Chapter 484: Jingshan Tea Ceremony

Walking out of the main hall, Chao Yong's face sank.

The people who served in the hall were all Jiangnan women, and when they heard the murmuring of Wu language, they couldn't help but think of Fang Baihua.

He led his troops south, but the beauty had already died.

The further south you go, the hotter it gets.

The flowers and trees in the Huzhou Yamen are still lush, but Chao Yong is happy.

When he was walking, he heard a report from the soldiers behind him: "Baron Tong Guan asks to see." ”

Chao Yong stopped, turned around, saw Tong Guan waiting in the distance, and nodded to his soldiers to let him come.

Tong Guan was already in his sixties at this time, but he led the troops all the year round, his body was very tough, his skin was dark, and he had dozens of beards under his chin.

When he arrived, Tong Guan said, "Tong Guan visits the prince." ”

Chao Yong nodded and said, "Excuse me, what's the matter?" ”

Tong Guan said cautiously: "Now there are three thousand soldiers and horses in the city who are the villain's previous pro-army, and they are all the elite of the Western Army. Therefore, the villain dared to ask the prince to continue to serve them in the army. ”

Chao Yong nodded and said: "I know this, Zhejiang Road will be conscripted in a few days, if they are willing to continue to serve in the army, they can go to conscription." ”

Tong Guan originally wanted his soldiers to directly follow the prince to make contributions, but when he heard the prince say this, he couldn't help but be a little disappointed. But he didn't dare to say more, so he had to say, "Thank you for the grace of the prince." ”

Chao Yong nodded at Tong Guan, and walked aimlessly again.

Tong Guan is actually not here to fight for his military power, he is sixty-seven years old this year, it can be said that he has been illustrious for half his life, Cai Jing, Liang Shicheng and others who got power with him have been killed by Da Liang, and he not only escaped with his life, but also got a baron, he didn't dare to ask for more.

It's just that he can't let go of the 3,000 pro-army, and these soldiers have followed him for many years. In addition to fighting, there will be nothing else, if you are disarmed and return to the field, you can only sit and eat empty, become bandits, and then be exterminated by the officers and soldiers of the Great Liang. So I had to go through this experience, although it was only in exchange for a grace that I could continue to enlist, but it was not bad. Otherwise, those pro-soldiers are already over the scope of the Liang conscription and cannot participate in the conscription.

Some time ago, the Daliang Di newspaper just announced the Daliang military system, and he was discharged from the army after three years. Only those who hold official positions above the head of the capital can continue to serve in the army, but if the retired soldiers are willing to go to the border, each of them will be given 150 acres of fertile land on the border, which is 50 acres more than the people in the border.

Now the Ningxia Road and Qinghai Road are the two roads that need to be pleaded, although these two roads are remote places for most people, but they are not far for those who come from the northwest. They can't get land when they go back to the northwest, so they might as well go to Ningxia Road and Qinghai Road. If you don't know how to do farm work, you can learn, as long as you have land, there are never Han people who starve to death.

Chao Yong walked aimlessly for a long time. As soon as he looked up, he saw Shi Bao and Fang Jie looking at him from a distance, and it seemed that they were looking for him, so he waved them over.

The two of them came to see the ceremony. It was unspeakable again.

Chao Yong also guessed something, waved his hand and said, "Let's hear it." ”

Shi Bao and Fang Jie glanced at each other, and Shi Bao motioned for Fang Jie to say, count from Fang Baihua. Fang Jie is still Chao Yong's junior, so it is always more convenient.

"The Southern Song Dynasty has been destroyed, and the prince is about to lead the troops to wipe out Lu Shisang. Although he gathered 300,000 soldiers and horses in Muzhou. But it's just a mantis arm as a car, and it will definitely be swept away by the prince. Lu Shisang killed his aunt, and he deserved to die. It's just that there are still some brothers in the sect who don't know the truth, so Brother Shi Bao and I want to tell them the truth and let them not kill themselves. ”

Chao Yong nodded and said, "Okay, then you act carefully." They can be the officers and soldiers of our Liangliang and the people of our Liang, but in the future, it is forbidden to spread Manichaeism, and those who violate it will be killed. ”

"Yes"

The two also knew that there was no room for bargaining, so they withdrew after receiving the order.

