Ⅰ.Overview of Poems about Pu’er Tea

China is both“the motherland of tea”and“the country of poems”.Tea has been long depicted in Chinese poems.From the earliest tea poem (“Poem about Young and Ignorant Girls”by Zuo Si in the Western Jin Dynasty)to now, poets and writers have created a large number of meaningful tea poems.

As an important kind of Chinese tea, Pu’er tea is frequently written in poems.In the narrow sense, poems about Pu’er tea refer to those themed on Pu’er tea, which are not quite many; while in the broad sense, they are not only those themed on Pu’er tea, but also the poems mentioning“Pu’er tea”, which are pretty many.

Pu’er tea was well-known in the world, which can be dated back to the Qing Dynasty.High-rank officials and rich people loved drinking Pu’er tea, and scholars regarded it as their favorite tea.Therefore,lots of poems about Pu’er tea were written to give comments on the tea and express their feelings.Meanwhile, these poems about Pu’er tea also promoted the inheritance and development of Pu’er tea culture.In this way, Pu’er tea’s fame is spread far and wide, and has a long-lasting position in tea history.