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P I N Y I N / T E R M C H I N E S E E N G L I S H / M E A N I N G Ep. 6 Chámǎ Gǔdào 茶马古道 The Ancient Tea Horse Road

Emperor Guāngwǔ of Hàn 汉光武 Eastern Han Emperor who reigned 25-57 CE

Kentoshi, from the 7th to 9th centuries….607 to 838….Japan sent nineteen Qiǎn Táng Shǐ 遣唐使 embassies to China

Japanese Budhhist Monk who lived 767-822. His visit to China in 804 was Saichō 最澄 instrumental in bringing some aspects of Chiense culture to Japan, including tea and the Tiantai school.

Dézōng 唐德宗 Tang Dynasty emperor who reigned 779-805

The 52nd Emperor of Japan who reigned 809 to 823. He's famous, among Emperor Saga 嵯峨天皇 many other things, for being the first Japanese emperor to drink tea.

Mt. Hiei 比叡山 Mountain in Northeast Kyoto where the Enryakuji is located

Established by Saichō himself in 788. It was a Tendai monastery located on Enryaku-ji 延暦寺 Mount Hiei, overlooking Kyoto.

Tiāntái sect of Buddhism that developed in sixth century China. The school Tiāntái Zōng 天台宗 emphasizes the Lotus Sutra's doctrine of the "One Vehicle"

A Japanese Buddhist priest, credited with bringing both the Rinzai school of Eisai 栄西 Zen Buddhism and green tea from China to Japan. He is often known simply as Eisai/Yōsai Zenji (栄西禅師), literally "Zen master Eisai".

Chá Jīng 茶经 The Classic of Tea, Lu Yu's masterpiece that explained tea to the masses

Ancient capital of several past imperial dynasties, most famously the Han and Cháng’ān 长安 Tang. Located in present day Xian

Another ancient capital of many dynasties in China. Located in Henan Luòyáng 洛阳 province

Another ancient capital of China, located in Henan province east of Luoyang. Kāifēng 开封 Most famously it was the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty.

790-835, perhaps the most famous "Tea Person" in Tang Dynasty China, other Lú Tóng 卢仝 than the Tea Saint himself.

Qī wǎn chá 七碗茶 Seven Bowls of Tea, one of Lu Tong's more famous tea poems Yù Chuānzǐ 玉川子 Lu Tong's pseudonym

Temple at the foot of Mount Song in Henan where Chan Buddhism and Shàolín Temple 少林寺 Chinese kungfu was born

Lake Tài, ithe third-largest freshwater lake entirely in China, after Poyang and Tài Hú 太湖 Dongting.

Yángxiàn Zǐsǔn cha 阳羡紫笋茶 Yangxian Purple Bamboo Tea, one of the earliest true Tribute Teas of China

Zǐsǔn 紫笋 Purple Bamboo

Tang Daizong 唐代宗 Tang emperor who reigned 762-779

Yángxiàn 阳羡 Former name of the city of Yíxìng, located in Jiangsu Province

Located near Changxing in Zhejiang Province, it was the site of both Jinsha Mount Gùzhǔ Spring and the famous tribute tea Purple Bamboo.

Sūzhōu 苏州 City in Jiangsu province famous for many things

Húzhōu 湖州 Located in Zhejiang province on the south side of Lake Tai

Chángxīng 长兴 a county in Huzhou prefecture on the southwest shore oif Lake Tai

City in Jiangsu province famous for their clay tea pots. Formerly known as Yíxìng 宜兴 Yangxian.

Wúxī 无锡 City in Jiangsi located in between Suzhou and Changzhou

A "tea person," someone knowledgeable and expert about all things tea and charen 茶人 whose passion for tea knows no bounds

A fresh water spring located at Mount Guzhu, where Purple Bamboo tea was Jīnshā Spring 金沙泉 grown

Yue ware, an early kind of tea ware prized among aficianados and those who Yuèqì 岳器 could afford it.

near present day Shàoxīng, just a little east of Hángzhōu. Yue ware came Yuèzhōu 岳州 from here

mìsè 蜜色 A "secret color"

a type of Chinese ceramics produced in Hebei province, during the Tang Xíng ware 邢窑 dynasty. Xing ware typically has a white body covered with a clear glaze. It was named after Xingzhou in southern Hebei where it was made Princess Wénchéng, niece of Tang Emperor Taizong. Chinese tradition says Wénchéng Gōngzhǔ 文成公主 she brought tea and Buddhism to the Tibetan people following her marriage to their great king Songtsen Gampo

Táng Tàizōng 唐太宗 The Tang Taizong emperor who reigned 598-649 Zàng 藏族 The Zang ethnic minority, better known as the Tibetans

One of the ethnic monority people of China, who live mainly in a mountainous Qiāng 羌族 region in the northwestern part of Sichuan on the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau.

Míng 明朝 The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644

Qīng 清朝 The Qing Dynasty, China's final imperial dynasty 1644-1911