Brief introduction of Lu Yu

Posthumous title of Lu Yu: Cha Sheng, Lu Zi, Lu Hung-chien, Lu Jixiu, Lu San, Lu Wen, Lu Taizhu, etc. Font size: the word hung-chien, and the defects in the word season are Jinglingzi, Sangzhuweng, Donggangzi and Chashan Shi Yu. Time: Tang Dynasty. Ethnic group: Han nationality. Birthplace: Jingling (now Tianmen, Hubei). Date of birth: 733 AD. Time of death: 804 AD. Main works: Dongshan Huiji, Song, Sentences, Sentences. Main achievements: compiling the world's first tea monograph "Tea Classic".

About the details of Lu Yu, we will introduce you from the following aspects:

First, Lu Yu's poems

Higashioyama, Sentence, Sentence, Song.

Second, the website

Hometown "ancient pavilions stand in the official pool, and later generations shine on Chutian. The moon is sentimental about the beauty of the Xijiang River, vaguely Lu Zikai Jiuquan. " This is a poem written by Qing people in memory of Lu Yu.

Lu Yu, who was born in Tianmen and lived in the Tang Dynasty, wrote Tea Classic, which comprehensively summarized the origin, shape, growing environment, tools and methods of picking, making and drinking tea, and was the first tea monograph in the world. After The Book of Tea Classic was written, it had a great influence on the development of tea culture in China. Lu Yu was called "Tea God", "Cha Sheng" and "Doctor of Tea" by later generations.

There are many relics related to Lu Yu in Tianmen. At present, there is an "Ancient Wild Goose Bridge" in Tianmen City, which is said to be the place where wild geese shelter Lu Yu. There is a "three-eye well" at the north gate of the town, which was once the place where Lu Yu cooked tea and took water. There is a stone tablet "Little Statue of Chu Shi Lu Hung-chien in Tang Dynasty" next to the well platform, which is engraved with the scene of Lu Yu sitting and sipping tea, which is quite charming. Lu Yuting was built in the Qing Dynasty and was destroyed by soldiers. After liberation, it was rebuilt as a double-layer wooden structure, hexagonal, exquisite and elegant. In the meantime, it is very charming to enjoy the pavilion _ spring and tea. Lu Yu Memorial Hall is located on the west side of Jinling Lake, including Lu Yu's former residence, Lu Yu Monument, Lu Yu's tea activities and other buildings. You can get a lot of information about Lu Yu's deeds and legends by visiting museums.

Lu Yu loved tea all his life and was good at tea ceremony. He is famous for the first monograph on tea in the world-Tea Classic. He has made outstanding contributions to the tea industry in China and the world, and is known as "Cha Sheng", "tea fairy" and "Tea God".

He is engaged in poetry creation, but he has not been handed down many times. Lu Yu was a legend all his life. He was once an abandoned orphan. At the age of three, he was picked up by Master Zhiji, the host of Jingling Longgai Temple on the bank of the local West Lake. After that, she got a Lu Yu. In Longgai Temple, he not only learned to read, but also learned to make tea. Nevertheless, Lu Yu refused to convert to Buddhism and cut his hair and became a monk.

At the age of twelve, he unexpectedly escaped from Longgai Temple and went to a troupe to learn acting. Although he is ugly and stutters, he is humorous and witty. He plays a clown very successfully. Later, he wrote a three-volume joke book "On Negotiation". In the fifth year of Tang Tianbao (AD 746), Ritchie, the satrap of Jingling, saw Lu Yu's outstanding performance at a state party and appreciated his talent and ambition very much. He immediately donated poetry books and recommended him to study at Zou Fuzi, who lived in seclusion in Huomen Mountain. Later, I often went out with a good friend (Cui) to have tea and water and talk about poetry and papers. In the first year of Tang Suzong (AD 758), Lu Yu came to Shengzhou (now Nanjing) to study tea affairs. In the first year of the Tang Dynasty (AD 760), he lived in seclusion in the mountains and wrote the Hemen Tea Classic.

