The Rogue Leaf Library

Here you will find a number of books about Tea and all of its trappings. Some are new, some are ancient, and some are volumes that have yet to be finished.

• 茶經 ﹣ Cha Jing or "The Classic of Tea" by Lu Yu. Rogue Leaf translation.
  • Lu Yu was an abandoned child in a time of war, adopted at three by the abbot of the Dragon Cloud Buddhist monastery and had obtained the name Lu Yu (taken from I Ching). Unwilling to become a monk, he escaped the temple at the age of thirteen and spent years as a clown and a play writer for a traveling acting troupe before settling down in 760 CE in the mountainous regions in the present day Zhejiang Province to investigate tea process and tea history. Twenty years of intense research and hands-on experience resulted in his book, The Cha Jing, published in 780. Lu Yu later became known as the Sage of Tea.¹