this middle stone, and the jade spring flowed endlessly.
Worthy of being a poetry immortal, he smeared this tea with a mysterious color as soon as he made a shot.
When it comes to tea, Cai Xiang is not convinced, I am not as good as you when it comes to writing poetry, but when it comes to making tea, then you are not as good as me.
Cai Xiang was a technical cadre of the Song Dynasty, engaged in water conservancy, planting, and tea making, all of which were in line. On the basis of Longfeng Tuan Tea, he developed Xiaolong Tuan Tea, which is extremely exquisite in material selection, production and packaging.
Xiaolongtuan tea production is very small, mainly for the royal enjoyment, each cake of gold two or two can not be bought, absolute hunger marketing. Ouyang Xiu, who was the official to the deputy prime minister, got a cake and held it in his hand every day to play with it, but he was reluctant to drink it.
See how Cai Xiang promoted the brand he built:
The rule is a full circle of the moon,
The dragon is at the beginning.
Look, how beautiful and imposing my tea is, this is what top luxury goods should look like.
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I have to say that Li Bai is good at poetry and neglects tea, while Cai Xiang is good at tea and neglects poetry. Then let the people who can write poetry and taste tea speak.
There is no doubt that Yuan Shu is such a character. He is a famous poet and a tea circle iron fan. He wrote a pagoda poem for tea:
Tea
Fragrant leaves, young buds,
Mu Shike, love the monks.
Milled white jade, woven red yarn.
The pan-fried yellow bud color, the bowl turned to dust flowers.
After the night, he invited Mingyue to accompany him, and before the morning, he was destined to face Chaoxia.
Wash away the tirelessness of the ancient and modern people, and will be drunk until they are drunk.
And Huang Tingjian of the Song Dynasty was also a great connoisseur who knew poetry and tea. When it comes to poetry, he is the founding father of the Jiangxi school of poetry; when it comes to tea, he is proud of his love of tea.
This time, he filled in a poem with the theme of praise for tea, which included the following sentences:
The golden canal is clean, only the wheel is slowly milled, and the jade dust is shining.
Soup sound pine wind, early reduction, two points of alcohol disease.
The flavor is strong and fragrant forever.
Drunken township road, into a good place.
Huang Tingjian regards tea drinking as a comprehensive enjoyment of the eyes, ears, mouth, nose and body. Eyes are enjoyed: jade dust shines.
Ears get enjoyed: soup rings pine wind.
Mouth and nose get enjoyed: the taste is fragrant forever.
Physical enjoyment: a good place.
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Drinking tea is not only a pleasure for the eyes, ears, mouth, nose and body, but also a spiritual level of understanding.
After the failure of the Yongzhen Reform, Liu Zongyuan was demoted to Yongzhou. The ten years of Yongzhou were the darkest days of his life, and it was also the time of sublimation of his ideological realm.
He often communicated with monks, and the poems he wrote were also full of Zen meaning, such as "Lonely Boat, Fishing alone in the snow of the Cold River", "There is no heartless cloud on the rock".
On this day, the monks of Longxing Temple invited him to taste tea. The so-called tea Zen taste, Liu Zongyuan took advantage of the excitement to write a zen tea poem, the poem said:
Like manna rice,
Buddha-deed Kaoru Vijaya.
This tea is like the nectar sprinkled by the bodhisattva, nourishing all sentient beings in the world.
The experiences of being belittled are all similar, but the reasons for being belittled are different. Liu Zongyuan was degraded because he supported the change, while Su Rui was degraded because he opposed the change.
Su Rui was transferred from Beijing to Henan Province, then to Chen Prefecture, then to Heyang Army, and then to Jinan Province. Just like this, his lungs were flowing, and his mood could be imagined.
One day, he received tea from Zhang Huan. Zhang Huan was a good friend of the Su family brothers and a staunch law changeist, but differences in political views did not affect their friendship.
Water is the soul of tea, with the spring water of Jinan, brewing a good tea of Zhang, Su Rui felt a lot and wrote a very philosophical poem:
Sex seems to be good tea often self-nourishing,
It is like a spring water for a long time.
People's character is like a fine tea, the more refined the concoction, the more mellow; the friendship of friends is like a light spring, the longer the time, the more intimate.
However, the world is unpredictable, and Zhang Huan later turned against the Su family brothers and demoted them out of Beijing when he was the prime minister. Su Shi Zi Zhan, then go to Danzhou; Su Zi Zi Zi, then go to Leizhou.
On the way to Leizhou, if Su Rui recalled those two poems of that year, I am afraid that he would have a taste in his heart.
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Having said Liu Zongyuan, we cannot but say Liu Yuxi. The two are collectively known as Liu Liu, who has always been anxious not to leave Meng, and Meng is not separated from Jiao.
When Liu Zongyuan ate ash in Yongzhou, Liu Yuxi also ate soil in Langzhou.
Liu Yuxi is known as Shihao, his career is difficult, the encounter is tragic, but his attitude is always optimistic and open-minded.
Even if he is degraded, Lao Liu is still undiminished, and "I say that autumn will win the spring dynasty" was written during the Langzhou period.
This time, Lao Liu was very happy again, because he received tea from his old friend. He brewed a bowl that night, and the moonlight was bright, reflecting the floating tea leaves in the bowl, like blooming flowers, what a beautiful picture. He made a big fuss about it:
Tonight there is more Xiangjiang Moon,
Illuminate Fifi's bowl full of flowers.
