“Moderation itself is the essence of tea.
Tea does not go along with excesses.” Lu Yu (The classic book of tea<cha>)
The tea is a great plant that is originally from Asia and in time it traveled the world around since the beginning of the XVI-th century. We must thank the eastern culture for this wonderful plant that has a lot of healing properties and for the fine art of drinking tea.
In time western cultures adopted the pleasure of drinking tea, cultures like British who have the 5 o’clock tea, but the real art of drinking tea remains in the Eastern countries where tea has its real value.
This plant is well appreciated for its healing properties like recovery after effort, spirit revival and it helps maintain a positive thinking and a permanent will as well as a better eyesight.
The Japanese transformed the making and the drinking of tea into a real art that is called The tea ceremony or Cha-no-yu. It is a complex ritual that starts before the guests even arrives, with the preparation and the cleaning of the room where the ceremony will take place. Everything has to be well cleaned and in perfect arrangement as well as the making of the revigorating drink. The movements of the ceremony master must be smooth.
There is no universal recipe but most think that the making of tea is a real art. Some experts think that the best recipe of tea can be found in the 11 chino-vietnamese words: “NhAt thuy,nhi tra,tam boi,tU binh, ngU quAn anh” that mean choose the water, then the tea, after the cups and the kettle and last but not least choose your mates or comrades. As the masters in tea making teach us, it is important which kind of water we are using. The water from a mountain spring is the best water for making tea, then follows the river water after which comes the water from a fountain and last and the worst water that can be used for tea is the normal water.
The water also should be boiled correctly.Some say that you have to chose a special kind of fuel for the fire and it is said that the best one is the wood coal.Also the water shouldn’t be boiled too much because it will lose its oxigen.
There is a great variety of tea. China (check Wholesale Chinese Tea) is renowned for having two special tea plants, one is “Vu Di Son Tra” (the tea plant that grows on the well known mountain of Vu Di) or the “Tram ma tra” (the tea leaves from the stomach of a decapitated horse).
Taking in consideration the degree of oxidation there are 4 tips of tea: green tea, white tee, black tea and oolong. There is no such thing as the best tea, every tea has its benefits and it depends in what way or for what you use it. This is what we will take into consideration in the future as well as ways for preparing tea, how to use it and when to use it. We will also show information about traditional medicine and ways to cure different problems or ways to improve your health and diet.
So as you can see the tea should be an important part of our daily life. You can drink tea instead of coffee because it is healthier or you can cure different diseases instead of taking bad medicine that can worsen your health or destroy your immune system.
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