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*I take pleasure in tea, appreciating it with my spirit and therefore cannot explain why. | *I take pleasure in tea, appreciating it with my spirit and therefore cannot explain why. | ||
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=== Lu Yu === | |||
* Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven. | |||
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* The effect of tea is cooling and as a beverage it is most suitable. | |||
It is especially fitting for persons of self-restraint and inner worth. | |||
* Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make. | |||
* Tea tempers the spirit and harmonizes the mind; dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness. | |||
* The clouds above us join and separate, | |||
The breeze in the courtyard leaves and returns. | |||
Life is like that, so why not relax? | |||
Who can stop us from celebrating? | |||
* The best quality tea must have creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like a fine earth newly. | |||
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