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CHINESE ART OF TEA
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Everyone
here drinks tea every day. But any Chinese tea expert knows that much of
the action and excitement takes place long before the first sip. While
most everyday tea is just a matter of water poured over tea leaves, a
true tea lover knows tea-making is a fine art and one needs to pay
attention to brewing time, water temperature, quality of water, types of
tea pots and cups. The Chinese tea ceremony is known as gong fu cha as
it requires considerable effort to perform the elaborate process, which
is restricted to the preparation of oolong tea. The Chinese tea ceremony
does not involve the ceremonial details of its Japanese counterpart.
However, the Japanese of art of drinking tea is another example of an
ancient Chinese practice that was adopted by Japanese people.
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