A Thousand Horses For A Book

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I doubt all tea lovers know about Ch'a Ching. It's such an old book for one thing. Written by Lo Yu, a tea scholar (A.D. 733 -A.D 804), its fame spread out of China as early as the Tang Dynasty. A Muslim emissary to China purportedly offered 1,000 battle horses in exchange for a copy of the book but the Tang emperor had not heard of the book. He spent a long time looking for the book and eventually found a copy. That was the time when the Internet was not in existence!

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Liudmila said…
Battle horses! I say it always, we don't know real prices of valuable things today! Who knows, the Emperors of those days would pay the same price for "Black Square"?
15 February 2008 at 03:46
footiam said…
I would say, men from all ages share something in common. Place values on invaluable things, that's it!
15 February 2008 at 07:07
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