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The Classic of Tea, Tea Classic, or is the first known monograph on tea and tea culture in the world, written by the Chinese writer Lu Yu between 760 and 762 CE under the Tang dynasty. Lu Yu's original manuscript is lost; the earliest editions available date to the Ming dynasty.According to tea lore, Lu Yu was an orphan of Jinling county (now Tianmen City in Hubei Province) who was adopted by a Buddhist monk of the Dragon Cloud Monastery. He refused to take up the monastic robes and was assigned menial jobs by his stepfather. Lu Yu ran away and joined the circus as a clown. At age 14, Lu Yu was discovered by the local governor Li Qiwu, who offered Lu Yu the use of his library and the opportunity to study with a teacher. During the An Lushan and Shi Siming rebellion period, Lu Yu retired to Shaoqi (now Wuxing county, Zhejiang). Lu Yu made friends with many literati, including the calligrapher Yan Zhenqing and the poet Huangfu Zheng.
For Lu Yu, tea symbolized the harmony and mysterious unity of the universe. "He invested the ''Ch'a Ching'' with the concept that dominated the religious thought of his age, whether Buddhist, Taoist, or Confucian: to see in the particular an expression of the universal".
In Lu Yu's hometown, Tianmen, there is an ancient styled tower named according to the classic in honour of the great writer.
Read more...: Huangfu Zengs poem about Lu Yu Content One: Origin (一之源) Two: Tools (二之具) Three: Making (三之造) Four: Utensils (四之器) Five: Boiling (五之煮) Six: Drinking (六之飲) Seven: History (七之事) Eight: Growing Regions (八之出) Nine: Simplify (九之略) Ten: Pictorialize (十之圖) References
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