The warm bed leans against the waist,
A leisurely sleep will cure all diseases.
One meal and two bowls of tea every day,
Not to mention the Ming Dynasty.
-Bai Juyi's poem "Idle Sleep"
I remember learning to recite Tang poems when I was a child. The first poem is neither "I wake up easily on this morning in spring" nor "When those red berries come in spring", nor "Cutting the grass at noon". But Bai Juyi gave my friend Liu a piece of advice: "There is a ray of green in the old bottle and a trace of red in the static furnace. It feels like snow outside at dusk. How about a glass of wine inside? ? "I learned it from an old gentleman in a quadrangle. Although I don't know what it means, I just think it is catchy and easy to read, so I know Bai Juyi.
Bai Juyi in Tang Dynasty and Su Dongpo in Song Dynasty are both people who love tea and know it. They have many similarities. They were all officials in Korea, banished to Hangzhou and built dikes on the West Lake. Moreover, both of them regard poetry, Zen, wine and tea as their best. They are all optimistic about the life turmoil in the officialdom experience. Bai Juyi left more than 50 tea poems. Su Dongpo also left more than 70 poems about tea. Both of your poems are books that I often read in my situation.
Bai Juyi, whose real name was Lotte, was a Buddhist in Xiangshan in his later years. His ancestral home is also my hometown, Taiyuan, Shanxi. Bai Juyi has been studying poetry books since childhood. When I read that my mouth is sour, my hands are cocooned and my hair grows early. "The Whole Tang Poetry" said that Bai Letian traveled to Beijing before he became an adult and asked for advice everywhere with his own articles. One day, I came to the home of Gu Kuang, the secretary of the DPRK, and posted a post. Gu Kuang smiled and said to the people around him, "Chang 'an is expensive, but it is not easy to live in a big place. "Bai Juyi is young and ignorant. But when he read Bai Juyi's poem Grass, he said, "wildfire never quite consumes them, the spring breeze is blowing high. "I was surprised: I thought Sven was dead, but when I saw this man today, what I said before should be a joke. It can be seen that Bai Juyi was talented and confident from an early age. Bai Juyi is not only confident, but also optimistic. There was a poem that said, "Nothing is long, and heaven and earth are wide. "Optimism and open-mindedness are his characters.
Bai Juyi's love for tea is related to his secretariat in Hangzhou. Drinking tea became his leisure outside the officialdom. And summed up a set of tea drinking methods and experiences. Make friends with tea and tea tasters. Drink tea to relieve hangover, and drink tea after drunkenness. Drink tea to relieve boredom, and then drink tea after eating. Remind with tea, drink tea after a nap. Another poem by Bai Juyi can arouse me more * * * Song: "My friends are getting less and less every year, and there are several letters everywhere. Only Chao Xiong does not forget each other, and the spring tea has not ruined the autumn clothes. " A friend used to be the general manager of a hotel in Hangzhou for many years and gave me a catty of Longjing every year before Qingming Festival. Every time I receive tea, I think of this poem.
When Bai Juyi was appointed as the secretariat of Hangzhou, he was closely related to the Buddhist monks of Daoguang Temple in Lingyin Mountain. Some, such as the relationship between Su Dongpo and Fo Yin, led to many interesting Zen events. Once, Bai Juyi prepared a vegetarian meal and wanted to invite Zen master Daoguang to the official residence for tea. Bai Juyi cordially invited him with a poem: "Bai Jia cooks fragrant rice, but meat and mutton don't enter the house." Filter spring and clear Ge Fen, wash your hands and pick vines and flowers. Green mustard has yellow leaves, and red ginger has purple buds. Life is accompanied by food, and a cup of tea is fast. " Who knows that Zen master Daoguang didn't buy it, but actually replied with a poem, politely declining: "Mountain monks and wild nymphs sleep in rocks every time." If you don't know how to plant pines to accompany Christmas, you can only plant golden lotus in water. When the white clouds first come to clear the sky, the bright moon can't teach the sky. The city can't fly tin, lest it hinder the warbler in front of Cuilou. "Being in Shan Ye, far away from the urban dust, I laughed and said that Bai Juyi couldn't understand the dust, which became a Zen story. I like Bai Juyi's leisurely life. Especially after he settled in Luoyang in his later years, he deeply believed in Buddhism and studied tea affairs, and his poems were more Zen and tea-flavored. Bai Juyi has a poem "Mind Your Own Business", which says, "Laugh at yourself and mind your own business, from morning till night. Draw a spring pulse while watering, and sweep the path to avoid blue buds. Warm the color of the wall clothes, make the wood brush the flowers, the peach root knows the thirst for wine, and send a cup of tea at night. "
On the book case, there is a thread-bound book of Bai Juyi's poems. In front of the coffee table, a cup of aged Pu 'er tea. In the heat of the teacup, it seems that Bai Juyi is sitting opposite me. He just woke up from his nap and invited me to have tea with him. This tea tastes like Tang Dynasty.