Saw Lu Yu off to pick tea.
Thousand mountains greeted my departing friend,
When spring tea blossoming again,
With in-depth knowledge in picking tea.
Through morning mist or crimson evening clouds
His solitary journey is my envy.
Rendezvous in a temple of a remote mountain,
We enjoyed picnic by a clear pebble fountain.
In this silent night,
Lit up a candle light.
I knocked a marble bell for chime,
While deep in thought for old time.
Huang Pu Zheng
Thousand mountains greeted my departing friend,
When spring tea blossoming again,
With in-depth knowledge in picking tea.
Through morning mist or crimson evening clouds
His solitary journey is my envy.
Rendezvous in a temple of a remote mountain,
We enjoyed picnic by a clear pebble fountain.
In this silent night,
Lit up a candle light.
I knocked a marble bell for chime,
While deep in thought for old time.
Huang Pu Zheng
| Tea from China |
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| Five Great Teas |
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English Text: Pierce Watters
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| * The first cup moistens my lips and throat. * The second cup breaks my loneliness. * The third cup searches my barren entrail but to find therein some five thousand volumes of odd ideographs. * The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration,--all the wrong of life passes away through my pores. * At the fifth cup I am purified. * The sixth cup calls me to the realms of immortals. * The seventh cup--ah but I could take no more! I only feel the breath of cool wind that rises in my sleeves. Where is Horaisan? Let me ride on this sweet breeze and waft away thither. Lotung--Tang Dynasty from The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo |
| When I drink tea I am conscious of peace. The cool breath of Heaven rises in my sleeves, and blows my cares away. Lotung, Chinese poet and tea lover |
| If it does not contain camellia sinensis it is not tea! It is a tisane. |
Luyu, the Father
of Tea, wrote
the Chajing, The
This English
translation now out
of print. Excellent
preface!
of Tea, wrote
the Chajing, The
This English
translation now out
of print. Excellent
preface!
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