Tea Ceremony Chinese Style
Monday, February 19th, 2007
One night on our holiday we were booked in to see the Peking Opera in Beijing. As we sat down, we were delighted with the most death defying tea pouring ceremony, where a man dressed in traditional silk outfit came with a copper teapot with a 1 metre long, skinny spout! He did a few twists and turns which involved swinging the teapot, twirling it like a baton and resting the spout over his shoulder from various angles, with the pot an arm’s length away! (more…)