1, Lu Yu, Cha Sheng
Lu Yu (733-804) was born in Jingling, Fuzhou (now Tianmen, Hubei), with the names Jinglingzi, Sangzhuweng and Donggangzi, also known as "Chashan Imperial History". He was a famous tea scientist in Tang Dynasty, and was known as "tea fairy", "Cha Sheng" and "Tea God".
Lu Yu loved tea all his life and was good at tea ceremony. He is famous for the world's first monograph on tea, Tea Classic. He is also very good at writing poems, but his poems are few in the world at present. He has a strong interest in tea, long-term investigation and research, familiar with tea planting, breeding and processing technology, and good at tea tasting.
2. Another tea man, Bai Juyi
Bai Juyi, a famous Lotte, was a famous realistic poet in the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi loved tea all his life, preferred tea and never left his mouth from morning till night. In his poems, he mentioned not only morning tea, middle tea and evening tea, but also after-dinner tea and after-bed tea. He is an expert in tea ceremony and tea identification.
Bai Juyi likes tea. He used tea to cultivate self-cultivation, make friends, express his feelings and give gifts. His nickname "Bie Tea Man" is mentioned in the poem "Xie Liulang sends new Shu tea", saying that old love makes friends and new tea leaves illness; Red paper is the letter at the back of the book, and green tea is the first ten pieces of fire; Add a spoonful of water to the soup and fry the fish's eyes. Finally, fesr stirred up the dust: If you don't send it to others, send it to me first, because I am a different tea man.
3. tea fairy Su Dongpo
Su Shi (1037 65438+10.8-18.24), whose real names are Zi Zhan and He Zhong, also known as Tieguan Taoist, Dongpo lay man, Su Dongpo and Su Xian, Han nationality, Meishan, Meizhou (Meishan, Sichuan) Su Dongpo regards tea as a fairyland, is addicted to tea and lives on tea. Su Dongpo loves tea and daughters, so there is a saying that "the West Lake is more beautiful than the West Lake."
Su Shi pays attention to the external scenery of tea, regards tea as a means to communicate with nature, introspect and taste life, and advocates that "new fire tries new tea, poetry drinks by years" is a typical life of tea art. He draws wisdom from tea and has pictures in his poems. He is adaptable, optimistic, open-minded, harmonious and free-spirited. He tastes personality, life realization and ambition in tea, leaving countless spiritual food for future generations.
4, tea god Lu You
Lu You (1125 ——1210) is a native of Yinshan, a native of Yuezhou, a Han nationality, a writer, historian and patriotic poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the grandson of Shangshu Youcheng and Lu Dian. "Everything is empty until you die, and you can't see Kyushu with sorrow", the tragic song of the protagonist and the patriotic feelings of the tea people.
Lu You loves tea like a poem and takes tea as his ambition. He wrote more than10,000 poems, including more than 300 tea poems. Poets regard tea as an enlightened art and culture. At the age of 83, he wrote that "Sangzhu's family style is not true, and he still wants to be a tea god". The poet hopes that Lu Yu's tea ceremony will be passed down from generation to generation, and he will be a tea god in his next life.
5. Tea monster Zheng Banqiao
Zheng Banqiao (1693- 1766), formerly known as Zheng Xie, has a soft word, Li 'an, No. Banqiao, also known as Mr Banqiao, is from Xinghua, Jiangsu and Suzhou. Kangxi scholar, a juren in the tenth year of Yongzheng, a scholar in the first year of Qianlong (1736). He served as an official in Fan County and Wei County, Shandong Province, with remarkable achievements. Later, he lived in Yangzhou and made a living by selling paintings. He is an important representative of "Yangzhou Eight Eccentrics".
One of the Eight Eccentrics in Yangzhou, realized life in green tea, and realized "rare confusion" at the peak! Zheng Banqiao's paintings are strange, and so are his books. "Singing overflows", and he wears bamboo trees to break berry moss. Whoever shares the delicious food here will only join the celebrities in the teacups. The treasures of this world are only enjoyed by high-ranking people. He and his friends like tea, bamboo, plum, orchid, stone and purple sand to show their gentleman achievements.
Zheng Banqiao is also the person who writes the most tea couplets. He said, "Bring river water to make new tea, buy all the mountains for painting screen", "Nine-spice ancient cauldron, offer two or three bowls of new tea every day", and "Wash inkstones and fish and swallow ink, and avoid smoking when making tea", but if we also use tea products to experience Banqiao's life, it would be "confused", true and not surprising!