Lu Yu despised the powerful, ignored wealth, loved nature and upheld justice all his life. The Complete Tang Poetry contains a poem by Lu Yu, which reflects his character. Do not envy the golden thunder, the white jade cup, the province, or the sunset stage; Thousands of people raised the Xihe River and went to Lingcheng. Lu Yu's Tea Classic is a systematic summary of the scientific knowledge and practical experience of tea industry before and after the Tang Dynasty. "Tea Classics" was published, and it has been treasured for generations, praising his pioneering work for the tea industry. In Song Dynasty, Chen Shidao prefaced The Book of Tea, saying, "Fuxi began to write a book. It is used in the world and begins with feathers. " Feathers have contributed to tea! After Lu's death, later generations honored him as the "tea god", which began in the late Tang Dynasty.

Park Lu Yu's hometown is located in West Lake, the birthplace of Lu Yu, in the downtown area of Tianmen, Hubei Province. Built in 1995. It is named after Lu Yu in Cha Sheng, based on the original West Lake, guided by Lu Yu's life track in Jingling, and exemplified by Lu Yu's colorful memorial sites, to build a Lu Yu cultural community for millions of people and Chinese and foreign tourists to visit, relax and entertain. It covers an area of about 45 hectares, of which two thirds is water, about 30 hectares. At first glance, I saw the lake boundless, crystal clear, beautiful and natural. Paths crisscross the lake, weeping willows and bamboo pruning girls, bright oleanders everywhere and blooming flowers everywhere. In summer, the shore of Ruyan Liu is rippled like silk, lotus is like a skirt, and lotus is like jade. It can be said that the lake is full of green lotus flowers, and the branches are shining in Yu Lian.

The buildings in Lu Yu Park are mainly the buildings near the door, the Lu Yu Memorial Hall and the Ten Scenes of the West Lake recorded in the original Tianmen County Records. In addition to the completed Guyanqiao, Xita Temple, Xinkai Sanshe, Lu Yu Tea House and Hanbitang, other scenic spots such as Mulberry, Reed, Hong Men Tower, Donggang Caotang, Yuanyang Pool and Luzi Pavilion will be built one after another on the lakeside or on the small and medium-sized island in the lake, with the local color of the blue tile and white wall in the south of the Yangtze River as the main tone.

Lu Yu Memorial Hall Lu Yu Memorial Hall is located in West Lake, Jingling City, Tianmen City. It was built to commemorate Lu Yu in Cha Sheng more than 260 years ago. It is a memorial museum with the characteristics of classical gardens with the theme of the life story of Lu Yu, a famous historical and cultural figure. In 2009, it was announced as a national patriotic education demonstration base. The museum site was rebuilt in the original site of Xita Temple, Lu Yu's hometown, covering an area of 9.900 square meters.

Lu Yu, a Maojian native, lives in Ziyang Cave and is fascinated by the beautiful scenery, fragrant springs and sweet tea here. He lived there for several years. On weekdays, he and the masters of Chongfo Temple, Taiyoji and Guanyin Cave are friends and sing operas with each other. Tea tasting during the day, tea picking, talking about poetry and tea tasting at night, and discussing tea matters. They are famous for saying that they have made great progress in their studies. In order to investigate Huainan tea area, he went to Zhou Shu in the east, Huangzhou in the south and Shouzhou in the north, and then returned to Ziyang Cave to write a preliminary draft of Huainan tea, whose tea classics came out in eight years. Huainan Chazhou, Yiyang, Zhou Shu Sub-state, Shouzhou, Huangzhou and qi zhou all started in turn under the concise product.

After Lu Yu left, in order to commemorate his contribution to Huainan tea, the mountain people also added his shrine in Ziyang Cave. Tomb-Sweeping Day has been designated as a tea festival. Folklore still retains the elegance and custom of "picking new tea and trying new fire in Qingming".

Huainan Chazhou, Yiyang, Zhou Shu Times.

Gwangju, the ancient name of Guangshan County, Xinyang City. Ancient times included Gushi, Guangshan, Shangcheng and other counties in Xinyang City.

Yiyang and Xinyang were called in ancient times. Jurisdiction over Xinyang's _ River District and Pingqiao District, Nanyang's Xinye and Tongbai.

Huzhou cemetery area: Zhejiang secondary area: Huzhou site.

