Introduction to the classics of tea science, China in the classics of tea

China is the homeland of tea and the birthplace of the world's tea culture. As early as the pre-Qin period, there was a custom of drinking tea in the southern region of China, and in the Tang Dynasty, the trend of drinking tea became more and more popular. In order to meet the needs of social and economic development and people's lives, Lu Yu (the word Hongchuan) summed up the accumulated knowledge and experience about tea during his settlement in Huzhou, Zhejiang, and wrote the "Book of Tea".

For more than 1,200 years before the advent of the Book of Tea, tea has not only been integrated into the daily life of the Chinese people, but also closely related to the national economy and people's livelihood. Nowadays, the small tea has become a big industry that drives people's livelihood in the revitalization of rural areas, turning barren mountains into mountains of gold and silver. At the same time, tea is still opening up to the world, becoming the world's top three non-alcoholic beverages, and the "Book of Tea" has been translated into many languages, promoting cultural and economic exchanges between China and foreign countries.

The earliest and most complete book on tea: The Book of Tea.

In 760 A.D., in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, Lu Yu lived in seclusion in Tiaoxi and wrote three volumes of the Book of Tea, which is the earliest, most complete and most comprehensive introduction to tea in China and even the world, and is known as the encyclopedia of tea, written by Lu Yu in the Tang Dynasty.

This book is a comprehensive treatise on the history, origin, current situation, production technology, tea drinking skills, and principles of tea production, and is an epoch-making monograph on tea science, an incisive agricultural work, and a book that expounds tea culture. The elevation of ordinary tea to a wonderful cultural art has promoted the development of Chinese tea culture.

The Book of Tea is a comprehensive treatise on the history, origin, current situation, production technology, tea drinking skills, and principles of tea art of tea production, and expounds the book of tea culture. After the appearance of the "Book of Tea", it promoted the popularity of the tea ceremony, and affected all aspects of politics, economy, culture and life afterwards, becoming one of the three major tea books in the world.

The Book of Tea is a book of more than 7,000 words, divided into 3 volumes, with a total of 10 chapters. The Book of Tea systematically summarizes the development, production, processing, and tasting of tea before the middle of the Tang Dynasty, and deeply explores the cultural connotation of tea drinking, thus elevating tea drinking from daily habits to the level of art and aesthetics.

Specifically, the three sections of the first volume are divided into "the source of one", "the tool of two", and "the creation of three". The section of the middle volume is "The Instrument of Scum Envy Li Si". The six sections of the next volume are respectively "Five Boils", "Six Drinks", "Seven Things", "Eight Out", "Nine Strategies" and "Ten Pictures".

The earliest and most comprehensive introduction to tea is the Book of Tea.

Introduction to the Book of Tea:

It is the first special work on tea in China. Written by Lu Yu in the Tang Dynasty. The content of the book is divided into 10 categories, namely the source of one, the tool of two, the creation of three, the vessel of four, the boiling of five, the drink of six, the matter of seven, the emergence of eight, the strategy of nine, and the diagram of ten.

Among them, "One Source" pointed out that tea originated in southern China, and discussed the ecological environment, characteristics and selection of tea trees.

"Two utensils", describing the utensils used for tea picking; "Three Creations", describing the processing process and methods of tea; "Eight out", record the origin of various teas. These are all within the scope of agronomy, and the book introduces the cooking and drinking methods of tea, tea utensils, and even anecdotes about tea drinking, which is too brief, but more comprehensive and systematic.

The New Tang Dynasty Book Lu Yu Biography said that the "Book of Tea" "says that the origin, the law, and the tools of tea are especially prepared, and the world is good to know and drink tea". This book has been widely circulated, and there are many engraved copies, even in Japan, and it has been included in various series of books since the Ming Dynasty. Lu Yu's "Tea Sutra Limb Grip" was the first to open the trend, some people praised Lu Yu as the "God of Tea", and since then, tea books have continued to appear, about 100 kinds.

The origin of tea and the preparation of tea:

Origin of tea: Tea is an excellent tree in the south of our country. It's one foot, two feet tall.

Some are even tens of feet high. In the area of Bashan and Xiachuan, there are tree poles so thick that two people hug each other. The branches have to be cut down to pick the buds and leaves.

The shape of the tea tree resembles a gourd. The leaf is shaped like a gardenia. The flowers are like white roses, and the seeds are like palms.

The stalk is like a clove, and the root is like a walnut.

The structure of the word "tea" is from the "grass" part (written as "tea"), some from the "wood" part (written as "wood"), and some from both "grass" and "wood" (written as "荼"). There are five kinds of names: one is called "tea", the second is called "槚", the third is called "蔎", the fourth is called "tea", and the fifth is called "荈".

Tea picking: Tea picking is in February, March and April (Tang calendar). The buds and leaves, which are as fat as bamboo shoots, grow on the soil with weathered stone fragments, four to five inches long, like the young stems of the weeds and ferns that have just broken through the soil, and they are picked with dew in the morning.

Inferior buds and leaves (short and thin) occur on tea tree branches mixed with plants and trees.

If three, four, or five branches occur from an old branch, choose the one that grows tall among them. On the same day, there is no rain to pick, there are clouds on a sunny day and no picking, sunny days can be picked, picked buds and leaves, they are steamed on the Heng Xingxing retort, smashed with a mortar, put into the model and pressed into a certain shape by hand, then dry, and finally wear into a string, packaged, the tea can be kept dry.

He loved tea all his life, wrote tea all his life, and devoted his life to writing the world's first special book on tea; He was orphaned at the age of three, and had no children and no daughters in his life, but he was a person who enjoyed the warmth of the world. He is Lu Yu, a tea scientist in the Tang Dynasty who is known as the "Tea Saint". On the evening of March 5th, the eighth episode of the second season of "China in the Classics" was broadcast, and the "contemporary reader" Sa Beining traveled through the millennium, leading the audience to read the "Book of Tea" in the fragrance of tea, and to understand the legendary life of Lu Yu's "fine and thrifty".

Tea man, the Jiamu of the South. In ancient Chinese legends, "tea" originated from the Shennong clan and first appeared in the southwest region, carrying the civilization and wisdom of the Chinese nation. As the pioneering work of tea science in China and even the world, the Book of Tea systematically summarized the technology and experience of tea production in the Tang Dynasty and before the Tang Dynasty for the first time, and occupies an incomparably important position in the history of tea culture in China and even the world, and is regarded as a classic of tea culture by later generations.

China is the homeland of tea and the birthplace of the world's tea culture. As early as the Qin period of the ancestors, there was a custom of drinking tea in the southern region of China, and in the Tang Dynasty, the trend of drinking tea became more and more popular. In order to meet the needs of social and economic development and people's lives, Lu Yu summed up the accumulated knowledge and experience about tea during his settlement in Huzhou, Zhejiang, and wrote the "Book of Tea".

The content of the book covers the history and culture related to tea, the technology of tea from production, processing to consumption, and the art of tasting, etc., which makes tea culture rise to a new stage. Ancient.