Tea Saint's Hometown Hubei Tianmen

【Global Network Cultural Tourism Special Author: Mi Guanghong】Tea Saint Lu Yu, the world's tea industry, no one knows, Tea Saint Hometown, Hubei Tianmen.

This Tang Dynasty tea scholar, who devoted his life to tea affairs and was unswerving, wrote the "Tea Classic", which is the earliest, most complete and most comprehensive monograph on tea in China and even the world, and is praised by tea scholars at home and abroad as "encyclopedia of tea science".

Photo by Lu Yu Mi Hirohiro

"According to records, Lu Yu was abandoned since he was a child, and was later adopted by Zhi Ji Zen Master, the abbot of Jinling Longgai Temple, and Jingling is today's Tianmen City." Shi Aifa, president of the Hubei Luyu Tea Culture Research Association, said.

In Tianmen, there are still several ruins and legends of the "Lu Yu Sencha Place". Tianmen Mountain has a "Lu Yu Well", a "clay pot", which is said to be the place where Lu Yu took water to cook tea; near the Xita Temple, there is also a "Literary Spring" and another "Lu Hong gradually Sencha Monument". He was here as a teenager to draw water for sencha. According to the notes of the Qing Dynasty, after the re-dredging of this well, "more than dozens of stones of tea were accumulated." It can be seen that it is not a layer of successive generations, and it is difficult to achieve such an amazing amount of tea.

Later, in order to explore tea, Lu Yu bid farewell to his mentor and left his homeland and traveled around, but he could not let go of his attachment to his hometown in his heart. And this nostalgia spans thousands of years and has not been forgotten by the people of the hometown. In Tianmen, Tea Saint Lu Yu can be described as a household name. Lu Yu Avenue, Lu Yu Square, Lu Yu's Hometown, wherever you go, you can see his shadow. In Hubei Province, there are no less than dozens of statues of him. Shi Aifa is a native of Tianmen, and his heart is full of reverence for this "fellow countryman".

In 1999, he participated in the initiation of the Hubei Luyu Tea Culture Research Association, which stemmed from this emotion.

However, the status of the Tianmen Tea Saint's hometown was not well known to outsiders at first. In the same year, Shi Aifa, who participated in the International Tea Culture Festival in Shanghai, encountered challenges. At that time, the television station broadcast an interview about Lu Yu's life, and the Japanese scholars interviewed mistakenly believed that Lu Yu's birthplace was Huzhou, Zhejiang. "Huzhou is the place where Lu Yu died, and Tianmen is his first hometown." Shi Aifa contacted the organizing committee and the TV station at the first time, asked them to make corrections, and invited them to Hubei to find the traces of the tea saint and to worship at the Lu Yu Memorial Hall in Tianmen.

In order to let more people know that "the hometown of the tea saint is in Tianmen, Hubei", the research association organized and participated in a series of activities: Lu Yu Tea Culture Festival, China (Tianmen) Tea Festival, etc., and invited tea people at home and abroad to visit Tianmen. The research association is to carry forward the tea culture in China and even the world! The research association rushed around for the tea people's tea affairs, and everyone became the transmitter of the "tea spirit" in the eyes of everyone.

American ginseng sanchi tea enhances immunity, honeysuckle skullcap tea detoxifies and clears the lungs, Huoxiang Peran tea dissolves phlegm and relieves cough, children often drink Prince Sanhua tea, home anti-epidemic, often need to drink tea. In this Hubei epidemic, the research association is even more idle, contact the organization of the prayer tea party, and by the research association as a guiding unit, carried out the "Lu Yu Hui - Hubei Famous Tea Live Broadcast" and "Lu Yu Hui - China Tea Net Red Live Broadcast Incubation Base", in the name of this hometown person, bringing together the industry's best resources and positive energy, to win this double battle of anti-epidemic and poverty alleviation. (Author: Mi Hirohiro, Cultural Scholar)

Source: Global Network - Cultural Tourism Channel