Tea Ceremony

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Tea Ceremony is the art of pouring, serving, and drinking tea. It's art and work derives from many different forms and styles, with each master to their own art forms.
== Txiameng Style: ==
# Cleansing: Bowing to the guests and the spirits of the ancestor, cleansing oneself and the tea room.
#Sorting of Teas: Preparing the tea by heating water and rinsing the tea leaves. Delicately fill teapot with different chosen tea leaves and/or herbs or spices to indicate guest what they are drinking. Fill with the correct temperature water to the brim, cover and continue to pour water over to cleanse the tea cup with its fragrance. As the tea heats up from the hot water, begins the sanitation of the teacups phase.
#Waterfall Cleansing: Hot towels are poured and given to guest. Showcase empty cups standing up, and fill with a bowl of hot water, jasmine flowers and tea leaves till it spills over to showcase that the cup has been clean and sanitized in a waterfall line fashion.
# Time: Serve tea cups upside up to guest from left to right. The left must always be the main guest if possible.
# Honorary: Pour tea once ready towards guest with two hands, one holding the handle, the other the bottom, from left to right in a circle with the tea pourer last.
# Sweets: Honey, sugar, nuts, fruits and sweet desserts are offered to guest.
#Conversations: Conversations on art, news, politics, ideas, education and classical and environmental affairs.
The style was in creation to be both traditional, fusion and modern teas cultures from East & Western Asia.
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