Fill a tea cup 70% full, wine cup 80% full “Filling a tea cup 70% full, Filling a wine cup 80% full” is a folk saying in Xiamen province, China which refers to when serving tea or wine to your guests, you should not fill the cup all the way to the rim. The reason […]
Tea is an aromatic beverage commonly prepared by pouring hot water over the fresh leaves of an evergreen shrub native to East Asia known as Camellia Sinensis and probably originated in the borderlands of north Burma and southwestern China. The tea plant’s journey is reflected in its name, Camellia Sinensis. Camellia indicates that tea is a woody plant, closely related to the […]
Lu Yu (陆羽) (AD 733 – AD 804) was a well respect Chinese tea master who lives in the Tang Dynasty. He is also known as the Sage of Tea (茶圣) in the tea world for his great contribution to chinese tea culture. He is also a writer who is best known for his monumental book The […]
Tea plays a significant part in the Chinese wedding ceremony for the Chinese people. A tea tree cannot be transplanted from another adult tea tree; it only can be grow from a tea seed. Therefore, the Chinese people took tea to symbolize love, loyalty and the expectation of a happy married life. It is difficult to […]
