He is fond of tea and is known as a "tea fairy"
Wrote a "Continuation of the Tea Sutra"
Even the General Catalogue of the Four Libraries called it very practical
He was a native of Nanxiang, Jiading during the Qing Dynasty
Lu Yancan
Lu Yancan served as the county commander and alternate chief of Chong'an County in Fujian Province, equivalent to the big boss of wuyishan City now. He wrote many books in his lifetime, such as "Continuing Tea Classic", "Yi Ju Zhi", "Nancun Essay" and so on. Among them, the "Continuation of the Tea Sutra" is the most famous.
The "Tea Classic" written by Lu Yu in the Tang Dynasty is the earliest, most complete and most comprehensive monograph on tea in China and even the world, and is known as the encyclopedia of tea. The catalogue of Lu Yancan's "Continuation of tea classics" is exactly the same as that of the "Tea Classic", that is, it is divided into ten categories, such as the source of tea, the utensils of tea, and the creation of tea.
However, from the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, the place of tea production, the method of making tea and the tea cooking utensils have undergone tremendous changes, so the "Continuation of Tea Classic" collects Hongfu and examines the tea materials after the Tang Dynasty. Although the name is "continuation", it is actually a completely independent work. The General Catalogue of the Four Libraries states that the book "has been supplemented one by one, which is quite practical and useful, and the quotation is rich." ”
The Lu family is a good Oxfam family with high cultural attainments. Lu Tingcan's great-grandfather Lu Chunyuan and the anti-Qing warrior Huang Chunyao were friends with Jinlan. When Lu Chunyuan was 60 years old, Huang Chunyao once gave a poem "Shoulu Chunyuan Sixty", in which he said that Lu Chunyuan loved painting and praised him for having the style of "Confucian hero".
Lu Tingcan's father, Lu Peiyuan, lost his father at the age of 6 and was raised by his mother, who was later honored by the imperial court for establishing the Chastity Arch. Lu Peiyuan has a bold personality, is willing to be charitable, and often "gives corn and wheat to the poor" in every year of disaster and famine. In the forty-fourth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Jiading suffered a year of great disaster. Lu Peiyuan donated grain with Cheng Shiyan and Chen Fan, the gentlemen of Lishi Township, and opened a porridge factory in Nanxiang Temple to provide two meals a day for the victims for four months. In the forty-seventh and forty-eighth years of the Kangxi Dynasty, there were serious floods in Jiading for two consecutive years, and Lu Peiyuan actively provided relief to the victims, purchased coffins for the victims who died due to the disaster, and buried them, and did a lot of good deeds.
What is more commendable is that Lu Peiyuan has a high sense of social responsibility and a strong sense of historical mission of traditional scholars, and also actively participated in the "Folding Cao for Silver" movement initiated by Jiading Shimin, contributing money and efforts.
The "Folding for Silver" movement
In the twenty-seventh year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the Kangxi Emperor issued an edict to reduce the land tax, but the household department insisted on not agreeing to the reduction on the grounds that Jiading had already implemented the folding of water, and compared with the neighboring counties, the tax burden of Jiading was much higher. In order to protect the interests of the local economy and people's livelihood, he consulted with The Jiading zhusheng Zhang Ningzhi and Wang Fushi and decided to send representatives to Beijing to defend the reasons to the imperial court and strive for equal treatment between Jiading and other counties in Su Songtai.
After the Jiading deputies arrived in Beijing, they were warmly received and supported by Sun Zhimi and Zhao Yu, a new scholar from Jiading, and Zhao Yu and Sun Zhimi also made a lot of money for the Jiading deputies' activities in Beijing and advanced a huge amount of silver, which Sun Zhimi borrowed from public funds, and afterwards the Jiading squires immediately raised funds and remitted them to Beijing to make up for it. Things went well, the imperial court approved Jiading's appeal, and Jiading rejoiced and rushed to tell each other.
