中国古代大量的茶叶诗歌是我国灿烂文化和茶叶历史的一库宝藏,其中有的表达茶树生长情况,有的介绍采制技艺,有的评论茶的品饮方法、功效等,内容丰富,记述真切,是深入研究我国茶叶历史必不可少的重要资料。如北宋诗人梅尧臣在《答建州沈屯田寄新茶》的诗中,提到了当时采下的鲜叶,经过加工焙成为“紫饼”的史实。欧阳修《送龙茶与许道人》的诗中,称颂龙茶的品质,不是凡茶所可比拟的。唐代刘禹锡在《西山兰若试茶歌》中,描述了这里寺庙中,茶叶现摘现炒,满室茶香的情况,反映绿茶的第一道工序杀青,唐代即已应用。又如诗圣李白的《答侄僧中孚赠玉泉仙人掌茶》诗中,曝(晒)成仙人掌茶的诗句就含有现行晒青之意,这可以释为直接晒干,也可以理解为先经过晒后再行加工。这些诗词中即兴提到的茶事内容,往往都是史籍所 A large number of ancient Chinese poetry and tea leaf is a treasure trove of splendid culture and tea history in our country. Some of them express the growth of tea trees, others introduce the techniques of collecting and producing tea, and some comment on the methods and effects of tea drinking. They are rich in content, It is an indispensable important material for deeply studying the history of tea in our country. Such as the Northern Song Dynasty poet Mei Yaochen in the “A reply state Shen Tuntian send a new tea,” the poem, referred to the fresh leaves taken at that time, after processing baked into “purple cake” historical facts. Ouyang Xiu “send dragon tea and Xu Tao people” in the poem, praised the quality of dragon tea, tea is not comparable. In the Tang Dynasty, Liu Yuxi in “Xishan Lanru trial tea song”, describes the temple here, the tea is now pick fried, full of tea, to reflect the first green tea green, the Tang Dynasty has been applied. Another example is the poem Sheng Li Bai’s “Nephew and Nephew gift Yuquan cactus tea” poem, exposed (sun) into the cactus tea verse contains the meaning of the current drying, which can be interpreted as direct drying, can also be understood as the first After the sun and then processing. The improvisational references to tea in these poems are often historical records