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MODERN TEA THAT

WOULD SURPRISE EVEN

LU YU

The Classics on Tea, Chinese first encyclopedia on tea, was written by Lu Yu of the Tang dynasty. The book is divided
into three parts and it is included ten chapters. In the genesis of the first chapter， Lu Yu talked about the tea ceremony----
--Drinking tea is good for our bodies, but it is best for humble people. Of course, the way of being humble is putting devotions
into actions, having no ambitions, only moral simplicity and also being modest and not luxurious. These sentences state that
drinking tea is for everyone. Throughout the tea ceremony, one can reserve his spirit and mind in order to have a calm and
peaceful moment. In the modern world, we can still see people hanging Lu Yu’s scripts in their tearooms, thus pursuing the
noble state of mind.
A lot of people know the Classics on Tea is a book that cannot be ignored. However, only a few have read it, so how
does the tea culture enter our life without any interference? People nowadays don’t read books about tea and appreciation
of tea drawings like we used to do. Almost everyone has tried bubble black tea, because of that, it changes the idea of drink-

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