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Born Kong Nairong in Fuding, 1980. Seventy-fourth generation of Confucius. Twenty years in robes. Then tea.一九八〇年生于福鼎，本名孔乃容，孔子七十四代孙。二十年袈裟，而后是茶。
In the last years of the Qing dynasty, Ernan’s great-grandfather made tea his livelihood in the mountains of Fuding — the county China still calls the home of white tea. The trade passed from hand to hand: grandfather, father, son. He grew up on the tea mountain, following his father and grandparents through picking seasons before he could carry a full basket.
The family house stands in West Kun village, known as the first village of Confucius’s descendants in the south. Over its gate four characters are carved: 世笃二南 — generation after generation, faithful to the Er’nan. The Er’nan, Zhou Nan and Shao Nan, open the Classic of Poetry; the family took “passing down poetry and ritual” as its motto. The tea house takes its name from this lintel.
晚清年间，二南的曾祖父便在福鼎山中以茶为业。手艺代代相传：祖父、父亲、而后是他。他生于茶山，自幼追随父亲与祖父母采茶做茶。
祖宅在西昆村——江南孔裔第一村。门楣上刻着四个字：「世笃二南」。《周南》《召南》为《诗经》之始；吾家世承其意，以「诗礼传家」为训。茶号之名，正取自这方门匾。
Picking in the family gardens: early, tender, clean.家中茶园采茶：早采、嫩采、净采。
The old trees are picked from a ladder.老茶树，要搭梯子采。
His father, watching the leaf dry in the withering room at West Kun. The scrolls read: know the true gentleman; revere the ancient as the heart.父亲在西昆萎凋间看茶。联曰：识真君子，敬古如心。
The gate at West Kun. The lintel reads 世笃二南.西昆祖宅门楣：「世笃二南」。
The old house.老宅。
Tea by the fields.田边吃茶。
“As a child, I watched my mother pay homage to the Buddha by the quiet glow of a lamp, while the sound of chanting drifted through the curtains.” At fifteen he encountered the Dharma and entered the Chan gate. For twenty years scripture was his constant companion — study, meditation, calligraphy, martial arts, and always tea. In time he came to serve as abbot of E’feng Temple in the mountains above Fuzhou. The teas he made and gathered in those years rested inside the temple, aging beside the sound of chanting.
“In the Chan master’s world, tea is the finger pointing directly at the mind.”
「余少时观母青灯礼佛，梵音入帘，懵懂间识得世间清寂之味。」十五岁闻佛法而生正信，舍俗出家。二十载经卷为伴：修学、打坐、笔墨、习武，始终不离茶。后于鹅峰寺任住持。那些年做下、收下的茶，就封藏在寺中，伴着诵经声慢慢转化。
「在禅师的世界里，茶就是直指心性的『指』。」
The waterfall below the temple mountain.古寺山下的瀑布。
Water from the creek.溪水。
Tea by the creek.溪边吃茶。
In 2014 a tea seeker named Han Xue climbed E’feng Mountain looking for white tea that had not been made for the market. “Others came for business,” she said. “I came only for the white tea.” The tea he pressed that year — his last on the mountain — he named Snow Tea, for her.
“Yet it was there, in the deepest quiet, that a wish to return to the world arose. I took off my monastic robes and put on ordinary clothes. I married, raised a family, planted tea with my own hands.” Ernan White Tea was founded that year. The monastery’s quiet and four generations of craft came down the mountain together.
2014 年，寻茶人韩雪上鹅峰山，只为寻一款不为市场而做的白茶。「别人为商业，我只为白茶。」那一年他压的茶——山上最后一年的茶——以她之名，取名雪茶。
「却反在寂静深处，生出一念入世之心。于是褪袈裟，着布衣，娶妻育女，手植茶株，归于烟火。」同年创立「二南白茶」。山门的静气与四代人的手艺，一并下了山。
With Shidi. “She is my colour; she is my light.”与诗迪。「她是我的色彩，是我的光。」
In 2019 he carried the tea south, to a bamboo pavilion he designed himself in northern Thailand: a white tea and Chan arts house where the aged cakes are brewed, calligraphy is written, meditation is taught, and guests from every country sit at the same low table. “Some places, the moment you enter, you know: this is your practice ground. Chiang Mai is that for me.”
He now serves as President of the Thai-Chinese Education Development Association. In 2025 he presented his solo exhibition of calligraphy and painting, The Original Mind in Ink, at Rajamangala University of Technology Krungthep in Bangkok.
2019 年携茶南下，在泰北亲手设计了一座竹亭：白茶禅艺空间。老茶在此冲瀹，笔墨在此书写，禅修在此教授，各国来客同坐一席。「有些地方，一进去你便知道，这就是你的道场。清迈对我而言，正是如此。」
现任泰中教育发展协会会长。2025 年于曼谷皇家理工大学举办「初心墨相」个人书画展。
“Tea belongs to everyday life. Art is an expression of the true heart. Chan is the foundation beneath it all.” A day in either house still begins the same way: water on the fire, leaf in the bowl, the brush afterwards.
「茶为日常，艺为本心，禅为底色。」无论在福鼎还是清迈，一日仍自同处开始：水上火，叶入碗，而后提笔。
Evening, Chiang Mai.清迈的夜。
Beneath the calligraphy.字下吃茶。
The silver kettle, in the fields.银壶，田间。