The traditional way or the Chinese method of
tea making is called gōng fu chá or meaning
“making a tea with great skill or great efforts.” It is
as much about escaping the pressures of life for a few moments as it is about
enjoying every drop of a tea.
Tea and coffee bear some similarities. The
energizing effect of the coffee bean plant is thought to have been discovered
in Yemen in Arabia from
where the Muslims spread coffee first to Italy,
then the rest of Europe, and finally it was
spread throughout the world. In English and other European languages, the word
coffee derives from the Ottoman Turkish kahve. As for tea, there are at least six varieties
of tea: white, yellow, green, oolong, black and pǔ’ěr. Just to name some: jí pǐn lóng jǐng or Dragon Well, high-grade green
tea that was granted the status of luán chá or imperial tea during the Qīng
Dynasty and is nowadays frequently given to very important visitors of China; a
tiě guān yīn tea – a wǔ yí wū lóng or oxidized oolong tea with a
creamy taste; refreshing nutty taste and aroma tea lì zǐ xiāng that translates as “fragrance of
chestnut” is a green tea from the Guangdong province; cultivation of pu’er,
also known as Yunnan tuó chá, can be traced as far back as the Han Dynasty and has
been used in traditional Chinese medicine for generations to build up internal
energy and to invigorate the activity of the spleen and stomach. All teas are
made from the same species of plant, but processed differently. And there are
others which are not to be mistaken by a ‘herbal tea,’ or an infusion that is
made from leaves, flowers, fruit, herbs, or other plant material that contains
no Camellia sinensis as coffee and tea do.
There are different procedures for different
types of tea. The basic procedure looks for the right combination of amount and
quality of tea leaves, quality and water temperature, brewing time, the quality
and type of teapot and of teacups to make a good cup of tea. Green tea is
soaked from seventy-five to eighty degrees centigrades, Taiwan oolong ninety-ninety-seven
and other teas with ninety-five to boiling water.
In preparing the tea first you have to splash the
tea jug and tea cups with use of a part of tea tools (bamboo) tongs, kind of small chopsticks, to
manipulate the drinking cups while cleansing and warming them. In China, the water and tea is emptied over sculptures of
Buddha, animals, or others that sit on a special tea table. Chinese Gong Fu natural
wood material tea table with plastic tube and a built-in wastewater container requires
pouring away the water used to warm the teapot, tea brewer and cups, as well to
discard the first rinse of the leaves.
The tea ceremony requires a great deal of
preparation and skill – like when you lead people you have to do it carefully
and with skill. There is no time for hurry or shortcuts.
Tea and coffee bear some similarities. The
energizing effect of the coffee bean plant is thought to have been discovered
in 
In preparing the tea first you have to splash the
tea jug and tea cups with use of a part of tea tools (bamboo) tongs, kind of small chopsticks, to
manipulate the drinking cups while cleansing and warming them. In 
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