Three. life

One of the legends is that "Lu Yu went south with the refugees in Guanzhong, traveled all over the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River Basin, investigated and collected a large number of first-hand information on tea production, accumulated rich experience in tasting spring water, and wrote an article" Water Products ",but it is a pity that it has been lost today. Zhang, a contemporary scholar, made a detailed list of twenty rivers such as Jing Quan and Xueshui that Lu Yu had evaluated. For example, the curtain water in Kangwang Valley in Lushan Mountain is the first, the stone spring water in Huishan Temple in Wuxi is the second, and the Lanxi stone in qi zhou is the third. Zhong Lingquan (now Zhenjiang, also known as Nanling Spring) in the center of the Yangtze River is listed as the seventh product. Interestingly, Zhang also wrote a true story: the state secretariat met Lu Yu who came to inspect the tea affair on the bank of the Yangtze River and invited him to go with him. Li Jiqing heard that Nanling, near the center of the Yangtze River, was very good at making tea, so he sent his foot soldiers to fetch water by boat. Unexpectedly, the foot soldiers spilled a bottle of water halfway and secretly scooped up the river water on the shore to replenish it. Lu Yu took a sip and immediately pointed out that "this is the water of Binhai River, not Nanzero Water." Li Jiqing ordered his foot soldiers to fetch water. After Lu Yu tasted it, he smiled and said, "This is the South Zero Water in the middle of the river." The foot soldiers carrying water had to obey, kneeling in front of Lu Yu and telling the truth, and Lu Yu's reputation grew. Some tea experts in the Ming and Qing Dynasties believed that it was not difficult for Cha Sheng Lu Yu to distinguish the water in the south from the water by the river, which was clear and turbid, light and heavy. Lu Yu died, and later generations respected him as the "tea god", which began in the late Tang Dynasty. Zhao Lin, the secretariat of Quzhou in Tang Dynasty, was closely related to Lu Yu. He said in "Record of Innate Words":' Lu Yu is good at tea, and he opened the method of frying tea. Today, in the hometown of tea, ceramic statues have been placed between tin utensils, and it is enough to make tea. " "

In the history of tea culture in China, Lu Yu's tea science, tea art, tea ceremony thought and his Tea Classic are epoch-making symbols.

In the feudal society of China, Confucian classics was regarded as the right path for scholars. Knowledge such as tea science and tea art is just a "miscellaneous science" that is considered difficult to enter orthodoxy. Lu Yu, like other scholars, is very familiar with China's traditional Confucianism and studies it carefully. However, unlike ordinary literati, he did not stick to Confucianism, but was able to stay in it and transcend it, dissolving profound academic principles into the material life of tea, thus creating tea culture.

Legend 2: Lu Yu was born in Jingling, Fuzhou in the Tang Dynasty, which is now Tianmen, Hubei, but Jingling left Lu Yu with unspeakable bitterness. As long as you open Lu Yu's autobiography "Autobiography of Lu Literature", you can smell this rich and sad atmosphere head on. He wrote: "The word (Lu Yu) is hung-chien. I don't know who it is, like Zhong Xuan and Yang Meng. Like stuttering with Ziyun. " Although the language is humorous, it is actually a helpless thing. Ugly, stuttering is everything, but the phrase "I don't know who it is" really makes people feel infinite sympathy.

Lu Yu, an abandoned baby, is not hidden in Tang Shi Addendum in Tang Shi's New Tang Book and Biography of Tang Talented Persons. On an early morning in the late autumn of 733 A.D., Master Zhiji of Longlonggai Temple in Jingling passed by a small stone bridge in the western suburbs. Suddenly, he heard the whine of geese under the bridge. As he approached, he saw a flock of geese guarding a baby boy with their wings. The baby boy was shivering with cold, and Zhiji took him back to the temple for adoption. This stone bridge was later called "Ancient Wild Goose Bridge", and the nearby street was called "Yanming Street". These remains still exist today.

There was a famous monk named Ji Gong in the Tang Dynasty, and there lived a well-read Confucian scholar Gong Li in Sixi Village nearby. Gong Li used to be a shogunate general, but he abandoned his post during the turmoil and taught the children in the village in the school hall at the foot of the beautiful Longgai Mountain. He had deep feelings with Jigong. Jigong asked Gong Li and his wife to feed the abandoned baby. At that time, the couple's daughter had just turned one year old, so she was named Ji Ji after Ji Lan as her own. Ji Lanji eats at the same table and plays on the same grass. When he was seven or eight years old, Gong Li and his wife grew up and began to miss home, so the family returned to their hometown Huzhou.