Chao Yong found that when dealing with things, he could make him forget his sadness for a while, and immediately asked people to invite Zong Ze.

When Zong Ze came to the Yamen, Chao Yong was asking people to make tea.

Huzhou's tea is very famous, the tea saint Lu Yu is in Huzhou to write the "Book of Tea", Huzhou Changxing County's Gu Zhu purple bamboo shoots were rated by Lu Yu as the top grade, became the Tang Dynasty tribute tea.

Because its fresh tea bud leaves are slightly purple, and the back of the young leaves rolls like bamboo shoot shells, it is named purple bamboo shoots. Because of the excellent quality of Gu Zhu's purple bamboo shoot tea, it was also selected by the imperial court as a tea for sacrificing to the temple. At that time, the royal family stipulated that the purple bamboo shoot tribute tea was divided into five grades, and the first batch of tea must be ensured to arrive in Chang'an before the "Qingming" to worship the temple. Because the time for germination, production, and tribute is very tight, the first batch of tribute tea is called "rush tea".

In the Song Dynasty, the temperature was slightly lower than that of the Tang Dynasty, and the germination of Guzhu purple bamboo shoots was also delayed, and it was difficult for the first batch of tea to catch up with the Qingming Festival. Therefore, the tribute tea of the Song Dynasty became the Jian'an tea further south.

After Zhao Ziwei established the pseudo-Song Dynasty, Jianzhou was occupied by Lu Shisang, and the tribute tea of the pseudo-Song Dynasty became Gu Zhu purple bamboo shoot tea.

It can be seen that the tribute tea in the world is not necessarily the best, and the emperor also has to seek perfection because of the time and place.

The pseudo-Song Dynasty was not established for a long time, but Tong Guan served in the palace for decades, but he established many of the regulations in the palace decently, which is not comparable to Fang La, Tian Hu and other grass-headed geniuses. Even if Da Liang seized Tokyo, because of Chao Gai's rough temperament, Da Liang's etiquette system was not as good as that of the pseudo-Song Dynasty.

The tea is made of Gu Zhu purple bamboo shoots, but the means are still the method of Jian'an tea bucket tea.

The custom of Jian'an tea fighting can be traced back to the late Tang Dynasty, the earliest was just tea farmers fighting tea, and when Jian'an tea became tribute tea, tea fighting also spread from the countryside of Jian'an to Beijing, and was sought after by dignitaries and nobles, literati, and then swept the country.

Zhao Ji is more fond of the art of fighting tea, wrote "Daguan Tea Treatise" 20 articles, the interest came, he personally cooked tea to give the banquet ministers, Cai Jing in the "Daqing Lou Special Banquet", "Baohe Palace Qu Banquet", "Yanfu Palace Qu Banquet" are recorded.

For example, "Yanfu Palace Song Banquet Record" wrote: "In December of the second year of Xuanhe, he summoned Prince Zai and other songs to feast in Yanfu Palace,...... Ordered the waiter to take the tea set, personally poured the soup and whisked, less white milk floating noodles, such as the stars and the light moon, Gu Zhuchen Day: this self-cloth tea. After drinking, everyone thanked him. ”

The most famous of the Zen Forest Tea Banquet is the Jingshan Temple Tea Banquet. Jingshan Temple is located in Tianmu Mountain, built in the Tang Dynasty, to the Song Dynasty has the reputation of "the crown of the Zen forest in the south of the Yangtze River", every spring to hold a tea banquet, taste the tea and discuss the scriptures, discuss Buddhism. A set of etiquette has been formed.

Chao Yong didn't have a good impression of the monk, but the one who performed the tea ceremony for him was a bald monk.

After Zhao Ziyan and Tong Guan decided to surrender, they tried their best to curry favor with Chao Yong, and the food, clothing, housing and transportation were carefully arranged, and the people who cooked tea for the prince were all monks invited from Jingshan Temple in Hangzhou.

The abbot of Jingshan Temple, Dahui Zen Master, heard that he was cooking tea for Prince Daliang, so he came to cook tea in person regardless of his identity.

