trace the history (of)
In 52 BC of the Western Han Dynasty, Wu Lizhen planted seven kinds of tea trees in Mengding Mountain, Sichuan Province, which created the first artificial cultivation of tea in the world, and Wu Lizhen was therefore honored as the tea ancestor. In 4 BC, after Buddhism was introduced to China, Wu Lizhen studied alopecia in Mengding Mountain, became the first Buddhist tea maker, and was honored as Ganlu Zen Master. In the Tang Dynasty, Yan Feng recorded the scene of the northern Zen learning to taste tea in Wen Jian Lu, Shi Feng. People carry their backs, cook and drink everywhere, and then imitate customs. "
Lu Yu, a native of Tang Dynasty, was honored as Cha Sheng by the world. He was born in a temple and was adopted by a Zen master at the age of three. He has developed superb tea picking and cooking skills since he was a child. His Tea Classic describes the history, planting, processing, tea set and tea tasting custom of tea.
In the Tang dynasty, Zen monks in the southern Zen system also paid attention to drinking tea. In the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, the Zen master in Zhaozhou, Hebei Province took the initiative to "have tea" to lead his disciples. According to the Legend of Jingdezhen Lantern, Volume 10, Zhao Zhou asked the new monk, "Have you been here?" The monk replied, "I have been there." Zhao Zhou said, "Go and have tea." Asked the monk again, the monk replied, "I didn't arrive." Zhao Zhou said, "Go and have tea." . This is the famous case of "Zhaozhou wants tea" in Zen history.
Yuan Wu Keqin, a famous Zen master in the Song Dynasty, wrote his first Zen book, Enlightenment Zen Tea, in Jiashan, Hunan. Zeng wrote the word "tea Zen blindly" and presented it to Japanese disciple Rong who participated in the study. Datian Temple in Nara, Japan, still collects Wu Yuan's original calligraphy, so the Japanese tea ceremony is also called "tea Zen blindness".
During the Tang and Song Dynasties, there was a special "tea house" for monks to eat tea. There is a post dedicated to frying some tea in the thatched cottage, which is called "tea head". The jungle rules require daily tea supply before Buddha, ancestors and spirits; The new abbot Jinshan also has a little tea soup ceremony; There is even a banquet dedicated to drinking tea and soup, called "tea and soup party".
There are also "Tea Pavilion" and "Tea House" in the courtyards of Zen temples in Japan, with elegant architecture and quiet environment, which is the development of "Tea Hall" and "Tea House" of Zen temples in China in Japan. It can be said that tea tasting in China began in temples and prevailed in them. After the Tang and Song Dynasties, it became more popular. Then spread to literati, literati, court nobles, and even the general public.
Zen tea spirit
The spirit of Zen tea culture is "integrity, purity, harmony and elegance", which determines that Zen tea culture has a social education function different from philosophy and ethics. Zen tea culture is inseparable from humanistic care, daily life, Zen care and sentiment, and the purity, simplicity, leisure, dedication and cultivation of tea. From this point of view, it is most appropriate to position the function of Zen tea culture in the eight words of "gratitude, tolerance, sharing and affinity"; It is not only harmonious, but also elegant and popular, which has practical significance for the universal implementation and operation in daily life.
Be grateful
Drink this cup of tea with gratitude. This cup of tea is not just a bowl of tea soup, but full of humanistic spirit, full of harmony between heaven and earth, mutual achievement, mutual assistance and harmony, resolving hostility, promoting righteousness and achieving harmony.
excuse
Drink this cup of tea with a sharing attitude, and human grievances will be like pieces of tea fragrance. Dissolve fragrance and sweetness in clean fresh water and turn it into nectar that is beneficial to optimize each other's physical and mental temperament, and the righteousness of the world will be implemented in respect for each other.
share
Drink this cup of tea with a sharing attitude, cultivate our caring heart of pushing ourselves and others, and think that there are still many sufferings in the world and various defects in society. Everyone has the responsibility to give love to each other, less selfish desires and more public welfare; Less indifference, more love.
Become attached to ...
Drink this cup of tea with a friendly attitude. With the best taste of tea soup, we will have an affinity with everyone, a good relationship, a relationship of law, a relationship of Buddha, a wisdom of law, a compassion of Buddha, a fragrance and purity of tea, a good harmony, a purified life and a harmonious society.
The spirit of Zen tea culture is "integrity, purity and elegance"; The function of Zen tea culture is "gratitude, tolerance, sharing and affinity". Dissolve righteousness in gratitude, purity in tolerance, harmony in sharing and elegance in affinity; The fundamental social value of carrying forward Zen tea culture lies in carrying forward the spirit of Zen tea culture and implementing it, and exerting the subtle role of Zen tea culture in rallying people's hearts, resolving contradictions, optimizing their own quality and harmonious self-relationship.
Zen tea is a combination of Zen and tea. Zen is the enlightenment of Zen, and Chaze is the help of Zen. Tea is the medium of inheriting Zen.