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Of course, we are speaking of tea as drunk by connoisseurs and not as generally served among shopkeepers.
我們所描寫的當然是指鑒賞家的飲茶，而不是像店輔中的以茶奉客。
No such nicety can be expected of general mankind or when tea is consumed by the gallon by all comers.
這種雅舉不是普通人所能辦到，也不是人來人往，論碗解渴的地方所能辦到。
That is why the author of Ch'asu, Hsti Ts'eshu, says, "When there is a big party, with visitors coming and coming, one can only exchange with them cups of wine, and among strangers who have just met or among common friends, one should serve only tea of the ordinary quality.
《茶疏》的作者許次紓說得好："賓朋雜沓，止堪交鐘觥籌；
Only when our intimate friends of the same temperament have arrived, and we are all happy, all brilliant in conversation and all able to lay aside the formalities, then may we ask the boy servant to build a fire and draw water, and decide the number of stoves and cups to be used in accordance with the company present. "
惟素心同調，彼此暢適，清言雄辯，脫略形骸，始可呼童篝火，吸水點湯，量客多少，為役之煩簡。"
It is of this state of things that the author of Ch'uchieh says,
而《茶解》作者所說的就是此種情景
"We are sitting at night in a mountain lodge, and are boiling tea with water from a mountain spring.
"山堂夜坐，汲泉煮茗。
When the fire attacks the water, we begin to hear a sound similar to the singing of the wind among pine trees.
至水火相戰，如聽松濤。
We pour the tea into a cup, and the gentle glow of its light plays around the place.
傾瀉入杯，云光滟瀲。
The pleasure of such a moment cannot be shared with vulgar people. "
此時幽趣，故難與俗人言矣。"
