Appreciation of various calligraphy fonts of tea characters
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The origin of tea
Changes of "Tea" and "Tea"
There is no tea in the Nine Classics, or it is suspected that there was no tea in ancient times. I didn't know there was no light in the Nine Classics. In ancient times, candles were used as lights. So there is no word tea, not really no tea, but tea is used as tea. Not only does the Nine Classics have no tea characters, but the Banma characters also have no tea characters. Until the Tang Dynasty, a picture of a tea character was arbitrarily restored, thinking it was a tea character, and the pronunciation of tea also changed. Tea, with the same initial sound, reads like a disciple. So is the so-called "who says tea is bitter" in the poem. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yinfu was cut down,
Reading discussion; After the Six Dynasties, pronunciation began to change. Although Tang Lu Yu wrote the Book of Tea, although he used the word "tea", Tang Daiyue saw Wang Yuan's inscription on the tablet, but there are still two words of tea, which shows that Tang people have not used all the words of tea. (Xi Shichang's Xi Reading Notes in Qing Dynasty, Volume I) can only be described by the sound reading of tea, and the tea system has changed from Liang Shi to Tang Shi. (Excerpted from Huang Xianfan's A Preliminary Study on the Interpretation of Ancient Books, Guangxi Normal University Press, July 2004,No. 1 Edition)
The germination of the word "tea" simplified from "tea" originated in the Han Dynasty. In ancient printing in China, some words of "tea" have been subtracted and changed into the shape of "tea". Not only the font, but also the pronunciation of "tea" was established in the Western Han Dynasty. For example, Chaling in Hunan was once the territory of Liu Xin in the Western Han Dynasty, commonly known as "Tea City", and was one of the subordinate counties of Changsha 13 at that time, and was called "Chaling County". In Hanshu? The "tea" in the "Tea" Mausoleum in Geographical Records was noted by Yan Shigu as: the sound is extravagant and rebellious, and the sound is arrogant and rebellious. This inverted phonetic notation is the pronunciation of the word "tea" now. Judging from this phenomenon, the pronunciation of the word "tea" was established earlier than the establishment of the word "tea", thus spreading to the world.
China is vast in territory and abundant in natural resources, with many nationalities and different languages. The same thing has many names, and there are many ways to write the same name. On behalf of the word tea, there are Ming characters.
There are many names about tea in ancient historical materials. By the middle Tang Dynasty, the sound, shape and meaning of tea had tended to be unified. Later, due to the wide spread of Lu Yu's Tea Classic, the shape of "tea" was further established until today.
In the ancient literature of China, there are long records about eating tea, and they vary with different places of origin.
The name of. China's tea spread abroad as early as the Western Han Dynasty. When Emperor Wu sent envoys to zhina Peninsula, he brought with him not only gold, brocade and silk, but also tea. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, China tea was exported to Turkey together with silk and porcelain.
The widespread popularity of tea can also be verified. Tea was widely consumed at all levels of society, probably after Lu Yu's Tea Classic was handed down in the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, there is a poem in the Song Dynasty that "since Lu Yu was born, the world has learned from each other's strengths and made spring tea". That is to say, after tea was discovered, 1000 years was unknown to the public.
Effect of tea
Tea can help digestion, relieve boredom, reduce fire, improve eyesight, soothe nerves, relieve annoyance, clear away heat and toxic materials, promote fluid production and quench thirst. Tea polyphenols contained in tea have strong antioxidant and physiological activity, and are scavengers of human free radicals, which can block the synthesis of various carcinogens such as ammonium nitrite in the body. It can also absorb radioactive substances to achieve the effect of radiation protection, thus protecting women's skin. Washing your face with tea can also remove greasy on your face, [2] astringe pores and slow down skin aging.
Compendium of Materia Medica is a monograph on pharmacology written by Li Shizhen of China in Ming Dynasty (15 18 ~ 1593), which was written in the sixth year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty (1578). Li Shizhen himself likes drinking tea, saying, "Every time you drink new tea, you have to drink several bowls". Tea is discussed in detail in the book. The tea part is divided into four parts: Ming Shi, Jie Ji, tea and tea seeds. It describes the ecology of tea trees, tea production and cultivation methods in various places. And recorded the pharmacological effects of tea in detail. It is said: "Tea tastes bitter and cold, and the yin in the yin can sink and fall, which can best reduce the fire. Fire is a disease, but when it falls, it will clear up. However, there are five fires, false and true. People who are bitter, young, strong and healthy have more fires in their hearts, lungs, spleen and stomach and are suitable for drinking tea. " "Tea is mainly used to treat acute cough and excessive phlegm." People think that tea has the function of clearing away fire and eliminating diseases.
As early as Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, there was a record that "tea tastes bitter, and drinking it makes people think better and feel less", and it was also recorded that "Shennong tasted a hundred herbs and encountered seven or two poisons every day, and solved it with tea". "Tang Herbal Medicine" said: "Tea tastes sweet and bitter, slightly cold and non-toxic, which can remove phlegm and clear heat, eliminate overnight eating and facilitate urination." Zhang Zhongjing, a famous doctor in Han Dynasty, said: "Tea is very effective in treating purulent blood." People in China still have the habit of using tea to treat dysentery and enteritis.
If tea leaves are mixed with drugs or food to make medicinal tea, the curative effect will be better. For example, ginger tea is used to treat dysentery, mint tea and Sophora japonica leaf tea are used to clear heat, orange tea is used to relieve cough, lotus heart tea is used to stop dizziness, Sanxian tea is used to promote digestion, and Qiju tea is used to nourish the liver.