Family Tea Art: Easily Learn About Tea and Tea Ware

Author: Li Hong (Compiler)
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Zhou Zuoren once said, "The meaning of tea ceremony, in plain terms, can be called finding leisure amidst busyness and joy amidst hardship. It is to enjoy a touch of beauty and harmony in an incomplete reality and to experience eternity in an instant." This thought remains profoundly insightful and wise in modern society. Setting aside the 'way' of tea, just the beauty and harmony, the fleeting eternity of brewing and drinking tea are enough to inspire endless longing. Tea, water, and tea utensils are required to brew tea. Modern people find it difficult to be as close to nature as the ancients, obtaining rainwater, snowwater, spring water, or well water. However, the range of tea and tea utensils available to us today is far greater than that of the ancients. Among the myriad teas and the colorful tea utensils, selecting one's own tea and utensils, finding leisure amidst busyness and joy amidst hardship, brewing a pot of tea, and savoring it slowly—what could be more fulfilling than that!