20 15 12 19, Yichang luyu tea culture research society was established and its listing ceremony was held. More than 200 tea culture experts and entrepreneurs from various provinces and cities * * * tasted famous tea, * * * enjoyed the tea ceremony and * * * talked about it.
According to reports, Lu Yu was a famous tea scientist in the Tang Dynasty in China, and was known as "tea fairy", "Cha Sheng" and "Tea God". Yichang, which belonged to Zhou Xia in the Tang and Song Dynasties, was an important tea producing area in history and one of the earliest areas where tea was planted and drunk in China. In his early years, Lu Yu had frequent activities in the Three Gorges, and made a field trip and appreciation of the famous tea and water in Zhou Xia. In his first monograph on tea science in the world, Tea Classic recorded many famous teas in Zhou Xia.
Shi Gending, president of Yichang Luyu Tea Culture Research Association, said that after the establishment of the research association, researchers engaged in tea culture, tea art and tea industry, entrepreneurs who are enthusiastic about Luyu culture, and researchers engaged in tea history and cultural history will be widely recruited. In-depth study on the influence of Lu Yu's tea classics and other tea works in the history of Yichang tea culture, and create literary and artistic works to carry forward Lu Yu's spirit and tea learning activities. Cultivate and transport tea ceremony performance teams inside and outside the city, publicize the spirit of "refined and frugal" tea ceremony, and promote the art of tea tasting that is pleasing to the eye and nourishing the body and mind. Explore outstanding talents in tea culture research and carry out academic exchanges and networking activities.
On the Origin of Luyu Tea Culture
China tea culture is inextricably linked with Buddhism, so are Lu Yu and monks. He was adopted by Zen master Zhiji since childhood, and became friends with Gao Sangjiao in his prime. Jiao Ran was a famous scholar and monk in the middle Tang Dynasty, and also a famous poet and monk. He is Xie Lingyun's tenth grandson. After his death, there were ten volumes of anthology, prefaced by the Prime Minister, and Tang Dezong wrote his anthology in the secret cabinet. Lu Yu met him around the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty and often visited each other or traveled together. Jiao Ran mentioned his friendship with Lu Yu in many places in his poems, describing his cooperation with Lu Yu in tea picking, tea making and tea tasting. Therefore, Lu Yu's tea culture thought absorbed many Buddhist principles.
Lu Yu's friends are not only monks, but also Taoists. One of the most famous is Ye Li. Li, also known as Li, was intelligent and free and easy since childhood, and loved piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Grow up and become a monk and become a Taoist woman. Especially good at metrical poems, she is called "the poetess among girls". In Tianbao room, Xuanzong heard his name and was called into the palace in January. Lu Yu organized a poetry club with Jiao Ran and Che Ling in Tiaoxi, and Li Xiu Landu attended the meeting. Lan Xiu was ill in his later years and lived alone on the island of Taihu Lake. Lu Yu went boating to visit, and Li also wrote poems to express his deep affection for her. Lu Yu dispelled the Taoist Eight Diagrams and the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements in the Book of Tea, reflecting that he was also deeply influenced by Taoism.
Lu Yu is most exposed to poets and bachelors. Among them, the most famous are Huangfu Ran, Huangfu Zeng, Liu Changqing, Lu Xiaonian, Zhang, Geng Kun, Meng Jiao and Dai Shulun. Most of these people are straightforward, ambitious and knowledgeable. Lu Yu once asked who Zhang had been in frequent contact with recently, saying, "Too empty room, bright moon, no different from all the kings in the world!" This shows his thoughts. Its "Fishing Song" says: "Egrets fly in front of Mount Cisse, and peach blossoms flow and mandarin fish are fat. Green bamboo hat, green hemp fiber, no need to return to the oblique wind and drizzle. " Most of Lu Yu's poets advocate the beauty of nature, which has a great influence on Lu Yu's creation of aesthetic artistic conception in the Book of Tea. Geng Kun, one of the "Top Ten Talents in Dali", once wrote a couplet poem with Lu Yu and a poem "Lu San", which was another name given to Lu Yu by the poet. This poem is a 24-sentence couplet. Geng Kun praised Lu Yu's contribution to tea science: "I have been a poet all my life and tea fairy for several generations." The name of "tea fairy" came from this, and Geng Kun has concluded that "Tea Classic" will be famous for future generations. Dai Shulun is Lu Yu's confidant. Dai was framed by his colleagues, and later the unjust case was solved. Lu Yute and Quan Dehe each wrote poems praising the three prime ministers. This also illustrates Lu Yu's character.
Among Lu Yu's friends, Yan Zhenqing is the most valuable book. Yan praised calligraphy for later generations. In fact, he is also a famous strategist and politician. When the Anshi Rebellion broke out, Yan Zhenqing was a county magistrate in the plain. Hu ran rampant in Hebei, and only Zhenqing held high the banner and led Hebei in the struggle against the enemy, so that Pingyuan County, Boping and Qinghe could be immune to it. On behalf of the clan, he remonstrated with the court, exposed the rebellious ministers, and was loyal and decisive. Yan is very accomplished in politics, military affairs, law, calligraphy, phonology and writing. In the eighth year of Dali, he went to Huzhou as an ambassador and became close friends with Jiao Ran and Lu Yu. He organized the compilation of Haiyun Yuan Jing Dictionary, which has as many as 500 volumes, and many scholars participated in it, among which Lu Yu was an important member. This is very helpful for Lu Yu to deepen Confucianism and carry forward the spirit of China tea culture with the idea of moderation and harmony in the tea classics.
Influenced by Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, Lu Yu was able to integrate various ideas into the theory of tea science, which had a lot to do with his making so many famous thinkers and artists in his life. The Book of Tea is not only about tea, but also permeates the essence of various schools in the Tang Dynasty, the poet's temperament and artistic thoughts, and lays the theoretical foundation of China tea culture.