Translations of Chinese Tea Literature

[xuancheng]

I found a defunct tea forum today(no posts newer than about 3 years ago). Most of the posts are of little interest, but there are several threads where the maintainer of the site, a Martin Tai posted many of his own translations. His translations include several tea poems, as well as many classical books/chapters of books/excerpts all having to do with tea.

This may be old news to many in the tea community, but I stumbled on it while searching for poems about tea, and was quite pleased with the content.

If you haven't seen it and enjoy this sort of thing, definitely take a look.
http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a ... =Tea+Forum

The best sections are:
Classic books on tea
Tea in Chinese Art and Literature

Here is my favourite quote from one of the classic books:

On the Tea Hut
Build a small hut near a house on a hill, furnished with teawares. Hire a boy as tea servant to take care of tea errands. In order for the guests chatting all day long or sit in solitary, this is of utmost important for people retired from office.

[RockingtheRepublic]

Thanks for the share. You're right it's a hidden gem.