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As part of the lecture series "Territory of Correct Drinks", translator Yulia Dreyzis presents the book "Treats on Tea from the Tang and Song Eras", for which she was recognized as "Person of the Year in the Tea Industry 2020" in March 2021 by the magazine "Coffee and Tea in Russia". Tea has been revered in China since ancient times. Knowledge about this amazing plant and drink has accumulated over centuries, but for a long time it remained scattered. The Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) eras became turning points for the Chinese tea tradition - it was then that the most important texts dedicated to tea appeared. The first information about tea in one work was collected by Lu Yu (733-804), for this he was called the "Tea Deity". In his "Canon of Tea", he told the history of this plant, described in detail the process of its cultivation and processing, spoke about the necessary tools for making tea and about utensils for tea drinking. Lu Yu's treatise is a valuable source of knowledge about tea production and the tea tradition of that time. To this day, connoisseurs of this glorious drink learn from the old sage. The Song tea culture, the successor to the Tang, created its own tradition of tea drinking, much more similar to the modern one. At that time, tea became widespread, but nevertheless retained its uniqueness and high value. Tea was drunk by ordinary people and scientists, officials and aristocrats; poets, dignitaries and even emperors wrote about tea. The book "Treats on Tea of the Tang and Song Eras", along with a translation of Lu Yu's "Canon of Tea", contains translations of selected works on tea of the Song era, previously not published in Russian. All treatises are also reproduced in their original form in classical Chinese. The book will be presented by translator Yulia Dreyzis, associate professor of the Department of Chinese Philology at the Institute of Asian and African Studies of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov. She will talk about her work on the translation and commentary on the texts of the "Treatises", designed to help create the most complete picture of the tea culture of medieval China. Our website: http://nekrasovka.ru/ VK: http://vk.com/nekrasovkalibrary Telegram: https://t.me/nekrasovkalibrary Subscribe to the channel: / @nekrasovkalibrary