Although they are monks, they can never really become monks. It is necessary not only to cross oneself, but also to cross others, which seems to be similar to the development of MLM to make money by developing a downline. There are more people crossing, and there are more incense in the temple, but the legend of the Buddha crossing people can also become a Buddha on the ground.

Zhao Ji respected Taoism, canonized himself as the head of the Taoist Emperor, established Taoism, cultivated the "History of Taoism", placed the Taoist rank 26, the Taoist official 26, etc., issued the "Imperial Note Tao Te Ching", and Zhao Taixue placed the doctor of Taoism. In various places, the Shenxiao Wanshou Palace was built, and thousands of hectares of land were allocated in each place.

Over the years, relying on Zhao Ji's support, Taoism has overwhelmed Buddhism. Many temples are dilapidated, and the monks in the temples are either relegated to the laity or converted to Taoist priests. Anyway, the sesame oil money given by worshipping the Buddha and seeking the Tao is the same, neither the Buddha nor the Taoist ancestor has the power to take away the sesame oil money, and they are the ones who are cheaper in the end. Since Taoist incense is prosperous. It doesn't hurt for them to convert to Taoism.

In the first year of Xuanhe, Zhao Ji directly ordered the monks of the world to change to Taoist priests and grow their hair to the top. The temple was directly changed to Taoism, believing in Taoism, and the bronze Buddha had to be sent to the government. It is a big blow to Buddhism, although Jingshan Temple is the crown of the Zen forest in the south of the Yangtze River, but it is no exception.

The abbot fearless Zen Master Weilin received an official letter from the county government and was unwilling to convert to Taoism, but he did not dare to openly disobey the emperor's holy decree, otherwise when the emperor wanted to cut off his head, the Buddha would not be able to bless him. Legend has it that the protectors of the Buddha are all the eight heavenly dragons, but they can't fight the true dragon emperor. The Buddha didn't seem to dare to cast a spell to directly transform the True Dragon Heavenly Son, and could only watch his followers lose their heads in the Buddha realm. Maybe this is a test for believers, how can it be eighty-one difficult, but the average monk does not have the Monkey King to protect the Dharma, and he will return to the west with a knife. I don't know if I am qualified to go to the Western Elysium, or maybe I will fall into hell.

The emperor only gave him two choices: to believe or to lose his head, but the fearless Zen master took the third path and summoned his disciples to see him off before his seat. When everyone arrived, Fearless Verin sat down as she spoke.

It's sitting, not suicide.

Generally, suicide requires poison, daggers or something, and if you don't have it at home, you can find a rope. If you can't do it, you can only go outside, jump off a cliff, throw yourself into a well or something. But there is absolutely no need to sit, this is a Buddhist supernatural power, there is absolutely no need to take medicine and swallow gold or anything in advance, and it does not necessarily have to be the end of life, when you want to see the Buddha, sit down and go.

Perhaps Zhao Ji was frightened by the sitting of the fearless Zen Master Weilin, afraid that the Fearless Zen Master Weilin would invite the Buddha to come, and it didn't take long to withdraw the edict to convert the monk to Taoism.

The temple doesn't need to be rerouted, but Zen Master Fearless Weilin can't come back, so Dahui Zen Master became the abbot of Jingshan Temple.

There is no master-apprentice relationship between Dahui Zen Master and Fearless Weilin, and Jingshan Temple adopts the ten-party abbot system. In the past, the abbot of Jingshan was also passed down from master to apprentice, and it was only in the Song Dynasty that it was changed to the abbot system of the ten directions, and the monks were selected from the ten directions to be the abbot.

Compared with the master-apprentice tradition, the ten-party abbot system is more conducive to the management of the temple by the imperial court.

The ten-party abbot system of Jingshan Temple is still advocated by the great poet Su Shi, when Su Shi was an official in Hangzhou, he thought he was a frequent visitor to Jingshan, he felt that the previous system inheritance had drawbacks, so he changed to the ten-party abbot system, and the first three generations of ten-party abbots were selected by Su Shi.

After Lu Zhishen passed away in Liuhe Temple in the Water Margin, Song Jiang personally went to invite Dahui Zen Master, the abbot of Jingshan Temple, to set fire for Lu Zhishen, that is, to be cremated, and the chanting was the Zen Master of Five Mountains and Ten Temples.