Just as the people were rejoicing and cheering, Cao Ming and Tao Jing, who had sinister intentions, wrote to the Governor of Jiangsu and the Governor of Liangjiang, falsely accusing the relevant people involved in the folding of the water as "anti-tax fraud." Just like a stone stirred up a thousand waves, causing the imperial court to be angry, 36 people were arrested on the spot, and more than three hundred people were arrested, and Lu Peiyuan was also actively involved in this incident, "three years of shocks, several accidents."
Lu Tingcan was influenced by his family since he was a child and made a wish to read and serve the country. When he was still a child, Lu Tingcan was appreciated by Li Zhenyu, the inspector of Jiangnan, with his intelligence and talent. However, after Lu Tingcan's life, he repeatedly failed to succeed, and the road to the imperial examination was quite bumpy and difficult. Later, because of Lu Tingcan's outstanding character and learning, he was admitted as a Gongsheng (during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, those who had excellent grades or qualifications among the students selected from the provinces, prefectures, and counties were enrolled in the Jingshi GuoziJian to study, and they were called "Gongsheng of the Year"). ）。
During his studies in Beijing, Lu Tingcan became acquainted with cultural celebrities such as Wang Shizhen and Song Xi and became a disciple. (Wang Shizhen was a famous poet and literary critic in the early Qing Dynasty.) Song Ji was a famous poet, painter and collector. Together with Wang Shizhen and others, he was known as the "Ten Great Talents" during the Kangxi Dynasty. Under the guidance of Wang Shizhen and Song Jie, Lu Tingcan made great progress in his studies, understood people, and gained the trick of poetry and composition, and gradually developed the mind of "poor people are good at themselves, and reaching out to help the world", as well as a wide range of interests and good ancient and elegant artistic accomplishment.
With the meritorious name of Gongsheng, Lu Tingcan finally embarked on the path of his career. In the forty-sixth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the Kangxi Emperor went down to Jiangnan for the sixth time. On the eighteenth day of the third lunar month of that year, Kangxi summoned officials from the Suzhou area in Suzhou, and Lu Tingcan was also among them. Afterwards, Lu Tingcan made a detailed record of the summons in the "Nancun Essay And Food", and it can be seen from the text that Lu Tingcan was very excited after being summoned by Kangxi and accepting the exquisite snacks given by Kangxi, and even a little flattered, and had the ambition to do something. However, Kangxi's summons was nothing more than a gesture of concern for the officials, and the miracle did not occur, and Lu Tingcan's career did not improve much until 10 years later, when Lu Tingcan's official fortunes took a turn for the better.
In the fifty-sixth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Lu Tingcan was promoted to the post of Commander of Chong'an County (present-day Wuyishan City) in Fujian Province, and when he arrived, people said that he was "dressed and behaved, and he knew that he was not a vulgar official." "During chong'an's tenure, he was diligent in government and loved the people, strict in law, punished evil and promoted good, rewarded cultivation and reading, opened up financial roads, repaired ancient buildings, edited Fang Zhi, and made considerable political achievements. He greatly admired Lu Longqi, a Qing official who had served as a Qing official in Jiadingzhi County 42 years ago, and this Qing official in his hometown was his example, determined to be a Qing official like Lu Longqi.
Lu Tingcan was quite concerned about people's livelihood during his tenure in Chong'an. One day, he strolled to one of the Nine-Curve Creeks, which is the necessary place to enter the Wuyi Mountains and raft the Nine-Curve River to reach the Jianxi. During the Song Dynasty, a "Xiangzhen" pavilion was built for tourists to rest and shelter from the rain, and then collapsed. During the Ming Dynasty, the county ordered Gu Shiqi to spend money on reconstruction. By the time of the Kangxi Dynasty, the pavilion had fallen into disrepair and the pavilion had collapsed. Lu Tingcan decided to rebuild the road pavilion, and this good deed of benefiting the people was well received by the people of Chong'an.