Ji Jian returned to Longgai Temple and cooked tea and water beside Jigong. Ji Gong intended to cultivate him and took pains to name his divination, taking Yi as a divination. Divination said, "Hung-chien was born on land, and his feathers can be used as tools." It means that the swan goose flies in the sky, with gorgeous wings, neat formation and avenues in all directions. So he changed his surname to "Lu" and named it "Yu", with Hung-chien as the word. Jigong also cooked tea so that Lu Yu learned tea art from an early age. At the age of twelve, Lu Yu finally left Longgai Temple. Since then, Lu Yu has worked as a clown in the local troupe, as well as a screenwriter and composer; He was appreciated by Ritchie, a famous minister who retired to Jingling, and went to Zoumen for seven years in Huomen Mountain until he was nineteen years old.

Legend 3: Lu Yu lived in the period before and after An Shi Rebellion. In the cultural history of China, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism went hand in hand, while Confucianism and Zen merged in the south.

When Lu Yu first arrived in the south of the Yangtze River, he met Huang Furan, who was a county commandant in Wuxi at that time. Huang Furan is a top scholar and contemporary celebrity, who has provided a lot of help for Lu Yu's tea activities. However, the greatest help to Lu Yu's tea activities, but the deepest friendship is the poem monk Jiao Ran. Jiao Ran, commonly known as Xie, was the tenth grandson of Xie Lingyun in the Southern Dynasties. Jiao Lu became friends for more than 40 years after they met, until they died one after another. Their friendship was deeply admired by future generations through the arrangement and rendering of Biography of Talented Talents in Tang Dynasty. Jiao Ran lived in seclusion in Miaoxi Temple in Huzhou for many years, but he kept it hidden. He had extensive contacts with famous monks Gao Shi and dignitaries at that time, which naturally expanded the scope and vision of Lu Yu's friends. Lu Yu lived in Miaoxi Temple for many years and collected information about tea affairs. Later, with the help of Jiao Ran, she began to write the Book of Tea, "Building a house by the Tiaoxi River, facing the book behind closed doors".

The fourth legend, Chen Shidao wrote in the preface to the Tea Classics: "The book of tea-fu began at the beginning; Its use in the world also begins with feathers. Yucheng made a contribution to tea. Go to the palace province, go to the city, go to Yirong Lock Manli outside and enjoy the party. Shanze became a city, and merchants started from scratch and made contributions. " In other words, Lu Yu is the first person to write a tea book in the world, and he has made great contributions to tea affairs.

Because of the Book of Tea, Lu Yu has been honored as "Cha Sheng" since the Tang Dynasty, which is an unprecedented great honor. And Lu Yu's efforts for it are incalculable to ordinary people.

Nineteen-year-old Lu Yu devoted himself to the study of tea after coming down from Huomen Mountain (Tianmen Mountain). His famous "Six Envy Songs" is included in the whole Tang poetry: "I don't envy the golden lamp, the white jade cup, the province, the sunset stage, the Xijiang River, and I once went to Jingling City." After the Anshi Rebellion, Lu Yu went all the way to Huzhou in the south of the Yangtze River. At that time, she was only twenty-four years old. Since then, she has settled here, getting up early, wading through mountains and rivers, taking tea as a friend and tea as a companion, and enriching the writing of tea classics with a large number of field investigation materials.

The fifth legend is that a monk in Jingling of Tang Dynasty was good at tasting tea. He can not only tell what kind of tea he is drinking, but also tell the water used to make tea and who is making tea. This kind of tea tasting skill spreads from mouth to mouth, and from mouth to mouth, people regard Master Ji as "tea fairy". The news also reached the ears of Emperor Daizong. Dai Zong himself likes drinking tea and is also an expert in tea tasting, so the palace hired some people who are good at tea tasting. After hearing this rumor, Mr. Dai was dubious, so he summoned the monk Jigong and decided to be an interview tea.

