Feather, where did the word hung-chien come from? Translation.

Lu Yu's Biography of Talented Persons in Tang Dynasty

Lu Yu is called Hung-chien. People don't know who his parents are. 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 with wisdom, so he used the Book of Changes as a divination for himself, and divined "Gradually" and "Gradually", which said: "Hung-chien was born on the ground, and his feathers can be used as tools." He took Lu Yu as his name. When he was a child, Zen master Zhiji taught him to copy scriptures, but Lu Yu said, "(Disciples) have no brothers and die without children." Can you call it filial piety? "

The Zen master was very angry after hearing this, so he was punished for picking dung and sweeping garbage, and let him release 30 cows. Lu Yu learned to write by drawing a cow's back with bamboo. I accidentally got Zhang Heng's Nan Fu, but I can't read and write, but I sit like a child. The Zen master grabbed him and told him to mow the grass. When he recited the scripture, he seemed to have lost it. After a day, he still can't remember. The Zen master whipped him and sighed, "Times have changed. Why can't you write?" He sobbed and said that he couldn't stand it anymore, so he ran away, mixed with the actors and wrote a tens of thousands of words of "Talking and Laughing". 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 called "a person with noble conduct and filthy behavior."

In the early years of Shangyuan, Lu Yu built a house near 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 sailed the boat between temples, always wearing a scarf, sandals, coarse clothes and apron, knocking on the trees in the forest and stirring the running water in the river. Sometimes he walks alone in the wilderness, reciting ancient poems, wandering back and forth until the moon sets, and crying when he is tired. 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.

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. At that time, he was called "tea fairy", and people all over the world gradually understood the method of drinking 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 cultivator and holding a tea set, entered the yamen. Li Jiqing said, "It is well known that Mr. Lu is good at tea ceremony. The water in Zhonglingquan of the Yangtze River is very wonderful. Now that the two wonderful encounters are once in a blue moon, Mr. Lu must not miss this opportunity. " 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, Bao was in Vietnam, and Lu Yu went to him. Huang Furan prefaced him and said, "Mr. Lu studied the names of Confucianism and Buddhism and exhausted the beauty of poetry." Pavilions and pavilions in the distance, lonely islands, you must go if there is a boat passing by; You can go to places where you can fish for stones. That place in Vietnam is a famous hometown of mountains and rivers, and the military gate is responsible for the Imperial Festival. Bao always knows that Mr. Bao loves Mr. Bao's people and will take care of him How can Mr. Bao only taste the fish in Jinghu Lake and watch the leaves and the moon? "

Lu Yu's collection of poems and the book Tea Classic have been handed down to this day.