Tea is actually very simple; there is no need to mystify it.

Drinking tea is not that mysterious; it is very down-to-earth. In the final analysis, it is a beverage that can bring people relaxation and health, and it is simply one of the seven daily necessities of ordinary people's lives: "firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and tea." Its mission is to be drunk.

It is just that with the progress of human civilization, tea flourishes in prosperous times, and today it is poised to become the national drink. The ways of drinking tea have changed again and again. There is the beauty of brewing techniques that delight the eye and lift the spirit, and there is the fine state of tea tasting where one person finds seclusion, two people find delight, and three people form a gathering. In all of this, what is seen outwardly is beauty, and what is felt inwardly may be pleasure, or tranquility, or clarity and harmony, and so on.

Not understanding tea does not affect the experience people gain from drinking it.

Just as you do not need to understand sunlight, and you do not need to understand air, yet you can still feel the warmth and freshness they bring you.

For some people, drinking tea is a habit; when they do not drink tea, they always feel that something is missing.

For some people, drinking tea is a indulgence; without smelling the fresh fragrance, without pleasing the taste buds, without pouring it down the throat, without moistening the heart and spleen, they are not satisfied.

For some people, drinking tea is a kind of contentment, tranquil and leisurely, walking to where the water ends, sitting and watching when the clouds rise.

For some people, drinking tea is a kind of practice, quiet and non-striving, looking lightly upon worldly affairs...

But what it least should be is a pose of pretended refinement.

So, you do not need to understand tea, you do not need to be sensitive and restrained in front of tea friends, you do not need to pretend to be refined, and you do not need to mystify it, still less do you need to pretend to understand when you do not. You only need to gain the pleasure and beauty outside of tea, and the subtle exquisiteness within tea, and that is enough.

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