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Old 01-03-2008, 08:45 AM posted to rec.food.drink.tea
An Sonjae
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Default Korean, Japanese, Chinese Tea Ceremonies

I am rather unhappy that all that searching did not apparently lead to
my quite well developed Korean Way of Tea pages (index at
http://hompi.sogang.ac.kr/anthony/kortea.htm ) where the top item is
the book which I and a friend who is Korean tea master published last
year in Seoul: "The Korean Way of Tea" (Seoul Selection, Seoul, 2007
see http://www.seoulselection.com/ ). This is the only book written
in English devoted to Korean green tea, so far as I know, and it
covers the drying as well as the brewing processes. In addition, I
provide translations of some Korean tea poems, summarize the history
of tea in both China and in Korea, and evoke the arrival of tea in
Europe before concluding on some thoughts as to the relevance of the
"Korean Way of Tea" in today's world.

Most of the contents of the book are taken from my home page (the East
Tea and Wikipedia descriptions of Panyaro are taken from there).

It might be worth discussing the usefulness of the term 'tea ceremony'
which I think derives from the Japanese ritualized versions of 'doing
tea' familiar in China and Korea. In Korea there has been a recent
tendency to develop 'performance tea' where one te master or a group
do a formalized serving of tea on a stage while tea music is
performed.

I would be very happy to provide more information if it is needed
 

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