Nowadays, "tea" has become a very common word in people's life.
But before the Tang Dynasty, there were few words for "tea".
There is a common saying that, in ancient times, "tea" and "tea" is one, "tea" is "tea".
But some people think that the ancient "tea" meaning than "tea" wide.
Either way, it is certain that after the publication of Lu Yu's Book of Tea in the mid-Tang Dynasty, the word "tea" became widely popular and its meaning was similar to that of tea today.
Interestingly, after the word "tea" was widely used, "tea" was sometimes used to mean "tea" in the Tang Dynasty and later. For example, "tea" can still be seen in the Qing Dynasty and even in contemporary calligraphy works.
What's going on here?
The late Qing Dynasty wu Changshuo book "Corner tea Porch", is the author recently read, and extended reading Li Qingzhao "Jin Shi Recorded after preface", a little gain.
Wu Changshuo's book "Corner tea Porch", the seal script is hung, the signing of the grass, is written by his friend Xiao Qian in the third spring of Guangxu Dynasty.
The two tailings of their use were described to the allusions of the theme "corner tea", while the other tailings were used to explain the glyphes of the word "tea" : "Tea words cannot be seen in xu Shu, Tang people in the tailings tea Mountain poem carved stone, tea words five see all were made in tea.
The seal of the seal."
Taili Ho person?
Yu Zuo was a prime minister of the Tang Dynasty (918-907), whose age was not determined, but died in 818.
It is contemporary with Lu Yu (733 -- 804), the poet and monk Jiao Ran, who wrote the Book of Tea, but it is younger than Lu Yu.
Yu Was good at calligraphy and was engraved in stone tablets with "tea Mountain poems" mentioned by Wu Changshuo in the signage of "Jiao Cha Xuan".
Wu also said, "Tea words five see are all made of tea", referring to the five words "tea" appearing in the poem of tea, all engraved as "tea".
He also said, "The character of tea is not found in Xushu". "Xushu" refers to shuowenjiezi (Shuowenjiezi), the first dictionary in China compiled by Xu Shen in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which explains the origin of the characters. However, the word "tea" is not found in Shuowenjiezi.
In the beginning, there was no "tea" in Chinese characters, and the word "tea" was often used to refer to "tea".
However, in addition to the meaning of tea, the word "tea" also has "bitter herbs", "torment", "MAO Luhua" and other definitions.
When the application of tea developed to a drink-oriented period, the word "tea" obviously could not summarize the role of tea in social life.
To distinguish it from "tea", which has a broad meaning, the literati created the word "tea".
In addition, according to Scholar Gu Yanwu of Qing Dynasty textual research: "When tea is celebrated, it is the same word with tea of chuan, ancient times was not divided......
Yu Tai Tai Mountain view tang inscription, see the Dali fourteen years (779 years) engraved 'tea' word, Zhen Yuan fourteen years (798 years) engraved 'tea' word, all for tea......
In the first year of Huichang (841), Liu Gongquan wrote the inscriptions on the Mysterious tower and Pei Xiu wrote the tablet of The Zen master Kuifeng in the ninth year of The reign.
(See The Record of The Sun)
According to the Qing "Righteousness sparse" record: "today's 'tea' word for the ancient 'tea', to the Tang Lu Yu book 'Tea', began to subtract a painting 'tea'.
In other words, by the middle Tang Dynasty, Lu Yu was already writing and using the Chinese character "tea".
However, there is no further evidence that Lu Yu alone created the word "tea".
Another way to think about it is that the character "tea" is used in calligraphy and tablet inscriptions below the Middle Tang Dynasty, while the character "tea" is used in engraved books before the Middle Tang Dynasty.
Revised for 14 years, "the saint" writing a book about in 775 (say, liu yu was completed in 765 "the saint", change again after 775, 780 years after the finalized), decades later, as of huzhou secretariat in Di (in Di 791 huzhou secretariat, and according to the historical data analysis, the tea poetry is in huzhou time) during the secretariat of why still use the word "tea"?
This suggests that at that time, the words "tea" and "tea" may have been used together.
Another explanation, the author thinks, is related to the development of publishing technology.
CAI Lun of the Eastern Han Dynasty made paper, sui and Tang dynasties had woodblock printing, it is not necessary to rely on the zhong Ding stone tablet to record historical events like the pre-Qin period.
The word "tea mountain" used in the poem "tea Mountain" as "tea mountain" was a kind of artistic technique, which reflected the retro feelings of the artists.
After the Tang Dynasty, the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, to the late Qing and The Republic of China, artists have "tea" refers to "tea".
The "tea" in Wu Changshuo's calligraphy "Kok Cha Xuan" is also one more painting, writing "tea".
Even many contemporary calligraphers when writing "tea" character will also write "tea".
Visible, in the expression of "tea" meaning, painting and calligraphy or out of aesthetic reason, multi-purpose "tea", and scholars out of the accuracy of cultural communication, it is unified with "tea".
By the way, when it comes to the Chinese character "tea" used by modern and contemporary artists, wu Guanzhong's pen name is wu Tea.
According to Wu's chronology, in 1938, Wu graduated from the National Art Preparatory School and entered the undergraduate study of oil painting.
This year, he began to use "Wu Tea tea" as the pen name, later changed to "tea", became the signature on the painting.
But why use "tea" alias, Wu Guanzhong did not give an explanation.
There is an artist analysis, once studied in France, Wu Guanzhong, van Gogh especially worship.
Wu Guanzhong once said, "Van Gogh painted trees in red, which pointed straight at the night sky with his swirling and unrestrained brushwork. The strong and heroic emotion and the calm and thick red reached the wonderful situation of being in full swing."
Or the permission from this passage to see wu Guanzhong with "tea" for the clue of the pen name, of course, at this time "tea" seems to have little to do with "tea".