China's ancient tea-drinking monograph "Tea Story". * * * One roll and one roll. Cai Xiang in the Northern Song Dynasty (1012-1067) was written in the reign of Emperor Yangdi (1049-1053), which was an important monograph on tea science in the Song Dynasty. Cai Xiang specially recommended Beiyuan tribute tea to the emperor because of the Book of Tea by Lu Yu, and wrote a tea record. This book is divided into two parts. The first part discusses tea, including color separation, aroma, taste, Tibetan tea, fried tea, ground tea, Luo tea, Hou tea, light tea and tea ordering, and mainly discusses the quality and cooking methods of tea soup. The next part discusses the utensils, which are divided into nine stages: tea baking, tea cage, anvil, tea bell, tea mill, tea tray, teacup, teaspoon and soup bottle. It is the most influential tea monograph after Lu Yu's Tea Classic.
Cai Xiang (1065438+March 7, 2002-1September 27, 067) was named Mo Jun. Xinghua Army was born in Caikeng, Lianjiang, Tangan Township (now Caikeng Natural Village, Jiushe Village, Fengting Town, Xianyou County, Fujian Province). Famous officials in the Northern Song Dynasty, calligraphers, writers and tea scientists.
In the eighth year of Song Renzong Tiansheng (1030), Cai Xiang became the first scholar, and successively served as a proofreader in Guange, an admonition institute, a straight history museum, an imperial edict, a straight bachelor in Longtuge, a straight bachelor in Privy Council and an academician. When he was an remonstrator in North Korea, he was famous for his outspoken. I went out several times and learned about Quanzhou, Fuzhou and Kaifeng. After Song Yingzong acceded to the throne, he was granted three ambassadors, and later learned about Hangzhou as a bachelor of Duanming Temple. Cai Xiang died in the fourth year of Zhiping (1067). Tired of Shao Shi, posthumous title "loyalty".
Cai Xiang is an honest official, and he has made achievements everywhere he goes. When I was in Fuzhou, I went to the folk to harm people; When I was in Quanzhou, I presided over the construction of Luoyang Bridge with you. When the People's Republic of China was founded, it advocated planting 700-mile post-road pine from Fuzhou to Zhangzhou, and presided over the production of Beiyuan tribute tea "Xiaolong Group". The book "Tea Story" summarizes the experience of making and tasting tea in ancient times. Litchi Spectrum is known as "the world's first taxonomic work on fruit trees".
Cai Xiang is good at calligraphy, and he is also known as a famous calligrapher in Song Dynasty with Su Shi, Huang Tingjian and Mi Fei. His calligraphy is excellent, especially "flying white and scattering grass". There are inscriptions handed down from ancient times on Wan 'anqiao and Zhou Jintang, and the ink is Xie Shu Shi and calligraphy manuscripts.