When it comes to tea, there must be no one around, he is the "tea saint" Lu Yu.
Lu Yu (733-804), also known as "Tea Immortal", honored as "Tea Sage", revered as "Tea Sage", "Tea God", and "Tea God", was known as "Tea God", and was known as "Tea Mountain Imperial History".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > Lu Yu's origin</h1>
There is a story about Lu Yu's origin and name, according to the New Book of Tang and the Biography of Lu Yu: "Yu, the word Hong gradually, did not know where to be born. In the beginning, the Zen master Ji Ji ji was born on the water's edge and raised as a disciple. And long, shame from cutting hair, with the "Easy" self-reed, to get the gradual: "Hong gradually in the land, its feathers can be used as a instrument." ' is the name. ”
From the records of Lu Yu in the New Book of Tang, we can know that Lu Yu was actually an abandoned baby, who was adopted and raised by the Jinling Zen master Zhiji. This incident was not a secret at the time, and it was also described in detail in the Supplement to the History of the Tang Dynasty and the Biography of Tang Caizi.
Moreover, the name "Lu Yu" was also derived from his use of Bu Gua, which was "trampled on the gradual", that is, the original gua was a tramp, and the upper gua was changed, and it was a gradual gua. According to the rules of divination, only one stroke is moved, and it is based on the word of the word, that is, to look at the original gua word (蹇卦上六爻), and then refer to the change of gua 爻字 (gradually gua on the nine words). "To the top of the ladder, Ji." See the lord. Gradually, the Ninth Day: "Hong gradually becomes the land, and its feathers can be used as instruments." Lu Yu gave himself a name and a character based on this saying of the Ninth Elder Gua.
The Zhou Yi scholar Chen Menglei talked about the Nine Words of gradual gua in the "Zhou Yi Brief Description": "Lu Zuokui, Yun Lu also." Instrument, feather ornament also. The ninth is the highest, and there is the image of the great gradually becoming a kui. The Ninth Heaven has no place, but gradually it has become extremely high, and the Gentleman of Juscius is high and far away. And its advance and retreat can be the instrument of the world, not useless also. Therefore, there is the image of 'its feathers can be used as instruments'. If the occupant is so, it is auspicious. ”
I have to say that at that time, Lu Yu would really take a name.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="76" > Lu Yu's life experience</h1>
Like his life, Lu Yu's experience before he became an adult was also more bumpy. If he is content with the status quo, listens to the Zhiji Zen master, and accompanies the Green Lantern Ancient Buddha for a long time, then the famous ancient Buddha will definitely not have his share.
He was a man with his own ideas for pursuits, devoted himself to Confucianism, opposed dyeing clothes and cutting his hair as a monk, and was therefore subjected to corporal punishment by Zen master Zhiji. He wrote in the article "Lu Yu's Autobiography":
At the age of nine, he learned to belong to the literature and accumulated the karma of being born with Buddhist books. Yu replied: "The brothers of the Final Fresh, who have no heirs, dye their clothes and cut their hair, and call them Shi Shi, so that the Confucians can hear of it, and they must be called filial piety?" Yu Shogun Kong's text can be? Gong Yue: "Zenya! The son is filial piety, but he does not know the Western way, and his name is great. "The public enforcement of the interpretation code is unyielding, and the confucian code is unyielding." Gongyin corrected pity and care, tried to do lowly work, swept the temple, cleaned the monk's toilet, trampled the mud wall, negative wasch house, and herded cattle one hundred and twenty hooves.
Such a life made Lu Yu feel uncomfortable, and finally at the age of 12, he escaped from the monastery and went to the drama class to work as a squire, specializing in clowns, and also worked as a screenwriter and composer. Zhi Ji chased after him like this, and that was it, and he would not force him to leave the house anymore.
As for why he played a clown, we can roughly see from his autobiographical introduction:
"The word is gradual, I don't know who it is, there are Zhongxuan and Meng Yang who look ugly, and they are similar to the stutters of Ziyun."
It is estimated that it is because his appearance is not photogenic that he was selected as a clown.
When Lu Yu was 16 years old, he waited for a good opportunity to change his destiny. While performing a show at the edge of the canglang water, he met Li Qiwu, the new Taishou at that time. Li Qiwu felt at a glance that this child had something extraordinary, so he wrote a letter of recommendation and introduced him to Mr. Zou, who lived in seclusion on Huomen Mountain, to study. He was employed for seven years, and did not learn to go down the mountain until he was nineteen years old.
