The Book of Tea

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The Book of Tea

I. The Cup of Humanity
Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century...
II. The Schools of Tea.
Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad tea...
III. Taoism and Zennism
The connection of Zennism with tea is proverbial. We have already remarked that the tea-ceremony was a development of the Zen ritual.The name of Laotse...
IV. The Tea-Room
To European architects brought up on the traditions of stone and brick construction, our Japanese method of building with wood and bamboo seems scarcely worthy to be ranked as ...
V. Art Appreciation
Have you heard the Taoist tale of the Taming of the Harp?Once in the hoary ages in the Ravine of Lungmen stood a Kiri tree...
VI. Flowers
In the trembling grey of a spring dawn, when the birds were whispering in mysterious cadence among the trees...
VII. Tea-Masters
In religion the Future is behind us. In art the present is the eternal. The tea-masters held that real appreciation ...

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By George Bernwanger
This is apparently the neatest book I've anytime read. It is an absorbing addition to how tea is abundant better than just a accidental beverage. Tea is a cultural aspect of both Chinese & Japanese life.

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Not deep. Not complex. Bunched and enjoyable. A abundant addition to tea all around.

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