《红楼梦》二十二回“听曲文宝玉悟禅机,制灯谜贾政悲谶语”中写到:元春忽差人送出一个灯谜儿,命大家去猜。于是各人都把自己猜的写在纸上,送进宫去。至晚出来传喻:“前娘娘所制,俱已猜着……”太监又将娘娘颁赐之物送与猜着之人,每人一个宫制诗筒,一柄茶筅。新版《红楼梦》对“茶筅”有条注释:“茶筅,刷洗茶具的一种器具。”茶筅究竟是怎样一种茶具呢?我国古代茶书中,对茶筅是有不少记述的。宋徽宗赵佶在《大观茶论》中说:“茶筅以觔竹老者为之,身欲厚重,筅欲疏劲,本欲壮而末必(耳少),当如剑瘠之状。盖身厚重,则操之有力而易于运用,筅疏劲而剑瘠,则击拂虽遇而浮沫不生。”原来古代 “Dream of Red Mansions” Twenty-two “Listen to Qu Wen Bao Yu Wu Zen, light riddles Jia political compassion” language “wrote: Yuan Chun suddenly sent people a riddle, ordered everyone to guess. So everyone wrote his own guess on the paper, sent to the palace. To the night out of metaphor: ”The system made by the former empress, both have guessed ... ...“ The eunuch and the goddess gave the gift of things and guessed the person, each a palace of poetry, a handle tea. The new version of ”Dream of Red Mansions“ on the ”tea cake,“ a note: ”tea cake, a device for brushing tea.“ What kind of tea is what kind of tea? Ancient tea in our country, there are many accounts of the tea cake. Song Huizong Zhao 佶 in the ”Grand View Tea,“ said: ”The tea tendon to tendons and bamboos to whom, heavy body desire, want to Shu Jin, the desire for strong and not necessarily (less ears), when the like barren sword. Heavy, then the powerful and easy to use, 筅 sparse and Jian barren sword, then hit the whistle though the froth is not born. "The original ancient