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Chinese Tea Wonders And Facts

Chinese Tea Lore

The Chinese tea lore is several hundred years and even thousands of years earlier than that of Japan. It can be said that the Chinese tea lore places an emphasis on spirit and makes light of form. It also has different representations at different historical stages. Teas are also different but all embody the tea spirit of "clearness, respect, joy and truthfulness".

Drinking tea - Tea is taken as a beverage to quench thirst.

Tasting tea - Emphasis is placed on the color, fragrance and flavor of tea, water quality and tea set. When taking tea, the taster should also be able to savor tea carefully.

Tea art - Attention is paid to environment, atmosphere, music, infusing techniques and interpersonal relationships.

The highest ambit—— tea lore - Philosophy, ethics and morality are blended into tea activity. People cultivate their morality and mind and savor the life through tasting tea, thereby attaining enjoyment of spirit.

Clearness - It is namely cleanness, incorruptness, quietness and loneliness. The essense of tea art not only seeks the cleanness of the appearance of things, but also pursues the loneliness, tranquility, incorruptness and shame awareness of the mind. In a still ambit, only through drinking clear and pure tea soup can one appreciate the profoundness of drinking tea.

respect - Respect is the root of everything on earth and the way of having no enemies. People should show respect for others and be cautious themselves.

Joy - The meaning of harmony lies in form and method and that of joy is in spirit and affection. Sipping bitterness and swallowing sweetness when drinking tea can enlighten the spice of life and cultivate a broad mind and a far sight so that the disputes between others and self disappear. The spirit of joy lies in that people is not pretentious and haughty, dwell in mildness and nurture courteous conduct.

Truthfulness - It is namely truth and genuine knowledge. The supreme good is the whole formed by combination of truth and genunine knowledge. The ambit of supreme good is to retain nature, remove material desire without being tempted by advantages and disadvantages, study the physical world to gain knowledge and continually seek after improvements. In another word, people should use scientific methods to seek the complete sincerity of everything. The essence of drinking tea lies in enlightening capacity and conscience so that everyone can live a simple life to express their ambition and handle matters thriftily and virtuously in daily life, thus attaining the ambit of truth, good and beauty.

Oolong Tea

Also called blue tea, it is an unfermentated tea. It is a tea category with unique and distinctive characteristics among the several tea categories in our country. The Wulong tea, which blends the production of green tea and black tea together, has a quality between green tea and black tea. It not only has the thick and fresh flavor of black tea, but also has the pleasant fragrance of green tea. It enjoys a good reputation as green leaves with red edge. The pharmacological effects of the Oolong tea are profoundly manifested in decomposing fat, reducing weight and keeping fit, etc. It is regarded as beauty tea and fitness tea in Japan.

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Chinese tea facts - The Oolong tea wonder

How do I use a Chinese calligraphy set?

I bought one and there are no instructions in it. There is a little black stone, a little pot with a spoon, two brushes and two hard ink pieces in it.
Thankyou

The little black stone should have a pit in the shape of a rectangle that goes in at an angle. One side will be deeper than the other. You place a little pit of water in this pit. Do not allow it to fill this whole pit. You then dip the block of ink into the pit and grind it on the shallow part of the pit. The ink will mix with the water and gravity will bring it into the pit. The longer you grind the ink the darker the ink will get in the pit. Usually a Chinese Calligraphy set will come with 2 black inks and 1 red ink. The bowl and the spoon is for the second color. The brushes you received should be bamboo brushes that have a fabric loop at the end. This is for drying. A bamboo brush should always hang to dry to keep it in shape.

When using the set you should get the bamboo brush damp and then dip it into the ink. The wetter the brush the less ink will be absorbed into it, the lighter the tone.

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