China Ceremony

Chinese tea culture encompasses all facets, both physical and spiritual, that have considerably influenced Chinese culture throughout history. It includes the history of tea culture, serving techniques, preparation methods, and the arts and ceremony of tea. Tea culture also has non-physical aspects: symbolic, spiritual, religious, psychological and social.

Tea has been part of China for more than four thousand years, and we will evoke it during the Tea and Perfume ceremony, together with the Chinese ritual of fumigations. It is called Xiang, and it is one of the most praising words one can use, as it simply evokes the "odour of sanctity". In classical literature as well as in poetry, it allows one to praise the subject, literally and figuratively.