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so I interviewed the tea broadcasters in turn, and
also provided materials for my monthly tea blog and
contributions to tea magazines. These four tea pod-
casts also have their own characteristics. Two of them
are tea people from Berlin, Anna’s “Here is the Tea”
and Inga’s “Secret of Tea”, they are yogi and tea art-
ist respectively. Their tea podcasts reflect the char-
acteristics of the growing Berlin tea culture to some
extent, different from the free Bohemian tea style of Through the ages, Qin and tea have been con-
Czech Prague tea culture and the court aristocratic nected intentionally or unintentionally, and the cul-
style of British London afternoon tea culture, Berlin tural accumulation of thousands of years has finally
pays more attention to modern, special and healthy become a classic. Tang Dynasty poet, Bai Juyi is pro-
tea drinking and tea life. ficient in music and rhythm, in his poem Qin Tea, Lu
Another tea broadcaster Shernelle is a graphic Shui is a Qin tune loved by him the most, drinking
designer in London and Munich. Her interviewees tea is to taste his old acquaintance, tea from the
are international tea people and tea enterprises for Ganlu Temple in the Meng mountains, Sichuan Prov-
a relaxed “Tea Talk”. In recent years, when I opened ince. Two of his favorites, the sound of Qin and the
The immortals are far away from the noise and up a tea field in Germany and joined the Tea Grown fragrance of tea, which are most easy to calm his
secluded in the mountains and forests, the mountains in Europe Association, I was introduced to Monica, mind. Wu Lizhen, a Taoist of the Western Han Dy-
surround the pavilions of the immortals. Beside the the owner of a tea farm in Scotland. I was a guest of nasty, domesticated wild tea trees in the Meng
huge karst cave at the foot of the mountain, the her- her podcast “Tea, Mud and Hope”, which has the mountains for the people. He was the earliest tea
mit sits alone by the stream with his knees crossed. feeling of taking root in the tea industry from the grower with clear written records in China and even
The Qin music is accompanied by trickling running name, focusing on agriculture, forestry, ecology and the world. Buddhist tea has Zen and Taoist tea has
water. The waiters are busy cooking tea and arrang- so on. Nowadays, the popularity of visual media and tea theory. China’s national religion Taoism has al-
ing the tea banquet. The sound of the Qin goes far the fast pace of we media such as short videos seem ways been inextricably bound with China’s national
away, which can wash the soul, tea fragrance is an- to be integrating with the slow life of tea tasting. As drink tea. Taoists are good at temperament and
other one of the two miraculous products to remove a network broadcast audio, compared with video rhythm, Taoist temples have always had the tradition
fatigue and cultivate self-cultivation. There is anoth- shooting, the post production of podcasts is relative- of planting, making, drinking and entertaining
er modern famous scene of tea tasting about this ly simple, and the audience does not have to listen in guests with tea.
painting. In 2017, the heads of nation of China and real time. They can open tea podcasts anytime and I have translated Ming Dynasty Zhu Quan’s tea
the United States had a tea talk in Baoyun building anywhere, even when they are doing the tea ceremo- book Cha Pu – Tea Notes for several years, mainly
of the Forbidden City, and this painting was hung on ny, it does not affect the movement of their hands. introducing his summary of tea drinking experienc-
the wall behind them. Tea people in modern society choose podcasts to stay es, so as to help people understand the Tao with tea
With the progress of contemporary society, the away from the bombardment of visual media. A mo- with his unique Taoist perspective. As the son of Zhu
background sounds available for tea people to drink have ment of visual rest will pay more attention to the Yuanzhang, emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu
become diverse. Recently, I have been interviewed by four feeling of hearing, smell and taste. No wonder tea Quan had a legendary life. After the Jingnan battle,
European tea podcasts and they were very curious about people like to record tea podcasts, and tea guests also he was granted Nanchang by Zhu Di. Zhu Quan knew
why tea people like to talk about tea in the form of podcast, like to listen to tea podcasts. how to hide his capacities and bide his time.
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