Time to give you a little bit more informations about China.
Tea and the Tea ceremony.
Chinese do have a different relation to tea compared to us europeans. People drink tea all the time. Taxi drivers have their own tea bottle in the car. There are places were you can get hot tea and fill up your bottles. In this transparent bottles you can see green tea leaves swimming together, sometimes, with flowers.
There are varieties of teas in China, soooo good. The best is just to try them all out. Chrisantemum tea I do really recommend.
While travelling in Zhen Zhou with our friend Huang we got the opportunity to assist to a personal tea ceremony. Max number of 3 persons (4 is unluck in China). It was ZEN, really it was coming in another world. Our teamaster told us a story during the ceremony, I hope that Huang will be able to write us some lines about that story, that I forgot at the moment. All was in chinese, but it did not matter, is was ZEN.
We drank and drank and drank, and I got my first lessons of tea ceremony right after it.
It was amazing and we left that wonderful litle shop with small tea cups, tea pot and accessories and of course, plenty of good green tea or the chinese name "chá" that comes from the tea plant camellia sinensis or cháshù.
Things to know about chinese tea:
1) As a sign of respect: In Chinese society, the younger generation always shows its respect to the older generation by offering a cup of tea.
2) To apologize: In Chinese culture, people make serious apologies to others by pouring tea for them.
3) Folding the napkin in tea ceremonies is a traditional action and is done to keep away bad Qi energy in China as tea was regarded as one of the seven daily necessities, the others being firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar（柴,米,油,鹽,醬,醋,茶）.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_tea_culture you find all about Chinese tea culture.
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