Tagged: tea ceremony

The Tea Ceremony With No Director Was Invented in 1989

A gathering that reads as ancient has a named founder whose own memoir dates it to the day, and a tea rule that turns out to be pure brewing physics, not doctrine.

Gongfu Cha Was Never a Ceremony

The word means skill, not ritual. What Chaoshan does at the table, who styled it into a performance, and who built a two-thousand-seat theater around it.