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Tea drinking and meditation in Manju Ji
Since ancient times, drinking tea has been closely related to meditation. According to legend, from the beginning of Zen Buddhism, Zudharma practiced for nine years and once fell asleep. After waking up, I regretted it, cut off my eyelids and threw them on the ground, but I grew into a tea tree. After collecting tea leaves and drinking them with hot water, Dharma eliminated drowsiness and completed ten years of meditation. This theory has become a legend related to tea Zen. Since then, all Buddhists have been meditating and chanting, and drinking tea has gradually become a Buddhist fashion. Most famous temples grow their own tea for picking and drinking. Deep in the Jingshan forest, there is abundant rain and dew. Jingshan tea has been famous for its high quality since ancient times. According to the Records of Yuhang County, "The monks in Jingshan Temple used to collect tea by rain, and they stored the tea in a small bucket. Teacher Qin once personally planted several tea trees instead of Buddha. Over the years, it has been circulated in the valley, and it tastes delicious and unique. Today, Jingshan tea is also available. Tea-producing areas include Jingshan, Wu Siwei and Wu Baoshan, and the production is widely distributed, especially Lingxiao Peak. Jingshan Wu Siwei is light in color and long in taste, while Wu Baoshan is blue in color and thin in taste. " Camellia production is very small, but it is cool and thirst-quenching, and it has an endless aftertaste after drinking. In the Song Dynasty, Jingshan tea and Tianmu tea kept pace, and it was called "Longjing Tianmu tea", which means that it has both the beauty of Longjing tea and Tianmu tea. The result of entertaining guests with high-quality tea has gradually become a "tea feast". Buddhist monks and tourists sit around cookers and tea sets, cross their legs and meditate, drink tea to discuss classics, discuss scenery, and sometimes taste tea, which is called "door tea". Sometimes boiled water is used to brew powdered tea for drinking, which is called "tea ordering method". During the Duanping period of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Japanese monk Yuanji argued in Jingshan manjuji. After returning home, he brought tea seeds and planted them in Abekawa, spreading the research methods of Jingshan tea. Later, the Japanese monk Nanqing Zhaoming studied in Jingshan for five years. When he returned home, he took the "tea table" and "tea props" back to Chongfu Temple in Japan. Three Japanese monks praised the benefits of drinking tea and wrote "Eat tea for health". The "tea banquet" in Jingshan gradually formed the "tea ceremony" in Japan. This "tea ceremony" was originally just a ceremony of the upper class of the Japanese shogunate. /kloc-In the middle of the 6th century, Zen master Li Qian popularized the "tea ceremony" among the people, so it spread more widely, and Li Qian became the "master of tea ceremony". Nowadays, drinking tea in Japan has been recognized as a manifestation of civilization, and various schools have sprung up. "Tea ceremony" is regarded as a lofty spiritual enjoyment and etiquette education. Japanese Buddhist circles still believe that the hometown of Japanese "tea ceremony" is Jingshan. This tea culture is also one of the important contents of cultural exchange between China and Japan.