The monk’s handwriting is very eye-catching and the tea he prepares is delicious. What’s the reason?

You must know that there are temples in all the famous mountains in the world, and most of these famous mountains produce good tea. Therefore, the monks can pick the best tea due to their geographical advantages. At the same time, a good environment is also more conducive to tea production. Tea collection. Monks usually need to copy scriptures, so under the influence of the two factors, most of the tea collected by monks is good tea, and they can also write good calligraphy.

Buddhism was first introduced to China from India. When they entered China and took root, they also learned the habit of drinking tea from traditional Chinese Taoism. You must know that in Taoism, Taoist priests pursue alchemy in order to achieve immortality. However, the monks emphasize that the four elements are all empty, so the Buddhism introduced to China did not learn from Taoism to develop the habit of alchemy, but instead learned from them to develop the habit of drinking tea.

Most of the temples are built on mountains, which focus on escaping from the world, so there are often some ancient tea trees in these high mountains. With the convenience of this location, they can produce very good tea. For example, Weishan Maojian, which is now very famous in Ningxiang, was originally promoted by monks and has become a very important source of local economic and financial revenue. It is this cycle that makes people usually think that monks have good tea. If they know how to drink tea and give a good review to a certain tea, the value of the tea will double. In addition, tea sage Lu Yu was adopted by monks from the temple when he was a child. So when he was growing up, he must have been deeply influenced by the monks' habit of drinking tea.

In addition to daily practice and meditation, monks also have an important task of copying Buddhist scriptures. In the process of copying, their calligraphy is also constantly practiced, such as monk Huaisu and monk Hongyi. The names of others are very famous.