This chapter describes twenty eight items used in the brewing and drinking of tea. This chapter recommends methods for the production of tea cake. This chapter describes fifteen tools for picking, steaming, pressing, drying and storing tea leaves and cakes. The geographical region, harvest seasons and growing methods in relation to tea quality.

The characteristics of quality tea leaves, and soils and topography compared to tea quality. It also contains a horticultural description of the tea plant and its proper planting as well as some etymological speculation, features and characteristics of tea trees. This chapter covers the mythological origins of tea in China. It is made of 'Three Scrolls Ten Chapters' (дё‰еЌ·еЌЃз« ): The book is not large, about 7000 Chinese characters in the literary language of the Tang Dynasty, a condensed, refined and poetic style of Chinese.

Lu Yu's Tea Classic is the earliest known treatise on tea, and perhaps the most famous work on tea. 'The Day I Saw Lu Yu off to Pick Tea' Content In Lu Yu's hometown, Tianmen, there is an ancient styled tower named according to the classic in honour of the great writer. 'He invested the Ch'a Ching with the concept that dominated the religious thought of his age, whether Buddhist, Taoist, or Confucian: to see in the particular an expression of the universal'. Lu Yu made friends with many literati, including the calligrapher Yan Zhenqing and the poet Huangfu Zheng.ДЇor Lu Yu, tea symbolized the harmony and mysterious unity of the universe. During the An Lushan and Shi Siming rebellion period, Lu Yu retired to Shaoqi (now Wuxing county, Zhejiang). At age 14, Lu Yu was discovered by the local governor Li Qiwu, who offered Lu Yu the use of his library and the opportunity to study with a teacher. Lu Yu ran away and joined the circus as a clown. He refused to take up the monastic robes and was assigned menial jobs by his stepfather. ДЄccording to tea lore, Lu Yu was an orphan of Jinling county (now Tianmen City in Hubei Province) who was adopted by a Buddhist monk of the Dragon Cloud Monastery. Lu Yu's original work is lost the earliest editions available date to the Ming dynasty. The Classic of Tea or Tea Classic ( simplified Chinese: иЊ¶ з»Џ traditional Chinese: иЊ¶ з¶“ pinyin: chГЎjД«ng) is the first known monograph on tea in the world, by Chinese writer Lu Yu between 760 CE and 762 CE, during the Tang dynasty.

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