Easy to Know About Tea and Tea Ware - Family Tea Art

Author: Li Hong
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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 stealing leisure amidst busyness, finding joy in hardship, and enjoying a touch of beauty and harmony in an incomplete reality, experiencing eternity in a fleeting moment." This thought remains profoundly insightful and wise in modern society. Setting aside the 'way' of tea, simply the beauty and harmony, the fleeting eternity it offers—making and drinking tea are enough to inspire endless longing. Tea, water, and tea utensils are required to make tea. Modern people find it difficult to be as close to nature as the ancients, sourcing rainwater, snowwater, spring water, or well water, but the range of tea and tea utensils available today is far greater than in ancient times. Among the myriad teas, in the colorful array of tea utensils, selecting one's own tea and utensils, stealing leisure amidst busyness, finding joy in hardship—making a pot of tea and savoring it slowly—what a sense of fulfillment that must be!