Umi Tea Sets Blog

1. What are the fundamental element for brewing a good cup (pot) of tea?The bowing of a good cup of tea will be affected by a variety of factor. Regardless...

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...

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...

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...

Established during the waning of China's feudalism, the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) was inevitably confronted with many social problems, such as the surviving forces of the Mongols, the power struggle inside...

The spirit of tea art and the tea ceremony is the core of Chinese tea culture. Art refers to the techniques and artistic process ofmaking, cooking and tasting tea, while...

Now, let's talk about the relationship between water and tea art. Please imagine gurgling springs, the waves of rivers, misty vast lakes, and sweet and clear well water. The relationship...

The earliest evidence of tea drinkers, around 59 BC, was found among people of the Western Han dynasty. They boiled tea leaves often with grain and other ingredients, mainly using...

Through a thousand years of finely honed aesthetic sensibilities, Chinese scholars came to be looked upon as the pinnacle of Chinese culture. Lovers of nature, lovers of beauty and lovers...

As the old Chinese idiom goes, "it is necessary to have effective tools to do good work." It refers to ordinary labor and creations. As a material activity, tea art...