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The “Chaking” consists of three volumes and ten chapters. In the first chapter Luwuh treats of the nature of the tea-plant, in the second of the implements for gathering the leaves, in the third of the selection of the leaves. According to him the best quality of the leaves must have “creases like the leathern boot of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like fine earth newly swept by rain.”
?茶經分為三冊,共有十個章節。第一章根據對茶樹天性的總結來挑選采摘地點和時間,第二章主要講對制茶的工具的挑選,第三章則是采摘葉子的規則。在陸羽看來,最好的原葉必定是“茶有千萬狀,鹵莽而言,如胡人靴者蹙縮然,犎牛臆者廉檐然,浮云出山者輪菌然,輕飚拂水者涵澹然。有如陶家之子羅,膏土以水澄泚之。又如新治地者,遇暴雨流潦之所經?!保ㄔ闹杏惺÷?,此段文字為《茶經》原文)