"Its tree resembles the gualu; its leaves the gardenia; its flowers the white rose; its fruit the palm-nut; its stem the clove; its root the walnut."
"In Jiangnan, teas of Ezhou, Yuanzhou, and Jizhou are pungent in taste; those of Fuzhou, Jianzhou, Shaozhou, and Xiangzhou are excellent."
"In the Jin, Lu Na, governor of Wuxing, when Xie An came to call, set out only tea and fruit."
"Alas! Heaven nurtures all things, and each has its utmost subtlety. Yet what men labor at is only the shallow and easy. They dwell in houses, and houses are refined to the utmost;
"For water: mountain spring is best, river water next, and well water lowest."
"The good and ill of tea rest in the transmitted oral formula."
"The guan skewer is cut from bamboo, two and a half feet long, for stringing tea cakes to roast."
"The finest ginseng grows in Shangdang, middling in Baekje and Silla, and inferior in Goguryeo. That grown in Zezhou, Yizhou, Youzhou, and Tanzhou is useless as medicine — let alon