In fact, at this time, there is no saying that there are five mountains and ten temples, and the five mountains and ten temples are the Southern Song Dynasty when Ningzong was in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the level of the Jiangnan Zen Temple was determined, and the status of the five mountains was the highest, and the ten temples were secondary.

Five Mountains:

1. Jingshan Temple, Jingshan, Lin'an County, Hangzhou

2. Lingyin Temple, Lingyin Mountain, Qiantang County, Hangzhou

3. Jingci Temple, Nanping Mountain, Qiantang County, Hangzhou

Fourth, Tiantong Temple, Mingzhou Yinxian Tiantong Mountain

5. Ashoka Temple, Yin County, Mingzhou, Ashoka Mountain

Ten brakes:

1. Zhongtianzhu Temple, Qiantang County, Hangzhou

2. Protecting the Holy Wanshou Temple, Wucheng County, Huzhou, Daochang Mountain

3. Taiping Xingguo Temple Jiankang Shangyuan County Jiangshan

Fourth, repay the grace of Guangxiao Temple, Suzhou Wu County Wanshou Mountain

5. Fenghua County, Mingzhou, Xuedou Temple

Sixth, Jiangxin Temple Wenzhou Yongjia County

Seventh, Xuefeng Temple, Fuzhou Houguan County

8. Baolin Temple, Yunhuang Mountain, Yiwu City, Zhejiang

9. Lingyan Temple, Huqiu Mountain, Wu County, Suzhou

10. Tiantai Mountain, Tiantai County, Taizhou of Guoqing Temple

The first of the five mountains and ten temples is Jingshan Temple, after the decline of the five mountains and ten temples in the Ming Dynasty, there is the prosperity of the four famous mountains of Buddhism. (Wutai Mountain in Shanxi, Putuo Mountain in Zhejiang, Emei Mountain in Sichuan, Jiuhua Mountain in Anhui)

Jingshan Temple also has an abbot Dharma name Dahui Zen Master, but Dahui Zonggao is the abbot of Jingshan Temple in the seventh year of Song Gaozong Shaoxing, when the two Song Dynasty alternate, Jingshan Temple was once used for other purposes, and the monks in the temple are also scattered. Under the governance of Zen Master Dahui, Jingshan Temple has once again become the crown of the Zen forest in the south of the Yangtze River.

Nine times out of ten, the prototype of the Dahui Zen Master in the Water Margin is this Dahui Zen Master. However, at this time, this great wisdom Zen master was still studying Buddhism from teachers everywhere.

(This book is still taken from the Dahui Zen Master in the Water Margin, so as not to come to the Dahui Zen Master at night.) If this book suddenly does not extinguish the teachings, then it has been crossed, otherwise the Buddha will treat me as an ant)

When the Great Liang was established, Zhao Ji, the sect leader, the Daojun Emperor, naturally couldn't be the emperor, and without the emperor's position, there were more Taoist priests who were higher than Zhao Ji's "Taoism". What's more, Zhao Ji has become the king of the fallen country, and Taoism can't wait to expel him from Taoism.

After the Liang destroyed the Song Dynasty. Abolish all the Taoist officials canonized in the Song Dynasty, and order the demolition of the Shenxiao Wanshou Palace in various places. Everyone in the world knows that the new emperor does not believe in Taoism, and Buddhist monks also want to transform this true dragon and promote Buddhism.

The presiding officer of Xiangguo Temple in Tokyo has repeatedly asked to see Chao Gai, wanting to "cross" Chao Gai, but the territory of Daliang is increasing all the time, and the affairs of various places are also continuous, Chao Gai does not have time to discuss with the monks in detail, not to mention that he also has a god son who is invincible. What is the use of asking the Buddha for anything.

The abbot of Xiangguo Temple can't cross the emperor, but the abbot of Jingshan Temple wants to cross the prince.

Zen Master Dahui saw that the prince of Daliang had arrived in Jiangnan, so he came to Baba.

