1, tea:
Lu Yu's Tea Classic records that his characters come from grass, wood or vegetation. Its name is tea, tea, tea, tea, tea, tea. In ancient historical materials, there are many names of tea, but "tea" is the correct name, and the word "tea" was generally written as "tea" before the middle Tang Dynasty. The word "tea" has the property of polysemy, that is to say, tea is only one of them.
Due to the development of tea production, the popularity of drinking tea is getting higher and higher, and the frequency of using tea characters is getting higher and higher. Later, in order to express the meaning of tea more clearly, folk writers subtracted a stroke from the word "tea" and it became the word "tea" we see now.
2. hey:
Many poems after the Tang Dynasty mentioned tea. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, Su Shi had a poem: "Good tea is always like a beauty." Jiao Ran, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in "The Banquet between the Water Hall and the Judge of the Land": "Love your noble spirit, and brew tea fishes."
3. Qing friends:
In the Song Dynasty, Su Yijian's Four Books contained "Ye Jia, whose name is quiet, was Mr. Yuchuan. Friends, that is, tea ",and so on. In the Tang Dynasty, Yao He tasted tea and said, "Keep friends in the bamboo and sit in the sunset in the wind." Drinking tea in bamboo, intoxicated by the beautiful nature, was considered elegant by the ancients.
4, no night:
Another name for tea is the personification of tea. Because tea can refresh me, I can't sleep at night after drinking it. Hu Jiao's "Drinking Tea": "The old name of Zhan Ya is Yu Gan, and I can't wait to sleep."
The origin and development of "Chinese tea history";
1, origin:
Tea has been absorbed by other countries in China's foreign cultural communication, among which Japanese tea ceremony and British black tea are the best representatives of tea localization in China. Tea originated in China, which is popular all over the world and deeply loved by people all over the world.
The book Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica says: "Shennong tasted a hundred herbs and encountered 72 poisons a day, and solved it with tea." Legend has it that in order to treat the people, Shennong did not hesitate to personally verify the medicinal properties of vegetation, went through hardships and tasted herbs all over the world. He was 72 poisons a day, his tongue was numb and dizzy, and his life was dying.
A cool breeze blew, bringing fragrance, and a few fresh leaves fell from Ran Ran. Shennong took them in his hand and chewed them in his mouth. He felt refreshed and comfortable, and all the poison was solved at once. In this way, Shennong discovered tea. In the Tang Dynasty, Cha Sheng Lu Yu's Tea Classic also said: "Tea is a drink, which originated from Shennong."
2, the development of tea:
In 2020, the United Nations General Assembly announced that May 2 1 day will be designated as "International Tea Day" every year. In order to praise the economic, social and cultural value of tea and promote the sustainable development of global agriculture. Shennong era: It is said that Shennong discovered the detoxification function of tea more than 5,000 years ago, and the medicinal and edible characteristics of tea have been used by human beings since then.