These two poems were written by the poet Zheng Gu, "Sitting in a room in the air is light green, and opening a few pieces is light yellow."
Zheng Gu, a famous poet in the late Tang Dynasty, was born in Yuanzhou District, Yichun City, Jiangxi Province. Zheng Gu's poetry is good at writing scenery and chanting things, and his poetic style is fresh and natural, which is easy to understand.
Tea tasting in the Gorge is a poem about tea tasting written by Zheng Gu, which describes the specific process of his tea tasting. This poem can also be said to be a poem about tea ceremony in Tang Dynasty. The original poem is as follows:
Li Xinying took off the dew and cooked in Xiaojiang Garden.
Monk Wu always said that Jiming Mountain is good, but he no longer boasted about birds and flowers.
Half the seats are light green and some are light yellow.
If people with lumen diseases don't go back, the thirst for wine will make spring taste better.
The first two sentences say, take advantage of the morning dew, pick fresh buds, then make them into Yuan Xiaojiang famous tea, and then excitedly "try new tea with new fire".
It is necessary to popularize a little common sense here. The habit of drinking tea in the Tang Dynasty is different from the method of brewing directly with boiling water now. People in the Tang Dynasty paid great attention to the brewing process when drinking tea. First, grind the tea cake into powder, and then brew it with boiling water.
Bai Juyi, a great poet in the middle Tang Dynasty, vividly described the brewing process in his poem "You Bao Call Temple": "The wine is tender and the gold liquid pours, and the tea is fresh and grinds the jade dust", which refers to the crushing process of tea before brewing. Bai Juyi's poem can be used as the annotation of Zheng Gu's poem Fried Xiaojiangyuan.
The last few poems are to the effect that the monks in Wudi praised the crow for its good tea, and people in Sichuan and Sichuan should stop praising the bird's mouth tea. However, since the poet tasted the famous tea "Yuan Xiaojiang", he thought it tasted very good, comparable to crow tea and bird's beak tea. Poets don't want to leave after drinking "Yuan Xiaojiang" tea, especially after drinking tea, which is delicious and good.
In this poem, there are three tea names: Yuan Xiaojiang, Yashan and Bird Jacket.
Yuan Xiaojiang is a famous tea produced in Zhou Xia in Tang Dynasty. The crow mountain was originally the name of a mountain, and the connection between crow mountain and tea was first seen in Mei's two poems. Yashan famous tea was recorded in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. Bird's beak tea is a famous tea produced in Sichuan in Tang Dynasty. Tea Spectrum says "Jinyuan, Dongkou, Jiangwei and Qingcheng in Zhou Shu. It is made up of tongue, beak and wheat. It is made up of its buds, just like its buds. "
There are also two famous sentences describing the color of tea in Zheng Gu's "Taste Tea in the Gorge": "The whole table is half green, and several pieces are pale yellow", which means that the tea soup is light green; Pale yellow means that the appearance of tea cakes is pale yellow.
In the aesthetic creation of tea poems in Tang Dynasty, the beauty of tea is not illusory. People discover and feel beauty by understanding the intuitive external state of tea, such as color, fragrance, taste and shape. Because of gorgeous color, quiet fragrance and colorful appearance, the beauty of tea becomes concrete, vivid, appropriate and moving, and then through taste, tea is combined with emotion to spread the wings of imagination.
For example, in the famous sentence about tea in Tang poetry, "the pine flowers float in the tripod, and the blue sky is light in the ou", and the word "light" vividly expresses the process that the elegant tea fragrance like blue gradually emanates with the cooking of tea.
However, the poet Zheng Gu's famous phrase "Half a seat is light green, and a few pieces are light yellow" depicts the fragrance of tea with extremely colorful and infectious words, and the fragrance of tea seems overwhelming and refreshing. Although thousands of years have passed, we can still feel that the author has a carefree feeling when appreciating the shape of tea, and can easily grasp the beauty of cake and tea.
The poet's understanding of tea experienced an abstract aesthetic process from intuitive external realm aesthetics to spiritual personality aesthetics, and finally bred an elegant and flawless aesthetic image.
On the basis of predecessors' research on tea, Lu Yu of Cha Sheng in Tang Dynasty summed up a set of tea-making techniques, tea-drinking customs and tea-tasting methods. The appearance of Tea Classics also greatly stimulated the creative enthusiasm of literati, and poets began to create a large number of tea poems. There is no doubt that Zheng Gu is one of many people who recite tea poems.
Tea is what poets drink, and there are many excellent poems about tea. Poetry with tea is fresher, and tea with poetry is more elegant. The two complement each other, tea and poetry have a preliminary combination, and China tea culture has also begun.
In fact, in Zheng Gu's poems, we can also see the philosophy of life that he realized in drinking tea. Zheng Gu mentioned "Lumen Mountain" in the last two sentences of his poem, and Pi Rixiu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, lived in seclusion in Lumen Mountain in his early years, calling himself "Lumen Zi". However, Pi Rixiu is not a poet in poetry, but a poet by his own name.
Obviously, Zheng Gu borrowed the leisure of his predecessors. By expressing my feelings of seclusion through tea poems, I can get a temporary rest and satisfaction in the writing experience of tea poems. Ambitious singing, in literary and artistic creation, is used to attaching human social moral standards to what they sing.
Tea, which is born in a deep mountain valley, is usually considered as quiet, distant, cold and elegant. The philosophy of life of "tea Zen blindly" makes tea regarded as elegant and refined.
Tea, a magical leaf from China, has already penetrated into the hearts of everyone in China like its dense water vapor, becoming a unique and charming cultural symbol.
People, with their unique high-level cultural accomplishment, had a far-reaching impact on the spread and promotion of tea poems in the Tang Dynasty. It can be said that this tea poem by Zheng Gu is very representative. Tea is also endowed with unique humanistic color and cultural character because of the poet's chanting.