What is the Book of Tea?

Historians and tea ceremony lovers have long revered it as the first sacred text of the tea world, like the Talmud, a beloved of Jewish merchants.

It is China's first book summarizing the origin, technology, tools, and tasting of tea in the Tang Dynasty and before the Tang Dynasty, and it is also the world's first tea book, which makes China's tea industry have a relatively complete scientific basis since then, and has a great effect on the production and development of tea industry, which can be called an encyclopedia of tea ceremony.

The Book of Tea is divided into three volumes and ten sections, about 7,000 words.

Volume I: The Source of One, talks about the origin, name, and quality of tea, and introduces the morphological characteristics of tea trees. The second tool is on the utensils for picking tea. Sannozo explains the types of tea and the harvesting process.

In the volume: Four vessels, describing the utensils used to cook tea and drink tea.

Volume down: Five boils, talking about the cooking skills of tea and the advantages and disadvantages of water quality in various places. Six Drinks, talk about the origin, spread and customs of tea drinking, and put forward tea drinking methods. Seven things, describing the stories of tea, its origin and the 'medicine' effect of the past dynasties. Eight of the Eight, describing the advantages and disadvantages of tea produced in various places, and dividing the national tea production areas of the Tang Dynasty into eight tea regions. Nine omitted, illustrating the tea set that can be omitted. The picture of the ten deals with the matter of making tea in plain silk.

In fact, what many people don't know is that the most detailed original of the "Book of Tea" has long been destroyed in the war, and now it is not complete, and many of the contents have also been added by later generations.

But I didn't expect that I accidentally found the original written by Lu Yu, if I took it out, I don't know what kind of sensation it would cause!

I wanted to give myself a day off, but at noon, I got up together and picked up the newspaper, and I saw two headache news.

The first story is that there was a sudden fire at the city's antique market last night, but strangely enough, the disaster only burned down one house, and the shops that were tightly connected to the house were not damaged at all.

According to nearby neighbors, this house originally lived a lonely old man over 70 years old, who was very withdrawn and had a strange personality, and he never 'socialized' with people in the neighborhood, but only relied on selling some antique books to make a hard living.

The cause of the fire has not yet been identified, and the owner of the house is being searched everywhere.

I looked at the newspaper photos and couldn't help but be stunned.

Isn't this the house of the old man who gave me the book "The Book of Tea"? He told me that it would be dangerous to get the book, but he lost the book and lost his life, which is a little weird!

The second piece of news is only a small piece, with few numbers. It is said that the city laboratory was broken into by an unknown person last night, and that person did not steal any important objects, but only destroyed all the things to be identified.

It has been reported that the person is suffering from a serious mental illness and has been detained by the police for further investigation.

The more I looked at it, the heavier it became, and when I walked to the research room, I asked, "Have you read today's newspaper?" ”

"Of course I've seen it, otherwise I deliberately put it on the dinner table!" Yu Xin pursed her lips, "You, the eldest young master, never read the newspaper." ”

I didn't bother to pay attention to her, looked at Zhao Qian'er and said, "What do you think of the news in the laboratory?" ”

As if she understood my hint, her face suddenly turned white and she said in surprise: "You mean, that person destroyed the appraisal, mainly to steal the tea leaves I took for identification?" ”

I nodded and said, "Quite possibly." The best way to hide a leaf quietly is to hide it in the forest, and the opposite is true. ”

"Brother Xiaoye, I think, it's you thinking too much." Yu Xin disagreed, "Who would do such a stupid thing?" Why did they do it! ”

"Don't forget, there are at least two forces that are peeping at Lu Yu around us now. They've been looking for an opportunity to steal all the results of this excavation! ”

I walked over to the empty coffin and gently stroked it with my hand, "You have also seen that there are many magical and strange things about this tea saint, although we don't know it, it doesn't mean that the other party doesn't understand it either."

"There must be something that we don't know. And that's what those two forces want. ”

Sighing, I looked at Yuxin and asked, "Where is the second uncle?" ”

"He went to the excavation site early in the morning, and it was said that there was something he had found." Yu Xin also learned to sigh from me, "Dad is crazy now, he has been locked in his room to read the "Book of Tea", I really don't know how my mother fell in love with him!" ”

As soon as she finished speaking, the mad uncle rushed in. He was unkempt, not unkempt, but unsightly.

He glanced around the entire research room, and when he saw me, he immediately exclaimed happily, "Xiao Ye, you are really here, oh my God! Do you know what I found in this book? ”

"What makes you so excited?"

"It is the original recipe and picking method of Shennong tea and Qingxin tea!"

I was immediately disappointed, so that's all there is to it? In modern times, these two things have long been no secret.

Seeing Zhao Qian'er's puzzled face, I explained: "The Han Dynasty's "Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica" records: Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, encountered seventy-two poisons a day, and got tea to solve them. After thousands of years of ancient tea horse road passed down from generation to generation, Shennong tea was originally designed for the ancient royal family, and now it has become a health care drink for many people.

"Actually, Shennong tea was not invented by Shennong, and Qingxin tea is Lu Yu's research, and it is extremely fragrant in the mouth, full of charm, and has a refreshing effect. It's just that these formulas, many people know. ”

"Not bad." Yu Xin nodded and added, "To be honest, the so-called Shenlong tea is a kind of Chinese 'medicine', and the raw materials are more than ten kinds of Chinese 'medicine' such as honeysuckle vine, Jinsha vine, cloth slag leaves, dog liver vegetables, and mulberry branches. It can clear away heat, quench thirst, and treat colds and flu. In short, there are many uses, but it is definitely not an unusual thing. ”

Listening to our words, the madman uncle did not look surprised, and smiled mysteriously, "I know what you say. "However, the Shennong tea I am talking about is the tea made by the real Shennong. And Qingxin tea, the main ingredient, is the tea leaves in Lu Yu's coffin! ”

"What!" I turned my head sharply to look at him, only to feel my tone tremble. There are many mysteries about the tea leaves in the coffin, and the madman uncle can't 'figure out' them through various means, but he just found that each leaf contains strong energy, and the molecular structure is also extremely tightly structured. As far as I know, there is only one person who has ever drunk that kind of tea, and that is Zhang Ke. He is now in a vegetative state, has lost his memory, and is afraid that he will be in the hospital forever.