To study the mystery of the tea ceremony, women no longer have to go to Japan
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In China, tea was known already in ancient times and was originally used as a medicine. The roots of the tea ceremony go back to the era of the first treatises on tea, according to which the consumption of this drink is a true art. In the 20th century, tea ceremonies were already held at the Chinese imperial court.
It was then that exquisite tea pavilions and houses were erected, luxurious tea utensils were made, and competitions in the art of brewing tea were held. However, with the end of the high imperial culture, the tea ceremony gradually turned from a sophisticated entertainment for gourmets into a peculiar form of communication accessible to ordinary people.
Today, almost every women's website publishes information on how to organize a real Chinese tea ceremony at home. For this you will need premium leaf tea, a special teapot, and small bowls into which the brewed tea is poured.
Unlike the Chinese, the Japanese tea ceremony pursues completely different goals, being filled with deep philosophical meaning and, in essence, being a group meditative practice. Therefore, if you are going to attend a Japanese tea ceremony, you should take care of a certain inner attitude in advance, as well as prepare to follow many rules.
Not every women's club will take on conducting a Japanese tea ceremony, even if ordinary tea parties are widely held there. According to tradition, the tea ceremony should take place in special tea rooms. The participants of the ceremony are usually the «host», who prepares the tea, and the «guests», who only watch the process. During the ceremony, a special bowl and various other utensils for making tea are used. By the way, if you want to give a nice gift to your business partners, check out the website where you can buy both individual souvenir dishware items and whole sets decorated with the company logo.
When the tea is already poured, it is forbidden to drink it immediately: first you are supposed to hold the bowl in your hands, inhaling the aroma of the drink and admiring its color. Then one of the participants tastes the tea, wipes the edges of the bowl with a piece of special cloth, and passes it on around the circle. Another indispensable element of the ceremony is elevated conversations on philosophical topics, which begin when the tea has already been drunk.