Bai Juyi's Poems on Drinking Tea

Even today, Bai Juyi is an expert in tea tasting. His old man wrote more than 2000 poems in his life, including 63 poems about tea, which should be the highest among the poets in the Tang Dynasty. Every time I intensively read Bai Juyi's tea poems, accompanied by faint tea fragrance, I can't help but think of the tea rhyme of Datang and experience the tea soul of Xiangshan laity.

"When you drink tea until you are old, you can't remember the name of tea." Bai Juyi first knew the brand of tea. In "Qin Tea", he wrote: "The only thing known in Qin is land water, and the old tea is Mengshan", and compared the world-class Mengshan tea in Sichuan in the Tang Dynasty with the famous guqin song "Land Water". The book "Xin Chang Xin Ju Shu Shi Si Yun" says that "it is not easy to diarrhea because of sending Yuan Langzhong and Zhang Dafu." Bai Juyi also mentioned the ancient bamboo and purple bamboo shoot tea, which was rated as the second famous tea in the world at that time. The poem "Twenty-two Rhymes of Dr. Zhou Hao's New Pavilion" says that "the fragrance of tea floats with purple bamboo shoots, and the red scales fall continuously", which describes the grand tea-tasting poem "Green moths strive for wonderful dance, and purple bamboo shoots strive for novelty", while the poem "Spring Day and Fifty Rhymes of Wei Dynasty" says "Early Rice Inserts Green Branches" and the poem "Spring Day" says "I want to taste a bowl of green tea", which is a kind of comfortable tea.

"One year of tea, two years of grass and three years of firewood", Bai Juyi pays attention to drinking new tea. Among the sixty-three tea poems, seven emphasized the word "new", leaving some good sentences, such as "deep furnace knocking on fire to bake new tea" and "tea grinds jade dust". Bai Juyi used to be the secretariat of Zhongzhou and met a squire named Xiao. Xiao sent tea to him, and Bai Juyi wrote a poem "Xiao sent new Shu tea abroad", which began with a detour: "Shu tea arrived, surprised." Li Jingjian, the secretariat of Zhongzhou, gave Bai Juyi the first batch of roasted spring tea, thanked Bai for his kindness of "new tea and illness" with "Six Langzhong Send New Shu Tea", and finally sighed: "If you don't send others, send me first, because I am a different kind of tea man". A "Dan", a "surprise", a "first" and a "don't" are all used vividly to know the character of a tea man. An official surnamed Wei was demoted to Ganzhou and went to visit Bai Juyi before leaving. Bai Juyi fell into the predicament of disease and poverty. He only drinks porridge with sugar at home, but he still entertains guests with new tea. "Keep porridge cold and cook new tea with fire" makes people feel warm in loneliness and depression.

"Tea comes first, water comes first", and Bai Juyi knows all three of them well. "A few cups of tea in spring and a glass of wine in orchid", "Sit and drink water and watch the rustling of cooking". There is no reason to hold a bowl to send tea friends ",using mountains and rivers; "Wei Shui Jian makes you feel precious", using river water; Snow water is used for "chanting frost sentences, leisurely tasting snow tea" and "melting snow and frying fragrant tea, adjusting crispness and boiling mince".

Taste tea like a human being. Bai Juyi went to Yuan Zhen's best friend's house to recite poems and drink snow-fried tea, lamenting that "there is only Yuanjia left in the eyebrow exhibition in the city". His brother-in-law, Yang Muchao, newly awarded the history of Dongchuan Festival, and Bai Juyi congratulated him with poems. At the end of the poem, I don't forget to say hello to tea: "Maybe air transport tea?" Yang Muchao did send him tea and clothes, and Bai Juyi thanked him with a poem: "Friends are getting less and less every year, and there are fewer letters everywhere. Brother Wei Chao never forgets that spring tea has not ruined autumn clothes. " Bai Juyi also wrote a poem saying that he drank too much the night before and got up late the next day to take a walk by the pond. Seeing the green trees and grass, he was very quiet, so he tied a rope bed, set up a red charcoal stove and washed the white tea. The fried tea was "full of color and delicious". After drinking this tea, the artistic conception of tea tasting is almost complete, but Bai Juyi has changed a pen. How important it is to the drinker!

"Nourishing sex with tea" is a quality that tea lovers must have. Bai Juyi is even better. When he lived in Jiangzhou, he opened a tea garden in Lushan Mountain, where cloud tea was produced, and asked for tea: "Build a rock to be lush, open a tea garden at a fork in the road", "Medicine garden tea garden is a business, and wild elk and forest cranes are friends". Knowing tea can achieve the unity of knowledge and action. People can't do it.

