What do you mean by eating seven bowls?

The content of this poem can be divided into three parts. At the beginning, the new tea suggested by Xie bo was extremely rare and should only be enjoyed by emperors and nobles. At home in Shan Ye, I seemed flattered: I heard about the feeling of cooking and drinking tea. Because tea tastes good, I ate seven bowls in a row. When I ate the seventh bowl, I felt a breeze blowing under my arm, which was so romantic. Finally, suddenly, I turned to my superiors who pleaded for the people and hoped to be spoiled. While enjoying this gourmet tea, I know how many tea farmers have risked their lives to go over mountains and mountains to pick it. The poet expects the hard life of the working people to be happy and one day he can catch his breath. It can be seen that the original intention of the poet to write this "Tea Song" is not only to brag about the miraculous effect of tea, but also to deeply sympathize with tea farmers.

Tea is fragrant, but tea farmers in the Tang Dynasty were industrious, and the tribute tea system was a heavy shackle put on tea farmers by the imperial court. Gao Yuan, a poet in the middle Tang Dynasty, was directly responsible for supervising the production of ancient bamboo tribute tea during his tenure as the satrap of Huzhou. He witnessed the hardships of tea farmers who endured the hunger and cold in early spring, men abandoned farming, women abandoned weaving, climbed mountains and cliffs, and picked new buds. He also directly witnessed the evil deeds of officials at all levels rushing to pay for tea, and wrote a five-character poem "Poetry of Chashan" sadly. Li Ying, a poet in the late Tang Dynasty, wrote a song "Gong Baking Song" in Chashan, describing in detail the harm of tribute tea to the people. At that time, it was stipulated that tribute tea must be sent to Chang 'an before Tomb-Sweeping Day. It only took 10 days to pick tea, make tea and pay tribute to Beijing. What a hurry! The poet Lutong was also indignant at the corrupt officials' evil deeds of harming farmers with tea, and wrote a critical sentence: "Ann learned that millions of people died on a cliff, and it was miserable." Although the poet is called a "tea addict", he is not "crazy" about the pain brought by tribute tea to tea farmers.

The popularity of tea drinking and the spread of tea culture in Lu Tong's Tea Song contributed to this situation. Since the Song Dynasty, drinking tea has almost become an allusion for people to sing tea. The poet Mo Ke, who loves tea and is good at making tea, always likes to compare with Lu Tong, such as Chao Hu's poem: "I know now that I am not Lu Tong, but I am afraid that Lu Tong will be close." When enjoying tea, spring and taste, it is often referred to as "seven bowls" and "two-armpit breeze", such as the poem of the Song Dynasty poet Yang Wanli: "Don't wait for the two-armpit breeze to grow, and the breeze will grow longer than the tongue." Su Shi's poem: "You don't need a pill of Diwei, use seven bowls of tea from Lutong." This sentence is often quoted. For example, Su Shi's poem "Try to make tea in the courtyard" says: "You don't need to support your stomach with 5,000 volumes of words. I hope it's a long time when you get enough sleep. " It was formed by the poem Tea Song. This shows how Lu Tong's Tea Song is respected by the world.

I thought I drank the seventh bowl, but the poet commented that when I drank the seventh bowl, "I only felt a breeze blowing under my arm" and became immortal, and even "all the immortals on the mountain went down to earth"

Why do you say "seven bowls of tea can't be drunk"? On the surface, these seven bowls of tea are excellent for writing tea, but in essence they echo the poet's last four comments: "Ann learned that millions of lives were lost on a cliff, and it was miserable. I asked the whole people for advice, but in the end I had to stop. " So the suggestion at the end is to give people a "rest" and give them a space to recuperate.