1. He promoted and developed the tea planting business in China. He ran all over the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Basin in his life, from Hubei to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, made a detailed examination of China's famous tea-producing areas, and carefully cultivated a number of excellent varieties, expanding the area of tea planting in the south. Only he lived for more than thirty years in Huzhou, in his still alive when the tea plantation has a huge development. There is a Tang wrote "Tang Yi Xing County repair tea house record" said: "wild man Lu Yu thought fragrance sweet and spicy crown in his realm", in Huzhou to promote the cultivation of purple shoots tea and other fine varieties, to Lu Yu before his death, has built a tribute to the tea house and baking tea more than 150, tea workers reached 10,000 people. In the mid to late Tang Dynasty, only Huzhou purple bamboo shoots tea, the annual tribute amounted to more than 18,000 pounds. Since Lu Yu, China's tea drinking style throughout the north and south, the Tang notes "Feng's insights" said: "from Zou, Lu, Cang, Li, and gradually to the capital city, more than open store, fried tea to sell. Do not ask the common people, put money to drink.
2, Lu Yu not only cultivated a superior species of tea, and tea, tea, tea, tea cooking techniques for a careful study, even the water, the fire are assessed level, the production of tea utensils, materials, also made a special design for the tea drinking tea cooking tea drinking environment, have made a number of ideas. These, so that China's tea business has really become a kind of elegant culture, and is a unique culture of the East.
3, he spent his life, wrote a tea industry monograph, "Tea Classic", this ordinary life practices in our country, summed up to the depth of the theory, and ultimately make the "Tea Classic" has become the world's economic history and cultural history of the masterpiece. This is one of his major contributions to the development of the history of world civilization.
Second, Lu Yu Profile:
Lu Yu (733-804), the word Hongjian, Fuxu Jingling (present-day Tianmen, Hubei) people, a disease, the word Ji blemish, the name of Jingling son, Sang Ramie Weng, Donggang son, and the name of the "Tea Mountain Royal Secretary. He was a famous tea scholar in the Tang Dynasty, known as "Tea Immortal", honored as "Tea Sage", and worshipped as "Tea God".
Lu Yu's life tea, tea ceremony, to write the world's first tea monograph - "Tea Classic" and famous. He was also very good at writing poetry, but not many of his poems have survived. He had a strong interest in tea and long implemented research, familiar with tea cultivation, breeding and processing technology, and was good at tasting tea.
In the first year of the Tang Dynasty (760 A.D.), Lu Yu lived in seclusion in the south of the Yangtze River and wrote three volumes of the Tea Scriptures, which became the world's first book on tea. Lu Yu's autobiography is contained in the All Tang Dynasty Texts. He had written three volumes of Bantering Talks. He opened an era of tea and made outstanding contributions to the development of the world's tea industry.