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Water kettle I mentioned previously is slightly bigger with long spout just like what you saw in the video, pouring techniques are not as fancy though.
"In many places in China a copper kettle is used to boil water, copper supposedly improving the taste of the tea, but only in Sichuan do they pour directly from the kettle into the gaiwan."
I don't know what tea has he been smoking. China is such a big continent, tea culture originate even before anyone can varify, thousands years before Lu Yu wrote "Cha Jing". How can any one pinpoint a region for originality of pouring water to a gaiwan.
Here is a commentary by sevencups on the abovelinked Hangzhou tea house:
ReplyDeletehttp://sevencups.com/news/?p=81
"In many places in China a copper kettle is used to boil water, copper supposedly improving the taste of the tea, but only in Sichuan do they pour directly from the kettle into the gaiwan."
ReplyDeleteI don't know what tea has he been smoking. China is such a big continent, tea culture originate even before anyone can varify, thousands years before Lu Yu wrote "Cha Jing". How can any one pinpoint a region for originality of pouring water to a gaiwan.