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Louguantai is a tourist attraction, known as the birthplace of Taoism, located in zhouzhi county, Shaanxi Province, at the northern foot of Qinling Mountains.

In Zhou Kangwang, Yin Shi loves to study astronomy and astrology, so he built a grass house here to observe the stars and the sky, and to meditate on Taoism, so he named it "Louguan". Lao Tzu went west to Hanguguan, and Yin resigned from Guanling to welcome Lao Tzu to Louguantai as a disciple. Laozi wrote "Five Thousand Words of Morality" and taught it.

Louguantai is the ancestral home of Taoism in China. China people generally respect Yan Di Shennong as the tea ancestor, while Japanese people regard Laozi as the tea ancestor. Okakura Tenjin's "Tea Classic" records that when Lao Tzu passed through Hangu Pass, Guan Lingyi Xi gave Lao Tzu a cup of yellow soup, which is tea. Because Okakura Tenjin's Tea Classic has such a wide influence, especially in western countries, many western writers directly quoted Okakura Tenjin's views in their later works.

In fact, Chinese traditional tea culture is closely combined with Taoist thought. Mr. Xu Jialu said: "Tea and Chinese medicine are the two wings of China traditional culture", which is the highest level description of China's tea ceremony thought at present, and the profound Taoist thought is behind its expression.

"Governing a big country is like cooking a little fresh", this sentence comes from the sixtieth chapter of Tao Te Ching. Although Lu Yu lived a humble life, he had the ambition to help the world. He inherited the thought of Yi Yin, a famous figure in Shang Dynasty, and designed the procedure of frying tea ceremony, especially the wind furnace for making tea, which contained rich Taoist thoughts. The fourth part of Lu Yu's Tea Classic, Tea Apparatus, introduces the design of hot blast stove in detail. The words "Gong Yi Soup" and "Lushi Tea" are engraved on the window of Lushi Wind Furnace. Yi Yin's "Ding Shao" helped the Shang Dynasty to destroy the summer and made great contributions to the establishment of the Shang Dynasty. Comparing herself to Yi Yin, Lu Yu designed a special link in the process of frying tea ceremony, that is, scooping a ladle of water when the water is boiled twice, and then pouring it into the pot when the water is boiled three times, so as to "reconcile the five flavors". Maybe Lu Yu is paying tribute to Yi Yin, because it is not easy to understand the practical significance of this action. There is an inscription on the three legs of Lu's wind furnace that says, "All five elements of the body can cure all diseases." When the balance of water, fire and soil in Jin Mu is reached, all diseases can be eliminated or no diseases can be caused. There is also a cloud that "the ridge on the ridge is separated from the middle", the ridge is separated from the wind, the ridge is separated from the fire, the wind can ignite the fire, and the fire can boil water, which are all manifestations of Taoist thought.

The culmination of China's philosophy is that man is connected with heaven and earth, man is integrated with everything in heaven and earth, and man is integrated with nature. Drinking tea is one of the ways. Tea drinkers are in the grass. Tea inherits the essence of heaven and earth, and people feel the world through tea. Tea is one of the best media for people to communicate with the universe. It is the Confucian tea philosophy to cultivate morality with tea and get close to the world; It is a Buddhist tea ceremony philosophy to nourish wisdom with tea and communicate with heaven and earth. It is the Taoist tea philosophy to cultivate one's health with tea and get the connection between heaven and earth.

Lu Tong's Seven Bowls of Tea Songs: One bowl moistens the throat, and the other two bowls are lonely. Three bowls of heartbroken, only five thousand volumes of words. Four bowls of sweat, life is not smooth, scattered to the pores. Five bowls of bones and muscles are clear, and six bowls are immortal. I can't eat seven bowls, but I feel the wind blowing under my arm. This poem has been appreciated, quoted and written by tea lovers since the Tang Dynasty. Among them, drinking tea, such as "drinking the wind and eating the dew", is far from the secular and sage-like, which is the embodiment of the concept of home and the yearning of most tea people.

These things may be mysterious and mysterious, so they don't take up space. One day, perhaps in midsummer, sitting under the huge ginkgo tree in Gu Lou and watching the fruit fall to the ground without cleaning, you may understand a lot. (finishing: Yan; Data map network)