Wise selection for Tea Cup

Tea Cup

Tea cup is often used in conjunction with the fragrance smelling cup to taste tea soup.

 

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Function

Taste tea soup.

Material

There are many different types of tea cups, which generally are distinguished from texture, mainly include glass, porcelain, purple sand.

Wise selection

Choose the tea cups according to the principle: ”small, shallow, white, thin”, “small” means that the cup should not be too large, with three-small-sips capacity; “shallow” indicates that water cannot remain at the end; “white” reflects that tea can demonstrate the tea color; and “thin” makes the fragrance quickly spreads.

When choose porcelain, ceramic, or purple sand texture tea cups, the bottom of the cup should be shallow; the mouth of the cup should be wide; and its high light transmittance should be high.

Usage

1 When men holding tea cup, they should hold the cup body with the thumb and index finger, boost the cup bottom with middle finger, with ring finger and little finger resting well. Holding tea cups with this gesture is also called the “three dragons protecting tripod”.

2 Women can hold the cup with little finger slightly pointing upward, thus looking beautiful and dignifies.

3 Taste slowly, a cup of tea generally can be finished with three mouthfuls.

4 When tasting green tea, it is best to use a transparent glass.

                  

Content of Tea Sutra

Content of Tea Sutra

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In Tea Sutra there are ten chapters. The titles and their contents are as follows:

The first chapter is about origins, morphology, and name, relationship between soil and quality, and tea function.

The second chapter is about tea sets, including slender basket for chopsticks, stoves, axes, steamers, etc, totally 19 species.

The third chapter focuses on tea making, including tea picking time, picking standards, tea-making process, and tea grade.

The fourth chapter illustrates tea device, including utensils for cooking and drinking, in detail: the stove, grinder, pans, and bowls, totally 25 species.

The fifth chapter is about tea cooking, including the methods of cooking tea and a variety of water quality.

The sixth chapter is to describe tea drinking, including tea drinking history and customs of tea drinking.

The seventh chapter is to tell tea stories, including tea-related stories, the origin of tea and tea medicinal properties in ages.

The eighth chapter emphasizes on tea producing, including the places producing tea and the goodness and badness of tea.

The ninth chapter is about omissions on tea, including which tea procedures and which tea sets, which tea appliance can be omitted under specific cases.

The tenth chapter is about tea pictures, stating the content of Tea Sutra can be written on a piece of silk, hang it next to a seat to display, so that the Tea Sutra can be carefully read and prepared.

Tureen, namely gaiwan, we tea lovers' good friends

Tureen

Tureen, namely gaiwan, is a tea device with cover on the top, tray on the bottom, and bowl in the middle. Cover, bowl, and tray are symbols of “Heaven, Earth and Human”, so the gaiwan so known as the “three powers bowel”, “three-power cup”. Mr. Lu Xun said that “if you want to drink nice tea, use the tureen. Sure enough, brew tea in the gaiwan, the tea is clear and sweet, with slightly bitter fragrant, indeed a good tea.”

 

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Function

Gaiwan is used to brew tea or drink tea. So it has the function of pot and bowl. It can keep the tea warm as well as adjust the solubility of tea.

Material

Gaiwan is mainly made of purplr sand, porcelain, glass texture and so on, but various colors of porcelain gaiwan are the majority.

Wise selection

Size Gaiwan volume in tea brewing plays a very important role. 6 grams of tea should be in a Gaiwan with the capacity of 90 ml water; 7 grams of tea, 110 ml water; and 8 grams of tea, 130 ml water.

Workmanship level Qualified tureen has the character: contour lines are standard, square, perfect circle, ellipse, etc. Do not buy the non-standard tureen.

Thick and thin tires  Most high quality tureens are thin, because thin tires are less endothermic in brewing, the temperature will be higher to tea, which can inspire more fragrance.

Eversion of the mouth of the tureen  When select the tureen, pay attention to the eversion of the mouth, usually a tureen with a larger extent is better, which is good for the picking, avoiding burning your hand in brewing.

Usage

1 When use the tureen, the three parts should not be used separately, or it will affect the aesthetic, and it is also rude.

2 In drinking tea, one hand should hold up the tea tray, and the other hand opens the cover, smell the cover fragrant first. Then scuff tea with the cover, put the cover a little tile, and drink slowly.