A Cup of Tea. A Walk Through China. A Quiet Thought.

Many people say black tea should be brewed with 100°C boiling water. This is true. Tea experts also use boiling water to test the quality of black tea. But in everyday life, I usually do not use 100°C water when I brew black tea in…

a bamboo tray. Chinese-Black-Tea-Before-and-After-Brewing Sun-Dried-Brewed-Black-Tea-Leaves-on-a-Bamboo-Tray A glass tea tumbler. A bamboo sieve. The tea leaves dried quietly under the summer sun. Tea has not always been an everyday drink. In ancient China, tea was expensive because production was limited and transportation was difficult. For many…