"Drinking tea is a kind of mood", which is the highest level of tea tasting. Bai Juyi's four tea poems all reached this state:

"There is no hardship inside and no bondage outside. This day is not suitable, when is it suitable? " (The first summer ward)

"There is nothing between the body and the heart, and the vastness is like an empty boat. Wealth has its bitterness, and there are difficulties in bitterness. Poverty is also fun, and happiness is also free. " ("Yong Yi")

"In the past, happy people were promoted. In the past, people were tired of taking credit. People who have no worries and no happiness will have long and short careers. " ("After eating")

"From the heart to the bones, it is free. Retreat is part of it, and glory is not what you want. Although I am laughed at by the world, I have no external worries. " ("Where can I spend the summer")

As can be seen from Bai Juyi's tea poems, he has fragrant teas all year round. "Red paper is the letter behind the book, and green shoots are the ten fires before spring", which means drinking spring tea in spring; "Take a nap after swimming and have a cup of tea" is about drinking tea in summer; "One or two teaspoons of tea a night, three counts Qiu Ge", which is about drinking tea in autumn. Bai Juyi divides the day into five hours. "There are new leaves in front of the eaves and a cup of morning tea on the table", which means drinking morning tea at sunrise. "Tea after sleep, remembering Yang Tongzhou" is about high-quality tea every day; "After the nose fragrant tea is hot, the waist warms the sun", which means drinking tea during the day; "I make two songs" is about drinking tea in the west; "Spring mud plants warm rice, night fire bakes tea", "Peach roots know that they are thirsty for wine and send a cup of tea late" means that it is time to drink tea late in the day. Bai Juyi has many poems about drinking tea after sleep, "afternoon tea can break your sleep" and "break your sleep and see the tea". He is extremely addicted to alcohol. He wrote a poem, "Tea can relieve boredom and achieve little", "Not like Du Kang's god of speed", but "Love tea should not be excessive", often "look up when you are drunk and ask for tea", "Talk about replacing tea with wine" when there is no wine, and there are poems such as "Wake up after a meal and get two cups of tea." While drinking tea, Bai Juyi read poetry books with relish, such as "drinking a cup of tea, or reciting two poems", "reciting a chapter of poetry, or drinking a cup of tea" and "boring new sentences of the Ministry of Industry, thirsty for tea", which is gentle. More interestingly, there is tea boy Fengcha beside him: "wine tasting is idle, tea is used as a baby" and "tea teaches hands to serve children to fry". Bai Juyi is old and frail, and tea and medicine are all included in the poem: "Give tea and medicine for a long time because of illness", "The smell of medicine makes him thirsty to hear the sound of grinding tea", "When he is sick, his lungs are thirsty to feel the fragrance of tea", "The fragrance of Chinese medicine in the house is baked in a cage", "Medicine sells three spoonfuls of rice every day, and spring wine thirsts for a bowl of tea", which really accompanies Bai Juyi all his life.

Bai Juyi's tea poems left many anecdotes. His masterpiece Pipa Xing mentioned tea. Jiangzhou Sima would have met the end of the world if it hadn't been for Pipa's husband's "going to Fuliang to buy tea a month ago". Fuliang, located in the north of Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, is a tea distribution center in the Tang Dynasty. Huzhou Chashan Festival is an official tea banquet to celebrate the completion of Gongbei. Bai Juyi couldn't go because of his foot injury. I heard about it and wrote a poem. When he was appointed as the secretariat of Hangzhou, he invited Lingyin Daoguang Zen master to enter the city to take a spring to make tea. "The life teacher accompanied him to dinner, and he fasted for a cup of tea." Daoguang Zen master is too vulgar to accept the feelings of white secretariat. Bai Juyi was very generous. He went up to the mountain and had a cup of tea with Zen master Daoguang.

Bai Juyi moved a large number of tea events into his poems, including tea cabinets and tea stoves: "Banzhu holds the tea cabinet", "Green pepper mud tea stove to dry medicine" and "Warm mud tea stove to keep out the cold and clip bamboo fences". People who don't like tea can't be so poetic.

Bai Juyi was famous for his poems when he was alive. Later, every time there was a new poem, the villagers scrambled to copy it. This old lady, regardless of gender, age or even illiteracy, is also a loyal admirer and active disseminator of his poems. At that time, someone copied his poems for tea, and now it sounds quite refreshing.