When the monk arrived at the palace, the emperor was an expert in frying tea in the palace, made a bowl of fine tea and gave it to the palace for tasting. After thanking Ji Gong, she took the tea in her hand, took a sip gently, put down the tea bowl, and never had a second sip of tea. Why did the emperor ask? Master Ji got up, touched his beard, and replied with a smile, "All the tea I drank was fried by disciple Lu Yu himself. Drinking the tea he is used to frying, and then drinking the tea fried by others, will feel as indifferent as water. " The emperor listened and asked where Lu Yu was. Jigong replied, "Lu Yu loves nature very much, travels all over the world, and tastes famous teas and beautiful springs. It's hard for poor monks to know now. "

So the North Korean official hurriedly sent someone to look for Liu Yu. A few days later, they finally found him on the rafter mountain in Tiaoxi, Xing Wu, Zhejiang, and immediately called him to the palace. The emperor was more or less happy to see Lu Yu stuttering and ugly, but he spoke well. So he explained the reason and ordered him to cook tea for the teacher. Lu Yu readily agreed, so he took out the good tea collected before Qingming Festival, brewed it with spring water and presented it to the emperor first. The emperor took the tea bowl, gently lifted the lid of the bowl, and a faint fragrance came to his face, which was refreshing. Then he saw that the tea in the bowl was light green and clear, tasted it, and it was mellow and sweet, nodding and praising the good tea. Then let Lu Yu fry another bowl, and the maid-in-waiting will give it to the monk Ji Gong in the imperial study. Jigong took the tea, took a sip of it, applauded it, and then drank it off. Jigong put down his tea bowl and walked out of the study excitedly. He shouted, "Where is Hung-chien?" The emperor was taken aback: "How did Jigong know that Lu Yu was coming?" Duke Ji smiled and said, "The tea I just tasted can only be decocted slowly. After drinking this tea, I certainly know that it is coming gradually. "

Dai Zong appreciated the tea tasting skills of Ji Gong and Lu Yu's fine tea art, so he left Lu Yu to work in the palace and trained tea teachers there. However, Lu Yu did not envy the splendor, and soon returned to Tiaoxi to concentrate on writing the Tea Classics.

Fourth, social contribution.

Of course, it is his great contribution to China and world culture in tea science or tea industry. This point, whether at home or abroad, has always been the main aspect for later generations to study and introduce Lu Yu. Because everyone is familiar with Lu Yu's contribution in these aspects, this paper mainly discusses his academic achievements in other aspects besides tea science.

Basically, after his death, Lu Cai was honored as "Cha Sheng" or an expert in tea. Before his death, although he was famous for his love of tea, refined tea and The Classic of Tea, and was nicknamed "tea fairy", among the people of his time, he did not appear as a tea man, but was respected as a scholar. This is because at that time, after the publication of tea classics, tea has become an independent knowledge, but it is just in its infancy, and its influence and status can not be compared with ancient documents. Secondly, the book "Tea Classic" was written after Lu Yu made his mark in the literary world, that is, Lu Yu's attainments in tea science were only revealed after he became a famous scholar, which is the second achievement.

There are many anecdotes about the time when The Book of Tea was written. The author says it was written by Wan around 758 AD. In the fifth year of Tianbao, when Richie's property was demoted to Jingling, Lu Yu was still in the music scene. After being discovered by Richie's property, he abandoned his interest in "Zou Fuzi Mountain Villa in Huomen Mountain" to study. But in eleven years, when Cui was appointed as Sima Jingling, Lu Yu became famous and became a city in Wenguan. According to records, after Cui arrived in Jingling, he traveled with Lu Yu for three years and talked about the ages, and published their poems in a collection. According to Cui, the year before Du Fu was demoted to Jingling, he presented the "Three Rites Fu". Tang Xuanzong was surprised by his talent, wrote a letter and tried to appoint Cui and Yu Xiulie as civil servants. Cui is good at poetry, especially ancient poems. Cui Shi's poems are "elegant and profound, suitable for irony, and Yuefu is short, not as good as the ancients." I have traveled with Cui for three years, and my fame is not only more prominent because of Cui, but also I have learned a lot from Cui. Lu Yu was famous as a scholar not only before he wrote the Tea Classic, but also after it became famous all over the country, even in his later years. As Quan Deyu wrote, when he moved from Xinzhou (now Shangrao, Jiangxi) to Hongzhou (now Nanchang), "wherever he went, he would ride the suburbs for thousands of times, and the five pulps would be spicy first"; Later, Nanchang went to Hunan. "I am not afraid of collecting roads, but I am bound to be polite." New knowledge is given by folding willows, and old couples are given by baskets. Everywhere I went, I was greeted by friends from the masses every time I left. As Quan Deyu said, Lu Yu received such courtesy in the society, not because of his contribution to tea science, but because of his position in literature, "both ci and art". So from the above situation, Lu Yu seems to be two completely different images before and after death. If, after his death, his achievements in literature were covered up by the Tea Classic and he became an idol in the tea industry, then, before his death, on the contrary, his achievements in tea science were covered up by literature and he was famous for his "outstanding ci skills".