Speaking of aesthetic beauty, Li Qingzhao smiled, isn't this hitting the muzzle of my gun?
Li Qingzhao likes to drink wine, and also likes to drink tea. After all, large households, drinking tea is extremely exquisite:
The cloud cage crushes the jade into dust,
Liu Xiao dreamed, and was shocked by Ou Chun.
The tea leaves are milled as fine as jasper, and the whole cup is full of spring.
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Not only did the literati like to drink tea, but the monks and Taoists were also loyal fans of tea.
Tang Dynasty Jiaoran, a generation of senior monks. He tasted tea with Lu Yu and sang poetry with Yan Zhenqing. As a representative of the tea circle, he often went to war with the wine circle: "This thing is unknown to the world, and the world drinks a lot of self-deception." ”
How does Kyaukran praise tea?
Plain porcelain snow color foam fragrance,
What a kind of immortal Qiongrui pulp.
Look at this tea color, smell this tea fragrance, how different from the jelly of the immortals enjoyed.
The Song Dynasty White Jade Toad was a legendary Taoist monk. He was unkempt all day long, but he looked refreshed and his style of acting was full of mystery.
A senior monk considered him knowledgeable and invited him to join Buddhism. Bai Yu Toad expounded the difference between Buddha and Tao in three words and two words, and after hearing this, the monk resolutely withdrew from buddhism and followed him as a Taoist monk.
The words of the white jade toad praising tea are also mysterious and mysterious:
Take the branch finch first tongue,
Refined into a purple gold pile.
Crushing incense infinitely,
Flying green dust.
Is this tea making or alchemy?
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Next, please warmly welcome the big coffee to the scene, he is Tamagawa Zi Lu Tong!
As we all know, Lu Yu is a tea saint and Lu Tong is a tea fairy. Lu Yu is the author of the Tea Classic, and Lu Tong is the author of the Tea Recipe. And Lu Tong's popular "Seven Bowls of Tea Song" is the most classic advertising copy of tea:
A bowl of throat kisses,
Two bowls of broken and lonely,
Three bowls of dry intestines, only five thousand volumes of writing.
Four bowls of light sweat, ordinary life, all scattered to the pores.
Five bowls of muscle bone clear,
Six bowls of fairy spirits.
Seven bowls can not eat also, only to feel the two armpits to practice the breeze.
Rival to Lu Tong, the Song Dynasty was Su Shi. Don't look at Su Shi also often "ask the wine to qingtian", in fact, he drank a general amount, and the versatile Po Xian sighed that he was inferior to three people: singing, playing chess, and drinking.
Drinking is just socializing, drinking tea is true love. Tea is deeply integrated into Su Shi's life. To fetch water, you must come by yourself, "from the fishing stone to take the deep clear"; boiling water must master the fire by yourself, "the crab eye has passed the fish eye raw"; boiling tea must also stare at it yourself, "look at the snow soup raw pearls".
During the Yuan Dynasty, Su Shi served as the Governor of Hangzhou. On this day, he received a package from Cao Fu, opened it and looked at it, ah, good tea!
Of course, Su Shi is a person who knows the goods. The best tea of the Song Dynasty was produced in Beiyuan, and the best tea in Beiyuan was produced in Yuanyuan. What Cao Fu sent him was new tea from Yuanyuan.
Boiling water, tea, and tasting, Su Shi wrote down the famous poems in tea with a stroke of his pen:
The Fairy Mountain Spirit Grass is wet and cloudy, and the fragrant skin powder is not evenly washed.
Mingyue came to throw Yu chuanzi, and the breeze blew through the martial spring.
You must know that the ice and snow heart is good, not the first face of the cream oil is new.
The little poet smiled and never looked like a good person.
Shou lian, the origin of the tea, the source of the fog is large, so good tea. Knowledgeable.
After drinking a cup of tea, he felt that the whole city of Hangzhou was bathed in the spring breeze.
Neck joint, Su Shi showed his taste. At that time, many people liked to apply ointment on tea cakes, and Su Shi firmly believed that the original taste was the best product.
"Never a good tea like a beautiful person" in the tail link is a famous sentence in tea and has always been praised.
During the Song Dynasty, collection sentences began to become popular. Later generations combined Su Shi's "want to make the West Lake more beautiful than Xizi" and "Never a good tea like a beautiful person" into a single unit, and the division of labor was very neat.
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What kind of tea is the most enjoyable to drink?
Good tea, sweet water, high-end tea set, superb tea art, these are important, but not the most important.
Bai Juyi's mood was somewhat depressed. While making tea, he remembered his friends who had been drinking tea together. Now they are either born or died, and the ends of the earth are drifting to zero. So he wrote this poem leisurely:
Sit back and drink the water and watch the frying dust.
Hold a bowl for no reason and send it to the tea lover.
Water is good water, tea is good tea, but without friends to drink together, everything becomes tasteless.
Du Lei of the Song Dynasty was not very famous. One cold night, when a friend visited, he wrote the warmest poem in the tea tasting poem:
Cold night guests come to tea as wine,
Bamboo stove soup boiling fire first red.
Usually the same window before the month,
Only plum blossoms are different.
It was freezing cold outside and the fire was red inside. The moon is no different, there are plum blossoms in full bloom, and the night becomes particularly beautiful. Tea soup is nothing special, there is a knowledge to drink together, the mood becomes particularly cheerful.
The friendship of gentlemen is as light as water, although it is good, it is inevitable that it will appear cold and clear. The fragrance of a gentleman's friendship is like tea, which is a higher realm.