Is it just a pot?
What modern people call a "tea set". Mainly refers to teapots, teacups and other tea drinking utensils. Actually, there are only a handful of modern tea sets. But the ancient concept of "tea set" seems to refer to a wider range. According to Pi Rixiu, a writer in the Tang Dynasty, the types of tea sets listed in "Ten Odes on Tea Sets" are "tea dock, tea man, tea bamboo shoots, tea sticks, teahouses, tea stoves, tea baking, tea ding, tea ou and boiled tea." Among them, "tea dock" refers to the concave land where tea is planted. "Tea man" refers to tea pickers. For example, the Book of Tea says, "Tea people use tea sets to pick tea."
A "teapot" is a kind of appliance packed in boxes and cages. Tang Lugui dreamed of writing a poem "The Poem of Tea Storehouse", "The golden knife splits Cui Yun like a ripple weave." It can be seen that "tea barn" is a kind of tea set woven with bamboo and twill, and "teahouse" refers to the small hut where tea people live. One day in Pi Rixiu's Tea House Poetry in the Tang Dynasty, "Yang Yachen lived in the house for a few days, and the shed was filled with red springs, and the firewood fern was fried before baking. After Weng studied tea, women in China took a tea break, covered each other with firewood, and filled the mountains with incense. The poem describes the tea-making process in which people in teahouses bake, grind, stir-fry and pat tea.
The ancients used a stove (charcoal stove) to cook tea. Since the Tang Dynasty, the stove for boiling tea has been called "tea stove". The Biography of Lu Guimeng in the Tang Dynasty said that he lived in Songjiang House and didn't like to associate with the common customs. Although he built a door, he refused to see it. He didn't ride a horse or take a boat. All day, he just "pitched a tent for dinner." A pile of books and tea stoves. Yang Wanli, who claimed to be a "scattered man" and was known as one of the "Four Wonders" after the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote the words "a bed, a tea stove, a earthen pot and a rattan statue". Chen Tao, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in Poems on Purple Bamboo: "The fragrance enters the tea stove, and the game is quiet and straight. "It can be seen that the literati in the Tang and Song Dynasties can't do without the' tea stove' whether they study or play chess, and the tea stove is combined with the pen bed and earthen basin. It can be seen that the' tea stove' has been a daily necessity since the Tang Dynasty.
In ancient times, the appliance for drying tea leaves was called "baking tea". According to "History of Song Dynasty, Geography", "There is Beiyuan Baked Tea in Jian 'an. "It's famous, and according to the Book of Tea, baked tea is a kind of bamboo weaving, and it is wrapped in Indocalamus leaves. Because the leaves have the function of collecting fire, you can avoid roasting the tea leaves yellow. If the tea leaves are placed on a tea baking tray, it is required to bake at a low temperature, so as not to destroy the color and fragrance of the tea leaves.
In addition to the tea set illustrated above. Tea can also be found in various ancient books: teapot, teapot, tea house, tea mortar, tea cabinet, tea press, tea trough, tea basket, tea board, saucer, tea bag, tea spoon, teaspoon and so on. How many kinds of tea sets are there? According to "Friends of Cloud Creek", "Twenty-four things Lu Yu made tea sets." According to Ten Teasets and Friends of Yunxi, writers of the Tang Dynasty, there were at least 24 kinds of ancient tea sets. The concept of "tea set" mentioned in this historical material is very different from today.