A study of Chinese tea books author’s personal record

Abstract

　　This paper focuses on the life stories of tea book writers in past dynasties, summarizes and sorts out their life stories, and explores the tendency of Chinese tea culture through statistics and analysis.

　　In this paper, a total of 141 authors of tea books have been sorted out by referring to the previous statistical data on various tea books. Although those tea books have been seriously lost, and there are quite a few authors whose lives cannot be examined. However, through analysis, the following conclusions can be drawn: most of the tea book authors are civilians, even those who are officials are petty officials or not successful in their official career; there are few tea books written by Buddhists or Taoists; the hermit character and “noble” demeanor in tea book authors are very obvious; as a matter of fact, these characteristics exactly indicate the status and character of Chinese tea culture in Confucian society.