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Lu Yu (Hongjian)
Eminent Tang Dynasty scholar and Sage of Tea (733–804 CE), authored the Classic of Tea, founding the aesthetics and ritual practice of Chinese tea culture.
In a study at night, a desk holds a brush pot, a porcelain vase with a plum branch, a lit red lantern, a folded fan and an unrolled blank scroll, with no one seated there, while through a round window the moon rises over a lake with a sailboat.
Also known as Lu Hongjian · Tea Sage · Sangzhu Weng · Jinglingzi
Lu Yu (733–804 CE), style name Hongjian, was a renowned Tang Dynasty scholar and the founding father of Chinese tea culture, revered as the Sage of Tea. His seminal three-volume treatise 'The Classic of Tea' (Cha Jing) was the world's first monograph on tea, transforming daily beverage consumption into a refined spiritual and aesthetic discipline.
Life and times
Dates 733 CE–804 CE