Chinese and South Korean Zen tea performers perform on the same stage more than 1,200 years after the establishment of Wuxiang Zen tea
The hot sun outside is beating down, the hot sun is like fire, and the soft sound in the lobby is full of tea fragrance, which makes you calm down. Yesterday, in memory of the death of the Tang Dynasty ancestral master Wuxiang Zen Master in Chengdu Daci Temple in 1250 years, Wuxiang Zen Master established the “Wuxiang Zen Tea” for more than 1200 years, the Sino-Korean Zen tea tea Exchange was held in Daci Temple, and the professional performers of Zen tea from China and South Korea performed together.
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Practice zen and create no phase zen tea
Master Da ‘en, the current abbot of Daci Temple, wrote a special article on the origin of Wuxiang Zen Master and Daci Temple. Monk Mu Sang, whose real name was Kim, was a prince of the Kingdom of Silla (now Korea) during the Changwang period of Daji Temple in the Tang Dynasty. In 728, Wuxiang came to Chang ‘an to study the Dharma and was welcomed by Emperor Xuanzong. When he went to Shu to seek Dharma, he stayed in Zizhou (now Zizhong) for 14 years.
Later, when Emperor Xuanzong passed by Daci Temple in order to avoid An Lushan Mountain and enter Shu, he saw monks giving porridge to help the poor, and he gave “Dasheng Ci Temple” a plaque and 1,000 mu of land, and invited Zen Master Wuxiang to preside over the expansion of the temple. Since then, Master Wuxiang single-handedly built Daci Temple into the largest Sanskrit temple in Chengdu at that time, and later passed away in the temple .
While in Zizhou, Master Wusang was taught by Chi Shishen, a retransmission student of the fifth patriarch of Zen, Hongrin. Wusang studied Zen for two years by the side of Ji Shinji, and then went to the Golden Valley mountain outside the temple to practice samana. The earliest time he established “no phase Zen tea” was when he practiced at Jinguu Mountain.
In the stone cliff side of Jinguu Mountain meditation, meditation practice, the biggest obstacle is lethargy, the heart is not clear. In order to refresh the mind and relieve fatigue, Wuxiang Zen master slowly developed the habit of eating tea and tasting tea. Then connected with meditation, smooth through the “peace, empty spirit” thought, in eating tea to get rid of the body and mind, that is, tea in the Dao, the creation of Zen tea method.
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According to the material records, there were two important kinds of zen tea that Wuxiang Zen Master drank at that time, one was the tea that was picked and baked locally, and the other was the tea from Mengshan and other places that was fed by others.
After coming to Daci Temple, Wuxiang Zen master continued to advocate the method of Zen tea, and Dachi Zen tea grew up following the “Wuxiang Zen tea”. In the long history of Chengdu’s tea culture, Zen tea has also left a strong mark.
After more than 1200 years of experience, “No phase Zen tea” has now spread to today’s “Great Ci Zen Tea” in Daci Temple, “No Phase Zen Tea art” in South Korea and “No phase tea ceremony” in Japan.
The basic feature of Zen tea is that it integrates zen machinery into the tea art, or uses the tea art to show Buddhist principles. Every French example in Zen tea incorporates a Buddhist doctrine or demonstrates a Zen mechanism.
The foundation of the French model, divided into meditation, into the Zen hall, incense prayer, holy water to wash the earth (cleaning tools), Buddha picking flowers (tea), Bodhisattva in prison (tea), the sky method rain (tea), Bodhisattva enlightenment (tea), purdo sentient beings (tea), Zen tea blindly (smell of incense and color), that is, the heart is Buddha (tea), the Zen machine a total of 12.
Triplets on stage with Chinese and Korean professionals show tea art
The old “No phase Zen tea” originated in Daci Temple. Today, Chinese and Korean Zen tea professional performers gather here again. Yesterday morning, Chinese and Korean Zen tea performers brought nearly two hours of tea art to the master. The Chinese tea art performance was linked by members of Daci Temple Zen Tea Research Association and Sichuan Tea Culture Association, and collected “no phase Zen tea”, “Guanyin Zen tea” and Sichuan characteristics long mouth pot Zen tea tea art performance. The Korean representative demonstrated the “Goryeo Matcha” tea art. The three sisters, 17-year-old Zhou Shuangxue, first performed “Guanyin Zen Tea” as representatives of the Chinese side.
Three to thank the triplet sisters, studying in the vocational school had a compulsory tea art major. Accompanied by a graceful interpretation of the scenery music, the performance of the three is skilled and beautiful, attracting attention. Then the monks of Daci Temple performed the “no phase Zen tea” tea art, and Pei Yingjie, who had performed the long-mouth pot tea art at the World Expo, and his companions performed the long-mouth pot Zen tea art.
South Korean representative Xuan Feng said that of course, the same zen tea originated from the Zen master of no phase, but there are still many differences between China and South Korea’s unilateral Zen tea tea art, and I hope that there will be more opportunities to cooperate with exchange and study in the future. Zhang Jing, executive vice president of the Sichuan Tea Culture Association, said that the China-South Korea non-phase academic research Association and the Zen tea tea Exchange had been held separately in 2004 and 2005, and will continue to be held in the future.
Chengdu in a tea bowl
“Seven bowls of taste, one pot is really interesting.” It is better to eat tea than to hold on to a thousand things.” This poem is about meditation and eating tea, but the natural detachment and indifference revealed in every word are like describing the life attitude of Chengdu people.
