Umi Tea Sets Blog

Tea is the most popular beverage in the world other than water and is enjoyed by over 3 billion people across over 150 countries every day. The average amount of...

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...

In the Han Dynasty, Chinese rulers advocated thrift. In the early Western Han Dynasty, the Emperor rode in ox carts and did not take carriages readily, In the Eastern Han...

The skills of tea making had taken a great leap forward in the Song Dynasty, but tea cakes in shapes of the dragon and the phoenix were too luxurious for...

Generally speaking, the use of something and the formation of a contract begins with the common people. But it i& of interest to note that tea's being used as a...

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...

Our study begins with the material effect and the use of tea as a drink. The discovery and the use of tea in China can be traced back to the...

Deep penetration into ordinary people's life was the feature of the tea culture of the Qing Dynasty (1644- 1911). The superb skills needed for the tea ceremony and profound spirit...