Tea Arts 茶藝

Ancestor Worship and Divination (Shang and Zhou Dynasties) Two traditions that began in ancient China, and still continue today, are ancestor worship and divination. Ancestor worship means worshiping and praying to family members who lived before you, but are now dead. Ancestor worship was based on five main ideas: 1. The world is divided into three levels: heaven, earth, and the underworld. All of these levels are connected to each other. 2. A person is not only connected to a father and mother, but all the relatives from the distant past . 3. The human body has two souls. One soul, called the hun, rises when a person dies. The other, called the po, becomes a ghost. 4. A person needs to offer gifts to their ancestors in heaven, to show respect. Most of these gifts include wine and meat. The gifts could be placed out in nature, perhaps at the bottom of a mountain or along a river. It was very important for the king to give these gifts, to ensure a good year ahead. They b...

Pottery (Ceramics) Terminology 中英文陶瓷術語 漢英部分Chinese-English (拼音排序In Pinyin Order ) 陶瓷原料 Ceramic Material 白雲土 dolomite 長石feldspar 瓷泥petunse, petuntse, petuntze 瓷漆enamel paint, enamel 封泥lute 高嶺土kaolin, china clay 矽石,二氧化矽silica, SiO2 堇青石cordierite 莫來石,紅柱石andalusite 泥果,坯體clay body 泥釉slip 石灰,生石灰,氧化鈣lime, calcium oxide, CaO 氧化錫tin oxide 釉glaze 原材料raw material 雲母mica 皂石,塊滑石steatite 其它 Others 斑點 speck 半透明 translucence, translucency, translucent 不滲透的 nonporous 不透明的 opaque 茶葉罐 caddy 單色的 monochrome 鍍金 gild 多色的 polychrome 高白 high white, Gaobai 工藝品 artware 鬼工，鬼爺神工 demon’s work, kuei kung 建白材料 construction/building material 景德鎮 Jingdexhen, Ching-te-chen 景泰藍 cloisonné 絕緣子 insulator 考古學 archaeology 可塑的 plastic 流變學 rheology 琉璃瓦 glazed tile 模型、模特 model 模子 mould 耐熱 heat-proof 配方 formula 盆栽 bonsai 漆器 lacquer work 器皿 ware 秦始皇陵兵馬俑life-size terra-cotta soldiers and horses in Chin tomb 青銅器 bronze work 人類學 antropology 滲透的 porous 手印，指印 finger mark 首飾盒 jewel cas...

French: thé (pron. TAY) Spanish: té (pron. TAY) Italian: tè (pron. TAY) Portugese: chá (pron. SHA) Romania: ceai, (pron. CHAI?) German: Tee (pron. TAY) Dutch: thee (pron. TAY) Swedish, Danish Norwegian: te (pron. TAY) Polish: herbataCzech, Serb, Croatian, Bosnian: Cay ("C" with a tiny v on top, and ay) (pron. chai) Russian: Yau ("Y" with a t in it, and AU) (pron. CHAI) Hungarian: tea (pron. TEYA) Finnish: tee. (pron. TAY) Turkish: çay (pron. CHAI) Indonisia, Malay: teh, (pron. TAY) Esperanto: teo (pron. TAYO ) Greek: tsa'i (pron. chai?) Arabic: shaye.Hebrew: teh (pron. TAY ) Yiddish: tay (pron. TAY) Japanese: o cha (pron. O CHA) Swahili: chai.

Name Place of Origin (Province of Origin) Long Jing Dragon Well Xi Hu (Zhe Jiang) Bi Luo Chun Spring Snail Tai Hu (Jiang Su) Tie Guan Yin Iron Goddess An Xi (Fu Jian) Mao Feng Fur Peak Huang Shan (An Hui) Yin Jan Silver Needle Jun Shan (Hu Nan) Qi Men Hung Qi Men Red Qi Men (An Hui) Da Hung Pao Big Red Robe Wu Yi Shan (Fu Jian) Gua Pien Mellon Seed Liu An (An Hui) Bai Hao Yin Jan White Fur Silver Needle Fu Ding (Fu Jian) Puer Puer Si Mao (Yun Nan) Wu Lung Oolong Nan Tou (Taiwan) Yun Wu Cloud & Fog Lu Shan (Jiang Xi) Mao Jian Fur Tip Sin Yang (Hu Nan) Gan Lu Sweet Dew Ming Ding (Si Chuan) Mao Jian Fur Tip Du Yun (Gui Zhou) Muo Li Hua Jasmine Su Zhou (Jiang Su) Yu Lu Jade Dew En Si (Hu Bei) Zhu Cha Pearl Tea Ping Shui (Zhe Jiang) Hou Kui Monkey King Tai Ping (An Hui)

Puer: pronounced  (pronounced: poo-er) I love drinking it but I have avoided writing about the tea called Puer Tea, there is so much misinformation…There is so much confusion about defining and even spelling of it in English, as well as Chinese... Many people are now calling a “puer tea” any post fermented tea that comes not only from Puer city but all of Yunnan as well. I have had to revise this simple little article(now larger) because much of my info/resources were writing --pu'er pu-er and pu er Pu'Er and PuEr puer... so I decide to keep with the translating logic we have agreed on which is tries to make it readable in REAL English, in this case it was easy writing an I say majority rules (or at least you can keep more people happy) "puer puer pu'er pu er pu-er pu-erh puer puEr ,,,,,,enough I think you get the point.. this spelling frenzy causes problems for non-Chinese readers when doing searchers for information about @@PUER TEA@@, and I am also talking about in...

Circa 2700 B.C. Chinese Emperor Shen Nung discovers tea Circa 725 B.C. T’ang Dynasty: Ch’a, tea in Chinese, becomes part of daily life 805 A.D. Dengo Daishi, Buddhist patron saint of Japanese Tea, introduces tea growing in Japan 1191 After centuries of neglect, the cultivation of tea in Japan is revived by the Buddhist Abbot Yesai, who subsequently published the first Japanese tea book. 1500 Ming Dynasty: in imitation of spouted wine earthenware, the first teapots were made at Yi-Xang, near Shanghai famous for its clays. Black, green and oolong tea become prevalent. 1610 Tea reaches Europe for the first time, carried by the Dutch from a trading station in Bantam, Java. They buy tea from Chinese merchants, who speak the Amoy dialect and therefore refer to the product as "Tea". 1623 The first annual public Japanese tea ritual, known as the "Tea Journey" is held. 1657 Garway’s Coffee house in London holds the first public sale of tea. Garway’s starts to advertise the ...

Tea Olympics staged The 10th International Tea Culture Seminar was held in Changxing of Zhejiang province on Wednesday. The biennial event, dubbed the "Olympics" of the tea industry, draws more than 800 delegates from China, South Korea, Japan, Estonia, and other countries. The first forum was hosted by Hangzhou in 1990. Changxing tea festival steeps investment interest http://www.chinaview.cn/index.htm 2008-05-27 08:43:05 BEIJING, May 27 -- A festival opens today in Changxing of Zhejiang province showing the area's long history of tea production and contributions to tea culture in China. Sponsored by the China International Tea Culture Society and Huzhou city government, and organized by Changxing county government, the first Changxing Lu Yu Tea Culture Festival will last to May 30. Rebuilt on its original site, the Tang Dynasty Imperial Tea Factory opens Today to tourists. One of the premier tourism events in Changxing, the festival also pays homage to Lu Yu, the most ...