自品茶出现以来,茶与水的比例问题便被茶人们当作专门的学问来研究,量茶入器也由此成为煮茶、点茶及泡茶的重要环节,茶则便应运而生。史称茶兴于唐而盛于宋。唐代中期以后,茶叶的种植面积增加,产量也有了大幅提高,正是在这一时期,茶始征税,茶始有字,茶始成书。饮茶之风的盛行,也使得茶具的功用高度专业化。唐代茶圣陆羽的《茶经·四之器》中记载:“则,以海贝、蛎蛤之属,或以铜、铁、竹、匕、策之类。则者,量也,准也, Since the advent of tea, the proportion of tea and water tea will be treated as a special knowledge to study, the amount of tea into the device has thus become an important part of tea, tea and tea, tea then came into being. History of tea flourished in Tang and Sheng in Song. After the middle of the Tang Dynasty, tea acreage increased, yield has also been greatly improved, it is during this period, the beginning of the tax tea, tea began to have the word, the beginning of the tea into a book. The prevalence of drinking tea, but also makes the highly specialized tea service. In the Tang Dynasty tea Lu Yu’s ”Tea by four“ records: ”Then, to shellfish, oyster clam genus, or copper, iron, bamboo, dagger, policy and the like. ,