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Shennong
In ancient times, Shennong was called Emperor Yan because he found that fire benefited mankind. Everyone is familiar with the story of Shennong tasting a hundred herbs. Shennong is a knowledgeable scholar and an experienced botanist. And have a high health awareness, that is, drink boiled water. Legend has it that one day under a tea tree, Shennong set up a pot to boil water, and several young leaves floated into the pot. The water in the pot is clear and delicious, and the fragrance is overflowing. After drinking, I found the tea. Later generations wrote Shennong's Classic of Food under the guise of Shennong, saying, "Tea and tea are powerful for a long time and have endless fun." In addition, it is said that Shennong has a crystal belly. "Shennong is exquisite and can see its lungs, liver and five internal organs." He tasted a hundred kinds of herbs. When he tasted tea, he saw the tea in his stomach, looking for it.
There is also a legend that "Shennong has tasted all kinds of herbs, and every day he encounters seven or two poisons, which can be driven away with tea." According to legend, Shennong was unfortunately poisoned after eating a grass. Fortunately, tea juice flowed into his mouth to save his life. Since then, tea has become a specific drug for detoxification. "。 The book Shennong Baicaojing will be written no later than the early years of the Western Han Dynasty. At least at that time, our ancestors had realized the medicinal efficacy of tea.
2 Lu
First of all, we need to know about Duke Zhou of Lu. Duke of Zhou, Ji surname, Mingdan, the fourth son of Ji Chang, his younger brother had twice assisted in the eastward expedition to Zhou Wang to perform rites and music. The title of the country was Lu (now Shandong). It is called Duke of Zhou because it is a fief of Zhou where his great-grandfather lived. Duke Zhou was an outstanding politician, strategist, thinker and educator in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and was honored as a "sage of Yuan Dynasty" and a pioneer of Confucianism.
The achievements of Duke Zhou's life can be summarized as: "One year to save chaos, two years to save Yin, three years to practice election, four years to build, five years to make a week, six years to have fun, and seven years to become a king."
His book Erya lists tea, and it is very important to include tea as a tribute in his time. At that time, to become a tribute, it must be carefully concluded by hundreds of officials and recognized by the people all over the world before it can be recognized. According to "Eight Records of Huayang Country", about 65438 BC+0025 BC, Ji Fa of Zhou Wuwang led Zhou Jun and his vassals to destroy Zhou Wang of Shang Dynasty, and sealed one of his own people in Bati. This country has a large territory, namely Fengjie and Yibin in Sichuan, south of Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi and Fuling in Sichuan. Ba Wang, as a vassal, naturally pays tribute to him. "Bazhi" recorded such a list of tributes: five grains and six animals, silkworms, fish salt, copper and iron, red lacquer tea honey, giant tortoise rhinoceros, pheasant and silver pheasant, and yellow rice flour.
Eight Records of Huayang Country written by Changqu in the Eastern Jin Dynasty recorded two tea events: paying tribute to tea and fragrant tea in the garden. Many contemporary tea culture works, such as Tea Classic Review, believe that these two tea incidents can be traced back to the attack of the King of Wu in the Zhou Dynasty. Tea Classics Review commented on tea in The Origin of Tea Classics. History books ... write about jade charms in the east, tumblers in the west, Hanzhong in the north and thousands of charms in the south, planting grains and offering sacrifices to six animals. Mulberry, silkworm, hemp, bamboo, fish, salt, copper, iron, Dan, lacquer, tea and honey are all tributes. That means it's still early.
Tribute must be precious. Tributes other than Japanese groceries are also treasures, but tea tributes from Wang Ba are the best among the treasures. After this "tribute list", Ba Zhi specially added a note: "The treasure of its fruit, litchi in the tree, pungent in the vine, fragrant in the garden." In other words, Shanggong tea is not wild tea in the deep mountains, but good tea in the tea garden specially cultivated by people. From this point, we can imagine that there were people who specialized in growing tea in Bashu at that time.
The appearance of tribute tea promoted the development of tea culture in China for thousands of years, and also directly or indirectly affected the rise and fall of various dynasties.
Tea market appeared in the Western Han Dynasty.
"Tongyue" was originally a contract with servants, and the fact that "Wuyang buys tea" mentioned in it involves commercial tea. And the exact time-the 15th day of the first lunar month in 59 BC, became the earliest tea market in China.
Wang Bao (90 years ago -5 1 year ago) was born in Shuzhong (now Mo Chi Dam, Kunlun Township, Yanjiang District, ziyang, Sichuan). In the first month of the third year of Emperor Xuandi in the Western Han Dynasty (59 years ago), Wang Bao lived in the home of a widow named Yang Hui in Anzhili, Chengdu. The Yang family had a bearded slave named Baole, and Bao Wang often sent him to buy wine.
Because Wang Bao is an outsider, he is always unwilling to run errands for him, and he suspects that he may have an affair with Yang. So one day, he ran to his master's grave to pour out his dissatisfaction and said, "My Lord, when you bought a toilet, as long as I was looking after the house, you didn't let me buy wine for other men."
When Wang Bao learned about it, he was angry at that time. In a rage, on the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lantern Festival, he bought it from Yang for fifteen thousand yuan and became a slave.
Even though he was extremely reluctant, he was helpless, so when writing the contract, he suggested to Wang Bao: "In this case, you should clearly write everything you want me to do in the contract as when the Yang family bought me, or I won't do it."
I want to take this opportunity to embarrass Wang Bao and lighten my work. I didn't expect Wang Bao to be a person who is good at ci and fu and proficient in six arts. In order to teach him a lesson and make him obey, Bao Wang wrote a contract with a length of about 600 words called Tongyue, listing a variety of labor projects and working hours, so that he could not be idle from morning till night.
The heavy work in the contract makes it difficult to load. He cried and pleaded with Wang Bao, saying that if you go on like this, I'm afraid you'll soon be exhausted in the loess. If I had known this, I would have bought you wine every day.