Who's Cha Sheng?

Lu Yu of Tang Dynasty in Cha Sheng. A famous tea scientist in Tang Dynasty, he wrote China's first tea classic.

It is the hometown of China tea. It is said that people in China have been drinking tea since Shennong's time, with a history of nearly 5,000 years. However, unlike later generations, from ancient times when medicine and food were integrated to Qin and Han dynasties, tea drinking was mostly used for medicine. Hua Tuo's "Food Classics" mentioned that strong tea can withstand repeated brewing, clear the brain and improve thinking ability.

During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, literati gradually began to drink tea, which broke away from the general form of medicine and food and entered the category of food culture. There are also stories about Huan Wen and luna replacing wine with tea. Tasting tea really has its own unique tea ceremony, which is attributed to a famous cultural person in the Tang Dynasty, Lu Yu, who was called Cha Sheng by later Buddhas.

In the late autumn of 733 AD, while walking by the lake, Master Zhiji of Longgai Temple accidentally picked up a thin and ugly baby and brought it back to the temple to raise it, named poor orphan. Lu Yu. Master Ji takes little Lu Yu with him every day and carefully teaches him Buddhism, hoping to train him into a generation of monks.

Of course that teenager can't stand the days of the ancient Buddha. Finally, one day, he escaped from Longgai Temple while others were unprepared. Lu Yu, who escaped from the temple, has been living in rivers and lakes ever since. He first went to a troupe to make a living. Wu, the satrap of Jingling, watched his performance at a banquet. His superb acting skills were appreciated by the satrap, so Wu recommended him to study with Zou in Huomen Mountain.

Seven years later, 19-year-old Lu Yu graduated from the mountains. From then on, he began his lifelong struggle, tea ceremony. Historically, in order to write the Book of Tea, Lu Yu once lived in Zhou Shu and Huzhou in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time. He often traveled mountains and rivers and kept company with local tea people every day. He not only collected what he saw and heard, but also planted tea himself and put it into practice.

Lu Yu was born in Jingling, Fuzhou in Tang Dynasty. The word hung-chien, Ji Yan, Ming Ji, and his name is Sang Zhuweng and Dong Gangzi. Lu Yu is good at tea ceremony. He is famous for writing the world's first monograph on tea studies, The Book of Tea, and is called Cha Sheng by later generations.

Lu Yu is an abandoned orphan. In the twenty-third year of Tang Kaiyuan, Zen master Zhiji, the abbot of Jingling Longgai Temple, was walking on the shore of the West Lake one morning when he suddenly heard a wild goose call and turned around and looked around. There was a flock of wild geese nearby. He soon saw an abandoned wild goose huddled under its wings, shivering. Master Zhiji said amitabha and quickly carried it back to the temple. Later, in order to clear his name, Zen master Chiji used Yi as a divination, saying that Hung-chien was on the ground and feathers could be used as weapons. So call him Lu and Yu, and use the word hung-chien.

With the help of Zen Master Zhi Duo Xing, Lu Yu learned to read and learn Buddhist scriptures, and made tea and soup for Jigong. But he refused to cut his hair and become a monk. In order to make Lu Yu obedient, Ji used housework to temper him. Let him clean temples and toilets every day, or practice plastering and build houses until he grazes 120 cows. Although Lu Yu was subjected to hard labor, he refused to give in. 1 1 years old, he escaped from the temple and became a performer in a troupe. Actor Lu Yu is witty and eloquent. Although he is ugly and stutters, the clown he plays in the play is very humorous and is often welcomed by the audience. Lu Yu also wrote three volumes of joke books called "On Jokes" in his performance practice.

In the fifth year of Tang Tianbao, that is, in 746 AD, Qi, a native of Henan, was demoted. He came to Jingling as a poet, and the magistrate was the magistrate, so he asked the troupe to perform. After reading it, the satrap admired Lu Yu very much, so he summoned him, presented poems and books, and introduced him to meet Master Zou at Huomen Mountain in the northwest of Tianmen. Besides reading, Lu Yu often cooks tea for Zou Fuzi.

When Lu Yu was in her twenties, she traveled to Yiyang and Bashan Gorge in Henan, heard and witnessed the production of tea in Pengzhou, Mianzhou, Zhou Shu, Qiongzhou, Yazhou, Luzhou, Hanzhou and Meizhou in Sichuan, and then turned to Yichang to taste Zhou Xia tea and toad spring water. In the summer of 755 AD, Lu Yu returned to Jingling and settled in Donggang Village. In 756 AD, due to the Anshi Rebellion, refugees from Guanzhong flocked south, and Lu Yu also crossed the river. In his later years, he collected a large number of tea material in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River.

In 760 AD, he came to Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, and lived in Miaoxi Temple in Sheshan with Jiao Ran, making an unforgettable friendship. At the same time, I met Meng Jiao, Zhang, Liu Changqing and other famous monks. During this period, he made friends, wrote books, collected and studied the tea history and production materials collected in the past.

In 765 AD, Lu Yu finally wrote the world's first monograph on tea, Tea Classic.