The Process of Tea Sage Lu Yu's Composition of the Tea Scripture

Lu Yu nature of tea, since childhood has a strong interest in tea. In Jingling Temple, because of the Zen Master Zhijie tea addiction, Lu Yu often for him to cook tea, and from the Zen Master, learned from the planting of tea, tea production and drinking tea of all kinds of skills. When he lived in Zhejiang, he actually began to study the activities of tea, he often travelled far and wide, to the 32 states and counties of tea production, detailed investigation of tea production. "Picking tea is not picking rhododendron, far from the upper layers of pressure." "I used to know the way to the mountain temples, but I have to stay at the house of a wild man." These verses vividly depict the hardship he experienced during the expedition. Lu Yu so with perseverance and courage, overcame many difficulties and dangers, and accumulated a large amount of information, for him to write the "tea scripture" laid a solid foundation.

Lu Yu came to live in Xinzhou Guangjiao Temple, he studied tea activities into a new stage. He planted tea in the mountain (after the mountain called Chashan, the temple renamed Chashan Temple, located in today's Shangrao City, three miles north), built a mountain house on the mountain, the mountain house around the planting of several acres of tea, and painstakingly and carefully cultivated and produced. In order to accurately taste the tea, he was in the house next to the excavation of a spring, "its water like a well and the mountains, white taste sweet, is the milk spring, the soil colour red, also known as rouge wells", when the people tasted as "the world's fourth spring". He also built a pavilion on the well to prepare for the leisure time to draw tea from the spring and write a book on tea.
Due to the practice of tea planting in Shangrao, Lu Yu had full experience of tea planting, production and cooking, and his Tea Scriptures had taken shape by now. In order to further experience the relationship between the world's famous springs and the cooking of tea, after that, he went to the west slope of the East River in Yuqian County, where he dug a well as a stove and took water from Yuexi to cook tea. And then to the east of guanyinqiao in jiangxi star, take the water of trick hidden spring cooking tea. Soon he found the Lushan Kang Wang Valley, see a waterfall breaks the sky and down, one after another, scattered into dozens of hundreds of strands, just like a pearl curtain, hanging high on the top of the mountain, the name of the Valley Curtain Spring. He was very happy, that is, take this spring tea tasting, the aroma is extraordinarily high, taste is also extraordinarily pure, are on top of other springs, gladly set as "the first spring". After several years of visiting famous springs and tasting tea, his experience of tea has made a breakthrough, the writing of "The Classic of Tea" was finally completed.

Book of tea The Glassic on Tea(Chinese-English parallel texts)