The Significance of Lu Yu's Tea Classic

Lu Yu's Tea Classic is one of the representative works of ancient Chinese tea studies, and it is called the "mother of tea classics", which has a far-reaching influence and significance on China and even the world tea culture.

1. promotes the development and spread of tea culture. Lu Yu's Tea Classic is the first complete and systematic work on tea science in the history of China. The variety, material selection, production, maintenance and drinking of tea are introduced comprehensively, which has become an important part of China tea culture and is widely spread all over the world.

2. Guide the standardization of tea quality. Lu Yu advocated the three elements of "smell, taste and shape" and emphasized that every process was strict, which laid the foundation for the formation of "tea ceremony" later.

3. Improve people's understanding and drinking level of tea. Lu Yu suggested that different teas should have different drinking methods and utensils, and introduced many varieties, characteristics and purchasing methods of tea, which made people have a deeper understanding of tea culture and improved people's tea culture literacy and tea tasting level.

4. Guided the development of social culture. Lu Yu's Tea Classic advocates "simplicity" and advocates advocating nature and cherishing resources, which is of great significance to promoting social and cultural development.

5. This is of great significance to the development and inheritance of tea art. Lu Yu's Tea Classic has important guiding significance for tea artists to learn and inherit tea art, and also has a positive role in promoting the innovative development of tea art.

In a word, Lu Yu's Tea Classic has a far-reaching influence and a great impetus on China's tea culture, tea art and tea industry. It is not only a treasure in China's cultural treasure house, but also a pearl in the world cultural exchange.