Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 Thesis Read through modern tea science, “凡艺茶者或至数百丛其树如瓜芦叶如栀子花如白蔷” is not a lab result but a set of variables: cultivar, soil, light and

Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 Thesis The common mistake is to lift “呜呼天育万物皆有至妙人之所工但猎浅易所庇者屋” out of its sentence and turn it into an absolute rule. Text "Alas!

Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 Thesis The key words in “凡艺茶者或至数百丛其树如瓜芦叶如栀子花如白蔷” are not ornament. They mark where Tang tea names, vessels and provenance meet. Te

Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 Thesis “呜呼天育万物皆有至妙人之所工但猎浅易所庇者屋” only becomes legible inside Tang tribute tea, monastery tea and literati life. Text "Alas! Heave

Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 Thesis “呜呼天育万物皆有至妙人之所工但猎浅易所庇者屋” still has operational value at a contemporary tea table, provided Tang conditions are not silently uni

Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 Thesis Section 5 is not really about “凡艺茶者或至数百丛其树如瓜芦叶如栀子花如白蔷”; it is about how Lu Yu turns tea from a local product into an object of

Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 Thesis Read through modern tea science, “呜呼天育万物皆有至妙人之所工但猎浅易所庇者屋” is not a lab result but a set of variables: cultivar, soil, light and

Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 Thesis The common mistake is to lift “或用葱姜枣橘皮茱萸薄荷之等煮之百沸或扬令滑或” out of its sentence and turn it into an absolute rule. Text "Some

Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 Thesis The key words in “呜呼天育万物皆有至妙人之所工但猎浅易所庇者屋” are not ornament. They mark where Tang tea names, vessels and provenance meet. Te

Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 Thesis “或用葱姜枣橘皮茱萸薄荷之等煮之百沸或扬令滑或” only becomes legible inside Tang tribute tea, monastery tea and literati life. Text "Some add sc

Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 Thesis Section 4 is not really about “呜呼天育万物皆有至妙人之所工但猎浅易所庇者屋”; it is about how Lu Yu turns tea from a local product into an object of

Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 Thesis “或用葱姜枣橘皮茱萸薄荷之等煮之百沸或扬令滑或” still has operational value at a contemporary tea table, provided Tang conditions are not silently uni

Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 Thesis Read through modern tea science, “或用葱姜枣橘皮茱萸薄荷之等煮之百沸或扬令滑或” is not a lab result but a set of variables: cultivar, soil, light and

Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 Thesis The common mistake is to lift “茶之为饮发乎神农氏闻于鲁周公” out of its sentence and turn it into an absolute rule. Text "As a beverage

Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 Thesis The key words in “或用葱姜枣橘皮茱萸薄荷之等煮之百沸或扬令滑或” are not ornament. They mark where Tang tea names, vessels and provenance meet. Te

Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 Thesis “茶之为饮发乎神农氏闻于鲁周公” only becomes legible inside Tang tribute tea, monastery tea and literati life. Text "As a beverage, tea

Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 Thesis Section 3 is not really about “或用葱姜枣橘皮茱萸薄荷之等煮之百沸或扬令滑或”; it is about how Lu Yu turns tea from a local product into an object of

Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 Thesis “茶之为饮发乎神农氏闻于鲁周公” still has operational value at a contemporary tea table, provided Tang conditions are not silently universalis

Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 Thesis Read through modern tea science, “茶之为饮发乎神农氏闻于鲁周公” is not a lab result but a set of variables: cultivar, soil, light and pluckin

Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 Thesis The common mistake is to lift “翼而飞毛而走呿而言——此三者俱生于天地间饮啄” out of its sentence and turn it into an absolute rule. Text "Winge