Lu-Yu's book, the first of the first

sherdwen · 2005-09-02T23:00:29+00:00

has anyone read it or can it be bought?i did a quick search but it seems to have been discontinued...i thinkit was also a japanese version translated into english if that is truethat would cause some prob's. i do some group effort translationsmyself and so much has to be invented or reinvented, "givingtranslation labels to concepts/words". it would be great to have aenglish version translated from chinese... even though, this is also aproblem, because lu-yu spoke/wrote tang/chinese... not modernchinese...-sherdwenps- one note is that his writings are so old there should not be aproblem with copywrights... i will do some websearching.***

Sep 02, 2005 21 Replies

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sherdwen 20 years ago

add this too to the miserable and confusing way to study chinese, i am talking about the word jing/ching/king arrrghhh! "Cha King (Tea Dictionary) Lu Yu (Tang Dynasty A.D. 618 - 907) was the leading tea expert in this ........... described in the Cha King." icetea look you got traditional -simplified -bopomofo -pingyin...jeezzzz! i get so mad trying to understand chinese terms (written in abc..blah blah blah) i guess i should just learn the language uhhh?

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Alex Chaihorsky 20 years ago

No way around it. As someone who started 25 years ago (as a hobby, not professionally) I can tell you - its a beauty if you start learning calligraphy and writing first. IMHO, IMHO, IMHO.....

Sasha.

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