Etiquettes you may not know about Chinese tea drinking | 8个你需要知道的茶礼仪
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- 1. Don’t fill the teacups too much
Tea is usually hot(except iced tea) and it’s easy to get your or your guests’ hands burn if you fill too much tea in the cup. Always leave some space so that your guests won’t be hurt.
2. Seniors come first
For the first steep, serve the eldest first and the to the youngest. For the second steep, you can serve guests either in clockwise or counter clock wise directions.
3. Use gestures to say thanks you
This etiquette originated from an interesting story. The emperor Qianlong in Qing dynasty loves to disguise himself as a commoner and travel around especially in Zhejiang, Jiangsu province. One day when he was drinking tea with his ministers, he took the teapot and served them with tea. For such situation ,it’s a practice to get knees down and kowtow for thanking the emperor but since they need to keep the emporo’s disguise, so kowtow obviously doesn’t work at that time. So he came out an idea and bend his 2 fingers and made his knuckle to know the table meaning like kowtow. Since after that people started to practice this gesture as a way of saying thank you to the tea host/hostess.
4. Guests come first and host/hostess comes last.
This is a way to express respect to guests.
5. Put down cups gently without making big noise.
Or it will be taken as a sign of unfriendly.
6. Don’t serve the guests with the first steep.
First steep is always for rinsing tea since it’s assumed to contain chemicles in tea.
7. If you have new guests joining, add more tea leaves in to show your hospitality.
8. If the tea flavor is fading and the host is not adding new leaves in, that’s a sign for guests to leave.
1. Don’t serve the guests with the first steep.
2. Don’t fill the teacups too much.
3. Seniors come first.
4. Guests come first and host/hostess comes last.
5. Use gestures to say thank you.
6. Put down cups gently without making big noise.
7. If you have new guests joining, replace tea leaves in to show your hospitality.
8. If the tea flavor is fading and the host is not adding new leaves in, that’s a sign for guests to leave.
What if there's no tea left for yourself (host) after pouring for guests?
@@seamusoseaghdha6175 i imagine it would be the host's responsibility to have the tea amount and tea set of the appropriate size for the tea party. Like inviting guests to dinner. If you didn't have enough, it would be very embarrassing.
And as she said, round after round of steeps with the tea leaves, it will begin to loose flavor and be mostly water. And it would be a sign for the guests to close the tea party.
@@seamusoseaghdha6175 getting used to how much your fairness cup can put in each cup is something you get figure out twice. Once when you warm up the cups and another when you do the first steep/wash.
@@seamusoseaghdha6175 If the gongdao bei runs out of tea before you get to yourself, you can just make another steep and keep that ready for when someone finishes their cup!
We always did this even at dim sum brunch, not just for tea parties or in tea gardens. The youngest person at dim sum has to fill everyone else's cups and the older people tap the table when you refill their tea for them. We say "yum cha" or "drink tea," for having dim sum brunch, because there's so much tea served with the little plates of food. It's like Chinese tapas, but in the morning, after Tai Chi. :)
I always thought they were impatient to hit the table 😂
❤ Xie Xie there is so much to learn about this super magical brew. Its rituals, deep seated culture never fails ro fascinate me. I loved this clip.
Thank you so much for your teaching! :)
Thank you very much. I genuinely LOVE learning the culture and the respect involved in the tea ceremony. This was VERY educational.
In some part of the world if you keep knocking the table that .Means keep going keep going ( keep pouring until it's is overflowing.)😀😀😀
Thanks for sharing the story behind the knocking thing. That's quite interesting story.
Hi Emily, my friend and I thought your treatment of the subject of etiquette was so interesting and instructive and I look forward to seeing more of your videos !!
Best wishes, Georgios.
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Thank you. I appreciate all of your points. #LoveTEA
Thank you very much from Germany. Very interesting. Yes, tea is culture.
Thank you so much for this informative and charming video.
Have been wondering why people in China were tapping the table with their fingers while drinking tea, in some video's on youtube, now I know the answer and a whole lot of other useful and interesting things. Thanks! :)
Great to know my video helped a little:) Thanks for watching!
I’m Chinese and I love this video so much. Informative.
So interesting. Thank you!
thank you.... tapping with my fingers :)
Thanks for watching! :)
I am not surprised to see you here, Archer! Good Manners are Universal.
Thanks for the video. I am starting to look forward to them! :) maybe a cool video would be a full gongfu style brew session (heating/cleaning cups, tea pet, etc, with friends maybe just music for first video then do voice over for second? 👍🏻😀🤤
Brandon J Thanks Brandon for your creative suggestion! We will definitely make such video later~
Is there a set number of taps or it doesn't matter?
Thanks for the story behind the tapping of the fingers (just saw that on Space Force- Netflix) & wondered why that would be the sign of respect. Thanks for sharing aspects of the culture!
