Seeking talent biography in Tang Dynasty. Lu Yu translation

Lu Yu, whose name is Hung-chien, is unknown to anyone. At the beginning, a monk in Jingling found a baby by the river and took him as an apprentice. When he grew up, he didn't want to cut his hair and become a monk, so he used the Book of Changes as his divination, and divined the "gradual" divination in the "Jane" divination, which said: "Hung-chien was born on the ground, and his feathers can be used as tools." He took Lu Yu as his name. If he knows nothing in his studies, he will feel ashamed. Lu Yu is humorous by nature. When he was a teenager, he hid among actresses and wrote more than 10 thousand words of jokes. During the Tianbao period, Lu Yu was appointed by the government as the teacher of Youling, and later he escaped. This is what the ancients said: "people with noble conduct and dirty deeds."

In the early years of Shang Yuan, Lu Yu built a house on Tiaoxi and studied behind closed doors. I also get together with famous monks and hermits and drink and chat all day. Lu Yu is ugly and stutters, but he is eloquent. He is happy to hear the virtues of others and to have such virtues. Dating someone else, even if the tiger is in power, will go on as scheduled. He calls himself "Sangzhuweng", also known as "Donggangzi". He is proficient in ancient songs and poems, has a very elegant taste, and has written many books. He met at the mountain temple in a boat. He always wears a scarf, sandals, coarse clothes and an apron around his waist, banging on trees in the forest and splashing in the river. He sometimes walks alone in the wilderness, reciting ancient poems and wandering back and forth until the moon sets and rises again. When he is tired, he goes home crying. At that time, people compared him to Jie Yu, a madman of Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period. Lu Yu and monk Jiao Ran are best friends. The emperor once appointed Lu Yu as prince literature by imperial decree.

Lu Yu likes drinking tea and founded a set of exquisite tea ceremony theories. He wrote three volumes of tea classics, discussing the roots, methods and utensils of tea ceremony. He was called "tea fairy" by people at that time, and people all over the world gradually understood how to drink tea. The tea seller made a statue of Lu Yu with porcelain clay pottery as a sacrifice to the gods. Every time he bought ten tea sets, he was given a statue of Lu Yu. At first, Li Jiqing, an ancient physician, went to Jiangnan as a propaganda ambassador. He likes tea. Knowing Lu Yu's reputation, he sent for Lu Yu. Lu Yu, dressed as a farmer, entered the yamen with a tea set. Li Jiqing said, "Mr. Lu is good at tea ceremony, which is well known all over the world. The water in the clear spring in the Yangtze River is extremely wonderful. These two wonderful things meet once in a blue moon. Don't miss this opportunity, Mr. Lu. " After drinking tea, Li Jiqing ordered the slaves to pay Lu Yu for the tea. Lu Yu felt ashamed and changed an article that ruined tea.

Lu Yu befriended HuangFuSong. At that time, Prime Minister Bao Fang was in Vietnam, and Lu Yu went to him. Huang Furan prefaced him and said: "A gentleman should study the names of Confucianism and Buddhism, exhaust the beauty of poetry, and go to distant pavilions and isolated islands, where there are boats; You can go where there are fish beams and stones. That place in Vietnam is a famous hometown of mountains and rivers, and the military gate bears the heavy responsibility of this imperial festival. Bao always knows that Mr. Bao treasures Mr. Bao and will take care of his people. How can Mr. Bao just taste the fish in Jinghu Lake and enjoy the moon in Ruoye River? "

Lu Yu's poems and tea classics have been handed down to this day.