In life, Lu Tingcan originally had a strong interest in tea, he was fond of tea, and was known as a "tea fairy". After arriving in Chong'an, the hometown of tea, it made him feel like a fish in the water. Chong'an Qishan different water, to the rich production of Wuyi tea is famous, since the Song dynasty has always been a famous tea production area, after the Ming, Wuyi Mountain area and continue to improve the tea picking process, creating a Wuyi rock tea as the representative of the oolong tea, the product is deeply favored by southern Fujian and Guangzhou, Chaoshan tea people.
Soon after Lu Tingcan arrived in the tea village of Chong'an, he had the idea of writing a tea monograph, and in the 6 years of Chong'an, he went deep into the tea country to prepare a lot of materials. He said: "Yu sex is fond of tea, lack of Chong'an, suitable for Wuyi tea production land." The duty system of the manchu gong, solemnly into the offering, the source of the source, every tea matter inquiry, consult the books, in addition to Wuyi, every more see and hear, because of the thought of collecting as the "continuation of the Tea Sutra" move. ”
In order to deeply understand the tea culture, he traveled through the mountains and rivers of Wuyi, went deep into the tea garden tea farmers many times, visited the old farmers, mastered the methods of picking, steaming, tasting soups, and waiting for fire, gradually gained its essence, and drew a lot of knowledge about various tea leaves from the books, and at the same time sorted out the manuscripts about tea leaves, and began to compile the "Continuation of Tea Classics".
He said in the "Continuation of the Tea Classic" that "the martingale of the thin book, the ambition is not left behind, and the amount of money is moved, the text goes to the ministry, the sick home, the old manuscript is read, and the resignation is not tolerated, and the order is the order." "Xian Shan Xian Ling lived for six years", the hometown literary friend Zhang Yufang admired Lu Tingcan's unremitting persistence for six years, as well as his pragmatic and pragmatic scientific spirit, and composed the poem "Manting Xiaozhao TongShan Supplementing the Scenery with Wuyi Landscapes", praising him.
In the twelfth year of Yongzheng (1734), this work was created during Chong'an's tenure and compiled after guitian, which lasted more than ten years, and the "Continuation Of Tea Classic" of more than 70,000 words was finally published and printed by Shou Chun Tang. From the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, which lasted nearly a thousand years, the place where tea was produced, the method of making tea and the cooking utensils have undergone tremendous changes, and this book collects hongfu and examines the historical materials of tea affairs after the Tang Dynasty, although it is called "continuation", it is actually a completely independent work. Lu Yu's "Tea Classic" is the pioneering work of the tea industry, but the one who has gathered the greatest achievements is the "Continuation of the Tea Classic".
Lu Tingcan served in Chong'an Zhi County for a total of 6 years, until the expiration of kangxi's sixty-first year, because of his remarkable political achievements, the imperial court was ready to let him be promoted, and he was going to be the alternate chief, but he used "many illnesses" to politely resign, asking for leisure, returning to his hometown of Nanxiang, and concentrating on reading and writing for the rest of his life. In view of Lu Tingcan's character and political achievements, the Chong'an Local Chronicle listed him as a "famous sage", calling him "clean and loving the people, and saying goodbye to Shu Shu." Lu Tingcan is also full of feelings for Chong'an, and his name "Manting Pavilion" is taken from the scenic mantle pavilion peak in Chong'an County, indicating that he is very nostalgic for the mountains and rivers of Chong'an.
The "Continuation of Tea Classic" has had a profound impact on China's tea art, tea culture and tea economy, especially in promoting the tea industry in Fujian Province, which has a unique natural environment of Wuyi Mountain. Fujian is known as the "Kingdom of Tea Plants". There is a saying in the tea industry: the world's tea looks at China, Chinese tea looks at Fujian, and Fujian tea looks at northern Fujian. Many places in the "Continuation of Tea Classic" have written about the tea affairs in and around Wuyi Mountain, the planting of tea, the production techniques of oolong tea, the efficacy of Wuyi tea, etc., which have preserved a large number of rare tea culture historical materials for Wuyi Mountain. The Wuyi people have great respect for Lu Tingcan, and they take Lu Tingcan as their cultural business card and set up the "Lu Tingcan Tea Company".
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