我们上summer课world cultures老师拿你的视频举例子耶
学了一课, 谢谢您的教导
Thanks
#8 is my favorite.
Thank you for the lesson. ☺️
the point of rinsing has nothing to do with pesticides. Its to allow the tea to "bloom"/awaken (allowing loose leaves to hydrate, or to decompress a pu'erh cake) without losing to much heat. this allows for more flavor during the main steeping process. This is standard gung fu cha technique not etiquette.
I'd imagine #5 has initiated all sorts of awkwardness
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Thank you for sharing this interesting information. The Chinese tea etiquette has good reminders to respect our elders and to show thanks, respect, and hospitality. These are universal values, but we can see that something simp,e, like drinking tea, can have powerful social.messages and reinforce those values. This is important for every culture.
Chinese people are used to serving tea to guests and have formed a corresponding tea etiquette. For example, when inviting a guest to drink tea, the cup should be placed on the tray and offered with both hands. The cup should be placed in front of the guest's right hand. When talking and drinking, the guest should be provided with water in time. The guest should be good at "taste", sipping tea slowly and taking small mouthfuls instead of gulping it down.
thank you! id like to kno about the daily rhithm of drinking tea, are there times to drink tea and times not to drink tea ? do people drink it into the night ? mabe even like some drink coffee ? thankyou for any clarification !
Where can i buy some good oolong tea
Is it a bad thing to add sugar, and milk, honey and/or lemon? I add milk and sugar and always drink the first steep because it is the strongest.
Of course it doesn't matter how you want to drink your tea! You choose your own way!
What if you need to pee?
I have a question. When adding new tea leaves to the pot, should you remove the old ones, or simply add more leaves on top of the old leaves???
Instructions not clear, I am stuck in Chinese prison.
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The finger tapping would be a sign of impatience and disrespect in Europe. Funny how such simple gestures can be perceived so differently.
so complicated 😵
Xie Xie, Laoshi :)
Thanks for watching;）
Cute set but I'd rather use European set.would drive me crazt drinking from such small cup.
Thank you so much for this review of tea etiquette and the story about Emperor Qianlong. I am trying to learn everything about the traditions and process of asian tea drinking and this was very helpful. I would like to know what type of vessels were used for each process. I see you have a kettle and you also have three additional vessels. What is the purpose of each vessel? In acient times, what type of vessel was used to heat the water? How did they keep the water hot? Also, I have heard of "tea pets". Can you explain the purpose of tea pets? Finally, if you have any suggestions to purchase tea sets as well as good quality tea, please provide. Thank you
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Fascinating stuff. Thanks for this, Emily. Looking forward to watching more of your videos. X
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thanks your explanation was excellent..
Great video. Thank you so much. One question, how does a tea guest can let the tea host know in a respectful way that he/she doesn't want tea anymore?
Hi David, that's a very god question! The simple way is just keep your cup full and don't drink it and then the tea host will don't have the chance to get you more tea. That's what people usually do in tea table.
Great video! Thank you for making this video. I learned a lot :)
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Haiyaaa what you talking about drink tea properly
Put cup in mouth, make thing so complicated haiyaaa
wanna ask if the young guest enjoy the tea with our old parents , who is the first to serve ? our parents or the guest ?
Absolutely wonderful!
Very nice!! Thank you and hello from Porto, PT!! :)
Very fascinating tea etiquette. Thank you 🙏🏻
Thank you so much for this great video about proper tea etiquette. I am just now learning about the benefits (physical/medical) of drinking tea AND I would like to entertain guests with tea but want to do it properly and in order. Thank you for this great video!
Thank you so much for this.
This is so cool I love learning about this kind of stuff
Excellent! Thank You!
I will be taking a trip to China for tea, Thank you so much for your information.
Nice video
Thank you Emily, excellent, and a new subscriber :)
Awesome Job!!Thank You Very Much!!!!!
Thanks for the kind words!
thank you 🙏
Thank you!
Love this 😭
Me watching this video and thinking about the tea ceremony I participated in, in NYC, having not done any of this: OH shit.
I saw some do thumbs up (after pouring) or open their hand when the host is pouring. I’ve also seen both host and guest dump the guests cup then flip it upside down what does these mean?
I went to China last year and tried speaking it, and failed miserably. I give her and everyone big respect for speaking both. It's not easy! Kids can do it, guess I'm not a kid anymore😂
Thank you. My student sent me a real tea set with everything including tea.I am ready for my tea ceremony
That was fascinating,thank you!
以后要和你学品茶啦！
是那个我认识的李舫嘛~
是的呀哈哈
哇塞 谢谢支持！
谢谢/thank you so much for teaching me!
Nice, thank you.
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