All for a Cup of Tea

There are a few variants of the Chinese Tea ceremony. Long ago people in China drank tea in a very casual manner. During the Tang Dynasty the method of brewing tea was stylized. It was very much like what we see in the Japanese Tea ceremony. In fact the Japanese Tea ceremony was derived from the Chinese Tea ceremony of the Tang Dynasty. The tea drunk then was powdered green tea.

However among the commoners tea is simply brewed and drunk with no consideration for any of the stylized movements. During the late Ming Dynasty the method for processing Oolong tea leaves was discovered and a new way of brewing was also used for the new tea. This is the forerunner of the KungFu Tea technique. This method won favour because of the superior fragrance of the Oolong tea elicits by the KungFu Tea method. Most Chinese nowadays do not really brew tea according to this method. The just chuck the tea into a pot and add hot water. What a waste of the five thousand years of Chinese civilization. 

Everyone can use the The KungFu Tea method to brew tea but to brew a good cup of tea that is befitting the quality of the tea leaves is another matter altogether. That is why it is called the KungFu brew...it is an art of tea brewing that one will need to master.  It will much practice before you can make a good cup of tea. Once mastered, a fine cup of tea will be all it take to satiate one’s wanderlust into tea connoisseur haven.