preview

Tea During The Tang Dynasty

Satisfactory Essays

During the Tang Dynasty, tea was widespread. The uprising of the tea culture brought the prosperity of literature in the Tang Dynasty because many monk-poets wrote poems about tea. Tea was very famous in the Buddhist monasteries during the Tang Dynasty. Monks drank tea as a beverage because they thought the tea can help them to stay awake, so that they could have more time to focus on their mediation. The art of serving and drinking tea in Buddhist monasteries inspired lots of Tang poets to create poems about tea. One of the famous monk-poets was Jiaoran, he wrote a poem titled “On the Double Ninth Festival, Drinking Tea with Recluse Lu Yu”, in this poem, he drank tea with his friend Lu Yu in the Monastery courtyard. The purpose of this

Get Access