Tea Appreciation Day
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Tea Appreciation Day is held one day during the first weekend of May (or close to it) every year from 2005. People and organizations can gather together to make and serve tea
with the attending individuals and passing strangers alike. Any person of: an organization, a group, an association, a family, a community, a school, can organize, and unite on this day with individual, at some pre-planned place like perhaps in a public square, and conduct any kind of tea party for the invited people, and even the strangers which might pass by. The activity could even include, lectures or the conversation, and its content should include tea culture related curriculum. Activity leaders must follow local laws and regulations. There is no need to register with any organization. Any written material or announcements including a bulletin board, is just for conveying and promoting the association for people to enter or be informed.
, Taiwan
, in the spirit of offering to extend Wu-Wo Tea Ceremony
originally came from a celebration on Mother's Day called “Family Tea Ceremony” (officially held around 500 people and their Family Wu-Wo Tea Ceremony which began May 12, 1991 at Taipei Music Hall Square), and now has expanded for all people. This activity is healthy, and now in 2005 the universal activity peacefully chooses the name "Tea Appreciation Day". The poster above reads, "All over the world every year, the first weekend or close to it in May places are chosen to celebrate Tea Appreciation Day. People gather together to make and serve tea with close relatives, friends, and strangers alike."
Tea
Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by adding cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant to hot water. The term also refers to the plant itself. After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world...
with the attending individuals and passing strangers alike. Any person of: an organization, a group, an association, a family, a community, a school, can organize, and unite on this day with individual, at some pre-planned place like perhaps in a public square, and conduct any kind of tea party for the invited people, and even the strangers which might pass by. The activity could even include, lectures or the conversation, and its content should include tea culture related curriculum. Activity leaders must follow local laws and regulations. There is no need to register with any organization. Any written material or announcements including a bulletin board, is just for conveying and promoting the association for people to enter or be informed.
History
Started in spring of 2005, TaipeiTaipei
Taipei City is the capital of the Republic of China and the central city of the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Situated at the northern tip of the island, Taipei is located on the Tamsui River, and is about 25 km southwest of Keelung, its port on the Pacific Ocean...
, Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
, in the spirit of offering to extend Wu-Wo Tea Ceremony
Wu-Wo tea ceremony
Wu-Wo Tea Ceremony 無我茶會, also known as Wu-Wo Tea Convention and Wuwo Tea Party. It is a style of Chinese tea ceremony that encourages participants to forget about knowledge, wealth, and appearance to establish a group equality without prejudice. This concept of Wu-Wo is shown in the Wu-Wo Tea...
originally came from a celebration on Mother's Day called “Family Tea Ceremony” (officially held around 500 people and their Family Wu-Wo Tea Ceremony which began May 12, 1991 at Taipei Music Hall Square), and now has expanded for all people. This activity is healthy, and now in 2005 the universal activity peacefully chooses the name "Tea Appreciation Day". The poster above reads, "All over the world every year, the first weekend or close to it in May places are chosen to celebrate Tea Appreciation Day. People gather together to make and serve tea with close relatives, friends, and strangers alike."
See also
- Wu-Wo Tea CeremonyWu-Wo tea ceremonyWu-Wo Tea Ceremony 無我茶會, also known as Wu-Wo Tea Convention and Wuwo Tea Party. It is a style of Chinese tea ceremony that encourages participants to forget about knowledge, wealth, and appearance to establish a group equality without prejudice. This concept of Wu-Wo is shown in the Wu-Wo Tea...
- Tea CeremonyTea ceremonyA tea ceremony is a ritualised form of making tea. The term generally refers to either chayi Chinese tea ceremony, chado Japanese tea ceremony, tarye Korean tea ceremony. The Japanese tea ceremony is more well known, and was influenced by the Chinese tea ceremony during ancient and medieval times....
- Taiwanese Tea Ceremony
- Perennial Tea CeremonyPerennial tea ceremonyPerennial tea ceremony / Four Seson Tea Ceremony is a Chinese tea ceremony, created by Lin Easu , of the Ten Ren Teaism Foundation. The first two characters of the Chinese term literally mean four steps or sequences that are linked together, the latter two simply meaning "tea ceremony". With...
- Gongfu Tea CeremonyGongfu tea ceremonyThe gongfu tea ceremony or kungfu tea ceremony , is a commercialized show basing on the tea preparation approach originated probably in Fujian or Guangdong. The original term "Gongfu Cha " literally means "making tea with efforts". Sometimes '功' instead of '工' is used thus 功夫茶...
- Lu-Yu Tea Culture InstituteLu-Yu Tea Culture InstituteLu-Yu Tea Culture Institute, previously known as Lu Yu Tea Art Center, provides education in tea arts and promotes the drinking of tea. It offers certifications in Tea Studies, such as for "Tea Master" . The institute was founded in Taipei, Taiwan, in the 1980s...