"Top Ten Tea People of the Tang Dynasty".
Fourth place: Pei Wen
Wen Xiaoyao.
Pei Wen, a generation of tea-addicted prime ministers, has an extraordinary influence.
Pei Wen, the prime minister of the late Tang Dynasty, is the author of the tea book monograph "Tea Narrative" (now the remaining fragments). Pei Wen is a tea lover, and is a tea culture master who is as famous as Lu Tong after Lu Yu, and has made important contributions to the development of Chinese tea culture. In ancient times, Lu Yu was worshiped as the god of tea in the tea shop, and Lu Tong and Pei Wen were often shared on both sides.
In the Tang Dynasty, there was the Prime Minister's Tea Book, in the Song Dynasty, in the Emperor Tea Book, and in the Ming Dynasty, there was the Prince's Tea Book. And this aristocratic tradition of tea elegance began in Pei Wen. What's even more amazing is that these three dynasties are precisely the three peaks of Chinese tea culture.
Pei Wen is not only a literati, but also a minister, but also a tea man with an incisive understanding of the way of drinking tea, and even a tea culture master who has contributed to history by writing tea books. In addition, Pei Wen Buddha is very rich. So far, there is still a thousand-year-old temple Pei Wen'an in Qianyuan Town, in order to commemorate the Tang Dynasty Prime Minister with extraordinary achievements.
The tea addict prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, the tea book of the prime minister through the ages.
Tang Gong Tea House.
First, Pei Wen's tea book "Tea Narrative" is an immortal work。The prime minister of the late Tang Dynasty, obsessed with tea, personally wrote a tea book and passed it on, which was a grand spectacle. As a result, Pei Wen's respected position in the tea industry was also established. The preface to Pei Wen's "Tea Narrative" can be described as a precious and regrettable text, but unfortunately in addition to the preface, the text is all lost, which is sighing.
Pei Wen once served as the Thorn of Huzhou and was responsible for supervising the production of tribute tea. He is well versed in tea, and his tea books are not to be precious. This preface has a review value and is incisive. And the initial exploration of the idea of tea ceremony is indeed commendable. Tea people should watch it quickly.
The main content of the book involves two categories: a review of the tea industry and the effect of health preservation. In his self-written preface, the theme and connotation of the book are reflected. And the text is lost, but it can't be a truly wonderful tea text.
What's even more surprising is that Prime Minister Pei Wen and his book "Tea Narrative" seem to have disappeared in history. Looking through the history books, only one scale and half claws remained. The prime minister of a big country and the important ministers of the imperial court, how can there not be many written records? The great work "Tea Narrative" has also disappeared because of this. It was as if someone in later generations had erased that historical record.
Second, Pei Wen's important exploration of the aesthetics of the tea ceremony。Pei Wen's famous sentence in the book "Tea Narrative": "Its nature is pure, its taste is clean, its use is clean, and its function is harmonious." Participate in hundreds of products without mixing, and drink more and be alone. It has been respected by later generations of tea people.
In the preface of the book, the nature, taste, function and efficacy of tea are summarized, and it has a unique flavor and status. It implies Pei Wen's way of drinking tea and aesthetic insights, giving tea a unique and lofty status. Pei Wen's summary of the aesthetics of the tea ceremony: light, quiet and elegant, comes from his deep understanding of the way of drinking tea, and is also his high praise for tea.
In particular, it reflects Pei Wen's tea ceremony aesthetics from "the character of tea" to "the character of people". Perhaps Pei Wen comprehended the true meaning of living in the world from tea in the process of serving as Huzhou Thorn Shi and Xiugong, and became a generation of tea addict prime ministers.
Third, the Prime Minister's Tea Book, which is rare in history, has made an important contribution to the promotion of tea culture。It is undeniable that the Tang royal family was fond of tea, which brought great opportunities for the development of tea culture. And Pei Wen, the prime minister of tea addiction, wrote the tea book "Tea Narrative", which undoubtedly injected a huge impetus into the spread of tea culture.
At that surging historical moment, Lu Yu's amazing masterpiece "The Book of Tea" began to sweep the Tang Dynasty, igniting the long-standing enthusiasm for tea, and the poet and monk Jiaoran's "Tea Decision" and the "Tea Ceremony Thought and Spirit" in the tea poem were born with the power of the three-in-one of Taoism and Confucianism, and the appearance of Prime Minister Pei Wen's tea book was like adding fuel to the fire, burning more and more intensely, coupled with the whirlwind formed by the subsequent Lu Tong Seven Bowls of Tea Song, which directly made the Tang Dynasty indulge in the aesthetics of the tea ceremony.
The tea book of Pei Wen, the prime minister of tea addiction, is unimaginably heavy.
The ruins of the Tang Gong Tea House and the cliff carvings.
