At the end of 12, the Pingjia and Genji families fought for power and profit, with swords and shadows, and disputes continued; Natural disasters occurred one after another in Kyoto, and the hurricane 1777 lost a small part of the city (including the imperial palace) to Zhu Rong. Three years later, a hurricane razed the whole city; After the drought in spring and summer and the flood in autumn and winter, hunger became more and more serious, and beggars flooded the streets.
12 12, the famous hermit singer Ya Changming wrote in The Abbot that the unfortunate road seems to have no end. The plague broke out and there was hunger everywhere. Over time, in Kyoto alone, more than 40,000 people died in April and May.
As a foreign culture, the tea ceremony spread to Japan with a very slow development process. During the hundreds of years when tea was introduced to Japan in the clearest and most empty sea, the wind of drinking tea did not catch on. Later, natural disasters in Kyoto continued, and the power struggle made the riddled country worse. Tea seems to be forgotten.
1 19 1 year, Master Rong Xi returned to Japan from China and began to spread Zen to protect the country and teach people to keep healthy with tea. The wind of drinking tea soon swept the Japanese archipelago.
Master Rong Xi planted the tea seeds brought back from China in Fuchun Garden on Hirado Island in Nagasaki and in Feiqian (now Saga Prefecture) at the foot of Beizhen Mountain in Kyushu Island in southern Japan. He also put the tea seeds in a small jar and gave them to Master Minghui of Kozo Temple in Kyoto. This teapot named "Xiao Han Persimmon" has always been the treasure of the temple.
Minghui planted tea seeds in Tuwei Mountain, a suburb of Kyoto, and then in Uji, south of the city. According to the custom, tea seeds are planted in the small pit stepped by the horseshoe (later called "pony hoof shadow"). The soil is very suitable for the growth of tea trees. The tea harvested in this area is called "local tea", which is different from the "non-tea" produced in other areas.
1265438+In February, 2004, General minamoto no sanetomo, the highest level of government, approved tea. The general who was drunk after drinking too much sake soon woke up after drinking the February tea made by Master Rong. Rong also presented the book "Drinking Tea for Health" to the general. This book describes the magical medicinal value of tea mulberry.
Rong quoted the secret recipe of exorcism in the first article of the book, which organically combined the five zang-organs with five flavors, namely, the liver likes sour, the lung likes pungent, the spleen likes sweet, the kidney likes salty and the heart likes bitter. In Japanese cuisine, there are sour, sweet and salty, but there is no bitterness.
Master Rong's "Drinking Tea for Health" records: "I often wonder why Japanese people don't suffer from hard food. In China, everyone likes drinking tea, so there are few heart attacks and everyone lives a long life. However, people in our country are colorful and bony. The reason is not to drink tea. Therefore, people with mental illness should consider drinking tea. Tea makes the heart beat and all diseases disappear. "
12 15 years, Master Rong passed away. In Kenneji, which he founded, a tea party named "Four Heads" is held every year to commemorate the anniversary.
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