Tea culture and Taoism
? Tea is for drinking. Is it Shennong's? (Lu Yu, "The Book of Tea"). Shennong, one of the agricultural gods worshipped by Taoism in Huang San, was the first person to use tea. He used tea as a antidote. ? Shennong tasted a hundred herbs and encountered 72 poisons every day, so he got a tea solution. ("Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing"). Shennong was poisoned many times in order to help the people cure diseases and get rid of illness, and finally found tea to detoxify. And give it a name? Tea? (Today's tea). In addition to detoxification, people have also found other medicinal effects of tea. Tea is bitter. Drinking it can make people think better, lie down less, keep fit and improve their eyesight? ("Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing"). Hu Jushi's "Dietary Taboo" also said:? Bitter tea has feathers and is very heavy to eat with leeks. To the Ming Dynasty hermit Luo Lin's "Tea Solution", he still said: Tea is a fairy, and it can be promoted after a long service. However, for wonderful reasons, you know that you can't get it properly. . It is said that Shennong discovered tea, or ancient tea that can make you healthy, which may be exactly what Taoists who are trying to find longevity drugs discovered. ? Tea is a panacea for health and a coup to prolong life? , known as? Plants are immortal bones? . Shan Hai Jing? Xishan Jing contains:? Jade paste is used to pour Dan wood. Mu Dan is five years old, with clear colors and fragrant flavors. ? This immortal Mu Dan is certainly the pursuit of those who want to become immortal and get enlightenment. Explain immortals from Zhuangzi? Don't eat whole grains, suck the wind and drink dew, ride a dragon on a cloud and travel all over the world? After that? Immortals can fly to the clouds, light deification? ,? Immortal? , has always inspired persistent pursuers in the world. Known as? Xiandao? Some believers either think that drinking dew can take off lightly or eating vegetation can fly lightly. ? Or eat vitality, or like grass? ("The Legend of the Immortal"? Peng Zuchuan), countless people beg for medicine and eat grass. ? I don't know how yellow the plants were in the mid-Xuan period, but how long did Jiazi first bloom? ,? I was born for feathers. I collect herbs and vegetables in the clouds? . ? Is the medicine layer far from the city? ,? Poor all over a lotus? . ? Dan medicine from the rock wall, waiting for idle people to take care of it? . There are Taoist figures and footprints all over the mountains, and the grass is flourishing and tea should be among them. Health preservation is the foundation of immortality, Li Bai's poem? Shennong pays attention to health? Ge Hong, "Bao Puzi? On the immortal saying:? Use drugs to maintain health and skills to prolong life? He also said:? Take vegetation to recover the loss first? . Tao Hongjing, a tea expert, wrote in Tea Record:? Bitter tea, intellectual man fit, yesterday Dan Qiu Zi, Huangshan Jun take it? It can be seen that ancient immortals have already taken it. Is Liu a summary tea at the end of Tang Dynasty? Ten virtues? Yes, come? Nourish health with tea? . Ge Xuan of the Eastern Han Dynasty personally trained one? Tea garden? Grow tea and drink tea for health. After Taoism was taken, it became more and more detailed, including vegetation, stones and so on.
The important role of tea in health preservation is to cultivate one's self-cultivation. It is said that Taoist tea drinking emphasizes the merits of tea. Tea? Long-term eating makes people thin and fat-free? ,? If there is meat between your teeth, you have to wash it with tea in addition to getting tired. Is this to reduce shrinkage? (Ming Gu Yuan Qing's "Tea Spectrum"), but the teeth are gradually solid. Sichuan Mengding tea is more magical. Tang Wuzong Prime Minister Li Deyu is a master of distinguishing water in tea ceremony. To make tea, pour a pot of water on the meat, put it in a silver box and seal it. The next day, the meat had melted. Therefore, Ming Longtu said: Tea is for drinking, and it is most suitable for Xiu De people? . Taoism, headed by Fang, believes that God is born according to form, and form is born according to god, and the combination of life, form and god is healthy. So we attach importance to the cultivation of medicine, and taking food is one of its main recipes. Is it good to take medicine and become immortal? . Vegetation is the essence of external cultivation, and tea is of course the first choice. Zhang Daoling, the ancestor of Taoism, was there? Before going up the mountain, Changlishan took five kinds of medicines and taught his disciples how to keep fit and fit. .