Lu Yu made friends with eminent monks and celebrities before his death and was active and influential in the literary world. But perhaps he was influenced by the thoughts of some celebrities in the society at that time, and his attitude towards literature and tea was the same, like but not biased. Therefore, reflected in his knowledge, he is not limited to one industry, but has a wide range of knowledge and versatility.

In the past, according to Lu Yu's life activities and writings, the author proposed that Lu Yu was not only an expert in tea science, but also a famous poet, phonologist and primary school expert, calligrapher, actor, playwright, historian, biographer, tourist and geographer.

If we generally call Lu Yu a historian, he is also an archaeologist or a connoisseur of cultural relics, in addition to some historical works such as Genealogy of Four Surnames in Jiangbiao, Figures in the North and South, Chronicle of Officials in Xing Wu and Secretariat of Xing Wu. According to Jiao Ran's preface to "Praise of Lanting Stone Bridge", in the spring of the eighth year of Dali (773), Lu Youping wrote a letter to worship Huiji Mountain and invited Lu Yu and others to (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang) and found an ancient lying stone, which was identified by Lu Yu as "the abandoned bridge column of Lanting in Jin Yong". Why are you looking for Lu Yu for identification? Why does Lu Yu have so much knowledge? Jiao Ran made it very clear: "The living (Lu Yu) is ancient, and so is my comrade." For another example, we call Lu Yu a geographer, and further, he can be said to be an expert in studying landscapes and compiling local chronicles. For example, when Dugu and Changzhou were stabbed, Wuxi county magistrate ordered the renovation of Huishan scenic spot, and "there are guests who know mountains and rivers well", and specially invited Lu Yu as "consultant". It shows that Lu Yu in people's minds at that time studied geography, especially landscapes. During his stay in western Zhejiang, Lu Yu compiled various local records and mountain records for Huzhou, Wuxi, Suzhou and Hangzhou, which showed that he was also interested in and studied the knowledge of other local records. 

There is a saying that Lu Yu took the Book of Changes as his own and got the divination of "gradual": "Hung-chien is on the ground, and feathers can be used as utensils, which is auspicious." It means that Hongyan flies in the sky, with avenues in all directions, two feathers dancing and orderly movements, which is a good omen to follow. According to this divination, Lu Yu, who had no name at that time, gave himself a name, namely Lu, Yu and Hung-chien. This seems to show: this is cheap, but it is the arrogance of heaven; From parents, like heaven. Lu Yu studied reading, chanting and making tea in middle school, and lit yellow lanterns and bells in Sanskrit.

Although Lu Yu lived in the pure land of Buddhism, he was unwilling to convert to Buddhism and cut his hair and become a monk. When he was nine years old, once the Zen master Zhiji asked him to copy the scriptures and recite the Buddha, but Lu Yu asked, "A disciple is born without a brother and dies without an heir." Confucianism "said that there are three unfilial, and there is no big after." Can monks be called filial piety? And openly said: "Yu will give Kong Sheng's text." . The abbot was very angry, so he punished him with heavy "cheap work" and forced him to repent and turn back. Lu Yu was sent to "sweep the temple, build a monk's toilet, build a mud wall, build a tile house, and herd cattle with one hundred and twenty hooves". Instead of being discouraged and giving in, Lu Yu became more eager for knowledge. He learned Chinese characters without paper, and used bamboo to draw cattle backs as books. Occasionally, he won Zhang Heng's Du Nan Fu. Although he didn't know its words, he sat in danger and read aloud. When Jigong learned about it, he was afraid that he would be influenced by foreign classics and lose his education. And put him in a temple, let him cut flowers and let the elders take care of him.

