Lu Tong's Seven Bowls of Tea Poems

One bowl moistens the throat, two bowls break the loneliness,

Three bowls search the dry intestines, but only five thousand words roll.

Four bowls of light sweat, all the uneven things in life are dispersed into the pores.

Five bowls clear the muscles and bones, and six bowls clear the spirits.

I can’t eat seven bowls, but I can feel the breeze blowing in my armpits.

In fact, this poem was originally written as "Thank Meng for his advice and send new tea". People remember the essence of it. This part of the tea drinking experience is well known to most tea drinkers and is also praised. For classics. Drinking tea first satisfies physical thirst, then relieves emotions, and then creates a sense of intelligence. After that, one forgets the world, gets ascended, and generally has a "psychic" feeling, and is ecstatic and can't stop.

Su Dongpo's first poem about tea is

"The wet rain from the fairy mountain flows through the clouds, washing the fragrant skin and powder evenly."

The bright moon comes to cast a light on Yuchuanzi, and the breeze blows through the spring of Wulin.

You must know that Bingxue is kind-hearted, not anointed person.

Don’t laugh when you write a little poem. Good tea is always like a beautiful woman.

The Yuchuanzi here is Lu Tong (mostly quoted by later generations). When drinking tea, there are four-character scriptures, purity and silence. Although it is the spirit of the Japanese tea ceremony, it is also really appropriate. Tea comes from deep mountains and is unique from the world. It is elegant and charming, and it is unmatched. A beautiful woman with a tea book, a charming look at her.

Just like Lin Daiyu once said about playing the piano:

1. The environment should be good: choose a beautiful and pleasant place in nature, or a quiet room with incense burning in an elegant room.

2. The time should be good: when the sky is high and the air is crisp, and on a night with a bright moon and a clear breeze.

3. The mentality should be good: the mind should be concentrated, the spirit should be peaceful and stable, and God and Tao should be in harmony.

4. Be a good listener: it is better to have a close friend. Without a close friend, you will not listen to the beautiful things in nature.

5. Be well-groomed: wear simple and elegant clothes. 6. The posture should be good: the method should be appropriate, the body should be upright, and the fingering should be rich and simple.

7. Be well-educated: study hard.

Every point here applies mostly to drinking tea. Drinking tea is also a process of cherishing each other.

Then we have to mention Yuan Zhen’s pagoda poem "One to Seven Character Poems·Tea"

——————Tea,

----Fragrant leaves, buds,

----I admire poets and love monks' homes.

---Carved white jade and woven red yarn.

--Cho-fried yellow pistil color, the bowl turns to the tune of dust flowers.

-The queen of the night invites you to accompany the bright moon, and the morning brings you to the morning glow.

It is untiring to wash away all the people of ancient and modern times. How can it be praised when you are about to get drunk?

Maybe many people know about drunkenness, but they don’t know about drunken tea. When your mind is down, choose some of your favorite teas, the elves who do things with poetry. No matter the shape, color, taste or fragrance, there is always a kind of emotion that can hold your heart tightly. If Li Yian's three cups and two glasses of light wine were replaced by these fragrant leaves in the place where the wind blows in the evening, it might not be so miserable. Do you know that tea is like life, or life is like tea. Throw a few fragrant leaves into the water and let them float and rise. Finally, when the dust settles, tea is no longer just tea, and you are no longer just you. The ups and downs of boiling water are probably still no match for the cups and bowls in Xiao Qiao's hands. People who love tea will almost become immortals if they accidentally drink drunk tea from time to time. If you are not used to it, you can pair it with one or two tea snacks, which will make you feel comfortable.

Tea, as it should be, must be paired with good water. There is an old saying that goes, "Ten points of tea and seven parts of water; the nature of tea must be derived from water. Eight-tenths of tea meets ten parts of water and it is ten points; ten-tenths of tea meets eight parts of water and it is eight parts." Master Hongjian once visited the south. Bei commented on the true meaning of water for tea, "on top of mountains, in rivers, and under wells". He once deliberately drew a pot of water from the Yangtze River and traveled thousands of miles to enjoy tea with his friends. From this we can see how important it is to use water for tea. Today, there is no need for you to take river water, and mountain water is a bit hard to come by, so you can only settle for mineral water or purified water. If that doesn't work, you can only use tap water. Just be calm and don't be too demanding.