Umi Tea Sets Blog

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...

Chinese people always attach the same importance to the quality of their material and their spiritual lives. For instance, they eat and drink to satisfy their physiological requirements, and to...

China's tea culture took its initial shape in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the heyday of China's feudal age. The economic, social and cultural prosperity and busy foreign exchanges at that...

The oldest cultural principle in China is Taoism, which has a much longer history than Confucianism. Taoists hold that man is an integral part of nature, and stress that man...

In the Tang Dynasty the habit of drinking tea spread from the imperial court to towns and the countryside; and it was the literati, hermits and Buddhists who played a...

In the later period of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, China was disrupted and the Southern and Northern dynasties emerged. The north was in chaos caused by war, while the south...

Game tea, a method in ancient China for people to value the quality of different teas in company, was well under way in the Tang Dynasty and occurred at all...