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Curing Yixing teapots

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30-12-2003, 05:49 AM

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(Yuriy Pragin) wrote in message news:def673ff.

I completely agree with everything you say. BUT, I have an issue with
methods which are "unique". The culture which had been using Yixing
teapots for leaf infusion for at list 700 years has traditional
(tested by time) methods, we should follow them instead of inventing
our own.

Even if they work? Your opinion is quite hopelessly and irrationally
conservative. I see no reason why traditional methods must
necessarily be the best methods. Clearly the Chinese experimented a
great deal amongst themselves, as can be determined by a wide
variation in styles of tea preparation over time and by region. If
the Chinese accepted your logic they would still be whisking
powdered-tea in bowls as they did in the Song dynasty and would not
use teapots at all. If they honoured still older traditions they
would simply eat the leaves as opposed to infusing them. All old and
venerable traditions are preceded by yet older and more venerable ones
(accepting, of course, the impossibility of infinite regress in this
case).

Regards,

Cameron

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30-12-2003, 02:41 PM

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Yuriy 12/28/03

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4. Developing a long arcane tea pot seasoning process is fun to do and
it's fun to compare my methods with those of others.

I completely agree with everything you say. BUT, I have an issue with
methods which are "unique". The culture which had been using Yixing
teapots for leaf infusion for at list 700 years has traditional
(tested by time) methods, we should follow them instead of inventing
our own.

Yuri, I don't know. Traditions are fluid and in flux; it's only from the
perspective of Now that we think there is something static and unchanging
about them. Anyway, that's my humble opinion.

If the truth be known, I've never really bothered to cure one at all. I just
let nature take its course. The up side of this I suppose is that I can cure
along with the pot. But the down side is that I ruin a lot of tea. And
lately I've been buying better oolongs, so I'll probably start curing the
pots with some ceremony, rereading Cameron's (and others') posts as his
reasoning is sound, I think.

Michael

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Your opinion is quite hopelessly and irrationally conservative.

Hehe, guilty as charged

I AM hopelessly conservative.

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