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=== Lu Yu === | === Lu Yu === | ||
Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from heaven. | Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from heaven.<br/> | ||
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The effect of tea is cooling and as a beverage it is most suitable. | 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. | It is especially fitting for persons of self-restraint and inner worth.<br/> | ||
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Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make. | Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make.<br/> | ||
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Tea tempers the spirit and harmonizes the mind; dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness. | Tea tempers the spirit and harmonizes the mind; dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness.<br/> | ||
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The clouds above us join and separate, | The clouds above us join and separate, | ||
The breeze in the courtyard leaves and returns. | The breeze in the courtyard leaves and returns. | ||
Life is like that, so why not relax? | Life is like that, so why not relax? | ||
Who can stop us from celebrating? | Who can stop us from celebrating?<br/> | ||
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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. | 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. | ||