There are "poetry immortals" and "poetry saints" in the poetry world, and there are also "tea saints" Lu Yu, who should be well known, but "tea immortals" may be little known. He is the protagonist of this part - Lu Tong.
Lu Tong (795–835), courtesy name Yuchuanzi, was a poet of the mid-Tang Dynasty and a native of Fanyang (in present-day Zhuozhou, Hebei), who was a descendant of Lu Zhaolin, one of the Four Masters of the Early Tang Dynasty.
Poet of Suffering
suffering poet
In his early years, Lu Tong lived in seclusion in Shaomu Mountain, studied hard, read the history of the classics, and wrote fine poems, and his poetic style was strange and sinister, and he was self-contained in the poetry world, known as "Lu Tong Body". The existing "Yuchuanzi Poetry Collection" has been handed down and is one of the important figures of the Han Mengshi school.
Many of his poems reflect the corrupt government and people's livelihood at that time, and are deeply related to Li Yuan.
Portrait of Lu Tong
In addition to tasting tea, he did not forget the hardships of Cangsheng:
Ann learned that hundreds of billions of lives fell on the cliff and suffered!
So he asked Cangsheng for advice, will he still have to rest in the end?
(Excerpt from "Walking Pen Xie Meng's Advice to Send New Tea")
When watching the release of the fish, I sighed:
The official position of the assassin is small, and the indoctrination has not been applied.
The first is not close to the man, and the wicked man is only mouthy.
The first mo out of the country, four realms and multiple nets.
Seriously injured shi xin, lost his body slightly.
(Excerpt from "Watching the Fish Song")
When sending off friends, I feel nostalgic:
BoLing is not tired of the mountain, and the mountain does not raise Boling.
There are trees in the pines, and there are no grasses on the stones.
I couldn't bear to have a six-foot body, so I made a southeast trip.
The princes ate all the flesh and swallowed the eight hongqi with great strength.
(Excerpt from "Yangzhou Sends BoLing Across the River")
Such a talented person, his life path is not smooth and smooth, like his poetic style, his life past is also difficult and obscure, and his perception of people's livelihood is actually a voice for his own uneven situation.
In "Sad New Year", it is written:
What is the saddest thing in the New Year, the sick listen to a hundred tongues.
Too old to swim only peach and plum trail, spring wind is willing to manage the cold branches of the year.
The poem "Sense of The Ancients" reads:
What is precious in life, there is an end to what is precious.
Yesterday's surplus, this day's flaws.
The poem "Self-Chant" reads:
Flesh and bones are thin and thin, and lettuce is old and old.
Family letters and hearts, accompanied by the flow of years.
In fact, the closure of his career is also his own choice, which is caused by his personality. Lu Tong did not love Shi jin, his family was poor, and he only relied on the neighboring monks to send rice to survive, and he did not change his color. Asked why, his poem "Miscellaneous" has a good answer:
It is not a blessing to be turned into a curse, and a misfortune to become a curse to the family is also broken.
Yesterday's sorrow was not as good as the king, and today's sorrow is not as good as me.
No Tai Jiaojia has no fixed master, lazy to learn the wind and clouds.
Green wine kiev is good for health, and it will be taken out of phase without heart.
Three or five books old speculation, five thousand new moral rules.
Some people may think that it is because he does not have the opportunity to enter the career that he is not seeking the career, but it is not. Lu Tong was a clean and upright man, and he had already made a name for himself, and the imperial court had twice treated him as a counselor, but he did not take office. Many of his friends included dignitaries, and many of them wanted to introduce him, but he refused, which showed that his lifelong pursuit was not in the official arena.
But history seems to be playing a joke with us, and the curtain call of Lu Tong, a poet, is difficult to accept. He lived in the period when the eunuchs were in power, and although he had no intention of advancing, he inevitably lost his life in the eunuch's struggle for power, and died innocently and tragically in the "change of manna".
At that time, Lu Tong happened to have dinner with several staff members of the chancellor Wang Ya in the Xiangfu Library and stayed here. Late at night, the officials secretly arrested Lu Tong, who stayed in the library, as a kind of person who opposed the eunuchs, and although Lu Tong kept explaining, it was still to no avail, and he was eventually implicated and killed.
The trajectory of Lu Tong's life came to an abrupt end at the age of forty.
Obsessed with tea fairy
stubborn tea fairy
Lu Tong was slightly lonely and unknown in the Tang Dynasty, where poets were born, but he became famous for tea tasting. Like Lu Yu, he is also a persistent tea person and has a deep study of tea.
