1. Businessmen value profit over separation. The month before last, they went to Fuliang to buy tea. ——Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty, "Pipa Xing/Pipa Yin"
Translation: Businessmen only focus on making profits and take parting lightly. Last month, he went to Fuliang to buy tea and sell goods.
2. Don’t be frightened by wine and fall into a heavy sleep; gambling on books will make you lose the fragrance of tea. ——Nalan Xingde of the Qing Dynasty, "Huanxisha·Who cares about the west wind and the cold alone"
Translation: Taking a nap after drinking, the spring scenery is blooming, gambling in the boudoir, and the clothes are filled with the fragrance of tea.
3. When you are tired and sleepy after a long journey, you will be thirsty and longing for tea. ——Su Shi of the Song Dynasty, "Huanxi Sha·Jujube Blossoms Falling on Clothes and Scarves"
Translation: Drunken people are sleepy, the journey is long, and they feel sleepy. The sun is high, people are tired and thirsty, and they want to drink some tea to quench their thirst.
4. The short paper is laid out diagonally, making grass leisurely, and the fine breasts of the clear window are used to share the tea. ——Lu You, Song Dynasty, "The First Spring Rain in Lin'an"
Translation: Spread out a small piece of paper and write in cursive script calmly, and carefully boil water, make tea, and skim foam by the window when the light rain begins to clear. Try famous tea.
5. Stop thinking about old friends and homeland, and try new tea with new fire. ——Su Shi, Song Dynasty, "Wang Jiangnan·Transcendent Taiwanese Work"
Translation: Don't miss your hometown in front of old friends. Let's light a new fire to cook a cup of freshly picked tea.
6. On a cold night, guests come to drink tea and wine, and the soup in the bamboo stove begins to boil and turns red. ——Du Lei, Song Dynasty, "Cold Night"
Translation: A visitor came to visit on a winter night. A cup of hot tea served as fine wine, and we sat around the stove. The charcoal fire was just red, and the water was boiling in the pot.
7. The wine shop prefers the bitterness of Tuancha, and the fragrance of Ruinao is preferred when dreams are over. ——Song Dynasty Li Qingzhao's "Partridge Day·Cold Sun Slows on the Small Window"
Translation: After drinking, I prefer to taste the strong and bitter taste of Tuancha. It is especially suitable to smell the ambergris when waking up from a dream. Refreshing lingering fragrance.
8. Sigh, old people come and go, old things go away, who comes to sleep and drink tea in the afternoon. ——Lu You, Song Dynasty, "Living in Seclusion in Early Summer"
Translation: We didn't meet each other back then, but before we dreamed about tea at noon, who was talking about those days?
9. Put the windlass in the well to soak in wine, open the parrot in the cage and serve sencha. ——"Summer Inscription on the Veteran Lin Pavilion" by Zhang Wei of the Tang Dynasty
Translation: Go to the well platform, put down the windlass and soak in the cool wine, open the bird cage and imitate the parrot to remind people not to forget to cook tea.
10. At noon, there was no sound left, and the mountain boy knocked on the tea mortar across the bamboo. ——Liu Zongyuan of the Tang Dynasty, "Occasionally Made in the Summer Day"
Translation: When sleeping alone at noon, I only felt the deathly silence of the earth. Across the bamboo forest, the only sound was the sound of the mountain boy banging the tea mortar when making new tea.