Umi Tea Sets Blog

* Loop handle teapot, Jiajing Period in Ming Dynasty, unearthed in the eunuch Wu Jing's tomb at Majiashan outside of Zhonghua gate in Nanjing. This pot is the earliest purple...

Zhou Yu: This tea has had some wet storage, but It's still active. The liquor even tastes a bit active, though it didn't have much character to speak of. It...

Today, Taiwan produces some of the best wulong teas in the world, and almost all the production is consumed locally. To satisfy demand, and despite an 18 percent tax on...

The Yinzhen Tea from Mt. Junshan is a special tea variety with a high value in appreciation. With high-quality color, aroma, taste, and appearance, it is hailed as Jade with...

Tea is the most popular beverage in the world other than water and is enjoyed by over 3 billion people across over 150 countries every day. The average amount of...

Origin of Cha Dao China was the first nation to discover and start to use tea, and the first to put forward and develop the concept of Cha Dao. The...

Breaking Compressed Pu'er Tea Before brewing tea, we should first prepare tea and teaware. Most Pu'er teas are compressed into certain shapes, so we need to team how to break...

Main Teaware Tea tray: A tray for holding or carrying utensils used in serving tea. It protects the tea table from getting burnt or wet. Teapot: A utensil for steeping...

Grooming and Bearing Grooming Etiquette is a set of customs and rules for polite behavior in interpersonal communications. It can be said that etiquette is an important part of Chinese...

The Eight Teachings of the TAETEA System are the combination of courtesy and etiquette with spiritual edification. Spiritual edification refers to the re-calibration of one's thoughts and deeds and the...

Requirements on Tea Utensils Four crystal glass cups, alcohol burner, one set of tea utensils, one tea caddy, one teaspoon, one water tank, one stick of incense, one fragrant stove,...

The Book of Tea contains ten chapters. The first chapter deals with the origin of tea, the soil and climate suitable for its cultivation and its nature and functions. Chapters...