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Where is the origin of Zen tea?

In 52 BC of the Western Han Dynasty, Wu Lizhen planted seven kinds of tea trees in Mengding Mountain, Sichuan Province, which created the first artificial cultivation of tea in the world, and Wu Lizhen was therefore honored as the tea ancestor. In 4 BC, after Buddhism was introduced to China, Wu Lizhen studied alopecia in Mengding Mountain, became the first Buddhist tea maker, and was honored as Ganlu Zen Master. In the Tang Dynasty, Yan Feng recorded the scene of the northern Zen learning to taste tea in Wen Jian Lu, Shi Feng. People carry their backs, cook and drink everywhere, and then imitate customs. "Lu Yu, a native of the Tang Dynasty, was honored as Cha Sheng by the world. He was born in a temple and was adopted by a Zen master at the age of three. He has developed superb tea picking and cooking skills since he was a child. His Tea Classic describes the history, planting, processing, tea set and tea tasting custom of tea. In the Tang Dynasty, Zen monks in the Southern Zen system also paid attention to drinking tea. In the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, the Zen master in Zhaozhou, Hebei Province took the initiative to "have tea" to lead his disciples. According to the Legend of Jingdezhen Lantern, Volume 10, Zhao Zhou asked the new monk, "Have you been here?" The monk replied, "I have been there." Zhao Zhou said, "Let's have tea. "Asked the monk again, the monk replied," I didn't arrive. " Zhao Zhou said, "Let's have tea. This is the famous case of "Zhaozhou wants tea" in Zen history. Yuan Wu Keqin, a famous Zen master in the Song Dynasty, wrote his first Zen book, Enlightenment Zen Tea, in Jiashan, Hunan. Zeng wrote the word "tea Zen blindly" and presented it to Japanese disciple Rong who participated in the study. Datian Temple in Nara, Japan, still collects Wu Yuan's original calligraphy, so the Japanese tea ceremony is also called "tea Zen blindness". During the Tang and Song Dynasties, there was a special "tea house" for monks to eat tea. There is a post dedicated to frying some tea in the thatched cottage, which is called "tea head". The jungle rules require daily tea supply before Buddha, ancestors and spirits; The new abbot Jinshan also has a little tea soup ceremony; There is even a banquet dedicated to drinking tea and soup, called "tea and soup party". There are also "Tea Pavilion" and "Tea House" in the courtyards of Zen temples in Japan, with elegant architecture and quiet environment, which is the development of "Tea Hall" and "Tea House" of Zen temples in China in Japan. It can be said that tea tasting in China began in temples and prevailed in them. After the Tang and Song Dynasties, it became more popular. Then spread to literati, literati, court nobles, and even the general public.