Thursday, August 14, 2008

Time for Tea





The traditional tea ceremony for South China lasts for several hours with twelve rounds of sipping, smelling and slurping (yes slurping), small cups of steaming tea. I learned that slurping your tea is considered polite in the Chinese culture because you take in more air and this helps the flavor.

4 comments:

Merissa said...

I love the color in your photos...

katie said...

awesome! great layout, and lovely detail shots.

T.J. Hamilton said...

I like the orderly of the image composition, just like the ceremony of it all. Do they make sweet tea? Sorry that's the Ky in me talking.

Emily Katelyn said...

No it was not sweet! Quite bitter actually. Apparently the equivalent of a shot of something.