If you’ve heard of an old Chinese text concerning tea, it’s probably Lu Yu’s The Classic of Tea. This debate amusing and short, and a reminder that tea drinking was once a new custom in China, too.
That was a fun read, thanks for sharing. I'm not so well versed in tea history so what I found most interesting was the little side article about how different tea preparation looked in that time period! It's unfortunate that that matcha-style method of preparation (if I understand it correctly) mainly fell out of favor in China early on due to production constraints. Lucky for us that it found a home somewhere else before doing so.
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