Re: Lu Yu´s tomb

Jul 26, 2005 1 Replies
L

I know of a memorial pavillion in Tianmen county, Hunan province, but I have never heard of his tomb. I am just afraind that the "discovery" of such a tomb would be just a smart way to improve the tourism in an area claiming a tea legacy. It reminds me the Zhongling spring re-decoverded in Zhenjiang at the beginning of XX century and the adjacent site of Guo Pu' s tomb.


ha scritto nel messaggio news: snipped-for-privacy@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... Hello, does anyone happen to exactly where is Lu Yu´s tomb? I saw a picture of his memorial stone in one Chinese language tea book but in the text it was not mentioned where it is situated. In one poorly translated French book about Chinese tea (originally written by a Chinese)I read, that his final resting place was unknown for a long time but apparently they have found it or at least otimistically believe to have found it. Yugen.


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ha scritto nel messaggio news: snipped-for-privacy@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... Ciao Livio! Yes, I know that rather modest looking pavilion in his native village too. Actually I have not been there myself, but it was visited by the camera group in one Chinese triple-DVD on tea culture that I bought in Hong Kong few years ago. But the photograph of his supposed burial place was in one of the quite many recent Chinese editions of "Chajing" (Classic of Tea) and under the picture it was written simply "Lu Yu´s tomb" without any futher explanations where it might be located. For a tea devotee like myself, that would be an obvious place to visit and burn an incence or two. So if it really exists somewhere, it is surprising that the local tourist organizations do not make more noise about it. The worst case would be of course , that there exists or gradually start to appear several Lu Yu´s tombs in various places! Best wishes, Yugen

That won't be too strange, since there are three or four tombs of general Guan Yu. I hope to find something about Lu Yu's tomb... of course there won't be so many, since he had not his head cutted and buried in a different place like Guan Yu. Livio

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