Chinese tea culture

Originally tea was used as a medicine instead of a drink. It was said that Shennong，the legendary ruler in ancient China，once tasted a lot of plants and was poisoned many times. It was tea that helped him get rid of the poisoning effect. Later the ancient Chinese got to know more and more about tea，and instead of being regarded as a medicine, it became a drink.

So originally, tea was only used as medicine and well-renowned for its medicinal properties. Aside from this sometimes tea was used for cooking.

Before tea drinking became part of the community, tea drinking was a general practice mostly undertaken by Buddhist monks. Some of the more famous teas are grown by monks in the mountain areas around monasteries.

The starting point of this habitual tea drinking came with the publication of “The Classic of Tea” by the Tang dynasty writer Lu Yu. This book tied tea-drinking with Buddhist thought, which greatly influenced the highly spiritual Chinese culture at that time.

As such eventually tea became a part of the Chinese daily routine and of occasions – and thereby truly embedded as part of the overall Chinese culture.

Etiquette of Tea Culture
1.We should clean the tea set with hot water before we make tea.
2.When we prepare tea, we should ask the guests what kind of tea they prefer and the taste of the guests, strong tea or weak tea.
3.Do not grab tea leaves directly by hand. Use a tea spoon or shake them directly into the teapot.
4.Open the lid of the teapot and flush the lid opening on the water ring pot along the edge of the pot to avoid directly flushing the pot core.
5.Pour the tea into a reasonable cup. The soup should be low to avoid foam. It should be fast to keep the tea hot.
6.Don't overfill your tea. You'd better fill your tea seven cents full. Pour too full is not convenient for guests to carry the cup, and it’s easy to burn hands.
7.When giving tea to guests, you should pay attention to the position of the cup.
The thumb and index finger of the right hand are holding the edge of the tea cup, the middle finger is protecting the bottom of the tea, the ring finger and little finger are tightened, and cannot point to others to show respect.
8.Remember to add tea water to the guests. Don't let guests' teacups space out. And when adding tea, guest first.

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