"The Canon of Tea" is the first ever tea treatise written by the hermit Lu Yu in the 8th century. In China, he is revered as a "tea immortal." ""The Canon of Tea" in illustrations" comments on this ancient treatise. The author of the book, Qiu Jiping, illustrated all the stages of tea production, preparation and drinking that Lu Yu described, and also explained the difficult to understand fragments of his text. The book contains photographs of tea utensils from various eras discovered in excavations and the author's own drawings in which he reconstructed the appearance of utensils from the Lu Yu era. It will help the reader imagine how tea was prepared and drank at the dawn of the tea tradition. For a wide range of readers.