how to use a chinese tea set

How to use a Chinese tea set can affect our mood in the environment we are in.
If the environment is dirty, messy, and poor, the mood will be irritable, while if the environment is clean, the mood will also improve.
So, many tea lovers want to decorate a comfortable and elegant tea table for themselves.
It is not only an expression of artistic conception, but also a reflection of the owner’s taste.
Nowadays, a new term has emerged called ‘tea space’.
Many people are curious, what is it?
Narrowly defined, when we go outside to drink tea, the teahouse is a tea space.
Most tea houses are carefully designed, exuding a refined atmosphere everywhere.
Of course, the cost is not cheap either.
In a broad sense, it refers to any space that exists for drinking tea.
Whether it’s a house, a yard, or anywhere in the world.
Even if it’s just on the balcony, simply setting up a table, placing a tea tray, tea set, kettle, etc., sitting down to brew tea, it’s still your own world.
A tea table, not complicated, simple and comfortable, is the best state.
For those who truly love tea, exquisite decoration is not the most important thing. What should be there will naturally be, and there is no need to deliberately pursue it.
As for tea utensils, besides the lid bowl, other common tea table utensils are also the key to making a good cup of tea.
Since you have bought it, you need to understand the correct usage method.
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Common Tea Set 1: Bowl Cover
The lid bowl is the protagonist of Kung Fu tea brewing techniques.
The reason why many people dare not challenge is because they don’t know how to use the lid bowl.
People who are new to brewing tea often perceive the lidded bowl as an extremely hot, difficult, and difficult to master tea set.
There are countless examples of people overturning, smashing, or even scalding themselves due to not knowing how to use it.
However, holding the lid bowl requires skill.
As long as you choose a lid bowl that is easy to use, with a wide rim instead of a straight up and down shape.
So, when brewing tea with water, it can reduce the risk of hot hands.
When we lift the lid bowl, extend our thumb and middle finger to grasp the edge of the bowl, and then gently grip the lid button with our index finger to fix it.
This is commonly known as the three finger bowl holding method, which is highly practical and easy to operate.
With more practice and gradual progress, we will be able to achieve the requirement of pouring and draining tea soup quickly and well in the future.
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Common Tea Set 2: Fair Cup
The significance of the Fair Cup lies in the word ‘fair’.
Its function is to receive the tea soup poured from the lid bowl and distribute it relatively evenly to everyone present.
If there is no fair cup, the rim of the lid bowl is larger and the water flow rate is also fast.
Injecting directly into a small tea cup can easily splash out.
Not only does it waste tea soup and disrupt the cleanliness of the tea table, but it also burns your hands.
At that time, the benefits of using a fair cup to hold tea soup were highlighted.
After pouring the tea soup into a fair cup, do not rush to taste it immediately. You can let it sit for one minute and wait for the broken tea to settle to the bottom.
At the same time, the temperature of the soup will also slightly decrease to reach the appropriate temperature, without being unable to enter due to scalding the mouth.
Next, pour in the teacup and enjoy the drink.
Additionally, it should be noted that during the process of brewing tea, there may be some tea soup splashing out. Before using a fair cup to separate the tea, the bottom should be wiped clean to ensure that there are no tea or water stains dripping.
Otherwise, it will flow down and spill everywhere, which is very unsightly.
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Common Tea Set 3: Tea Tray
A tea tray is a tray used to carry tea making utensils such as bowls and cups.
Over the years, dry tea stations have swept the tea tables of thousands of tea customers.
Compared to traditional wet soaking, dry soaking is simpler, more convenient, and easier to clean.
And friends who enjoy dry brewing will definitely prepare a delicate tea tray to enhance the overall style.
No matter how simple the lid bowl is, it will still stand tall when paired with a tasteful tea tray.
And when pouring water into tea leaves, when the water hits the dry tea leaves, it will uncontrollably splash water in all directions.
If there is no tea tray, water will wet the tabletop.
With a tea tray, it plays a certain protective role and can also prevent wear and tear caused by excessive friction between the tea set and the tea table.
Therefore, a tea tray is a tea set that combines aesthetics and practicality.
When choosing, everyone can match according to their own economic conditions and the style of the tea table at home.
Try to complement each other as much as possible, making it look more pleasing to the eye and invisibly enhancing the pleasure of drinking tea.
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Common Tea Set 4: Tea Filter
Once, Tea Filter was one of the “Six Gentlemen of Tea Ceremony”.
However, as time passed, people gradually forgot about it, and many of them were “eating dust” in the corners.
One reason is that everyone’s proficiency in using the lid bowl has increased, and broken tea is less likely to fall out, so there is no need to use it.
Secondly, for normal tea leaves, even if there are broken tea leaves, the amount is not large and can settle to the bottom of a fair cup without much impact on the taste.
So, tea filtration gradually retreated to the second line, and its daily use was relatively low.
When brewing tea, it is generally not used, but only in certain specific occasions.
For example, if you drink a very broken tea leaf, the tea residue can easily leak out from the gap in the lid bowl and flow into the fair cup.
Not only does it affect the appearance of the tea soup, but it also affects the taste.
In this case, only tea filtration can help the tea soup regain its taste.
When brewing tea, place it on a fair cup to prevent broken leaves from falling into the tea soup and prevent excessive release of bitter substances.
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Common tea set five: tea clip
In the public’s impression, a tea clip is an optional item.
A common usage is to pinch the edges of covered bowls and tea cups to prevent oneself from being scalded by boiling water.
But experienced tea drinkers would not have made such basic mistakes long ago.
Pour boiling water into the lid bowl and teacup, and you can pick it up with your bare hands to pour out the wastewater without feeling hot at all.
In fact, another function of a tea clip is to ensure hygiene.
If drinking tea alone, it’s okay to be more casual.
But if entertaining guests and washing tea cups or serving tea to them, it is not appropriate to touch the cup mouth with your hands, otherwise it would be too impolite.
At this point, you need to use a tea clip to grip the edge of the cup, without touching your fingertips, and hand it over to the other person.
In this way, one can demonstrate their hospitality as a host.
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Common Tea Set 6: Teapot
The tea cup is also an important tea set that comes to mind after the popularity of dry brewing.
Because the dry brewing method requires maintaining the cleanliness of the tabletop at all times, it is not possible to casually sprinkle tea soup on the tea tray like the wet brewing method.
Therefore, the existence of tea cups is used to hold discarded liquids.
The water used to wash tea sets, the tea soup that has cooled down, the residue left at the bottom of the cup, and the tea residue left after drinking can all be stored in a tea cup.
After drinking tea, pour it out and clean it thoroughly.
Generally speaking, the capacity of a tea cup cannot be too small, but it does not need to be too large.
It is best to be able to handle one or two hours of brewing wastewater, with a capacity of about 300 milliliters.
Place it on the side close to the tea brewing hand.
For example, if Chen, a village girl, uses her right hand to brew tea, she can place it on the right side to shorten the distance and make it more convenient to use.
With a tea bowl in place, not only does it ensure hygiene, but it can also decorate the tea table.
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Brewing tea, with the participation of various tea sets, becomes even more colorful.
Although tea sets have their own rules for use, they are ultimately meant to serve tea.
People who enjoy drinking tea will have the patience to carefully study these details.
So, being enthusiastic about learning is a good thing.
Only by paying attention to details can a cup of tea be brewed better, with its original flavor, clear aroma, sweet taste, and lively flavor.
Of course, it is also necessary to practice more regularly to become proficient.