The Japanese tea ceremony is derived from the Jingshan tea ceremony, and even the tea utensils are produced in the Song Dynasty with Jianzhou kiln. Porcelain from the Northern Song Dynasty and tea from Fujian were important commodities for trade with Japan. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the firing technology of Jian'an black glazed rabbit tea set was also introduced to Japan. In the future, there will be no future, and the stealing teacher has succeeded. But it's been a long time. Some of the tea ceremonies will still be lost, so they will fill in some procedures by themselves, and maybe they haven't learned all of them at the beginning. In short, the Japanese filled some of it themselves, and it ended up being a Japanese tea ceremony.

In the sixteenth year of Jiading in the Southern Song Dynasty, the Japanese Kato Shiro Saemon came to China with the Zen master of Dogen, learned ceramic firing for five or six years, and after returning to Japan, he opened a ceramic industry in Owari and made black glaze famous wares, until later generations, Japan called this kind of ceramics or "lazy household things", and called Kato Shiro "Tao Zu".

While performing the tea ceremony of Jingshan Temple, Zen Master Dahui said: "Although Gu Zhu purple bamboo shoots are also of the highest quality, but the Song Dynasty did not use it to make tribute tea, and the picking and production was not strict. I knew that there was no good tea in Huzhou, so the little monk brought some Jingshan tea from our temple for the prince. The Jingshan tea of our temple also has a history of nearly 400 years, during the Tang Dynasty, the first master of the founding mountain planted tea in Jingshan, offered tea to the Buddha, entertained guests with tea, and talked about Zen with tea. Although I dare not say that it is the first in the world, it can definitely be called the best grade. At the Qingming Festival this year, the little monk also picked and made some tea leaves by hand, and then used my Jingshan tea ceremony, which must be a rare and good tea. If the prince has time to drive to Jingshan Temple, the little monk should cook tea for the prince. ”

Chao Yong smiled: "The military situation is urgent, I'm afraid there is no time to bother." And I'm just a rough person, and I can't appreciate the tea ceremony. In my opinion, as long as there is good tea, good water, and good tea utensils, it is naturally not difficult to make good tea. The abbot's tea ceremony should be an elegant person who has nothing to do to enjoy the thing, I am a martial artist, the abbot gave me a tea ceremony, like playing the piano to the cow, burning the piano and boiling the crane, ruined, ruined. ”

In fact, Chao Yong really wants to say that the tea ceremony is a boring person's idle egg to play, if he is performing a beautiful woman, maybe he is still in the mood to appreciate it, and Zhao Ziyan just got him a man, or the monk he hates the most now.

Watch a monk tinker in front of you, and finally make a cup of tea. Chao Yong really didn't feel any beauty.

Seeing that the prince didn't seem to like the tea ceremony, the movement of his hands was a little faster, and he smiled: "The prince is too modest......." ”

Chao Yong was puzzled: "Doesn't the Zen master's tea ceremony need to be meditative?" ”

Zen Master Dahui is not a stupid person, hearing that the prince thinks he is noisy, in order not to anger the prince, he has to close his mouth and concentrate on cooking tea.

After a while, Dahui Zen Master cooked a cup of tea, the soup was green and white, and the tea was fragrant. It is the Jianzhou black cup used to serve tea, because the tea bucket is the color first, and the best soup color is pure white, followed by green and white, gray and white, and yellow and white. In order to distinguish between black and white, so people love to use black cups, and the best black cups are Jianzhou rabbit hair, the color is black, the pattern is like rabbit hair, and its blank is slightly thick.

Zen Master Dahui shook his head and said, "If you use the Jingshan tea I made myself, you should be able to cook a pure white soup." ”

Chao Yong picked up the rabbit cup, tasted it, nodded and said: "Good tea, no matter how good it is, I can only eat good tea, but the advantages and disadvantages are not good." ”

The two said a few more words, and the guards outside came to report to Zong Ze to ask to see him.

Chao Yong nodded at Zen Master Dahui and said: "There is Zen Master Lao, tomorrow I will lead the troops south to Hangzhou, and I will let people send Zen Master back to the mountain when I turn back." ”

When Zen Master Dahui heard this, he hurriedly said: "The little monk is also about to go to Hangzhou, I don't know if I am fortunate to walk with the prince?" ”

Chao Yong also knew what Zen Master Dahui was thinking, shook his head and refused: "The march must not bring irrelevant people, etc." ”

Seeing Chao Yong say this, Zen Master Dahui had no choice but to retire. (To be continued......)

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