Lu Yu or Lu Ji, courtesy name Jici was a Chinese tea master and writer. He is respected as the Sage of Tea for his contribution to Chinese tea culture. He is best known for his monumental book The Cla
A statue of Lu Yu in Xi'an
Statue of Lu Yu, at the Dragon Well Tea Plantation, Meijiawu, Hangzhou
Tea as a drink was first consumed in China and the earliest extant mention of tea in literature is the Classic of Poetry, although the ideogram used in these texts can also designate a variety of plan
Lu Yu
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