Talk:Fujian tea ceremony

The black tea serve in Kung-fu (Pinyin Gung Fu)tea ceremony originate from the Saochonng variety, originate and evolve from China Fujian state. In chinese word, Kung-Fu has few meaning. i. The popular martial art. ii. works that need lots of effort and skill. It seems the second meaning are more likely. Sltan

it is not for just black tea it is for all leaf teas (not japanese powered tea). the reason for gongfu brewing is because of yixing small teapots, where the temperature and water and tea amount can be monitored easily, now there is a kind of black tea that is called "gongfu black tea" but that is a name of a tea not a brewing method (gong/kung/kong Fu---tea brewing method). i dont want to get knit picky about words but kungfu or gongfu means "do with care and skill". in tea culture we usually say gong not kung this also helps to differentiate the chinese (kung-fu) fighting method (one of many) and the chinese gongfu tea brewing method one of many). in fujian they have many methods of making tea there is no "one" fujian tea ceremony, what i mean is the article fujian tea ceremony is actually the gongfu (kungfu) "skill" method of brewing tea that is practiced in fujian. the gongfu tea ceremonies not exactly the same for every region, but are similar in the following the teas can be any kind, as long as it is leaf tea not powdered tea, the methodology of gongfu tea ceremony or gongfu brewing methodology is to brew good tea and to enjoy the tea, and usually socially, with others and casual talking. --Sherdwen 04:50, 27 February 2006 (UTC)