Lu Tong and Lu Yu are equally famous, Lu Yu wrote the "Tea Classic", and similarly, Lu Tong also had a tea science work - "Tea Recipe". Therefore, Lu Tong was also honored by later generations as a "tea fairy".
Lu Tong's popularity in the tea industry is also related to his "Seven Bowls of Tea Song". This poem is actually the third part of "Walking Pen Xie Mengzhi To Send New Tea", because it is too famous, and it is listed separately later. Reading through the whole poem, Lu Tong's cheerful mood when drinking tea seemed to jump on the paper.
One bowl of throat kissing, 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 and bone clear, six bowls of fairy spirit.
Seven bowls can not eat also, only to feel the two armpits to practice the breeze.
A bowl of tea can moisten the throat and quench thirst; two bowls of tea can break the loneliness and boredom; the third bowl is like the waves of the rivers; to the fourth bowl of sweat seeps out, the hardships of life, the lack of yin and yang, and other things are dissipated from the pores, and the body and mind are peaceful; then drink the fifth bowl, there is a light spirit that has been reborn; after drinking the sixth bowl, it is already otherworldly and ethereal; when the seven bowls of tea are all drunk, ah, the two armpits are clean and the wind has been practiced, and the immortals have been feathered.
This tea poem is not only widely praised in China, but also famous in Japan, and has evolved into a Japanese tea ceremony with "throat kissing, breaking the loneliness, searching the intestines, sweating lightly, clearing the muscles and bones, immortal spirits, and fresh winds". The Japanese revere Lu Tong so much that they often compare it to Lu Yu, the "tea saint".
Love tea, Lu Tong is serious, it can be said that he loves to the bone, it is simply to the extent of "I would rather have no food than no tea". In addition to the "Seven Bowls of Tea Song" mentioned above, his life is full of tea shadows, which we can glimpse from his poems.
When remembering friends:
The wind of the pine trees at the top of the Junjia Mountain is suitable for entering my bamboo forest.
A piece of new tea breaks the nose, please junsu to help me rejoice.
(Excerpt from "Reminiscence of the Golden Goose Mountain Shen ShanRen Two Songs")
In the poem written to his son, he also did not forget to mention tea:
Su Shu did not even know the rice, and Nichigao began to enter a bowl of tea.
The Qi Li Dragon was white in the middle of the night, and he was annoyed by Tim Ding Mo.
(Excerpt from "Shi Tian Ding")
In the gift poem, it is also written:
Taishan Road is not far away, and it is powerless to shelter each other.
If you go with me, there will be Sencha.
(Excerpt from "Twenty Poems of Xiao Zhao's Second and Third Sons' Gifts: Ke Xie Zhu")
People who love tea are also indispensable to love tea fun, and Lu Tong has the story of boiling tea in peach blossom spring water for the world to talk about.
In an era when tea varieties and tastes were not very rich, Lu Tong could drink very little tea, and he did not like the local chrysanthemum tea and Dongling tea, believing that they lacked the beauty of bitterness. Accompanied by the tea of the favor, this matter also made Lu Tong quite upset.
When his friend Han Yue heard about it, he took Lu Tong to pick some bamboo leaves in the bamboo forest and suggested that they be made into tea to try. As a result, the bamboo skewers are not brewed, and the brewed tea is bitter and astringent. The bitterness of this tea taste made Lu Tong quite dissatisfied, and after a long time, the bitterness in his mouth still did not recede, so he proposed to go out to check the spring water. Han Yu then saw that every time Lu Tong went to a spring, he would drink water, and as a result, after fifty-five springs were read, Lu Tong's stomach was bulging, making people cry and laugh.
Lu Tong completely ignored Han Yu's teasing, buried his head and continued to study the spring water, he asked people to scoop out a scoop of peach blossom spring water, and cooked bamboo leaf tea again for Han Yue to taste. After Han Yu tasted it, he was pleasantly surprised, and it turned out that this tea was sweet and bitter after being boiled in the sweet spring water of peach blossom spring, elegant and long, and had a unique taste.
With this discovery, they invited other friends to come to Peach Blossom Spring to make tea for gifts.
Write at the end
write at the end
Lu Tong is both a suffering poet and a persistent tea man. Life is not easy for him, and society gives him injustice, but the future generations have given him the evaluation he deserves. He was great, and his name was destined to be written greatly in the annals of history.
Chang Yi adheres to the spirit of tea science of lu tong and other tea pioneers, selects good tea, gives back to tea friends, and injects strength into the revival of tea culture.
Welcome everyone to pay attention to us and start the journey of loving tea together.