Lu Yu's family background cannot be verified. It is said that he was abandoned by his parents when he was a child and adopted by a monk. When he grew up, he fled the temple and didn't want to become a monk.
After leaving the temple, Lu Yu walked aimlessly in the street. At this time, he saw many people watching around. When I got closer, I saw acrobatics in the crowd: swallowing knives and spitting fire, lifting tripod and walking rope, splitting bricks and drilling bowls, and drilling circles to tame animals. He was so excited by these efforts that he was simply possessed. Lu Yu was deeply attracted by this group of jugglers. Wherever they went, Lu Yu followed them, completely forgetting that he was a tramp who escaped from the temple.
When it got dark, Lu Yu Jr. cried to the head of the troupe that he was homeless and wanted to learn from the vaudeville troupe. The head of the troupe sympathized with him and took him in. From then on, Lu Yu became a member of the vaudeville troupe, walking around the streets, running around and sleeping in the wind.
Lu Yu's acting skills have gradually matured. After acting, he became familiar with the scripts handed down by his predecessors and slowly began to learn to write his own scripts and lyrics. He wrote three papers, a record of a teaching seminar, and conducted some research and discussion on drama. He soon stood out among his peers and became a master.
In the spring of the fifth year of Tianbao, officials of Jingling County invited Lu Yu's troupe to perform for them in order to welcome the new magistrate. On that day, Lu Yu's acting won applause and was very popular with the audience.
After the performance, the new satrap personally summoned Lu Yu, gave him some poetry books, and gave him a storytelling hall. Lu Yu saved some money for telling stories and went to Huomen Mountain to worship Zou Shu as a teacher to study Confucian classics.
Zou Shu is a learned Old Master Q with brilliant talents and noble thoughts. He lived in seclusion all his life and had a high reputation.
Huomen Mountain is near Weilong Mountain. After Lu Yu came to Zou Shu's residence in Huomenshan, he devoted himself to learning from Zou Shu. Besides reading poetry books, he often goes to the mountains to collect wild tea and cook it for Zou Shu. Master Zou appreciates Lu Yu's tea-making skills. There is a mountain spring at the foot of Huomen Mountain, with clear spring water and sweet water quality. The tea cooked by Lu Yu with this spring water is fragrant and mellow. Zou Shu is full of praise. With Zou Shu's encouragement and support, Lu Yu became more interested in tea. In addition to practice, he further investigated and studied.
Five years later, Lu Yu bid farewell to Zou Shu and started a tea inspection tour.
Lu Yu first arrived in Yiyang and visited tea farmers in Cheyunshan, Leizhenshan, Wuyunshan, Tianyunshan, Jiyunshan, Heilongtan and Bailongtan to learn about tea production technology, soil quality and climate conditions in mountainous areas. He must personally taste one bud, two leaves and white-haired seedlings of tea trees, and then collect some of them to make specimens for preservation.
Lu Yu went to Gwangju, Zhou Shu, Huangzhou, Taizhou and Huainan to inspect the tea-making technology there. The following spring, Lu Yu climbed Bashan with great interest, collected tea tree specimens, and came up with many methods to improve the yield and quality of tea.
In the second year of Zhide, Lu Yu crossed the river and traveled to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River Basin. He inspected the growing environment and production of tea trees along the way, and collected a large number of tea picking and tea making techniques.
Lushan Mountain has a long history of growing tea. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, tea trees were planted everywhere in Lushan Mountain. By the Tang Dynasty, Lushan tea was already very famous.
Lushan tea, the first tea in the world, is rich in fragrance, mellow, fresh and sweet, and has a refreshing taste. Under the Five Old Peaks, Lu Yu tasted it.
After bidding farewell to Lushan Mountain, Lu Yu also visited Huzhou, a famous poet in the south of the Yangtze River, and forged a profound friendship with him.
Jiao Ran, a native of Huzhou, is the tenth grandson of Xie Lingyun, a landscape poet in the Southern Dynasties. The year of birth and death is unknown, living in Shangyuan and Zhenyuan years. Jiao Ran has traveled to Sanjiang and Wuyue Mountains, visited ancient temples and famous temples, and is well informed.
Jiao Ran was living in Miaoxi Temple in the southern suburbs of Huzhou, presided over by Miaoxi Temple.
Miaoxi Temple is surrounded by towering trees, tea forests and mountains, and the environment is elegant. During his stay in Miaoxi Temple, Lu Yu often went out to visit the tea area of Shansi Temple, made tea and talked with Jiao Ran, and lived a leisurely life.
Soon, with the help of friends, Lu Yu built a house next to Tiaoxi at the foot of Jiangjun Mountain in Huzhou suburb, and settled down from then on.
In the second year of Baoying, Lu Yu went to Suzhou again, followed Jiao Ran to visit Liu Changqing, who was demoted to Nanba and returned to Suzhou in the north. Liu Changqing is good at writing poems, and Jiao Ran has a literary acquaintance with him. Lu Yu, Jiao Ran and Liu Changqing visited Tiger Hill together in Suzhou. In Tiger Hill, Lu Yu tasted the sweet Guanyin Spring and wrote the five characters of the fifth spring on earth.
During the Qingming Festival, Lu Yu made a special trip to the beautiful Xizi Lake to explore the quality of Qiantang tea, taste the good tea and water of Longjing tea and Tiger Running Spring, and record the production process of Hang Cheng tea at that time.
The spring water in Huishan, Wuxi is colorless and transparent, with few minerals and excellent water quality. After making tea, the color is bright and the taste is fresh and sweet. Lu Yu praised it as the second spring in the world after tasting it. Since then, the name of the second spring in the world has been recognized by scholars and celebrities in past dynasties. In memory of Lu Yu, the local people built a Luzi Temple by the spring.
In the eighth year of Zhenyuan, 60-year-old Lu Yu went all the way to work in another place in Qingtang, Huzhou, and visited her friend Jiao Ran, so she revisited the old place. In addition, he writes books behind closed doors. He has written Tea Classics, Xing Wu County Records and Huzhou Secretariat.
In the winter of the twentieth year of Zhenyuan, Cha Sheng Lu Yu died in Qingtang, Huzhou at the age of 765,438+0.
Lu Yu traveled all over the country all his life, writing tea classics, reciting poems and writing poems, and making outstanding contributions to the development of tea culture in China. For thousands of years, I don't know how many literati went to Miao Feng Temple to sweep Lu Yu's grave and addressed him as Cha Sheng.