Fourth, Pei Wendu made tribute tea, and then wrote a tea book. He influenced tea, and tea made him who he was。In 811-813 A.D., Pei Wen, who was the assassin of Huzhou, supervised the production of tribute tea and left many tea relics. Because of this personal experience, Pei Wen wrote the brilliant tea book monograph "Tea Narrative", so he left an immortal and respectful position in the history of Chinese tea culture.
When Pei Wendu made tribute tea, he was also busy playing Guzhu Mountain, drinking tea and writing poems with fellow villagers or colleagues, and touring the mountains and rivers. For this reason, stone carvings were also left: "Huzhou Thorn Shi Pei Wen, Hedong Xue Xun, Hedong Pei Baofang." Yuan and the eighth year of February twenty-three days together. During this period, he also wrote tea poems, but unfortunately they were lost.
In the moss-covered stone carvings and blurred handwriting, it seems that there is also a prosperous scene of Tang Dynasty repairing tribute, as well as a distant scene of banquets and group chats, drinking tea and writing poems in the leisure time of the assassin history.
Since the establishment of the Tang Gong Tea House in 770 AD, Huzhou Thorn Shi has been responsible for supervising the production of tribute tea. Therefore, in the more than 100 years from 770 to 907, dozens of Huzhou thorns were dispatched by the imperial court, which brought a strong impetus to the development of Huzhou tea culture. For example:Yan Zhenqing, Pei Qing, Li Ci, Fan Chuanzheng, Yuan Gao, Yu Di, Du Mu, Pei Wen, Yang Hangong, Zhang Wengui, Cui Xuanliang, Han Tai, Zhang Bo, Du Ruxiuand so on, all of whom have served as the assassin of Huzhou.
The trend of tea culture brought about by dozens of Huzhou Thorn Shi Xiugong had a great impact on the spread of tea culture in the Tang Dynasty. At the same time, it also effectively promoted Jiangnan to become the center of tea culture in the Tang Dynasty. It is estimated that many Huzhou thorn governors will write tea poems. It is a pity that throughout the annals of history, very few remained, only a few people such as Du Mu, Zhang Wengui, and Yuan Gao left a small number of tea poems.
Guzhu Mountain, Huzhou, has preserved three groups of nine ancient cliff stone carvings in good condition, most of them are the tea inscription stone carvings left by Huzhou Thorn History when repairing tribute here. It can be said that the remains of the ancient cliff stone carvings and the ancient tea mountain of purple bamboo shoots in the Tang Dynasty are the physical signs of the prosperity and profound accumulation of tea culture in the Tang Dynasty.
At that time, he was the assassin of SuzhouBai Juyi, when the two Xiugong assassins invited him to the tea banquet in the Jinghui Pavilion, he was unable to go due to illness and was annoyed by it. So in the tea poem "Night Hearing Jia Changzhou Cuihuzhou Tea Mountain Realm Will Want to Envy the Banquet Because of Sending This Poem", he sighed: "The distant hearing realm will be a tea mountain night, and the Zhucui song bell is all around. The plate is divided into two state borders, and the cooperation in front of the lamp is a spring. Qing'e handed the dance to compete for the wonderful, and the purple bamboo shoots tasted each other's new. Under the north window of the sighing flowers, Pu Huang wine is sick and sleepy. ”
The grandeur and importance of the Tang Dynasty tribute repair can be said to be rare in history.
The aristocratic tea began with Pei Wen.
The Prime Minister's Tea Book, known for thousands of years.
"Tea Narrative".(Fragment).
Tea originated in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and flourished in the present dynasty. Its nature is clear, its taste is clean, its use is clean, and its function is harmonious. Participate in hundreds of products without mixing, and drink more and be alone. Cooking the water, and in the shape of a tiger, can not pass this. Everyone obeys it, and never gets tired of it. Compete with coarse food, get it and get it, you will be safe, and if you can't, you will get sick. Bizhi Shu Huang Jing, the medicine on the clouds, the effect is decades later, and there are many contraindications, which is not the same. Or say, drinking too much makes the body weak and sick. Yu said, otherwise. The husband can dispel the evil, and it will be able to correct it, and there will be a disease and a good harmony. Today's Yu is the Tugong Shizhong, and Guzhu, Qiyang, Mengshan are the top, followed by Shouyang, Yixing, Bijian, Huhu, Hengshan, and the bottom has Poyang and Fuliang. Today's essence is beyond comprehension. If it is coarse, it will be a small number of people, and the bowl will be mixed with powder. If you don't get it in an instant, you will have stomach disease. People love this, the Western Jin Dynasty has not heard of it before. The taste of the essence or the legacy. Because of the "Tea Narrative".
