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"Boutique Tea Post" Cai Xiang in Northern Song Dynasty

Cai Xiang in the Northern Song Dynasty: Thought Poems.

Su Shi's "Annual Exhibition Celebration Post" in Northern Song Dynasty

Su Shi's Tea-sipping Post in the Northern Song Dynasty

Su Shi's One-night Stand in Northern Song Dynasty

Let's take a closer look at the tea.

The earliest discovery and utilization of tea began with medicinal use. "Shennong tasted a hundred herbs and encountered 72 poisons every day, so he solved it with tea." Zhang Hua's "Natural History" in Jin Dynasty also said that drinking tea really makes people sleep less. In Tao Hongjing's Miscellaneous Notes, it is said that "Ming tea is intellectual man fit, but Huang Jun took it from yesterday". In fact, there was a record of Dan Qiuzi drinking tea in the Han Dynasty earlier than this: Yuyao people went to the mountains to collect tea. I met a Taoist who led three green cows and led the flood to Waterfall Mountain. He said, "Give it to Dan Qiu Zi. Wen Zi loves to drink, and often thinks about the benefits. There is big tea in the mountains, so you can give it to each other and pray that your son will have a place to live another day. " Because of dedication. Later, he often let his family into the mountains and won great fame. Dan Qiu Zi was a "fairy" in Han Dynasty, the earliest Taoist figure in tea culture, and Waterfall Mountain in Yuyao was a famous tea-producing mountain in history. Therefore, the records of Daming and Xianming are exactly the same. The "tea" and "tea" in these records are today's tea. What surprised us even more was that as early as the Jin Dynasty, when Guo Pu annotated Erya, he explained that (tea) trees were as small as gardenias, with leaves and burial places in winter, and the Shu people called them bitter tea. The so-called "Shu people" can be regarded as the earliest germination of the ancient Bashu tea drinking custom. And Hu Jushi in the Western Han Dynasty said in "Food Avoidance": "Bitter tea, long food feathers." All this shows that tea was used from the beginning and was associated with medicine.

Tea-making Technology, Tea-making and Tea-passing are all variants of Tang Herbal Medicine written by Su Gong and Wuji during the reign of Tang Xianqing. The earliest official document about tea is the Book of Songs, in which * * * refers to the word tea in many places, such as "Taifeng". Gu Feng's "Who says tea is bitter, it is as sweet as cucumber", Zheng Feng. Out of the East Gate, "A Woman in the Sunlight" and "Qian Feng" appeared. In July, "tea picking pay" and "pay". In Owl, Give me Tea and Elegant. Sleeping Poems in Violet in Full swing, and Zhou Song. "Let's use a pot of tea, and this pot of tea will rot" in liangzhi refers to bitter vegetables, hairy flowers and dirty grass on the land, respectively, and has no obvious connection with the tea we drink later. The exact time when tea entered the diet was in the Han Dynasty. In Yue Yue written by Wang Bao, there are words such as "Five Sheep Buy Tea" and "Tea Boiling Capital". Of course, cooking is for eating. In addition, according to the records in Volume 867 of Taiping Yulan, there is such a record in Guangya, a book of the Wei Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms: "Tea is picked between Beijing and Pakistan to make cakes, and rice paste is used to make them. If you drink it, fry it first, mash it in porcelain, cover it with soup and simmer it with onion and ginger. You can't sleep when you drink and sober up. " It can be seen that tea first entered the diet. As Lu Yu later said, it was boiled into tea or soup with onions, ginger, orange peel and other things, just like cooking vegetables and drinking soup, used to quench thirst or accompany meals. This is not a simple drink. Therefore, there is a saying in Tang fashion that "tea is food, which is tantamount to rice and salt". Tea became a pure drink probably after Lu Yu's Tea Classic in the middle Tang Dynasty. Thanks to the advocacy and guidance of Lu Yu and his Tea Classic, people gradually reduced the additives in tea, and tea gradually became a pure drink. It can be seen that tea originally entered the diet as an edible or medicinal item, but when tea is used as food, it has nothing to do with temple culture such as rituals.