{"id":1642,"date":"2021-05-21T13:36:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T12:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2021-05-21T16:24:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T15:24:15","slug":"happy-international-tea-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/2021\/05\/21\/happy-international-tea-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy International Tea Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cha or Tea? This is not a question in the Chinese context – it’s \u8336 (ch\u00e1) officially, while te (tea) <\/em>is a dialect from southeast coastal areas like Fujian and Taiwan.<\/strong> So \u8336 (ch\u00e1)<\/strong> exported alongside the ancient silk road (by land) has been called as cha <\/em>or any of the variants in those areas whereas \u8336 (ch\u00e1)<\/strong> exportation by sea has been pronounced as tea<\/em>.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\n\"Eteamology\"<\/a>\n<\/div>
From Flickr @Eteamology<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tea is the world\u2019s most consumed drink, after water. It is believed that tea originated in northeast India, north Myanmar and southwest China, but the exact place where the plant first grew is not known. Tea has been with us for a long time. There is evidence that tea was consumed in China 5,000 years ago.<\/p>The UN<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Culture talk on Chinese tea at Queen’s<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Did you still remember that we had organised a culture talk on Chinese tea in the year of Mouse at Queen’s?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Speaker Beidi Wang (second from right) with some of the audience celebrating CNY after the talk at the McClay Library, QUB<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The introduction of tea history by Beidi Wang, QUB MBA graduate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The art of serving tea<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Q1. What are the four essential elements in tea serving?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

a) \u8336\u53f6 ch\u00e1 y\u00e8<\/em> (tea leaves)
b) \u8336\u5177 ch\u00e1 j\u00f9<\/em> (tea set)
c) \u725b\u5976 ni\u00fa n\u01cei<\/em> (milk)
d) \u6c34 shu\u01d0 <\/em>(water)
e) \u706b\u5019 hu\u01d2hou<\/em> (heat)
f) \u7cd6 t\u00e1ng <\/em>(sugar)
g) \u8702\u871c f\u0113ngm\u00ec <\/em>(honey)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q2. When you are served tea in front of you, what are you supposed to do to express your courtesy?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

a) Say \u2018\u8c22\u8c22 (xi\u00e8xie, thank-you)\u2019.
b) Drink it as soon as it is served.
c) Leave it untouched until cooled down.
d) Use your fingers to \u2018koutou\u2019 on the table as if bowing to someone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Practising serving tea at a tea house in Suzhou. Image @LiangWANG<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A survey<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

N\u01d0 x\u01d0huan h\u0113 ch\u00e1 ma<\/em>
1) \u4f60\u559c\u6b22\u559d\u8336\u5417\uff1f(Do you like drinking tea?) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

N\u01d0 x\u01d0huan h\u0113 sh\u00e9nme ch\u00e1 <\/em>
2) \u4f60\u559c\u6b22\u559d\u4ec0\u4e48\u8336\uff1f(What type of tea do you like drinking?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Let us know your answers in the reply box.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cha or Tea? This is not a question in the Chinese context – it’s \u8336 (ch\u00e1) officially, while te (tea) is a dialect from southeast coastal areas like Fujian and Taiwan. So \u8336 (ch\u00e1) exported alongside the ancient silk road … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,13,14,28,58,48],"tags":[59,60,61],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-language","category-chinese-lig","category-chinese-new-year-spring-festival-lion-dance-dragon-dance-queens-university-belfast-the-language-centre","category-drink","category-food","tag-chinese-tea","tag-tea-culture","tag-tea-etymology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa93ff-qu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1655,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions\/1655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}