On Tea Division
摘要
Of all the tea events of the Song Dynasty, tea division is probably most perplexing for modern people. Qian Zhongshu offered two opinions. In the 1958 edition of Annotations to the Selected Poems of the Song Dynasty, he explained Lu You’s “Enjoy tea division in the sunny day” in The Spring Rain in Lin’an and said: “Division” is what Huizong Emperor called identification in Daguan Tea Theatise. In the Classics of Tea:Six Drinks,Lu Yu of the Tang Dynasty said: “Tea presents nine challenges. The second is division.