People who love tea have these eight virtues and are worth knowing deeply

Tea lovers are easy to get along with and worth knowing deeply

Tea is best suited to a quiet environment; when you are often in a quiet environment, your state of mind also becomes calmer, and a calm state of mind, shown in a person, can likewise give others a feeling of quiet and peace, making you easier to approach and get along with.

Tea lovers are patient and worth knowing deeply

Brewing tea is a fiddly business, with even more attention to detail. Choosing the tea set, the style of the setting, the amount of tea leaves, the water temperature, the timing and so on all require care and refinement. Over time, a person's patience is tempered, and in getting along with others they are clear-headed and patient, never giving the impression of impatience.

Tea lovers are kind-hearted and worth knowing deeply

"As a drink, tea is most suited to people of refined conduct and frugal virtue." Tea lovers often delight in Zen meditation and spiritual insight, yearn for calligraphy and painting, the qin, go and music, and, like tea, embrace and bless all beings with a kind heart.

Tea lovers are wise and cultured, and worth knowing deeply

A single leaf can endure for a thousand years without decline; besides its beauty of form and flavour, it also carries a rich cultural heritage within. Truly good tea withstands the test of boiling water, and those who love drinking tea have usually weathered the trials of the years, always full of learning, mellowing with age, with the broadness to embrace all things, the transcendence of having no desires and thus being firm, and the open-mindedness of a heart as calm as water.

They understand the astronomical solar terms, understand geographical environments, and understand the oneness of Zen and tea. From the climate of the environment where the leaves are picked to the degree of fermentation and roasting, from the way of drinking Shuixian to the way of brewing Dahongpao, and so on.

Tea lovers are attentive and gentle, and worth knowing deeply

In the aroma of tea, every floral and fruity note, the flavour of the mountain terroir; in the tea liquor, the slightest sourness and astringency, the bitter and mixed notes - each infusion, sipped into the mouth, is savoured in fine detail; without enough attentiveness, much would be missed. That attentiveness and thoughtfulness in tending the tea and waiting on the water, that gentle treatment, leaves one utterly intoxicated.

Tea lovers are mature and steady, and worth knowing deeply

Drinking tea, they both enjoy that bitterness and astringency and take pleasure in tasting layer upon layer of mildness. It is like a cup of clear tea, a cup of lingering fragrance, of quiet elegance, a tea of the heart mixed with many deep feelings and light moods. It sheds restlessness yet keeps its fragrance, just like the elusive, faint aroma of Chinese tea, hidden and unassuming, tranquil yet enduring, solid yet profound.

Tea lovers are composed and free-spirited, and worth knowing deeply

They love drinking tea, are willing to travel a thousand li to enjoy the fresh and beautiful scenery of mountains and waters, and are also willing to steal half a day from a busy life to enjoy the time of a single cup of tea; they can always live with composure and freedom amid the fast pace of life.

Tea lovers understand etiquette and are worth knowing deeply

Brewing tea is a discipline concerned with etiquette; brewing tea over the long term makes one pay more attention to the details of etiquette. Over time it becomes a habit of respecting the other person. Gradually one learns mutual respect in interactions between people, and it is easy to cultivate good habits of courtesy, showing more etiquette in dealing with people and matters.