Sacred objects on the altar
Tea has the above functions, can live forever, can be used as medicine, and can preserve health. In China, which pays attention to etiquette, it is a kind of etiquette and custom for people of all ethnic groups in China to offer tea and express their wishes and hopes in the ceremony. In Japan, even the tea ceremony is greeted as a national courtesy. The earliest tea ceremony was also related to Taoism. According to some books on the origin of customs, the ceremony of offering tea to guests originated from Hangu Pass in Yin, and he offered a cup of Jin Xian medicine when Lao Zi went out to Hangu Pass in the west. This is also contained in the Taoist scriptures "The Jade Book of Emperor Daoism":? Laozi went out to Hangu Pass, and Yin Yingqi went home to offer tea, which was the beginning of this tea. Laozi said: Those who eat tea are all disciples of your Tao. . So Zhu Quan, a Taoist priest (the seventeenth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor), wrote the Book of Tea and told the tea drinkers: Anyone who is interested in cranes, saints and feather walkers can aspire to be beyond the dust, live outside the gods, and not be involved in worldly affairs and customs. Explore the void and participate in nature, empty your mind and emerge from the dust? . Show the true taste of drinking tea at home. In the Western Zhou Dynasty? When Zhou Wuwang conquered Zhou, he was really a teacher of Bashu, and all the tea honey was a tribute. . Precious tea from Palestine and Israel was made as a tribute to the Zhou Dynasty, and Yin honored the nobles with precious things, which became the first gift tea.
Because tea was precious at that time, there were 24 tea officials in the Zhou Dynasty, whose role was to pick tea in time for the funeral. Tea has become a gift to help the country. Tea is a spiritual thing, "Shangshu" said. As for God, what is sacrifice, what is observer and what is personnel? . Tea is naturally a sacrifice to heaven, land, god and ancestors. Is there a record in "Looking at Cars"? Mi Yuanzhang knows nothing about the army, and every time the genie gets it, he likes the genus of new tea fruit. What should he do to give it to God? . Even the folk fairy is no exception, Yin's poem "Send the Kitchen":? A light of green tea and a wisp of smoke, the kitchen god emperor went to heaven? . There are written records that tea is sacrificed. It was first written on the 7th of the 11th year of Qi Yongming. I am very careful in spirit. I don't take sacrifices as sacrifices, but only set cakes, tea, dried rice and preserved wine. This is the case all over the world. ? Emperor Wu of Qi is famous for his frugality, and the innovation of taking tea as a sacrifice is exactly the same as that of Taoism, and there should have been a sacrifice of tea long ago. Jin's Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio records that Yu Hong, a native of Yuyao, went up the mountain to pick tea and met a Taoist priest with three green cows, calling him Dan Qiu Zi, and pointed out the location of the big tea tree. Yu Hong returned home and offered tea to Dan Qiu Zi. Tea is widely used in Taoist ceremonies, and the Ten Sacrifices of China Tea in Qingcheng Mountain, Sichuan Province is one of them. Before the three treasures of God, list tea soup? . In Taoism, incense, flowers, water, fruits and lamps are five articles, and tea is generally served as water. When offering sacrifices to Zhenwu Emperor in Qing Dynasty, white porcelain cups were used to hold tea as offerings. The Complete Works of Saying Meritorious Achievements:? Tea maker, cover the top to pick buds, pick fairy springs and look at the peak of Yaotai to offer? . The best tea in the world is dedicated to the gods of Yao and Taiwan Province. Tea is really the dew of Taoism. Tea can reach the fairyland of the Avenue, so it is also in the Taoist memorial ceremony? Three cups of tea? .
A cup of tea, Buddhists watch Zen, Taoists watch Qi, and Confucians watch ceremony. Tea said: I am a glass of water, and what I give you is only your imagination. You are what you think. -thoughts, desires.