In a blink of an eye, Lu Yu 12 years old, it is difficult to see the sun and the moon in the temple. When people were unprepared, he escaped from Longgai Temple, went to a troupe to study acting and became an actor. Although he is ugly and stutters, he is humorous and witty. He plays a clown very successfully. Later, he wrote a three-volume joke book "On Negotiation".

As the saying goes, Renji has his own nature, and Lu Yu is no exception. In the fifth year of Tang Tianbao, Richie, the satrap of Jingling, saw Lu Yu's outstanding performance at a state party, and appreciated his talent and ambition very much. He immediately gave him a book of poems and recommended him to study in Zou Fuzi, who lived in seclusion in Huomen Mountain. In the 11th year of Tianbao (AD 752), Cui, a doctor of rites, was demoted to Sima Jingling. That year, Lu Yu said goodbye to Master Zou. Cui and Yu met, and they often walked together, drinking tea and talking about poetry and papers. In the fifteenth year of Tianbao, Lu Yu went to Bashanxia and Sichuan to inspect tea affairs. Before leaving, Cui presented a white donkey, a black cow and a letter from Wen Huailai. Along the way, he went to the horse to pick tea on every mountain, and tasted water in the saddle when he met the spring water. He is too busy to watch, too busy to visit, too busy to record, and his tips are full. In the first year of Gan Yuan, Tang Suzong (AD 758), Lu Yu came to Shengzhou (now Nanjing, Jiangsu) and lived in qixia temple to study tea affairs. The next year, I lived in Danyang. In the first year of Shangyuan in the Tang Dynasty (AD 760), Lu Yu came to Tiaoxi (now Xing Wu, Zhejiang Province) from the foothills of Qixia, lived in seclusion in the mountains and wrote the Book of Tea behind closed doors. During this period, I often walk alone in the wild, go deep into the farmhouse, pick tea, find springs, evaluate tea, or recite scriptures and poems, hit trees with a stick, run water with my hands, and hesitate. I cry every time it gets dark. People call it "Chu Kuang meets jade".

Another way of saying it, Lu Yu, a famous scholar in the Tang Dynasty, was an orphan since childhood and was raised by Zen master Zhiji. Although Lu Yu is in a temple, he doesn't want to read Buddhist scriptures all day, but he likes reading poetry books. Lu Yu insisted on going down the mountain to study, which was opposed by the Zen master. In order to give Lu Yu a difficult problem, the Zen master better educated him and made him learn to make tea. In the process of learning tea art, Lu Yu met a kind old woman. She not only learned complicated tea-making skills, but also learned a lot about reading and being a man. When Lu Yu finally brought the Zen master a steaming cup of tea, the Zen master finally agreed to his request and went down the mountain to study. Later, Lu Yu wrote the widely circulated Tea Classic.

According to New Tang Book and Biography of Talented Persons in Tang Dynasty, Lu Yu was abandoned because of his ugly appearance. Tang Kaiyuan was abandoned in the 21st year (AD 733), and his parents were unknown. Later, in the west gate of Jingling (Tianmen County, Hubei Province), he was adopted by the abbot of Longgai Temple, Zhiji Zen Master. 

Autobiography of Ruben is a biography written by Lu Yu at the age of twenty-nine, with high credibility. He wrote in his autobiography: "I don't know who has the appearance of Zhong Xuan and Yang Meng in the word Hung-chien;" Like stuttering with Ziyun. In the Biography of Lu Yu in the New Tang Dynasty, he was a little older and took the divination of "gradual" with "Yi". Oracle divination said: "Hung-chien was born on the ground, and his feathers can be used as utensils", so Zen master Zhiji named him Lu, Yu and Hung-chien according to Oracle divination.

He once worshipped as a prince's literature and moved to Taichang Temple to congratulate him, but he did not take office.