Report on Water for Brewing Tea

Report on Water for Brewing Tea or Jianchashui Ji is tea monograph written by the late Tang-era author Zhang Youxin (t 張又新, s 张又新, p Zhāng Yòuxīn) in AD 814.^[1] This book is the earliest monograph wholly devoted to the quality of water for brewing tea.^{[citation needed]} It was compiled alongside several other texts on tea from the same period into the 13th-century Baichuan Xuehai (百川學海).^[2]

Report on Water for Brewing Tea
Traditional Chinese	《煎茶水記》
Simplified Chinese	《煎茶水记》
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jiāncháshuǐ jì Wade–Giles Chien-ch'a-shui Chi

Content

The primary content of the work was a pair of lists of water sources and the quality of these sources. Parts included:

• A short list of water sources from seven locations, ranked from best to worst:

1. Nanling on the lower Yangtze River
2. Huishan Spring near Wuxi in Jiangsu
3. Spring at Tiger Hill Temple near Suzhou in Jiangsu
4. Spring at Guanyin Temple in Danyang in Jiangsu
5. Pingshan Spring at Daming Temple in Yangzhou in Jiangsu
6. Wusong River, now Suzhou Creek in Jiangsu and Shanghai
7. Huai River

• An anecdote about Lu Yu's marvellous ability as water connoisseur.
• A longer list of water quality ranking from twenty locations, with water from melting snow placed last.^[3]