Tea classics

Tea classics
Lu Yu: The Classic of Tea
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese茶書
Simplified Chinese茶书
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyinchá shū
Japanese name
Kanji茶書

Tea as a drink was first consumed in China and the earliest extant mention of tea in literature is the Classic of Poetry, although the ideogram used (荼) in these texts can also designate a variety of plants, such as sowthistle and thrush.

Chinese literature contains a significant number of ancient treatises on tea. Together, there exist approximately one hundred monographs or treatises on tea published from the Tang dynasty through the end of the Ming dynasty. Writers of non-Chinese backgrounds have also emulated the style of the Chinese tea classics.

The more famous books on tea are listed below.

Chinese

Tang dynasty

Song dynasty

Ming dynasty

Qing dynasty

Japanese

Eisai (Yosai) came to Tiantai mountain of Zhejiang to study Chan (Zen) Buddhism (1168 AD); when he returned home in 1193 AD, he brought tea from China to Japan, planted it and wrote the first Japanese treatise on tea, called Kissa yojoki (喫茶養生記, Treatise on Drinking Tea for Health). This was the beginning of tea cultivation and tea culture in Japan.

English

Translations

Modern Chinese

Czech

English

French

Hungarian

Italian

Russian

See also

References

  1. ↑ Translation by Global Tea Hut.
  2. ↑ Translation by Global Tea Hut. Translation by John Thompson.
  3. ↑ Translation by Global Tea Hut.
  4. ↑ Translation by The Leaf.
  5. ↑ Translation by Martin Tai.Translation by Global Tea Hut.
  6. ↑ Translation by Global Tea Hut.
  7. ↑ Popova, Maria (14 May 2013). "How to Make the Perfect Cup of Tea: George Orwell's 11 Golden Rules". The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings). Archived from the original on 25 October 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  8. ↑ Orwell, George (12 January 1946). "A Nice Cup of Tea". The Orwell Foundation. Archived from the original on 25 February 2018. Retrieved 29 August 2022.

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