What familiar names can you find in Lu Yu's circle of friends?
About ten kilometers southwest of Huzhou, you can reach a beautiful hill-Jue Mountain. This is really a hill. "The mountain is 300 feet high and walks 1200 steps every week." However, although the mountain is small, it is famous. It was named after Houyi, the seventh monarch of Xia Dynasty, and the former hunting ground of Xia Hou was the son of Shao Kang, a master of Zhongxing in Xia Dynasty, so the history of this hill can be traced back to the distant Xia Dynasty. However, it was several famous people in the Tang Dynasty who made this mountain famous all over the world. They are mainly great calligraphers Yan Zhenqing, Cha Sheng Lu Yu and a generation of poets.
Mount Jue in spring
Lu Yu, a recluse from Chu Shi, came to Huzhou to escape the Anshi Rebellion, where he finished his masterpiece Tea Classic. Yan Zhenqing came here to be an official, where he presided over the compilation of Hai Yun Yuan Jing. Most famous scholars in Huzhou participated in this cultural project, and our Cha Sheng Lu Yu and good friend Jiao Ran are the main writers of this masterpiece. And Jiao Ran became a monk in the Temple West Temple here. In Huzhou, three people have forged a profound friendship, and there is a small pavilion on the rafter mountain, which is the witness of this friendship. This is a small pavilion, but it is chic and elegant. It is said that this pavilion was designed and built by Lu Yu. In Tang Shi Supplement, Lu Yu said that he was a versatile person. If he really designed it, then Lu Yu is not only proficient in literature and tea ceremony, but also an excellent architect. The days of building the museum are very special, including the year of guichou, the month of guimao and guihai. According to the ancient chronology of the stem and branch, the heavenly stems on the year, month and day are all "Gui". When it was finished, several good friends were in high spirits. With a stroke of his pen, Yan Zhenqing wrote down the plaque of the pavilion-Sanjie Pavilion. A poem written by monk Jiao Ran: "There are many western hills in autumn, and the column is lingering on the left." The pavilion is three years old, and its toes are adjacent to the temple. "(Feng Shijun Zhenqing and the Sangui Pavilion of Lumiao Temple) Poems are all sung, and Lu Yu's tea is also ripe. She picked up the celadon bowl, and the osmanthus flowers all over the mountain shook out a fragrance with the cool autumn wind. This official, a wild monk, made this hill rich in style.
Jiao Ran is much older than Lu Yu, and he is also a monk, but they hit it off very well, so when Lu Yu arrived in Huzhou, he formed an "unforgettable friendship" with him. Why is this happening? Apart from the congenial personality of two people, a big reason should be that both of them are tea people. Needless to say, Jiao Ran's love for tea is no less than Lu Yu's. He left many poems about tea, such as the famous "Tea Song", "A cup of tea makes you sleepy, and your mood is clear all over the sky. Drink my god again, and suddenly it will rain like light dust. After three drinks, you will get the Tao. Why bother? " The sentence written in this tea poem is powerful and powerful, and it is one of my favorite tea poems. The word "tea ceremony" was first mentioned in this poem. Once Jiao Ran went to see Lu Yu for tea, leaving a fresh poem "Drinking Tea with Lu on the 9th": Jiuri Mountain Zen Temple, Dongli chrysanthemum yellow, laity full of wine, who can help tea? Although the poem is biased, not to mention whether people who are full of alcohol are laymen, the poet's love for tea is beyond words, and Cha Sheng will be happy and comfortable after reading this little poem.
There are two brothers who know Lu Yu at the same time, both of whom are Lu Yu's best friends. They are great poets Huang Furan and Huang Fuzeng. Cha Sheng's friends naturally like tea. Interestingly, the two brothers like to send Lu Yu into the mountains to pick tea. Lu Yu likes wild tea. In The Source of Tea Classics, he said that "savages go to the garden", so Lu Yu often went into the mountains to look for wild tea, but the two brothers didn't know if they just caught up. When they heard that Lu Yu was going to pick tea, they came here nervously, waiting for the new tea that Cha Sheng had just picked. Huang Fuzeng sent Lu Hung-chien's villagers back to pick tea: Thousands of peaks entertain guests and fragrant teas abound. Gather the depths of knowledge, and the clouds envy walking alone. In the quiet period, the mountain temple is far away, and the wild rice is clear. Silent night, burning lamp, longing for a sound. Huang Furan's Send Lu Hung-chien to qixia temple for Tea Picking: Tea picking is not to pick wild grain, but to stay away from the cliff. The leaves are warm in the spring breeze, and the baskets are oblique in the daytime. I used to know Shansi Road, but I stayed at home. Excuse me, when does Wang Suncao bloom? It can be seen from the poem that Lu Yu had a hard time picking tea in the mountains, but he enjoyed it because he liked it. Seeing Cha Sheng coming out of the mountain in the mist, my friends jumped for joy. Come, let's try the new tea collected by Lu Yu. The fire reflected Lu Yu's face and lit up his friend's heart. In the thick tea fragrance atmosphere, friendship is getting stronger and stronger.
Before arriving in Huzhou, Lu Yu had a very congenial friend in Jingling, his hometown. He was Cui, the local official of Jingling at that time. At that time, Lu Yu was still a young man, but he was brilliant but hard to hide. Cui Ziran, a poet who is good at writing five-character poems, agrees with him and becomes good friends with him. Later, Cui Guo Fu gave Lu Yu two gifts: "a white donkey with a black tail and a letter from a tree."
Lu Yu also has a female friend named Li Jilan, a poetess in the Tang Dynasty. Later, people often speculated that they might have an affair. In fact, in my opinion, they should be just good friends and friends who appreciate each other. Once Li Jilan was ill, Lu Yu went to visit her specially. The sick poetess was very excited when she saw a friend from afar. The two of them exchanged wine. Later, Li Jilan left a famous poem: "I was sick on the lake, and I was glad that Lu Hong came." "It used to be a frosty moon, but now it is a bitter fog." I was still sick when we met, so I wanted to cry first. He advised people to drink and sang poems to thank the guests. Occasionally drunk, what's more. "Deep affection in the poem shows that the two are very close.
Li Jilan's eight famous poems.
Cha Sheng has many friends around him, and their poems have become an important way for us to know Lu Yu's life today. Lu Yu's friends call him Chu Shi, while those noble and talented people who don't want to live in seclusion are called Chu Shi. The imperial court awarded Lu Yu Prince Literature, Taichang Hall Taishou and other officials successively, but Lu Yu did not do it. Perhaps Lu Yu, who has no intention of career, is more willing to travel with friends and cook fragrant teas.