The explanation of tea, how to understand the word tea in tea

Erya Shicao" - Tu, bitter herbs.

The word "tea" was originally written as "荼", which refers to a kind of bitter herb, and the current word "tea" is derived from the removal of a horizontal aspect of "荼".

The transformation of the word tea.

There is no tea word in the "Nine Classics", or there is no tea in ancient times, and there is no lamp word in the "Nine Classics", and candles are used as lamps in ancient times. So there is no word tea, not really no tea, but with tea also. Not only does the "Nine Classics" have no tea characters, but there are no tea characters in "Banma Characters" at all.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the word "tea" was reduced in vain, and the pronunciation of the word "荼" also changed. Tu, the first tone is the same as the cut, read like a disciple, the so-called poem "who is bitter" is also. Below the Eastern Han Dynasty, the sound house plus (sound break) cut, read if learned; Below the six dynasties, the pronunciation begins to change.

Tang Luyu's "Book of Tea", although the word tea is used, but Tang Daiyue Guan Wang Yuan's inscription is a famous monument, and there are still two words to see the word, which shows that the Tang people have not yet used the word tea. (Qing Xi Shichang's "Xi's Reading and Speaking Texts" Volume 1) can only be described as the sound of the pronunciation, to the beginning of the Liang Dynasty, to the beginning of the Liang Dynasty, the system of tea, to the beginning of the Tang Dynasty to change.

Excerpted from Huang Xianfan, A Preliminary Study on the Interpretation of Ancient Books, Guangxi Normal University Press, 1st Edition, July 2004).

Explain the words. There is no tea word in it, so there is no explanation.

China is one of the four ancient civilizations in the world, and the Chinese characters have a deep symbolic meaning.

The ins and outs of the word "tea": In ancient times, "tea" was called "荼", when was it missing? It was in the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, and a "Kaiyuan Character Yinyi" was compiled with a preface by Tang Xuanzong, and the book was changed from "荼" to "tea".

Who would dare not follow the book of the emperor's preface? After a period of mixed use, the word "tea" completely replaced the word "荼". When Lu Yu wrote "The Book of Tea", he always wrote "tea".

The word "tea" symbolizes longevity: the word tea starts with a cursive character, which is similar to "twenty", the word "person" in the middle is similar to "eight", and the lower part of "wood" can be decomposed into "eighty". "Twenty" plus "eight" and "eighty" equals one hundred and eight years old.

Therefore, the one hundred and eight-year-old man is called "the old man of Chashou". Over time, many people have come to use the word "tea" to represent longevity.

Let the word "tea" return to nature: the word "tea" is composed of three parts: the word "tea", the word "people" and the word "wood", the word "people" is under the grass word and above the word "wood", which means that people are among the grass and trees, who can not drink tea, and it also means to guide human beings to return to nature.

Tea [chá].

Tea leaves, processed from the young leaves of the tea tree, are used for brewing beverages.

The month before the floating beam to buy tea. - Don Bai Juyi, "Pipa Xing (with preface)".

Another example: tea market (tea market).

Interpretation of the word tea: 1Evergreen shrub with oblong, serrated leaves, processed into a drink, that is, tea; Late autumn flowering, white; Seeds can be pressed for oil; Dense wood, for carving: trees. Farming.

2.Specifically refers to "tea": green. Red. Flower. Rivers. Longjing . Oolong .

3.Drinks made from tea leaves: water. Rice. Point (tea, snacks). Talk. Ph.D. (a person who is good at cooking tea, also refers to a tea seller or a tea house waiter). After dinner.

4.Refers to certain beverages in general: soups. Face. Fruit.

5.Refers specifically to "refreshments": early. Late.

Compounds: tea, tea, teacup, tea room, iced tea, tuo tea, tea food, tea farmer, flower tea, tea set, yellow tea, brick tea.

The word tea only appeared in the Tang Dynasty. Before the Tang Dynasty, tea, tu, and yao were used. The earliest dictionary "Erya" says in "Shi Cao" that Tu is a bitter herb.

Erya says in "Shimu" that the tree is bitter. In Luo Yuan's "Erya Wing" of the Song Dynasty, it seems that tea is a generalized concept. He quoted the "Book of Tea" and said that the different kinds of tea, wolfberry, loquat, honey locust, acacia, willow and other buds are available, so the official tea is often mixed with many leaves, "the grass and wood buds in the mountains can enter, and the persimmon is especially strange."

