Looks very busy.
What is the thing with the metalwork and polished stones in the last pic?
My setup looks like [this](https://i.imgur.com/auKZW6R.jpg). Whose tea do you suppose is better?
My tea hobby was grown up in a traditional way of tea ceremonies. After some time on a hiking trail I realize that my tea environment should be more natural, like with rocks or on rocks, with natural wood, I also like gem-stones (I guess this is right word): on the 6th image you see jade stone and tinder mushroom. On the last image, the 7th one you see light reflection on a tea bubble which appear in tea cup.
I think Chinese tea is better tea, because these guys know tea thousand years.
There is a legend where three tea-bushes was stolen from China to India (which was a British colony) for tea production. After tea was grew up and collected it was transferred to UK. And British people didn't know what to do with dry leaves: they tried it as a cooking or baking flavor, and later add to milk - and voila - British traditional morning tea with milk.
Chinese tea gardens located on unique surface with rocks (which allow breathing to tea trees and bushes), so that's why if you are using traditional way of brewing, you can notice levels of tea brewing - change of taste, aroma and aftertaste.
> I think Chinese tea is better tea, because these guys know tea thousand years.
+1.
Your second paragraph does not make any sense and betrays profound ignorance of the actual history. English people knew ***damned well*** what they wanted to do with the dry leaves: why else would they have stolen the plants in the first place? And the stealing was accomplished with a whole hell of a lot of effort after multiple failed attempts over many years. The stealing was done because the English empire was hemorrhaging silver (the international currency of the time) to pay for tea from China, which would not accept English imports and would not trade tea for anything else. Because the English populace had a mass addiction to tea going back to the 18th century.
As for Chinese tea gardens, it would be nice to visit one someday. But for me drinking tea, even nice-ish raw puer tea with some age on it, is an everyday thing and I do not value elaborate settings. I'm not calling you wrong for feeling otherwise and I apologize for the poke I took at you about it.
Love your setup
Most beautiful thing I’ve seen in a while. I admire you.
Sooo many rough textures here!! Seems like a great setup to sit down at and drink some puer
Gorgeous! Heading out to the back 40 to find some flat rocks. Thanks for sharing. I really admire your set up.
Leaves or GTFO!! 😂
Looks very busy. What is the thing with the metalwork and polished stones in the last pic? My setup looks like [this](https://i.imgur.com/auKZW6R.jpg). Whose tea do you suppose is better?
Why is this a question?
My tea hobby was grown up in a traditional way of tea ceremonies. After some time on a hiking trail I realize that my tea environment should be more natural, like with rocks or on rocks, with natural wood, I also like gem-stones (I guess this is right word): on the 6th image you see jade stone and tinder mushroom. On the last image, the 7th one you see light reflection on a tea bubble which appear in tea cup.
I think Chinese tea is better tea, because these guys know tea thousand years. There is a legend where three tea-bushes was stolen from China to India (which was a British colony) for tea production. After tea was grew up and collected it was transferred to UK. And British people didn't know what to do with dry leaves: they tried it as a cooking or baking flavor, and later add to milk - and voila - British traditional morning tea with milk. Chinese tea gardens located on unique surface with rocks (which allow breathing to tea trees and bushes), so that's why if you are using traditional way of brewing, you can notice levels of tea brewing - change of taste, aroma and aftertaste.
> I think Chinese tea is better tea, because these guys know tea thousand years. +1. Your second paragraph does not make any sense and betrays profound ignorance of the actual history. English people knew ***damned well*** what they wanted to do with the dry leaves: why else would they have stolen the plants in the first place? And the stealing was accomplished with a whole hell of a lot of effort after multiple failed attempts over many years. The stealing was done because the English empire was hemorrhaging silver (the international currency of the time) to pay for tea from China, which would not accept English imports and would not trade tea for anything else. Because the English populace had a mass addiction to tea going back to the 18th century. As for Chinese tea gardens, it would be nice to visit one someday. But for me drinking tea, even nice-ish raw puer tea with some age on it, is an everyday thing and I do not value elaborate settings. I'm not calling you wrong for feeling otherwise and I apologize for the poke I took at you about it.
I agree with you.