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"Lu Yu" could also refer to the Song dynasty poet Lu You
Lu You

Lu You , was a List of Chinese language poets of the southern Song dynasty....
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Lu Yu (; 733–804) is respected as the Sage of Tea for his contribution to Chinese tea culture. He is best known for his monumental book The Classic of Tea
The Classic of Tea

The Classic of Tea is the very first monograph on tea in the world, written by China writer Lu Yu between 760 CE and 780 CE .According to popular legend, Lu Yu was an orphan of Jinling county who was adopted by a Buddhist monk of the Dragon Cloud Monastery....
, the first definitive work on cultivating, making and drinking tea.

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Lu Yu was an abandoned child in a time of war, adopted at three by the abbot of the Dragon Cloud Buddhist monastery and had obtained the name Lu Yu (taken from I Ching
I Ching

The I Ching , or ?Y? Jing? ; also called Classic of Changes or Book of Changes is one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts....
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Lu Yu
"Lu Yu" could also refer to the Song dynasty poet Lu You
Lu You

Lu You , was a List of Chinese language poets of the southern Song dynasty....
.


Lu Yu (; 733–804) is respected as the Sage of Tea for his contribution to Chinese tea culture. He is best known for his monumental book The Classic of Tea
The Classic of Tea

The Classic of Tea is the very first monograph on tea in the world, written by China writer Lu Yu between 760 CE and 780 CE .According to popular legend, Lu Yu was an orphan of Jinling county who was adopted by a Buddhist monk of the Dragon Cloud Monastery....
, the first definitive work on cultivating, making and drinking tea.

Biography


Lu Yu was an abandoned child in a time of war, adopted at three by the abbot of the Dragon Cloud Buddhist monastery and had obtained the name Lu Yu (taken from I Ching
I Ching

The I Ching , or ?Y? Jing? ; also called Classic of Changes or Book of Changes is one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts....
). The monk who adopted Lu Yu was a tea lover and Lu Yu prepared tea for him from childhood. As the years passed, Lu Yu’s skill at preparing tea improved and he developed a great interest in the brew, unwilling to become a monk, he escaped the temple at the age of thirteen and spent years as a clown and a play writer for a group of traveling artistes troupe before settling down in 760 in the mountainous regions in the present day Huzhou
Huzhou

Huzhou is a prefecture-level city in northern Zhejiang province of China, People's Republic of China. Lying south of the Lake Tai, it borders Jiaxing to the east, Hangzhou to the south, and the provinces of Anhui and Jiangsu to the west and north respectively....
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Zhejiang

Zhejiang is an eastern coastal province of China of the People's Republic of China. The word Zhejiang was the old name of the Qiantang River, which passes through Hangzhou, the provincial capital....
 to investigate tea process and tea history. Twenty years of his research resulted in the book published in 780. Later he wrote another book on twenty sources for fine water. Lu Yu later became known as the Sage of Tea. In the book, Lu Yu tried to comprehensively present all known information about Chinese tea culture. It is divided into three sections and ten chapters, including the origin of tea, tea tools, tea picking, tea cooking, tea ceremony and famous tea producing areas. Perhaps of most historical value is the seventh chapter, entitled “ Tea events” and records incidents concerning tea over thousands of years, from legendary times to the Tang Dynasty.
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  • Tea
    Tea

    Tea refers to the agricultural products of the leaves, leaf buds, and internodes of the Camellia sinensis plant, prepared and cured by various methods....
  • History of Tea in China
    History of tea in China

    The history of tea in China is long and complex. The Chinese have enjoyed tea for millennia. Scholars hailed the brew as a cure for a variety of ailments; the nobility considered the consumption of good tea as a mark of their status, and the common people simply enjoyed its flavor....
  • Tea Classics
    Tea Classics

    Tea as a beverage was consumed in China no later than the fifth century Common Era. The earliest Extant literature mention of tea in literature is in the Shih Ching or Book of Songs, written circa 550 BCE, although the ideogram used in these texts can also designate a variety of plants, such as sowthistle and thrush....


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