Lu Yu's Tea Classic is the crystallization of ancient tea people's diligent study, assiduous study, painstaking exploration and indomitable spirit. Treating guests with tea instead of wine, "a cup of green tea is intoxicating" is a true embodiment of the Chinese nation's cherishing the fruits of labor and thrift.
The social functions of tea culture with tea characters as the head are "thinking about the source of tea, entertaining guests with tea, making friends with tea, socializing with tea, being honest with tea, educating people with tea, replacing wine with tea, keeping fit with tea, entering poetry with tea, entering art with tea, painting with tea, dancing with tea, singing songs with tea, rejuvenating culture with tea, giving gifts with tea, promoting agriculture with tea and promoting tea".
Tea is the pride of China, the self-esteem, self-confidence and pride of the nation. You can think of the source when you drink tea. Dr Joseph Needham, a world-famous historian of science and technology, regards China tea as the fifth greatest contribution to mankind after the four great inventions of China.
Character introduction:
Lu Yu (about 733-804) was born in Jingling, Fuzhou (now Tianmen City, Hubei Province) in the Tang Dynasty. Born in Ji Dynasty, he is famous for Jinglingzi, Sangzhuweng and Donggangzi, also known as "Chashan Imperial History". Tea scientists in Tang Dynasty were called "tea fairy", "Cha Sheng" and "Tea God".
Lu Yu is humorous by nature and has a close relationship with Li Jilan, a poetess and monk. Lu Yu loved tea all his life and was good at tea ceremony. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty (760), Lu Yu lived in Tiaoxi (now Huzhou, Zhejiang) and wrote three volumes of Tea Classic, which discussed the characteristics, quality, origin, planting, collection, cooking and drinking, utensils and so on of tea. Become the first tea monograph in the world.