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Uploaded by on Oct 24, 2006

Making tea in a tea-house in Beijing
(for further films and writings on tea, please see - http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/tea/av.html

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  • Its a very fun video to watch however i dont think i could do this at home. id have tea everywhere on the floor

  • To the untutored eye, what seems random is just the opposite.

  • I am an American and practice gongfu cha. There are two way of making tea, fast and slow. Fast, is practical to brew tea and drink. Slow, is if you are meditating. I brew fast when I make oolong, and slow when I brew Pu'er.

  • huh, I have never seen anything like that, and I find it very strange how people somehow manage to get into heated arguments over thus video. interesting insight into human nature.

  • it's a video, no need to get all bitchy, besides thats my opinion on the variety of the MANY chinese tea ceremonies that I have been to.

    why do you assume i'm european or american anyway

  • i just want a cup o

  • lol whatever. All european or north american peopleare full of this slowly esoteric thing about Gong Fu Cha. They don't know shit about tea and they dare to say it's too quick. Lol too quick for what ? For the tea ?

    It's not a zazen-wannabe ceremony. She is doing it absolutly perfectly. Her moves are precise, no hesitation, the way she uses the cup holder is amazing of precision. Sloppy ? Did you notice how she clean the bottom of the teapot ? Fucking morons

  • i love how all these dumb people think she's going to fast.. THIS IS WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO! silly people..

  • don't you know that the utensils needs to be warmed up with heating water to keep correct temperature and tea leaves needs to be "washed" which means that with water you prepare tea leaves for brewing, and with this washing, it open the leaves that they can then make better brew and better fragnance. It may seem weird but all that is made to make better tea. But remember also; brewing tea is art, not science :)

  • little bit fast...but I love making tea with gong fu style

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