The online translation is for reference only
Tea, which originated in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, prevailed in the Tang Dynasty. Its nature is fine and clear, its taste is rich and pure, its function is to eliminate troubles, and its function is to achieve neutralization. Even if it doesn't mix up among hundreds of items, it has a unique flavor that surpasses all kinds of drinks. Cooked with ancient Dingsheng water, blended with tiger-shaped tea sets, everyone will never get bored. If you drink tea, you will be healthy, and if you don't drink it, you will suffer from illness. Those traditional Chinese medicines such as Ganoderma lucidum, Atractylodes macrocephalus, and Huangjing are called high-quality medicinal materials for longevity and longevity, but the effect is after decades, and there are many taboos, which cannot be compared with tea. Some people say that drinking too much tea will make people weak and prone to wind disease. I said it wasn't like that. Generally speaking, if an item can get rid of evil qi, it must be able to assist righteousness.
For example, there are actually many people who contribute tea to the imperial court as a local product today, and the tea produced by Guzhu (the name of the mountain, in present-day Changxing, Zhejiang), Qiyang (now Beishan, Xinchun, Hubei), and Mengshan (the name of the mountain, in present-day Ya'an, Sichuan) is the top quality, followed by the tea produced in Shouyang (now Shou County, Anhui), Yixing (now Yixing, Jiangsu), Bijian (now Songzi, Hubei), Yanhu (now Yueyang, Hunan), Hengshan (now Hengshan, Hunan), and the worst is the tea produced in Poyang (now Boyang, Jiangxi) and Fuliang (now Jingdezhen, Jiangxi).
Nowadays, there is nothing better than them, even if you get the coarse tea in it, then the people in the lower classes all push the cup and change the cup and drink it one after another. If you can't drink tea for a while, you will have diseases in your stomach and intestines. People are so fond of drinking tea, they have never heard of it before the Western Jin Dynasty. Considering that such a taste is the best in the world, it is inevitable that the record of tea affairs will sometimes be omitted, so I compiled a "Tea Narrative".
*From the web.
A selection of original articles by Brother Xiaoyao
1.A blockbuster article in the tea world: "On the Tea Ceremony".
2.Popular science article on tea culture: "Tea".
3.The Holy Land of Tea: Huzhou.
4.Who is the next Important Agricultural Heritage of China?
5.Blockbuster Release: Tea War Model! It is expected to be a milestone in the study of international tea culture.
6.Tea is a national strategic force.
7.Su Dongpo, the transcendent life of a generation of prodigies.
8.Su Dongpo's attitude towards life! Wonderful interpretation of the famous tea poem "Wangjiangnan, Transcendent Taiwan".
9.Zhang Dai, the first genius in the late Ming Dynasty, wrote about the quiet beauty of drinking tea on an autumn night.
10.The first tea poem through the ages: Lu Tong's "Seven Bowls of Tea Song".
Brother Xiaoyao, a scholar of tea culture. The first batch of four tea books in the "Great Tea" large-scale tea culture book series: "A Brief History of Human Tea", "Basic Theory of Tea Ceremony", "The Most Beautiful Tea Poems in History", and "Ask Tea: Tea History Superstars Illuminating Human Civilization", all of which have complete copyrights and will be published soon.
A Brief History of Human Tea: The "first book" for tea drinkers around the world. In this book, you can get a glimpse of thousands of years of vast and magical human tea civilization, known as the most popular and historical tea history book. From birth to origin, from development to prosperity, from ordinary drinks to the spiritual world, from extreme to simplified, from weak to global, a glimpse of the great and magnificent thousands of years of tea development history.
Basic Theory of the Tea Ceremony: The world's first groundbreaking outline monograph on the establishment of a theoretical system of tea ceremony. The book expounds the definition, basic principles, hierarchical structure, formation basis, birth, development of schools, important ideas and the history of the development of tea ceremony. The book contains three parts: the first part is the basic theory, including definitions, the knowledge system of tea ceremony, the four principles of tea ceremony, and the hierarchical structure of tea ceremony. The second part is the history of the development of the tea ceremony (formerly the Book of the Tea Ceremony), including the historical origin of the development of the tea ceremony, the schools of the tea ceremony, and the main tea ceremony ideas of each dynasty. The third part is the study of core ideas (formerly "The Core Ideas of Tea"), which includes the research content of tea ceremony ideas such as "On the Tea Ceremony".
"The Most Beautiful Tea Poem in History".: This is a collection of tea poems that includes the world's classic tea poems, with a total of 280,000 words and 700 pages. The book selects the 100 most representative tea poems from more than 10,000 tea poems in the world, including classic tea poems from China, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries. Each tea poem is annotated, translated, and appreciated, and explains the background of its creation, its life journey, and its glorious knowledge of tea culture. And romance and poetry are the unique charm that this collection of tea poems is born with.
"Ask for Tea: A Superstar in Tea History that Illuminates Human Civilization".: In-depth excavation of the ten shining tea history superstars in the history of human tea, looking for a vivid life process, but also trying to discover the loneliness and exploration in the life of superstars. The book looks for and analyzes the important explorations of historical figures in the field of tea, and tries to tell them from an interesting perspective. Interesting history, interesting exploration.