However, there is no such text in the "Book of Tea", but it is said that the tea taste is cold, so it is best to be fine, mixed with flowers and leaves, and you will get sick if you drink it. In the Han Dynasty, no longer use the mawlet, only use tea and tea, pretending to be Shennong's "Shennong's Materia Medica" said that tea is bitter, slightly cold, to phlegm and fire, good for urination, less sleep, and food and lodging. The Book of Tea is divided into three volumes, the upper and the lower, and is divided into ten chapters: source, tool, making, utensils, boiling, drinking, thing, out, omitted, and diagram.

Tasting tea, purple is the first, green is second; It seems that the bamboo shoots are not opened, and the buds are second; The leaf roll is the top, and the stretch is secondary.

Grass and wood people and grass are above, wood is below, and people are in the middle! And for the spirit of tea!

The word "tea" is written in many ways, such as "荼" (chá, tú), 槚 (jiǎ), bitter (kǔ), 荈 (chá, chuǎn), 蔎 (shè), 茗 (míng), etc., except for "荼" which is polyphonic and multi-meaning, and the rest refer to tea.

The word "tea" was first seen in the Tang Dynasty classic book "Materia Medica". It is evolved from the word "荼", and the book "Kaiyuan Character Phonetic Meaning" in the Tang Xuanzong period subtracted one stroke from the word "荼" and set it as a single "tea" word. At the beginning, the word "荼" and the word "tea" were common, and Lu Yu, the tea saint of the Sen Tuan, used the word "tea" when he wrote the "Book of Tea".

The tea tree is originally a woody plant, and the word "荼" that originally meant tea was subtracted by a painting, and "He" was changed to wood to make it worthy of its name. This change can be said to be just right. Therefore, after the Middle Tang Dynasty, that is, in the middle of the ninth century AD, people generally used the word "tea".

In addition to the unified use of the word "tea" in modern times, the word "tea" is used to refer to tea, but the meaning of the so-called "late harvest for tea" in history is completely different, and the word "tea" is used on the occasion, all with elegant and chic meaning.

Before the Qin Dynasty, there was no unified name for tea. In the Han Dynasty, the character Tu began to be borrowed, and its pronunciation came from the Sichuan dialect. In ancient times, Sichuan had two names for tea, the Shu dialect was "bitter" banquet orange, and the Ba dialect was "Jia".

Sima Xiangru (179 BC, 118 BC), a famous scholar of the Western Han Dynasty, was the southwestern Yitong of the Han Dynasty, and his "Fan Jiang Chapter" written in 130 BC is an enlightenment character book. The importance of Chunqiao in the "Fan Jiang Chapter" is that it was the first to list the name of the tea "荈诧", and listed it in a kind of enlightenment reading along with other medicinal materials with medicinal properties. The word "荈" is a special word called "tea" created by him according to the local pronunciation of the Ba people's name for tea, with the official pronunciation of the similar Xun character and the grass head; In order to let everyone know the correct pronunciation, the word "surprise" is phonetic, which is the origin of the current tea sound.

荼: It is the most used word to represent tea in ancient times, and the word "荼" in ancient times is a polyphonic and multi-semantic word, which does not specifically represent tea. The word "荼" was first seen in the Book of Songs.

The Book of Poetry, Ye Feng · Gu Feng has the sentence "who says that it is bitter, and it is as sweet as camelina", and the earliest clear that the word "Tu" contains the meaning of tea is "Erya", and Xu Shen of the Eastern Han Dynasty also said in "Shuo Wen Jie Zi": "Tea, bitter tea." "Tu" is the word "tea" today.

Tea: It is the local sound of "tea" in Yunnan, which was used for tea in the Eastern Han Dynasty and is the elegant name of tea.

槚 (jiǎ): The ancient word for "tea" from wood, referring to the tea tree.

Xun: From the grass, it refers to the tea leaves that are picked late.

蔎 (shè): It is a common saying for tea in western Sichuan in ancient times.

China is one of the four ancient civilizations in the world, and the Chinese characters have a deep symbolic meaning.