Lu Yu is best known for his monumental work titled Classic of Tea - or Cha Jing - the first book on cultivating, making and drinking tea. Born in 733 AD in the Tang Dynasty (618-907AD), Lu Yu was ...

A proper tea service could include 25 objects, according to Lu Yu, whose seminal 8th century book, The Classic of Tea, is the authority for early drinking habits. But the most important of these ...

Lu Yu, a Chinese monk who would go on to become the “Sage of Tea,” published the first tea tutorial in the year 792. Cha Jing, or The Classic of Tea, is a 10-chapter treatise on the ...

Throughout The Classic of Tea, Lu Yü instills the practical with the spiritual and emphasizes the ritualized details paid to each step from cultivation to drinking. Sitting in one of the wicker ...

“The Classic of Tea” by Lu Yu, which is an 8th-century Chinese manuscript, [is] where the whole addition of salt thing comes from. Of course, they didn’t know about sodium ions and they didn ...

Lu Yu, a Chinese monk who would go on to become the “Sage of Tea,” published the first tea tutorial in the year 792. Cha Jing, or The Classic of Tea, is a 10-chapter treatise on the ...

Methods and steps for baking tea brick before brewing, storage of baked tea brick. • Types of water and water quality, things to look out for and timing of boiling water. • Steps and methods ...