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tea whisk was developed to help make foam easier. Nowadays, we can still see whisks in
Early teapots are small by western Japanese Tea Ceremony. The bowl, that was used for tea drinking and helped to slowly
standarts because they are cool down tea, was a black glaze kensan. Its black glaze made the contrast between cup’s
generally designed for a single material and the foam more obvious. The way of tea drinking in Ming Dynasty was closer
drinker.
to what we have today: put some tea in a cup and just add boiled water to brew it. The only
difference from today is that people used to be much more patient, waiting for water to
boil on a charcoal burner.

Age of Electricity Sense of Ceremony to Being a
Family
Drinking tea became much easier with
the development of electricity: it helps to The development of things tends to
speed up boiling process, which leaves more start with simplicity, then go to complex-
time to enjoy tea in other ways. That’s how, ity and then return to simplicity again.
other tea devices, besides the tea pot and cup, The whole set of Gongfu Tea and the
were developed, like fragrance-smelling cup complexity of its preparation keep it as
is a kind of spindly cup made for Oolong tea a very exclusive tradition. However, the
tasting. There are also glass tea ware to enjoy taste of Gongfu Tea is much better than
the look of tea soup and its leaves shape, tea a simple tea in a mug. The utensils of
spoon to pick up the leaves etc.. These uten- Gongfu Tea can be very simple, just a
sils make tea drinking more sophisticated, teapot or a covered bowl, Gongdao Mug
exquisite and bring sense of a ceremony into or a normal teacup. With these tools you
the process. Some people say that they can can easily experience Gongfu Tea. The
get spiritual relief during the whole process whole set can be packed into a small bag
of preparing Gongfu Tea, others take it as a to carry around in case there will be a
pleasure to collect different exquisite tea sets. good chance to have a cup or two. But
If you say that the key to good cup of only by preparing more cups can you
tea is the control of water boiling time and share this experience with others.
the separation of tea liquid from tealeaves, Nowadays, developed logistics bring
an electrical kettle has already solved this much more fun into tea drinking. We can
part. Then the ways to solve the rest are order different kinds of tea any moment
various. Although there is no substantial online, they might be blends and mixes or
change in the way of tea drinking since even come from one of the origin countries
Ming and Qing Dynasty, tea in bags and straight to your cup. We can have tea par-
drip tea bags are emerged to help with fast ties and share those rare types of tea that
lifestyle of modern days. Piaoyi Cup and we find around the world. It may seem that
Filter cup are also here to make experience tea drinking is an ancient tradition, but in
of tea drinking more user-friendly: Piaoyi fact it evolves all the time, changing itself
teapot (Ethereal Teapot) is similar to Aero- according to the age needs. Evolving and
Press in its working method, it is perfect developing it still keeps it core, which is a
for preparig enough tea for a big group of unique experience and experience is the
people; while Filter Cup is more suitable best when it is shared.
for drinking tea alone.

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