Later, Lu Yu took his talents and made friends with many literati and celebrities. The Book of Tang records that "the world's magi and doctor, half travel with him", which shows his degree of respect. Among them were Li Qiwu, Yan Zhenqing, Cui Guofu, Huang Furan, Dai Shulun, Zhang Zhihe, and Jiaoran...
The friendship between Lu Yu and Kyaukran was rumored to be a good story, and they were friends for more than forty years until their deaths. From the poem "Nine Days of Drinking Tea with Lu Shiyu" in Kyaukran, we can feel the sincere feelings of this confidant and pity.
Nine Days Mountain Monastery, East Hedgehog Chrysanthemum is also yellow.
Laymen are more than drunk, who help the tea aroma.
The same ambition is the reason why Lu Yu and Kyaukran's friendship has lasted for so long. Kyaukran lived in seclusion in Huzhou Zhushan Miaoxi Temple for many years, Lu Yu also lived in The Myoki Temple for many years, and with the help of Kyaukran, "the shore of the Jielu River, closed door to the book", Lu Yu began to write the "Tea Classic".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="77" > Lu Yu's personality traits</h1>
The bumpy experience did not dampen his heart, but it made him more positive.
Knowing the powerful did not make him so ambitious and chasing fame and fortune, but let him learn how to be indifferent to Mingzhi.
Lu Yu is a real and interesting person. Throughout his life, he despised the powerful, did not value wealth, loved nature, and insisted on justice. He wrote in a poem in the "Song of Six Envy", "Do not envy the golden cup, do not envy the white jade cup, do not envy the dynasty into the province, do not envy the twilight stage, envy the water of the West River, once came down to Jinling City." "This shows his pursuit of life."
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="78" > Lu Yu's Tea Classic</h1>
Those who know Lu Yu should also know his book "Tea Classic". It is precisely because of this "Tea Classic" that Lu Yu has been revered as "Tea Saint" since the Tang Dynasty, which is a huge honor that has never been seen in ancient times.
Chen Shidao wrote in the "Preface to the Tea Classics": "The book of Fu Cha began with Yu, and its use in the world also began with Yu. Yu Makoto has contributed to the tea people also. ShangziGong Province, Xiayi Yili, Wai and Rong Yi Mandi, Bin Qi Yan Xiang, pre-Chen Yuqian. Yamazawa became a city, merchants started with a family, and those who contributed to others also. That is to say, Lu Yu was the first person in the world to write a tea book, which showed his achievements in tea affairs.
However, the world often can only see his glorious side of the honor of "Tea Saint", and it is difficult to imagine that Lu Yu has worked hard for it, which is unimaginable to ordinary people.
Lu Yu's tea art is not innate, but he has heard about the Zhiji Zen master since he was a child, coupled with his talent and wisdom, he has glimpsed the mysteries of tea early. As an adult, he waded through mountains and rivers, and from the foothills of Qixia Mountain to The Amaranth, he accumulated a wealth of knowledge and experience in tea science, and it took him time to write the "Tea Classic".
Lu Yu's "Tea Classic" is very rigorous, don't look at the full text of the "Tea Classic" but 7,000 words, Lu Yu is taken seriously, all tea is personally experienced, "pro-yang and compared", "pro-moxibustion sipping", "chewing and smelling", the Tang Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty before the scientific knowledge and practical experience of tea is systematically summarized.
In the "Tea Classic", Lu Yu comprehensively describes the distribution of tea areas, the growth, planting, picking, manufacturing, and tasting of tea leaves, and there are many famous teas that he first discovered, such as Guzhu Purple Shoot Tea in the Great Wall of Zhejiang (present-day Changxing County), which was rated as a superior tea by Lu Yu and later listed as tribute tea; Yangxian Tea in Yixing County (present-day Yixing, Jiangsu), was directly recommended by Lu Yu to pay tribute.
Lu Yu has a lifelong tea lover, proficient in tea ceremony, long-term investigation and research on tea, familiar with tea cultivation, breeding and processing technology, and good at tea tasting. His "Tea Classic" made tea an independent science and had a profound impact on the world's tea culture.