Umi Tea Sets Blog

My introduction to Yixing ware came in 1981 during my time in graduate school. On a visit to Rochester, new York, I saw the collection of Marguerite Antell. The teapots...

Located on Great Lake (Taihu), across from Suzhou and within the "Golden Triangle," is Yixing. When many of the most renowned scholars flocked to this area in the late sixteenth...

Finding the proper place to live and raise a family had become an obsession for many scholars. There was a desire to belong to a community with peers in close...

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...

Chinese scholars needed scholars# treasures to improve their social status. More importantly, they collected to facilitate progress in their work and to elevate their spirits. As antiquarians, scholars avidly collected...

The Chinese scholar enjoyed interpreting texts - The texts that mattered most were the Confucian classics. Arising out of a need for social structure and unity, Confucian philosophy encouraged the...

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...

It was quoted the Purple Medic Anthology in the book of Chaozhou Topography said that, people who lived in Chaozhou liked tea very much,and they cooked the tea do it...

In Yuan Dynasty, tea took the necessary position in peopled daily life, and there was a fashion, "weak up in the moring, there must be seven things you should do...

We can know about the tea-drinking customs and teawares in Liao Dynasty from the grave chambers' fresco paintings at Xuanhua Period (155-1-155-7) According to the grave chambers, fresco paintings at...

The Song Dynasty (960-1279) followed Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms in China. The period is divided into the Northern Song (960-1127) in which the Song controlled both Northern and Southern...

Drinking tea was the major event in common life of ordinary people at Late-Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties. The teahouse where people often went to take the rest and actions...