Ep. 140-7 | Tea During the Song Dynasty
The China History Podcast
Laszlo Montgomery
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2015
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The once bitter brew sharing a Chinese character with the one used for a bitter vegetable is now long a thing of the past. Starting around a thousand or more years ago, royals, officials, scholars, and common people are now enjoying tea. The literati of the day (and there were quite a few) write poems and paint paintings, inspired by this beverage that has taken China by storm. We also look at one of the greatest royal patrons of tea in Chinese history, the Northern Song Dynasty Emperor Huizong 宋徽宗 who reigned from 1100-1126 AD.
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| 0:58.0 | pricing shown. Hi everyone, me again, Lossla Montgomery, welcome back to the Tea History Podcast, Part 7 today. |
| 1:08.6 | Liu Yu, Liu Tung, and the Tang Dynasty are behind us now and T is hit the big time all over China. |
| 1:16.2 | In this part 7 episode we'll continue looking at the history of T in China after Luyu |
| 1:22.3 | departed us in his earthly form in the year 804. |
| 1:27.0 | In the history of tea, as it pertains to Japan that is, that was a banner year. |
| 1:32.3 | 804 not only marks the passing of China's great tea sage. |
| 1:36.0 | Two of the more famous and important people in Japanese tea history, |
| 1:40.0 | Kukai and Saichow, both Buddhist monks, returned to Japan from China with tea seeds and knowledge of tea cultivation and tea rituals and ceremonies. |
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