Lu Tong (simplified Chinese: 卢仝; traditional Chinese: 盧仝; pinyin: Lú Tóng; Wade-Giles: Lú Tung, 790–835) was a Chinese poet of Tang Dynasty known for his lifelong study of the "Tea Culture". He was a peculiar man who never became an official, and is better known for his love of tea than his poetry[1] [2].
The poems that survive are about tea, a favorite being the "Seven Bowls of Tea", translated below:t
3 poems revolving around a cup of tea from Lu Tong, Wallace Stevens and Alexander Pushkin....
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Sunday, 17 January 2010
Tea Poems Around The World
Labels:
america,
calssicism,
china,
choyon khairul habib,
modernism,
poetry,
russia,
tea
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