The title of the world's first tea book is "The Classic of Tea".

1. Introduction to the "Tea Classic"

The "Tea Classic" is the earliest, most complete and comprehensive introduction to tea in China and even in the world. It is known as the Encyclopedia of Tea. The whole book was written by Lu Yu in the Tang Dynasty.

The "Tea Classic" has more than 7,000 words, divided into 3 volumes and 10 chapters. The Book of Tea systematically summarizes the development, production, processing, and drinking of tea before the mid-Tang Dynasty, and deeply explores the cultural connotation of tea drinking, thereby elevating tea drinking from a daily life habit to an artistic and aesthetic level. .

Specifically, the three sections of the first volume are divided into "the source of one", "the implement of two" and "the creation of three". The first section of the middle volume is "Four Weapons". The six sections of the second volume are respectively "Five Boils", "Six Drinks", "Seven Things", "Eight Outs", "Nine Strategies" and "Ten Pictures".

2. Introduction

The whole book consists of three volumes and more than 7,000 words, divided into ten categories: the origin of the first, the implement of the second, the creation of the third, and the implement of the fourth. , the fifth is cooking, the sixth is drinking, the seventh is doing things, the eighth is coming out, the ninth is sketching, and the tenth is drawing. ?The source of one, mainly introduces my country's main tea-producing areas, soil, climate and other growing environments as well as the properties and functions of tea. The second tool introduces the tools for making and processing tea. San Zhi Zao talks about the tea making process.

The fourth utensil introduces tea making and tea drinking utensils. Wu Zhibo, talks about the process and technique of making tea. Six Drinks talks about tea drinking methods and tea tasting. Seven Things tells the history of tea drinking in our country. Ba Zhichu records in detail the tea-producing resorts at that time, records the tea production situation in more than 40 states across the country, and evaluates their ranking. The Nine Strategies talk about the situations in which tea drinking utensils should be complete, and the situations in which tea drinking utensils should be omitted.

The Ten Pictures advocates drawing the above-mentioned contents into pictures and hanging them on the wall next to the store, so that tea people can understand the origin of tea, tea making tools, tea picking, and cooking utensils. , tea making methods, tea drinking, tea affairs of the past dynasties, tea production areas, tea utensils saving, etc., tasting the taste of tea, understanding the principles of tea, refreshing the eyes, this is the same as bringing a ladle and a bowl, a few sips After drinking it, the mood will naturally be completely different.

Creative Process and Thoughts of the Work

1. Creative Process

When Lu Yu was twenty-one years old, he decided to write "The Book of Tea" and began to study tea. During his travels and inspections, he was hungry for dry food and thirsty for tea. He passed through Yiyang and Xiangyang, and then to Nanzhang until Wushan, Sichuan. Everywhere he went, he discussed tea matters with local village elders and made various tea leaves into various forms. He planted specimens and wrote down the anecdotes about tea that he learned on the way, and made a lot of "tea notes".

2. Thoughts of the work

Lu Yu said that tea is most suitable for people who are "frugal and frugal", which means that tea drinkers must be single-minded people, at least drink tea. You should meditate when doing things, and you should have this attitude when doing things. You should be a serious person. Second, tea drinkers are more self-disciplined and will not cause trouble to others and practice self-discipline.

The third aspect is that the moral character of tea drinkers should be simple, not pursuing luxury, very low-key, restrained and humble. Such people are most worthy and suitable for drinking tea.

The fourth aspect is to be indifferent to fame and fortune and be able to maintain one's own conduct. Therefore, the first four keywords about the spirit of the tea ceremony appeared in the "Tea Classic": Jingxingxingfugongde, which can be understood as: Jing means sincerity and single-mindedness, conducts self-discipline, frugality means frugal character, and virtue means indifference and morality. .