Ep. 140-4 | The Sage of Tea
The China History Podcast
Laszlo Montgomery
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2014
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Thank you for your patience. In this fourth installment of the history of tea, we finally make it to the immortal Tea Saint. Lu Yu 陆羽. What Elvis was to rock n' roll, Lu Yu was to the popularity of tea in Chinese society. Here we'll look at his interesting life and his work, "The Classic of Tea" 茶经. From here on out, tea 茶 is no longer tú 荼, and neither is it bitter.
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| 1:06.3 | lumbinary Luyu. I was a little reluctant to mix Luyu and with the last episode it wanted to showcase his life and the Chajing, the classic of tea, in one single episode. |
| 1:18.0 | Namely, this one. |
| 1:20.0 | I won't say that Lulieu's life was as legendary and mythic as Shunong, but it was 12 centuries ago when |
| 1:27.4 | Luyu walked this earth, so it's one of those things, who knows how much, if any of this tale is true. |
| 1:33.0 | So without further ado let's get right on it. |
| 1:37.0 | All my sources said he was a Hoopé-Wren. |
| 1:40.0 | Born 733 in what is present-day Ten, Ho-bei province between Wuhan and Jingman. |
| 1:47.9 | Like with many of today's places in China back in Luyu's day, it wasn't called by its present name. He was abandoned as a child, left under a stone bridge, |
| 1:57.0 | and he ended up growing up under the care of the Abbot of Lunkai Temple. The Abbot Jerji raised him as a son, and together with others inside the |
| 2:06.4 | monastery served as Luyu's team mentors for all those earliest formative years. The roots of Luyu's passion for tea were planted here at |
| 2:17.7 | this Chan Buddhist monastery. I mentioned earlier that Chan Buddhism is better known by its Japanese name, Zen. |
| 2:25.1 | Now the way the script was written by his stepfather, Luyu was supposed to stick with the |
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