Articles of category "Tea ceremony"

The popularity of a drink named "tea" is worldwide. But drinking tea according to the Japanese Way of Tea (sado, sadoo, chado) has little to do with just putting a teabag into a cup of boiling water. The Japanese Tea Ceremony is an ancient Japanese ritual which includes not only the proper way of drinking tea and eating sweets but also prescribes special gestures and phrases along with the general arrangement of the tea rooms.

Britain is a country of well preserved traditions. This is the country where Margaret Thatcher was given the rank of an Honorable Man just so she could join the "Reform-Club" without breaking an old custom. So it does not sound surprising that such a simple thing as drinking tea also has to be done according to certain rules.